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Checkout Pro
Checkout Pro is Mercado Pago’s redirect checkout. With this solution, the customer chooses the product or service in your store, pays in Mercado Pago’s secure environment with saved payment methods, and is automatically returned to your store.
This payment method already includes card payments, months without a card with Mercado Pago, account balance payments and offline payment methods.
Follow the steps below to set up the Mercado Pago Checkout Pro app from your store’s admin panel.
- In your store admin, go to Settings > Payment methods.
- Find Mercado Pago in the payment methods list.
- In the payment methods list, click Edit settings next to the Mercado Pago plugin.
- At the bottom of the page, click More settings on the Mercado Pago site. This will redirect you to the Mercado Pago Panel Administrativo.
- In the Mercado Pago Panel Administrativo, in the Checkout Pro section, turn on the Mercado Pago option.
- Click Configure to define the payment types.
- Choose the payment methods you want to offer in Mercado Pago’s payment environment:
- Credit card. Select the brands you want to enable and, below, set the maximum number of installments allowed for installment purchases. To set up installments without interest, see Discounts.
- Debit card. Select the brands you want to enable in your store.
- Other payment methods. Select other methods you want to offer, such as Meses sin Tarjeta, OXXO, Paycash, and more. Below, set the number of days until the ticket expires for methods that require it.
- Finally, click Save changes.
The Mercado Pago plugin for Tiendanube has no test environment. Validation must be done in production with real payments. Use minimum amounts and valid cards that are not linked to the store owner, as they may be rejected for security reasons.
Done! The Mercado Pago Checkout Pro app has been set up successfully and is ready to process payments for your store.
Configure installments
This configuration only applies to payments made with cards.
- In your store admin, go to Settings > Payment methods.
- Find Mercado Pago in the payment methods list.
- In the payment methods list, click Edit settings next to the Mercado Pago plugin.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click More settings on the Mercado Pago site.
- In the checkouts Admin Panel, find the Checkout Pro payment method and click Configure.
- Here you can set the maximum number of installments in which your customers can pay using Checkout Pro.
Whenever interest-free installment settings are changed, you must sync the changes with your store by clicking the Sync button.
