PayTabs plugins make the integration with the PayTabs payment gateway very easy by providing a ready-made and easy-to-install plugin that enables you to be ready and go with a few steps, to get you up and running with your business. 


In this article you will be going to know about:


How to install the plugin?


By following the below steps, you will integrate your system in no time, and without even needing a technical background. 


You will need to delete any previous PayTabs plugin before installing a new one. To know how to do this please check our Uninstall the plugin? solution article.


  1. Log in to your merchant dashboard. 
  2. Navigate to the Developers menu.
  3. Go to “Magento” under the “PRE-BUILT INTEGRATIONS” section. 
  4. Click on the link “click here” as shown in the picture below:


  5. Then use one of the following methods to install the plugin:

    • Via the Composer

      • Kindly require our plugin, using the composer as usual as shown below:
        composer require paytabs/magento2



    • Via the FTP

      • Upload your downloaded plugin from step 4 to the "<root>/app/code" directory within your Magento installation directory.
      • Extract the plugin file as shown below:

Reaching to this point you are supposed to be installed the plugin successfully. Your next-must step will be to activate this installed plugin.


How to activate the plugin?


You can activate your plugin by navigating to the command line on your Magento admin  and then running the following commands:

composer require paytabs/magento2
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
php bin/magento cache:clean


Then by default, the module will be activated. In case you want to Disable/Enable the module just follow the below steps: 


  • Enable The Plugin

    php bin/magento module:enable PayTabs_PayPage

  • Disable The Plugin

    php bin/magento module:disable PayTabs_PayPage 





⌂ To get familiar with the whole process and the other steps, kindly navigate to our "The Magento Plugin Integration Manual" solution article. 

⇦ And to get familiar with the rest of the steps regarding the current step "Step 1 - Setup and activate the integration method" click here. 

⇨ And to navigate to the next step in the integration process "Step 2 - Configure the integration method" kindly click here.