eSewa – Nepal First Payment Gateway Plugin

eSewa – Nepal First Payment Gateway plugin enables any user with a wordpress site to integrate eSewa payment gateway in their website/web application. eSewa is Nepal’s first online payment gateway and is a comprehensive online payment solution. It is widely popular, secure as well as one of the most trusted online payment gateway. The following plugin incorporates itself with WordPress woo-commerce plugin and lets users pay via their eSewa id to buy any virtual goods or services.

This plugin supports only NPR currency hence is only applicable for websites that accept Nepalese currency.

Detailed Description

The following plugin relies on eSewa to make successfuly payment/purchase form the users wordpress e-commerce website. This plugin will only be triggered after the user proceeds to checkout page
from the site. The user will be redirected to eSewa login page where the user will need to enter their username and password and upon successful verfication, will make the payment and will be redirected to
the website verfying the order’s successful transation. The only circumstance where this plugin will be activated is during the checkout procedure.

Service Link: https://esewa.com.np/#/home
Privacy Policy Link: https://blog.esewa.com.np/privacy-policy
Terms and Conditions Link: https://blog.esewa.com.np/terms-and-conditions/

Prerequisites:
WordPress version 5.0 or newer
WooCommerce 3.6 or newer

1) Automatic installation

Login to your wordpress site
Navigate to \”Plugins\”
Click on \”Add New\”
Search for \”eSewa – Nepal First Payment Gateway\” plugin and make sure its uploader is eSewa
Click on install
Click on activate
Configure the needed settings and click on Save

2) Manual Installation

download the zip file
Login to your wordpress dashboard
Navigate to “Plugins” and click on “Add New”
Click on upload plugin
Select the downloaded plugin and click install
Activate the plugin

GENERAL SETTINGS:
To select Nepalese rupee in woocommerce
1) Hover on “WooCommerce” menu from the left hand side menu and click on “Settings”
2) In the “General” tab, scroll down to see the “Currency” option
3) From the dropdown, select “Nepalese rupee(Rs)”
4) Click on “Save” changes

Plugin Settings:
1) Enable the plugin (enabled by default)
2) Change description if needed (default description: “Pay via eSewa. Payment enabled through eSewa account securely.”)
3) Add your Live Merchant/Service code and Secret Key for live purpose or Test Merchant/Service Code for sandbox (testing purpose)
4) You can change sandbox url as well
5) Add Invoice Prefix (default: WC-). If users are using same account for multiple stores than this prefix should be unique in all as eSewa does not allow orders with the same prefix numbers
6) Click on update once done

2.1

Release Date: June 12, 2024

Bug fixed:
Redirection issue and payment not updating issue fixed

Enhancement:

• Updated version for web API,
• UI improvement,
• Direct Debit feature(Pay directly from your linked bank account),
• Apply Promocode,
• Security Enhanced