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#Feature Request

Feedback and suggestions for Mollie implementation

Hi Shahjahan Jewel,

This morning I was really happy to see that Stripe iDEAL is now available in FluentCart — great job! And I was even more excited yesterday when I read that the Mollie payment gateway is expected to be ready next week.

Because I’ve seen quite a few less-than-ideal (pun intended 😉) implementations of Mollie, I wanted to share a few notes that might help make yours the best possible version for the Dutch and Belgian market.

  1. Payment methods display
    Please make sure that the payment methods activated in Mollie (iDEAL, Bancontact, etc.) are shown individually — not as a single “Mollie” option. This is how WooCommerce does it, and it’s proven to convert much better. Platforms like Systeme.io, where you have to click “Mollie” first and then choose a method, show much lower conversion rates.

  2. Subscriptions (recurring payments)
    For subscription products, it’s essential that the first payment can be made via iDEAL or Bancontact, and that subsequent payments are processed automatically via SEPA direct debit. This is what users in the Netherlands and Belgium expect, and it’s how WooCommerce Subscriptions integrates with Mollie as well.

  3. Order bumps and one-click upsells

    • For order bumps, the total (main product + bump) should be charged in one transaction. I’ve seen implementations where the bump triggers a second payment (often SEPA), which confuses customers and causes complaints.
    • For one-click upsells, it’s common practice that the initial order is paid with iDEAL (or Bancontact/card/etc.), and that the upsell amount is charged later via SEPA within a few days.

I hope these notes help you make an already great plugin even better.

Keep up the good vibe!
Best regards,
Sander

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Sarkar Ripon

Thanks for the suggestion. I have forwarded to the engineering team.

Sam Jansen

Please use Mollie components for the checkout please. Surecart does not do this. And people are complaining about this for long time. So you can not fill in Credit Card information directly in the checkout. But only get redirected to Mollie. This would be a major benefit over Surecart if you could implement this.

See this:

https://docs.mollie.com/docs/mollie-components

Some other things I struggled with Surecart + Mollie. It is really diffecult to disable or enable payment methods per checkout/product. I don't want to always show you all payment methods to all users from all countries. Because methods has higher transaction costs like Credit Card. The only way how I could do this was to intercept the Mollie API call for the payment methods but this was quite diffecult. Also with Surecart it is impossible to charge the transaction fee to the customer. It is possible to setup a fee per product or variantion but not per payment method.

I though I write this here maybe some things could be improved with the Mollie Fluentcart integration. Thanks

F. C.

Good feedback here and I agree.

For one-click upsells, is it really common that the upsell amount is charged separately? I think I've seen at least one system where it was added to the original order. I could be wrong though...