Installments without card - Integration configuration - Mercado Pago Developers

Installments without credit card

Mercado Pago’s card-free installment option is called Mercado Crédito and is a proprietary financing method that allows you to pay in up to 12 installments.

By offering this option in your store, your customers will be able to buy a product today and pay in installments later. For your business, approval of the purchase is immediate and guaranteed, with the total amount being credited in advance and your customers paying us later.

Follow the steps below to offer installments without card in your store.

Prerequisites

To perform a Card Payment Brick integration, you must meet the requirements listed below.

Requirements	Description
Mercado Pago or Mercado Libre seller account	To integrate you need a seller account on Mercado Pago or Mercado Libre. If not, click here to create.
Application	Applications are the different integrations in one or more stores. You can create an application for each solution you implement to keep everything organized and on track for easier management. Check Dashboard for more information on how to create an application.
Credentials	Unique passwords with which we identify an integration in your account. To perform the integrations, you will need the Public key and the Access Token. Click here for more information.
Install the Mercado Pago SDK	Install the official SDKs to simplify your integration with our APIs. For more information, click here.

If all prerequisites have been met, follow the next steps to integrate installments without credit card.

Integration configuration

Create preference

Server-Side

Preferences are sets of information about a product and/or service that allow you to define the name, payment method, as well as other settings related to the defined payment flow.

The first step to configure payments with Mercado Crédito is to create the preference. To do so, send a POST with the purpose parameter and the onboarding_credits value to the endpoint /checkout/preferences and execute the request or, if you prefer, use the SDK below.

          
<?php
// Create a preference object
$preference = new MercadoPago\Preference();

// Create an item in the preference
$item = new MercadoPago\Item();
$item->title = 'My product';
$item->quantity = 1;
$item->unit_price = 75;
$preference->items = array($item);
$preference->purpose = 'onboarding_credits';
$preference->save();
?>

          
// Create a preference object
let preference = {
items: [
{
title: 'My product',
unit_price: 100,
quantity: 1,
}
],
purpose: 'onboarding_credits'
};

Mercadopago.preferences.create(preference)
.then(function(response){
// This value will replace the string "<%= global.id %>" in your HTML
global.id = response.body.id;
}).catch(function(error){
console.log(error);
});

          
// Create a preference object
PreferenceClient client = new PreferenceClient();

// Create an item in the preference
PreferenceItemRequest item =
PreferenceItemRequest.builder()
.title("My product")
.quantity(1)
.unitPrice(new BigDecimal("75"))
.build();

List<PreferenceItemRequest> items = new ArrayList<>();
items.add(item);

PreferenceRequest request =
PreferenceRequest.builder().items(items).purpose("onboarding_credits").build();

client.create(request);

          
sdk = Mercadopago::SDK.new('ENV_ACCESS_TOKEN')
# Create a preference object
preference_data = {
items: [
{
title: 'My product',
unit_price: 100,
quantity: 1
}
],
purpose: 'onboarding_credits'
}
preference_response = sdk.preference.create(preference_data)
preference = preference_response[:response]

# This value will replace the string "<%= @preference_id %>" in your HTML
@preference_id = preference['id']

          
// Create the preference request object
var request = new PreferenceRequest
{
Items = new List<PreferenceItemRequest>
{
new PreferenceItemRequest
{
Title = "My product,
quantity = 1,
CurrencyId = "ARS",
UnitPrice = 75m,
},
},
Purpose = "onboarding_credits",
};
// Create the preference
var client = new PreferenceClient();
Preference preference = await client.CreateAsync(request);

          
preference_data = {
"items": [
{
"title": "My product",
"unit_price": 100,
"quantity": 1
}
],
"purpose": "onboarding_credits"
}

preference_response = sdk.preference().create(preference_data)
preference = preference_response["response"]

          
curl -X POST \
  'https://api.mercadopago.com/checkout/preferences' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer **PROD_ACCESS_TOKEN**' \
  -d '{
    "items": [
        {
            "title": "Meu produto",
            "quantity": 1,
            "unit_price": 75
        }
    ],
    "purpose": "onboarding_credits"
}'

Add button at checkout

Client-Side

With the preference created, it is necessary to display the payment button that will allow the buyer to use Mercado Crédito as a means of payment. To display the payment button, insert the code below directly into your project.

<div class="cho-container"></div>
<script src="https://sdk.mercadopago.com/js/v2"></script>
<script>
  const mp = new MercadoPago('PUBLIC_KEY');

  mp.checkout({
    preference: {
      id: 'YOUR_PREFERENCE_ID'
    },
    render: {
      container: '.cho-container',
      label: 'Em até 12x sem cartão com Mercado Pago',
      type: 'credits',
    }
  });
</script>

Suggestions for use and best practices

To offer the best experience to your customers using Mercado Crédito, we suggest:

Use capital letters in the initials of the brand: Mercado Pago
Keep the Mercado Pago logo
Maintain the value proposition of installments without a card
Maintain alignment and spaces of button elements

To better explain to your customers how Mercado Crédito works, share the following steps with them.

Create an account or sign in to Mercado Pago. If you use Mercado Livre, you already have this account!
Select Mercado Crédito and choose how many times you want to pay
Ready! Pay the installments every month as you prefer, in the Mercado Pago app.

Primeiros Passos