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Your client pays with Mercado Pago, without leaving the quote.

Connect your Mercado Pago account and every quote offers the payment button on the same page where your client approved it. The money lands in your Mercado Pago account, never in Cord's.

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MMateriales del ValleQuote COT-0148
Total due$48,720.00 MXNCard · SPEI transfer
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Pay $48,720.00
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Pay with Mercado Pago

Encrypted and processed by Cord Payments. Materiales del Valle never sees your card details.

THE RAIL FOR YOUR COUNTRY

Where you already have Cord Payments, it is an alternative. Where you don't, it is how you get paid online.

In Mexico, your client first sees the Cord Payments checkout and, below it, the Pay with Mercado Pago button. In Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Peru, where Cord Payments is not available, Mercado Pago is your account's online payment rail. In Cord's other countries it is not offered.

  • Mexico: an alternative below Cord Payments
  • Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Peru: your online payment rail
  • Available in six countries: Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Peru
How a payment travels
CordMercado Pago
Approved quoteMercado Pago checkoutThe client pays with the methods of their country
Charge marked paidApproved paymentCord reads the payment in your account before marking it
Deposit, balance or installmentsOne charge per partEach one paid separately

VERIFIED CONFIRMATION

A notification does not mark a payment. Reading it in your account does.

When a payment happens, Mercado Pago notifies Cord with a signed message and Cord rejects any whose signature does not match. Then Cord reads the payment in Mercado Pago with your account's access: only an approved payment marks the charge as paid. A pending payment, such as cash, is marked when Mercado Pago approves it, and a repeated notification never records the payment twice.

  • Signed notifications; mismatches are rejected
  • Only a payment approved in your account counts as paid
  • If a charge is paid through both rails, it is noted in the history

YOUR ACCOUNT, YOUR TERMS

The money never goes through Cord.

Cord charges with your own Mercado Pago account: you appear as the seller at checkout and every payment lands there, with the fee from your terms with Mercado Pago. Cord stores the access encrypted, renews it automatically and only uses it to open the charges on your quotes and invoices, and read whether they were paid or refunded.

  • You are the seller at checkout
  • Encrypted access that renews itself
  • Disconnecting stops offering Mercado Pago; paid charges keep their history

SETUP

How to connect Mercado Pago

  1. 1

    Open Payment methods

    In Cord, go to Settings › Payments › Payment methods. You need the Payment settings permission.

  2. 2

    Connect Mercado Pago

    Under Other processors, on the Mercado Pago row, click Connect Mercado Pago.

  3. 3

    Authorize your account

    Sign in with the business account that will receive the money and authorize Cord.

  4. 4

    Ready to get paid

    Back in Cord the row says Connected and your quotes and invoices offer the payment button.

NO SURPRISES

What it doesn't do yet

We'd rather you read it here than find out halfway through.

  • Recurring retainers are not charged with Mercado Pago: they need the Cord Payments subscription.
  • Mercado Pago chargebacks do not reach Cord yet: you handle them from your Mercado Pago account.

QUESTIONS

Mercado Pago and Cord

With yours. You appear as the seller at checkout and the money goes straight to your Mercado Pago account; it never goes through Cord.

The one on your account, according to your terms with Mercado Pago. It is deducted from each payment.

Cord offers it in Mexico, as an alternative to Cord Payments, and in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Peru, as your account's online payment rail. In all of them you get paid with your own Mercado Pago account and with the methods Mercado Pago offers in each country.

On the quote payment page they see the Pay with Mercado Pago button with its logo. If you also have Cord Payments, they see that checkout first and the Mercado Pago button below. Clicking it takes them to the Mercado Pago checkout and, once the payment is approved, back to your link.

Create a quote for a small amount, pay it from another browser without a session using a card that is not from your own Mercado Pago account (Mercado Pago does not let you pay yourself), and refund it afterwards from Mercado Pago.

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GUIDES

Get paid on the rail your client already uses.

Connect Mercado Pago from Settings › Payments › Payment methods and collect your next quote in the same link. Free to start.

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