New Paytrail: Key changes in the Shopify integration

Shopify announced in the fall of 2021 that it has launched a new way to integrate payment services into its platform.

As a result, Paytrail's service settings in Shopify have been updated and a few things have changed compared to the old integration.

References for payments

In the future, only the “payment_id” field can be found in Shopify's transaction data, which can be used to link an order to a payment. In other words, data starting with “x _” will no longer be available.

In addition, previously the reference to payment transactions was numerical, whereas nowadays references to payments in Shopify reports and different views contain, in addition to numbers, lowercase and uppercase letters and underscores:

By default, Paytrail uses Shopify's internal reference as a reference for payments, but it is also possible to enable fully numeric reference numbers via the integration settings: Assigning a reference number in the Shopify platform

Payment methods names and identifiers

The names and identifiers of individual payment methods appear in different places as follows: