{"schema":"exacc.help.page/1","url":"https://exacc.au/help/take-card-payments-eway/","title":"Take card payments with eWAY","description":"Connect your own eWAY account so customers can pay invoices by card. Enter the API key, choose the accounts payments are recorded in, switch it on.","category":"Invoicing & Payments","summary":"Open **Business Details › Online Payments** and click **Set up eWAY**. The eWAY screen has three steps: paste the **API Key** and **Password** from your eWAY account, choose where card payments are recorded, and switch on **Offer card payments to my customers**. Customers then pay on eWAY's own secure page and Exacc records each payment against the invoice.","lastVerified":"2026-10-12","apps":["app"],"processIds":["eway_connect"],"start":{"label":"Open eWAY settings","url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/business-details/eway"},"menuPath":["Manage","Configuration","Business Details","Online Payments","Set up eWAY"],"before":["A live eWAY merchant account (MYeWAY login).","In your chart of accounts: a clearing account (current asset) for card payments and a customer prepayments account (liability). Create them first if you do not have them."],"steps":[{"step":1,"title":"Copy the API key from eWAY","body":["In MYeWAY, go to **My Account › API Key**. Copy the **API Key** and its **Password**. This is the API password shown next to the key, not your MYeWAY login password. Ignore **Pay Now Button Public API Key** and **Client Side Encryption Key**: they are for other eWAY products."]},{"step":2,"title":"1. Your eWAY account","body":["In Exacc, open **Manage › Configuration › Business Details**, the **Online Payments** tab, then **Set up eWAY**. Paste the key and password, optionally change **What your customers see** (default \"Credit or debit card\"), and click **Save and check**. Exacc checks the key with eWAY before saving it; the key is never shown again."],"url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/business-details/eway","fields":[{"name":"API Key","help":"from MYeWAY › My Account › API Key.","required":true},{"name":"Password","help":"the API password beside the key, not your login password.","required":true},{"name":"What your customers see","help":"the name of the payment option on the invoice page."}]},{"step":3,"title":"2. Where card payments are booked","body":["Choose the three places payments go, then **Save accounts**. Card payments sit in the clearing account until eWAY pays them into your bank, a few days later and net of fees."],"fields":[{"name":"eWAY clearing account (current asset)","help":"where each card payment is recorded.","required":true},{"name":"Customer prepayments account (liability)","help":"for money paid ahead of an invoice.","required":true},{"name":"Payment method","help":"how the payment is labelled, e.g. Credit Card (eWAY).","required":true}]},{"step":4,"title":"3. Offer card payments","body":["Turn on **Offer card payments to my customers**. eWAY then takes card payments on your invoices; you can also pick it under **Card payments on your invoices** on the Online Payments tab. Turning it off takes effect immediately."]}],"sections":[{"heading":"Replacing the key","body":["Click **Replace key** and enter the new key and password. If the new key belongs to a different eWAY account, turn on **This key is for a different eWAY account**: cards customers saved against the old account can no longer be charged and are removed. For a new key on the same account, leave it off and saved cards keep working."]},{"heading":"Reconciling","body":["When eWAY pays out, match the bank deposit to the clearing account. The difference between the payments and the deposit is eWAY's fee; record it as a merchant fee."]}],"faqs":[{"q":"Exacc says \"eWAY rejected the API key\". What now?","a":"Check you copied the API password beside the key (not your MYeWAY login password), and that the key is for your live account, not the eWAY sandbox."}],"related":["https://exacc.au/help/accept-online-payments/","https://exacc.au/help/charge-saved-card/","https://exacc.au/help/chart-of-accounts/","https://exacc.au/help/payment-methods/"],"linkNote":"Links containing {dbId} open that screen in the business file whose id is dbId. A person can also open this help page with ?db=<dbId> to get the same links as buttons."}