Changing the name of the payment gateway for alternative payments on the Checkout Page

Technical Q&A
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Hi all,

I’m using Mollie as an alternative payment gateway for my German speaking customers and I’m not satisfied with the look / name of the specific gateway on the Shopify Checkout Page. Here’s a picture of the example for a SEPA Bank Transfer:

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The name “Bank transfer (Mollie)” will not be 100% clear to my elderly potential customers who are used to the right German name “SEPA Banküberweisung”. By using this name it will definitely decrease my conversion rate. I have read multiple articles about changing the name of alternative payment gateway that is shown on the Shopify Checkout Page but I couldn’t find a solution to my problem.

Does anybody know a solution to this?

Thx in advance for your help.

Best regards,
Christopher

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Hi there @christopher_da !

Great idea to change this wording to make sure this is clear for all your customers. I carried out a trial on my own test store to see if this is possible and I believe this is possible to do using our theme language editor. I will walk you through the steps here:

  • From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
  • Find the theme that you want to edit, and then click Actions > Edit languages
  • Click the tab that includes the text that you want to change
  • Edit the text
  • Click Save.

I found the exact correct heading to change by searching for “credit card” and editing the text under “credit card label”, it looks like this on the language editor:

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And this should then change the wording at checkout like so:

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Please do let me know if this works correctly for you! I’d love to help you out with some business growth ideas - how do you feel things are going at the minute? Is there anything you’d like to improve or change?

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Hi Ivy,

this is of course possible for Shopify payments, but I’m trying to do this with Alternative Payments such as “Mollie”.

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Hi @christopher_da ,
Were you able to find a solution for this?

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Hey @christopher_da

I recently came across this issue as well. There seems to be a way to do this by creating a Payment Script using Shopify Script Editor App:

  • Access Script Editor via Apps in your store.
  • Choose Create script.
    - On the Select script template, choose Modify payment gateway name in Payment gateways.
    - Update the script to make changes on the Payment Gateway of your choosing.

The changes should be reflected on your desired payment gateway :grinning_face:

The only caveat found here is that, it is sadly not possible to change names of Alternative Payment methods which have logos. Check the Shopify documentation for the method ‘.change_name’ here