KOMOJU adds Japan-focused payments to HikaShop

This job exists because Joomla itself is a CMS, not a complete online-shop payment system. Joomla core can manage extensions, users and site content, but it does not provide a HikaShop-style cart, merchant-account integration or payment-provider workflow. HikaShop supplies the shop and its payment-method framework; a gateway plugin is the usual way to connect that framework to a particular processor. A template override is relevant to changing checkout markup or styling, not to processing transactions.

According to the listing, this plugin goes beyond core Joomla and HikaShop's general payment framework by connecting to KOMOJU and its hosted payment page. The developer says it supports cards and several Japan- and Korea-specific methods, handles unpaid convenience-store orders, receives signed webhooks, reads payment status back from KOMOJU, and maps refunds or cancellations to the provider. Those are claims from the listing, not results from our testing.

It is aimed at a HikaShop shop selling to customers in Japan, or potentially Korea, with a KOMOJU merchant account and a publicly reachable site for webhooks. A site that takes payments through another gateway, does not use HikaShop, or only needs Joomla content features has no apparent use for it.

The listing marks it as a paid download, but gives no price. Hikari Software Team has 80 other directory listings; this entry has no reviews. Documentation is marked unavailable. Before buying, check the commercial terms, support arrangements, update policy, required KOMOJU account conditions and the provider's fees. The listing claims compatibility with all Joomla versions and HikaShop editions, with PHP 7.4 as a minimum, so those broad claims should also be verified against the shop's actual environment.

Listed on the Joomla Extensions Directory.