- Payment methods
- API credentials
- Public key
- Access token
Set up Mercado Pago so travellers pay on Mercado Pago's own page, by card or with their Mercado Pago account, and return to their booking. You need a Mercado Pago account in one of the countries listed above.
Get your production credentials
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Create an application
Sign in to Mercado Pago Developers with your Mercado Pago account and create an application for Checkout Pro.
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Activate its production credentials
Open the application and activate its production credentials. Mercado Pago asks you to accept its Privacy Statement and its Terms and Conditions.
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Copy the two values
Copy the Public Key and the Access Token of the production credentials. Keep the Access Token private, like a password.
Mercado Pago's test credentials cannot take real payments: travellers could not pay.
TourTask gives Mercado Pago its notification address with each payment, so there is nothing to set up in Mercado Pago for it.
Add Mercado Pago in TourTask
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Open the Mercado Pago card
Go to Configuration → Payment options and click the Mercado Pago card under Online payments → Payment gateways. Not there? Choose Show all gateways under the cards.
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Choose the country and currency
Pick the Country where your Mercado Pago account and its bank account are, and the Currency travellers pay in. Click Add. To change either later, remove Mercado Pago with Remove and add it again.
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Fill in your API credentials
Under Authentication, the card has a field for each:
Public key
Access tokenEach field saves when you click out of it.
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Activate Mercado Pago
Click Activate once every field is filled in. The card turns Active, and travellers can pay with Mercado Pago on your booking page. Every payment goes straight into your own Mercado Pago account: TourTask never holds your money.
Paste the Public Key into Public key and the Access Token into Access token.
Check that Mercado Pago works
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Pay a small booking
On your booking page, book a tour and pay it with Mercado Pago, for real.
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Check the booking
The booking shows as paid once Mercado Pago confirms the payment, and the payment appears in your Mercado Pago account.
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Refund the payment
On the booking, open the payment's ⋮ menu, choose Refund payment and Refund via Mercado Pago, and confirm.
Questions we get asked
When Mercado Pago tells TourTask the payment is approved, usually right away. A payment Mercado Pago approves later marks the booking paid then.
Up to 180 days after the payment, in full or in part, from the booking. After that, refund it in Mercado Pago and record it on the booking with Mark as refunded.
No. TourTask converts the booking total into the currency you chose for Mercado Pago.