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Integrating with Affirm: Overview

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Contents 

  1. Overview
  2. Platform integration offerings
  3. Implementing a platform integration
  4. Direct API integration 

 

Have you signed up with Affirm? Are you eager to connect your eCommerce systems to Affirm and grow with us? We're here to help! Let’s get started on learning the basics of the types of integrations that we offer and how our integration process works.

 

 

Overview 

One of the most important things to implement when partnering with Affirm is the Integration Process. There are 2 ways of doing it: through the existing platform integrations that Affirm has built out and natively supports or through a Direct API Integration. 

 

Our existing platform integrations are designed to work out-of-the-box, with only a light amount of setup and configuration. On the other hand, if you don't see your eCommerce platform in the list below, you will have to use the Direct AP Integration, which requires coding and technical resources on your side to implement.

 

You can watch the video or check the steps below for the Affirm integration.

 

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Platform integration offerings

Affirm offers easy-to-install and configure platform integrations with some of the most popular eCommerce platforms out there. A big portion of our merchants uses the following popular platform integrations:

 

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Affirm supports a growing library of platform integrations, shown in the list below.

 

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Implementing a platform integration

The out-of-the-box platform integrations do not require any coding - just installation and some basic configuration. Generally, all of the platform integrations shown above will follow the below steps:

  1. Choose your platform
    First, choose an e-commerce platform to set up and configure Affirm using the applicable extension. Affirm offers integration options for some of the most popular e-commerce platforms such as Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce, and many more. No matter which platform you're using, setup is easy and only requires a few simple steps.
  2. Set up your Affirm account
    Next, you will need a Merchant account to get Affirm up and running on your platform. Sign up for a merchant account here.
  3. Add Affirm to your e-commerce platform
    Now that you've signed up and created your Merchant account and can log into your Affirm dashboard, you can add Affirm to your store by installing our Affirm extension onto your e-commerce platform.

 

Again, the steps for each platform integration will be given in greater detail on their corresponding page linked in the section above.

 

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Direct API integration 

Direct API Integrations may take some time to implement, as the requirements to make them work can become quite technical and more time-intensive.

 

Affirm's basic process flow begins when the customer selects Affirm at checkout. The steps below represent what the customer experiences on the front end, and how Affirm's integration handles the checkout on the back end.

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This checkout flow can be broken down into 4 main phases:

  1. Customer initiates a checkout
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  2. Create, configure, and send the checkout object
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  3. Collect customer information
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  4. Authorize the transaction and complete the order
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To learn more about how Affirm’s integration handles the checkout on the back-end, click here.

 

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