Paymenthood Payment Gateway for VirtueMart

Why Paymenthood

Paymenthood is not just a payment gateway — it is an orchestration layer that
gives merchants access to the world's leading payment providers from one place:

Stripe, PayPal, Adyen, Revolut, and 15+ more — all managed, all switchable,
no separate integrations needed.

• Branded checkout — your logo, your colors, your experience on the Paymenthood hosted page
• Customizable checkout flow — tailor the payment page to match your brand identity
• Provider orchestration — route payments across providers, reduce failures, and maximize acceptance rates
• Local payment methods — serve customers with their preferred local options across markets
• One merchant dashboard — manage all providers, transactions, and refunds from a single Paymenthood console

What This Plugin Does

• Redirects customers to the Paymenthood hosted checkout at order confirmation
• Returns them to VirtueMart with an automatically updated order status
• Handles refunds, failures, and cancellations in real time via webhooks
• Supports sandbox (testing) and live (production) environments

Requirements

• Joomla 4 or 5
• VirtueMart 3 or 4
• An active Paymenthood merchant account

Technical

Built as a native VirtueMart payment plugin (vmpayment group). Credentials and
webhook secrets are stored in Joomla's extension params. Order status mapping
(pending, confirmed, refunded, failed) is configurable per VirtueMart payment
method instance. Webhooks are Bearer token authenticated and re-verified against
the Paymenthood API before any order is updated.