Setup Stripe

With Stripe Checkout the payment runs entirely at Stripe: the payment form, the verification of the payment details and the security of the card data. i-Reserve sends the payment to Stripe and processes the return automatically — there is no webhook or callback for you to configure at Stripe.

Online payment is a module: it has to be active in your subscription. Background: What is a payment provider?

1. Create a Stripe account

Register a Stripe account in the name of your own organisation at stripe.com. Mind two choices that cannot be changed afterwards: the country of the account and the payout currency. Both help determine which payment methods you can offer.

2. Activate payment methods at Stripe

This is the most important step. i-Reserve does not send a list of payment methods to Stripe. Which methods your guest sees on the payment page is decided by Stripe, based on three things: the methods enabled in your Stripe dashboard, the currency of the reservation and the country of the guest.

Enable the methods you want in the Stripe dashboard under Settings > Payment methods. Card is enabled by default. iDEAL, Bancontact, TWINT and other local methods are enabled there one by one.

Example: TWINT only appears with a Swiss Stripe account and a payment in CHF. If the environment is set to euro, TWINT stays invisible — even when it is enabled at Stripe.

3. Retrieve the API keys

The Stripe dashboard holds two keys under Developers > API keys: the publishable key (starts with pk_) and the secret key (starts with sk_). Stripe keeps a separate set for test and for live: test keys contain _test_, live keys contain _live_.

4. Create the payment method in i-Reserve

Go to Configuration - Modules - Payment method reservations and choose Add new payment config. Fill in at least the fields below:

Method: Stripe
Type: Executed by customer
Description: your own wording, for example 'pay online'
Type of processing: choose 'Testmode' or 'Complete processing'

Then fill in the keys that match that choice. In test mode i-Reserve uses the test keys; with complete processing it uses the production keys:

Stripe public key (test) and Stripe secret key (test): the keys containing _test_
Stripe public key (production) and Stripe secret key (production): the keys containing _live_

Set the payment method to Active, and to Default when this is the method offered to the guest by default.

5. Test

Create a test reservation and walk through the payment. In test mode, use Stripe's test card numbers. Then check two things: is the reservation marked as paid in i-Reserve, and does the payment appear in the Stripe dashboard?