Yclas friends
Today, we have great news, we integrated Mercadopago as a new payment gateway.
During the past few months, we have been contacted by many users from South America regarding integrating MercadoPago as a payment gateway. It is commonly used in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile and there are more willing to use Mercadopago instead of Paypal. Even for some people or countries that are not known, MercadoPago is already used by more than 90 million people worldwide and 150k online businesses.
MarcadoPago has already been added and is available for all our paid users in Yclas. It has been added to a list of 10 payment gateways
To setup Mercadopago for your classifieds sites, please follow these steps:
- Register in Mercadopago (If you don't have an account yet)
- Get your Client-id and Client-Secret
- Go to your admin panel -> Settings -> Payments -> MercadoPago and paste: Client-id and Client-Secret.
Setting up Mercado Pago on your Yclas site in 2026: credentials, countries and a final check
Mercado Pago is still one of the payment gateways built into Yclas, listed on the features page alongside Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, Razorpay, PayFast, PayTabs, 2Checkout, BitPay and Escrow.com. Some details from 2022 have changed, so here is the setup as it works today.
How big Mercado Pago is now
Mercado Libre's investor relations site (checked October 2026) reports 88 million monthly active users and more than 9 million entrepreneurs and SMEs using Mercado Pago to get paid. It also says that for 54.5% of its users in the region, Mercado Pago was the first digital payment method available to them. If your buyers are in Latin America, many of them already have an account with their payment methods saved, which makes paying for a featured ad or a membership much quicker.
Where it works
Yclas sends buyers to Mercado Pago's hosted checkout, which Mercado Pago calls Checkout Pro. According to Mercado Pago's developer documentation, it is available in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. The buyer pays on Mercado Pago's own page with a credit or debit card, their Mercado Pago balance, or offline options such as Rapipago and Pago Fácil in Argentina, and installment options are also offered.
Getting your Client ID and Client Secret
Yclas uses your application's Client ID and Client Secret (not the Public key and Access token pair). As described in Mercado Pago's credentials guide:
- Log in to Mercado Pago Developers and open Your integrations. Create an application, or select one you already have.
- Test credentials are available right away. Production credentials have to be activated: you choose your industry, give your website URL and accept the terms.
- Under Production > Production credentials, copy the Client ID and Client Secret. Keep the secret private and never paste it into an ad, an email or a support chat.
In Yclas, go to your admin panel → Integrations, choose Mercadopago in the payment integrations, paste both values and save.
What happens when someone pays
At checkout, Yclas creates a Mercado Pago payment request with the order's amount, currency and description, and sends the buyer to Mercado Pago. After an approved payment, the buyer is returned automatically to their orders page, and Mercado Pago notifies your site so the order is marked as paid and the featured ad or membership turns on. Before you announce it, check that:
- the currency of your site's prices is one your Mercado Pago account can accept;
- you have made one small real payment and the order changed to paid in your panel;
- you have read the fees and payout times on Mercado Pago's pricing page for your country, because they differ by country and by how quickly you want the money.
As you know, we don't take a commission on any transaction however before using it please check MercadoPago commissions.
Hope this new integration makes you as happy as we are! Enjoy
