About the Stripe integration

If you accept payments through Campus Cafe for application fees, tuition, housing, etc., you need a payment processor to process the payment. You can use Stripe as an integrated payment processor to accept all forms of payment within Campus Cafe meaning your applicants and students receive a seamless payment experience.

You’ll need to set up an account directly with Stripe, which charges its own fees, typically based on the amount of the transaction.

While the Stripe platform appears as an in-page payment applet within Campus Cafe, we don’t process or store any payment values such as the credit card number or CVV, or bank account numbers. The integration captures and sends those values to Stripe independent of the institution’s Campus Cafe database. As such, Campus Cafe isn’t a financial institution or payment processor, and doesn't receive, transmit, or store payment information.

Prerequisites

• Create a Stripe account.

• Create transaction codes for payments.

Required permissions

Configure Stripe

1. Login to Stripe at www.stripe.com.

2. In the lower left-hand corner click Developers > API Keys.
   

   

3. Create a Publishable key and a Secret key. Copy these keys now or later as you’ll need them when you configure Campus Cafe.

   

4. In Stripe, go to Developers > Webhooks.
   

   

5. Click + Add Destination.
   

   

6. In Events select the events payment_intent.succeeded and payment_intent.payment_failed.
   

   

7. Use the checkbox to the left of the event to select it so it appears on the left, under Selected Events.
   

   

8. Click Continue, and select for Destination Type select Webhook Endpoint.

9. Click Continue.

10. In Endpoint URL enter https://<your school code>-web.scansoftware.com/cafeweb/tl/webhook/stripe replacing <your school code> with the 3-character code in the URL for your Campus Cafe environment.

    

11. Click Create Destination.

12. Once created, copy the webhook signing secret key. You’ll need this when you configure Campus Cafe. If you later need to This screen can be reached at any time by clicking the Up chevron in the lower right hand part of the screen, then clicking the Webhooks link along the bar of the “workbench” drawer:
    

    

13. In the upper right click the gear > Settings. On the screen that appears click Payments.
    

    

14. In Payments settings click Payment Methods.
    

    

15. In Payment Methods select the types of payment you’ll accept. Changing the active status for each payment method saves the page, no additional save click is needed.

Configure Campus Cafe

1. Login to Campus Cafe.

2. Go to Admin > Web App.

3. In Search enter Stripe. A list of configuration items appears.
   

   

4. Next to STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY select (check) the checkbox and click Edit Selected.

5. In Value enter the Publishable key you created earlier in Stripe and click Update.

6. Next to STRIPE_SECRET_KEY select (check) the checkbox and click Edit Selected.

7. In Value enter the Secret key you created earlier in Stripe and click Update.

8. Next to STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SIGNING_KEY select (check) the checkbox and click Edit Selected.

9. In Value enter the Webook Signing secret you created earlier in Stripe and click Update.

10. Go to Admin > Custom Control.

11. In Search enter WEBPAYMENT.

12. Next to WEBPAYMENT Seq Num 2, Parm 4 click the pencil.
    

    

13. In Parameter Value 4 enter STRIPE_FORM.
    

    

14. Go to Admin > Refresh Data Cache.

Customize Stripe payment form & receipt

You can adjust the design of the Stripe payment form that appears in Campus Cafe as well as the receipt.

1. Go to Admin > Adjustable Text.

2. In Search enter STRIPE_PAYMENT_FORM to change the form or STRIPE_RECEIPT to change the receipt.

3. In Value (the large box) enter any text or images to appear.

4. Go to Admin > Refresh Data Cache.