Thank you to all of the participants of our new Affiliate Program Beta!

We’re expanding the beta program now, so if you’ve been waiting for the second round, now’s the time to apply.

UPDATE:

February 18, 2009:  All 2Checkout suppliers may now enroll in the Affiliate Program and are no longer required to apply to be enrolled. To enroll in the Affiliate Program, suppliers will first need to agree to the new Terms of Service and Operating regulations for the program. To review and agree to the new Terms of Service and Operating Regulations, suppliers will need to login to their account using the New Vendors Administration area and then click the Affiliates tab on the account home page. Suppliers will then be able read and agree to the new documentation.

To learn more about the Affiliate Program Beta, see these previous posts:

• Affiliate Program Limited Beta
• 2CO’s New Affiliate Program
• TUTORIAL: Adding Products to the Affiliate Program
• TUTORIAL: Finding Affiliate Opportunities

Thank you to everyone who has provided their advice and recommendations for the new 2CO affiliate program so far.

Our developers have been working on the new affiliate program and are now ready to release a limited invite-only beta.

UPDATE:

February 18, 2009:  All 2Checkout suppliers may now enroll in the Affiliate Program and are no longer required to apply to be enrolled. To enroll in the Affiliate Program, suppliers will first need to agree to the new Terms of Service and Operating regulations for the program. To review and agree to the new Terms of Service and Operating Regulations, suppliers will need to login to their account using the New Vendors Administration area and then click the Affiliates tab on the account home page. Suppliers will then be able read and agree to the new documentation.

To learn more about the Affiliate Program Beta, see these previous posts:

• Affiliate Program Limited Beta
• 2CO’s New Affiliate Program
• TUTORIAL: Adding Products to the Affiliate Program
• TUTORIAL: Finding Affiliate Opportunities

2Checkout.com was recently selected as one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 500 Fastest-Growing Businesses in America.

The top 500 have “all exceeded annual sales of $1 million and shown positive job growth measured over a four-year period.”

Click here to see our entry in the Top 500.

2Checkout.com is proud to announce the release of our new transaction pages.

The transaction process has been completely rewritten and many improvements have been made. Many of the improvements were made to back-end functionality, so will not be apparent to our suppliers or customers. Several others are visible, however, so I’ll briefly describe these below:

Simplify and Inform

• An improved detailed transaction summary is now included on the right side of each transaction.
• Payment methods are now “conditional”. This means that customers who do not have a payment method available to them will no longer see references to that payment method.
• There is now a “Remove” button by each product or custom cart order. This makes removing products from your cart much easier than the previous method of entering a “0″ in the quantity field.
• Personal and Shipping Information now appears on a single page. This helps simplify the transaction process and allows customers to copy their Personal Information into the Shipping Information fields with a simple checkbox selection.
• To help maintain consistent branding, supplier (vendor) logos, if provided, now appear throughout the entire transaction process.

New Payment Methods

• Customers using Internet Explorer 6 or 7 in the United States will now see a payment option for ATM Direct. ATM Direct brings Real-time, PIN-debit payments to 2Checkout.com.
• Coming soon: FX Source and Paypal

We’ll be providing more details about these changes and future improvements, so check back soon for more information.

UPDATE 7/18: FX Source has been added as a payment option.
UPDATE 10/30: PayPal Express Checkout has been added as a payment option.
UPDATE 11/29: ATM Direct has been removed as a payment option.

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