Accept Amazon Pay
payments on Phoca Cart
Install the free PaymentHood plugin for Phoca Cart, connect your Amazon Pay account, and Amazon Pay appears as a payment option at checkout. No custom gateway code, and no second integration when you add another provider later.
- USD
- EUR
- GBP
- JPY
- Platform
- Joomla 4.0+
- Provider
- Amazon Pay
- Install via
- Extensions → Manage → Install
- Billing
- One-time
- PaymentHood fee
- None
Amazon Pay on Phoca Cart at a glance
- Joomla version
- Joomla 4.0+
- Where you install it
- Joomla admin → Extensions → Manage → Install
- Coverage
- Merchant accounts are available in the United States, Japan and sixteen European countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Cyprus and Hungary.
- Currencies
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- USD
- EUR
- GBP
- JPY
- Billing models
- One-time checkout payments. Recurring billing is not supported by the Phoca Cart plugin yet.
- Cost
- The plugin is free and open source. You pay Amazon Pay's own fees, published on their pricing page (opens in new tab). PaymentHood adds nothing on top.
Coverage, currencies and payment methods as published by Amazon Pay, who set and update them. For the current list see Amazon Pay's own documentation (opens in new tab).
What Phoca Cart customers can pay with
Each method Amazon Pay supports appears in your Phoca Cart checkout. Enabling one is a PaymentHood dashboard setting — nothing changes on the Joomla side.
Amazon account
Checkout with the card and address already stored on the buyer's Amazon account
Cards
The cards the buyer has on file with Amazon
Connect Amazon Pay to Phoca Cart
Four steps, no code. The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the Phoca Cart installation guide.
Open a Amazon Pay account
Register with Amazon Pay and finish their onboarding. Funds settle from Amazon Pay to your own bank account.
Add it in PaymentHood
Paste your Amazon Pay credentials into the PaymentHood dashboard. They stay server-side and never reach your storefront.
Install the plugin
Download the Phoca Cart plugin and install it from Extensions → Manage → Install in your Joomla admin.
Enable and test
Paste your PaymentHood API key into the plugin settings, run a sandbox order end to end, then switch to live.
Rather than a direct Amazon Pay plugin
A single-provider plugin works until you need a second provider. These are the parts you would otherwise build and maintain yourself.
- Webhook security
- Signed Instant Payment Notification, validated before an order is released
- Payment verification
- Server-side charge status re-check against the Amazon Pay API before fulfilment
- Credentials
- Public key ID with a private key signing each request, held server-side in PaymentHood
- Add a second provider without touching your Phoca Cart checkout
- Automatic failover when Amazon Pay is unreachable, instead of a failed order
- Idempotent charge creation, so a double-submitted order is not a double charge
- One reconciliation view across every provider you run
- Free and open source — read the plugin on GitHub (opens in new tab)