23. Stripe Setup

Stripe payment gateway is fully supported by Foodship products. To connect Stripe payment gateway with your Foodship online ordering system you need your API keys and that is provided by Stripe. Its like pair of secret code which will connect your stripe account with online ordering system .

This instruction will guide you on how to generate these api keys from stripe and how to apply them in your Foodship online ordering system.

Sign in to Stripe

This instruction is written with assumption that you already have a stripe account. If you dont have one already please use this link to signup. Stripe generally ask around five to seven simple question to signup.

To sign in to stripe , please follow the given steps -

Step 1 - Visit stripe website “stripe.com” or click here

Step 2 - Enter the login credentials - email | password and click on the “Continue” button (for better understanding refer to the below)

stripe sign in page

Result → You will get successfully sign in to your stripe account

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Live mode and Test mode

When you sign up for stripe you get two kind of modes a Live mode and a Test mode

Live Mode

Live mode is used to charge real credit cards for real transactions. You should use this if your portal is ready to go live for customers.

Test mode

Test mode is used to charge demo credit cards to test your portal’s functionality. test mode cannot process real credit card and will throw an error when attempted.

How to switch modes

Test mode and live mode both works exactly the same way functionality wise apart from the being used for testing and production environment. To turn on test mode simply click the toggle button as shown in image below. In the image below the test mode is off and stripe is operating in live mode.

Switch between test mode and live mode

You get two API keys to connect stripe with online ordering - Publishable keys and Secret Keys and you get separate API’s for live mode and test mode.

Live keys start from	Test Keys start from
Publishable key - pk_live	Publishable key - pk_test
Secret key - sk_live	Secret key - sk_test

Switching between Test mode and Live mode on Stripe portal will make no impact on your Foodship portal. Foodship portal connects to Stripe system via API keys and if you use Test API keys your portal will work on Test mode and if you use Live API keys your portal will work on Live / production mode.

Generate API

To generate live API -

Live Keys

Step 1 - Click on the “Developers” button on the top-right corner of the page and select “API keys”

Step 2 - Copy the Publishable key (refer to image below to find publishable key)

Step 3 - Copy the Secret key (refer to image below to find secret key)

Page - from where you can copy both keys

You can only reveal / see secret key once. If you miss to copy and paste it, you will have to roll out existing key by clicking on 3 dots in front of secret key to generate new secret key. note: when you roll existing secret key the old key will stop working.

Step 4 - Paste both keys on the admin portal of Foodship.

To know, how to paste publishing and stripe keys on the admin portal of Foodship → click here

Test Keys

Test keys are used to test integrations with your stripe API through demo cards.

To generate test keys, you have to simply enable “test mode” → follow the steps below to test integrations with your stripe account.

Step 1 - Click on the “Developers” button on the top-right corner of the page and enable “test mode”

Step 2 - Copy the Publishable key (mentioned in the image below, from where you can copy publishing keys)

Step 3 -Copy the Secret key (mentioned in the image below, from where you can copy secret keys)

Step 4 - Paste both keys on the admin portal of Foodship.

To know, how to paste publishing and stripe keys on the admin portal of Foodship → click here

Stripe Setup in Foodship

To setup the stripe payment method in Foodship online ordering system.

Step 1 - Login to the admin portal and go to the “settings” option from left side of the page.

Step 2 - From the drop-down menu, select the settings option.

Setting option in Foodship

Step 3 - Click on the “Payments Option” button from the settings and → paste the copied publishing key in the API key bar | secret key in the secret key bar ( for better understanding see image below)

Stripe setup in Foodship

To know how to get stripe live keys → click here

To know how to get stripe test keys → click here

Step 4 - Enable Stripe Payment Integration and click on the “submit” button.

Result → Your stripe payment method is ready in Foodship.