Voucher
A Voucher mostly used as an employee benefit and can be used to purchase ecological goods and services. Given by employers to employees, eco vouchers benefit from favorable social security and tax treatment, provided that a number of conditions are met.
In order to use vouchers as a payment method, you should have a contract with the owner of the brand(s) you want to accept. For example, with Sodexo Belgium for Lunch Pass. Once you have a contract, you can activate the brand via the Mollie Dashboard. Enter your contract ID and enable the brand(s) of the brand owner(s) you want to provide. From the moment it's activated in Mollie, you can use it in the OroCommerce configuration.
Please note that the voucher payment method has some deviations from the normal payment methods:
- You need to contact Mollie to enable this method and obtain a Contract ID.
- A Category selection is required to show the method.
- Refunds are not possible for vouchers.
Vouchers are available through the Orders API as there is a "category" parameter required in all the order lines. As this category is required to show the Voucher method, you can select this category on the default configuration where you can choose between:
- meal
- eco
- gift
Custom product "attribute" where you can connect the custom product attribute of the type ‘Select' or 'String’. This dropdown can contain 4 options. The Admin value of these options must be 'meal', 'eco', 'gift' or 'none'.
The voucher payment method will be shown on the checkout page either if one of the items from the cart has one of the required attributes (gift, meal, or eco), or if the configuration on the payment method level is set to one of the required attributes.
If the payment method level configuration is NONE, and none of the three required attributes is set to at least one order item in the cart, the voucher payment method will not be shown on the checkout page.
You can set one of the three categories as a default for all items within the shop (e.g., a meal if the merchant has a food ordering shop). This category is then to be used with every item in every order.
Using the custom product attribute, you can easily diverse the voucher type per product in case the meal, eco, and gift category by default is not sufficient.
