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We are currently still building up the English documentation; not all sections have been translated yet. Please note that there may still be German screenshots or links to German pages even on pages that have already been translated. This guide mostly addresses English speaking users in Germany.
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Setting up spam protection with Google reCAPTCHA
Your task/initial situation
You would like to protect your JTL-Shop forms against spam bots. The spam protection Google reCAPTCHA can help you with that. It is available as a plug-in in the JTL-Extension Store.
Requirements
Step 1: Activation of Google reCAPTCHA for your website
You first need to activate Google reCAPTCHA for your website.
Please note: These instructions refer to the activation on the Google website. It is only intended as additional guidance and might deviate from the actual process.
- Visit https://www.google.com/recaptcha.
- Click Admin Console. The page Register a new site opens.
- Log in to your Google user account.
- Enter a label, select reCAPTCHA v2as the reCAPTCHA type and enter the domain for which you want to use Google reCAPTCHA.
Hint: Make sure to leave out the initial “http://” when you enter the domain.
On the following page you will then find the Google reCAPTCHA website key and the secret key.
- Note down both keys for step 3.
Step 2: Downloading the Google reCAPTCHA plug-in.
Step 3: Activating Google reCAPTCHA in JTL-Shop
Now you need to enter the website and secret key created for Google reCAPTCHA in step 1 in JTL-Shop.
- Log in to the back end of JTL-Shop with your admin access data.
- Go to Installed plug-ins > JTL Google reCAPTCHA v2.
- In Google reCAPTCHA v2 Integration, select whether the feature is to be integrated as a widget that must be completed by your customers or as an invisible background application.
- Into Google reCAPTCHA website key, enter the website key you noted down in step 1.
- Into Google reCAPTCHA secret key, enter the secret key you noted down in step 1.
- In Theme and Size, select the appearance option you prefer for Google reCAPTCHA. These settings are only visible when Google reCAPTCHA is depicted as a widget.
- Go to the tab Test reCAPTCHA. You should now get a success message.
- Click Save to apply your changes.
- Now enable spam protection in the corresponding settings for all forms in which you want to use spam protection; for example, for the contact form, the form for questions about the item or the Forgot passoword function.
The enabled spam protection will now be used in all forms for which it is enabled. Google reCAPTCHA opens when submitting the form.
