As you can see, we’re recommending five more shopping carts.

We’d like to thank Clement Nicolaescu, Pinnacle Cart and WorksForWeb for creating the most recent additions to our Recommended Carts list.

Every shopping cart on our Recommended Carts list has been reviewed by 2CO staff to confirm that they meet all of our integration requirements. If you would like to use a third party shopping cart with your 2Checkout account, there’s one to meet just about any vendor’s needs already on the list and we’re adding more all the time.

If you are creating a 2CO-compatible shopping cart and would like to have it added to our Recommended Carts list, please contact us at integration@2co.com and provide a working demonstration, so we can review it for inclusion and provide any additional assistance you may require.

This weekend, one of our web developers and I will be flying to San Francisco to attend WordCamp and An Event Apart.

We use WordPress at 2Checkout.com for our blogs and the community site, so we’re excited to meet others who use and develop it at WordCamp. Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, really impressed us at SXSW Interactive, earlier this year, so we’re looking forward to hearing from him again.

After WordCamp, we’ll be staying in town a few more days to attend An Event Apart. We’ve been big fans of A List Apart for years now. Their dedication to web standards and best practices has earned them much well-deserved respect within the online community. If you make websites, please take a few minutes to complete this year’s A List Apart survey and take a look at the results from last year’s survey.

Unfortunately, we won’t have the opportunity to host a free lunch while we’re in San Francisco, but our representatives at conferences in Boston (August 11-12) and San Diego (August 11-14) still will. See Let’s Do Lunch for more information.

If you’re going to either of these San Francisco conferences, please let us know in the comments. We’d love to meet you!

Congratulations to 2Checkout’s CFO/COO Kristin Dach for being chosen a WELD 2009 Calendar Honoree! WELD - Women for Economic and Leadership Development - is Ohio’s premier organization dedicated to furthering the issues of economic development for women, providing specific tools and skills to enhance their individual economic status. One of the goals of the organization is to raise the profile of women whose accomplishments should be recognized and considered for additional leadership positions within the community.

WELD annually recognizes an elite group of Central Ohio business women by producing a calendar of the “12 Women You Should Know.” We are happy to announce Kristin was chosen as one of the top 12 among a number of nominations. Through the establishment of the calendar, WELD helps showcase success and mobilize women to become more active participants in the leadership of area businesses, civic organizations and government.

For the record, 2CO Marketing is a big fan of summer, so we are pulling for a “Miss July” placement. Congratulations Kristin! Looks like we’ll have to trash our Jonas Brothers calendar and clear wall space for 2009.

To help put the final touches on the 2Checkout.com Affiliate Marketing Program, 2CO is hosting an affiliate roundtable discussion Wednesday, July 30, to tap the expert minds of a diverse group of industry professionals experienced in affiliate marketing.

Seven roundtable panelists from a broad range of internet backgrounds including affiliate and internet marketing, ecommerce, and consulting will travel to 2Checkout headquarters in Columbus, Ohio to preview 2Checkout’s affiliate interface, learn about the program’s unique design and payment features, and provide constructive feedback for the final rollout. The goal is to generate unique opinions from professionals who have experienced the affiliate marketplace from different business perspectives. The six-hour rap session will prove fruitful for fine tuning features before the upcoming official product launch.

2Checkout is grateful for the impressive group of panelists scheduled to participate in the roundtable. The following is a list of bios highlighting their expertise.

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We’ve recently updated our third party cart parameter articles to simplify our integration requirements.

If you are developing a 2CO-compatible shopping cart, this consolidates our technical requirements into a single document, based on the parameter set you prefer.

Most developers will want to refer to our custom parameter set as detailed in the article titled What are 2Checkout.com’s own parameters?

Developers who prefer to use our supported subset of Authorize.net parameters will want to refer to the article titled What Authorize.net parameters does 2CO support?

As always, if you have any questions about integrating our service with your product, please contact us directly by telephone or by opening a support ticket in the Tech Support category.