Payment gateways

If you want to accept payments for events that your visitors register for, you need to establish a payment gateway between your Trumba account and your merchant account. This topic covers:

• Setting up the payment gateway with an existing merchant account
• Setting up the payment gateway with new merchant account
• Using multiple payment gateways

For information about changing a payment gateway you previously set up for a calendar, see Change payment gateways.

Tip To set up payment gateways, you must be a Publisher account holder. To assign a gateway to a calendar or change the assigned gateway, you must be the Publisher account holder who created that calendar.

Setting up a payment gateway with an existing merchant account

Payment gateways provide their services for a number of third-party merchant accounts. In the Supported gateway providers list:

• Click the provider name in the left-hand column to view setup instructions.
• Click the Learn more link in the right-hand column to find out whether the provider supports your merchant account type.

What if I don't have a merchant account?

Setting up a new merchant account if you do not have one

If you need a merchant account for the purpose of enabling Trumba paid event registration, consider opening a PayPal Business account and using PayPal Express Checkout. PayPal Express Checkout gives you the most flexibility in payment methods to offer your attendees. In addition, integrating it with your Trumba account is a quick and simple process.

Learn more: Visit the Start Accepting Payments Now page on the PayPal website to sign up.

Using multiple payment gateways

In an organization that hosts different event types, it’s common to route online payments through different payment gateways according to the event type. In Trumba, you can add as many payment gateways as you want, and you link them with calendars. So to route payments for particular event types through particular payment gateways, you arrange event types by calendar.

You can further categorize event types on a single calendar, through custom fields or other means. However, all payments for events on one calendar will be routed through the same gateway.