LiqPay + Laravel: Accepting Online Payments in Ukraine
LiqPay is Ukraine's most widely used payment gateway — powering millions of transactions monthly across Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Privat24 installments. Integrating it into your Laravel application takes under a week and immediately converts more shoppers at checkout.
Why LiqPay matters for Ukrainian e-commerce
Over 70% of Ukrainian online shoppers pay by card. LiqPay — PrivatBank's payment platform — supports every major card scheme plus one-click payments and installment plans. If your store runs on Laravel, a native LiqPay integration puts all those options one API call away.
How the integration works
- Register your merchant account at liqpay.ua and obtain your public and private keys.
- Build a
LiqPayServiceclass that handles request signing (SHA1 HMAC), encodes the payload in base64, and generates the checkout form or redirect URL. - Define two routes:
/payment/create(generates the checkout form) and/payment/callback(receives the server-to-server confirmation). - Push callback processing to Laravel Queues (Redis driver recommended) — this keeps checkout fast under traffic spikes.
- Log every transaction to a
paymentstable with status, amount, and LiqPay order ID for reconciliation.
Security checklist
- Always validate the callback signature before updating order status.
- Store private keys in
.env, never in version control. - Wrap callback processing in a database transaction to prevent duplicate fulfillment.
Results you can expect
A standard Laravel + LiqPay integration at MaxiMoruM takes 3–5 business days: API setup, sandbox testing, production go-live, and webhook reliability checks. Clients typically see cart abandonment drop 12–18% after enabling local Ukrainian payment methods compared to redirect-only flows.
MaxiMoruM has delivered LiqPay integrations across 30+ Laravel and WordPress projects for Ukrainian e-commerce businesses. We handle the full implementation — from API setup to production monitoring.
→ Ready to start accepting payments? Contact MaxiMoruM for a same-week integration estimate.