X-Shops solution combines a flexible shopping cart engine with the whole set of technical services:

* Powerful e-commerce platform – X-Cart shopping cart including all of its commercial add-ons and free skin templates. 100% open source code and a template-driven design architecture along with numerous ready-made third-party solutions (available at an extra fee) enable you to customize your online store to suit your specific needs.

* Reliable and secure hosting service – Web servers configured and protected in full accordance with e-commerce industry standards (PCI DSS). Number of accounts per server is limited in order to achieve maximum performance. Every day backup of store files and databases.

* Qualified technical support – more than eight years of experience in e-Commerce.

This fact allows you to concentrate solely on sales, marketing and customer relations.

Web site: www.x-shops.com

Developers.2Checkout is a collection of useful website development tools such as…

• Purchase Machine and Code Generator – An application created to allow you to easily test the 2Checkout purchase routine, as well as generate code that you can use to integrate with 2Checkout.
• Return Script – A script that you can use to test the 2Checkout return process. This will analyze and display useful information returned from our purchase routine when a sale is completed.
• Instant Notification System Simulator – An application created to allow you to simulate our Instant Notification System for integration development and testing.

Developers.2Checkout also features its own forum, so developers can talk among themselves and about some of the more advanced features 2CO supports.

These are just the first tools we’re releasing to help web developers integrate their sites or shopping carts with 2Checkout. Please take a look and let us know what you think.

P.S.
To all the non-developers who just want to get up & running today, our easy plug and play cart system and many recommended 3rd party carts still make integration easy! You don’t need to be a web developer to use 2CO, but if you are, your job just got a little easier.

1. Log into your account.
2. Click on the “Products” tab.
3. Click on the edit icon listed under “Actions” for the product you wish to edit. The edit icon looks like a blue file folder.
4. You will then be redirected to the edit product page for the product you wish to edit.

   Below is a list of the fields that can be edited and descriptions for those fields.

   • Your Product ID (Required) – This is an internal reference number for your use. A part number, bin location or other reference that will be useful to you. This field can consist of only letters and numbers with no spaces or special characters.
   • Name (Required) – This is the name or title of your product. Keep this as short as possible (no more than 30 characters) or it can cause the payment page to become distorted.
   • Short Description – This is what your product is. We recommend you keep this short as well to keep the payment page from becoming distorted.
   • Long Description – This is a longer description of your product, this will not be shown during the checkout process.
   • Price (Required) – This is how much the customer will be charged each payment cycle. Do not include any currency symbols (like “$”) in this field or errors will result.
   • Tangible (Required) – This indicates whether or not your product is tangible. Tangible goods must be shipped in a timely manner in order for you to receive payment. Tangible goods are also subject to sales tax for Ohio customers. This field must be set correctly, if 2Checkout becomes aware you have deliberately lied about whether or not a good is tangible, your account will be suspended, and further penalties may apply. Note that if you set this field to intangible, the customer will not be charged for shipping and the option to select shipping methods will not be shown on the order page.
   • Weight – If you plan to use our shipping systems and will ship by weight, specify the weight here.

     Handling - If there are any product-specific handling charges, they go here. These charges are above and beyond your normal shipping charges, and are only applied if this product is purchased, they are applied for each product ordered, i.e. if 3 of this product are ordered, the customer will be charged 3 times this amount. Do not use currency signs (like “$”) and do not use commas. Prices can be specified in whole numbers or as decimals to 2 places (example: 4.95).

   • Start Up Fee – This is a one time fee billed together with the first installment. This amount will be billed only once, not on a recurring basis.
   • Recurring (Required) – This indicates whether or not your product is a recurring product. A recurring product is one which will rebill the customer with a specified recurrence for a specified duration.
   • Recurrence (Required for recurring products) – This is a two-part field. The first part is a numerical field that tells us how long between billings as a number. The second box tells us the unit of time measurement, current options are; weeks, months and years. So, if you want a customer to be billed once every month, you would put in a ‘1′ in the first box, and then select “months” from the second drop-down box. Note that we no longer support daily recurring billing.
   • Duration (Required for recurring products) – Like the last setting, this is a two-part field. The first part is a numerical field that tells us how long to continue billing as a number. The second box tells us what unit of time you are referring to. If you put in ‘6′ and then selected “months” from the second drop down, your charge would automatically cease billing after 6 months. If you want to bill the customer until they or you cancel, leave the first box blank and select “Forever” from the second box.
   • Affiliate Commission – Affiliate Commission can be specified either as an amount (in your pricing currency) or as a percentage. It is how much you want to pay other 2CO vendors who act as affiliates, re-marketing your products on their websites.
   • Pending URL – This is not used for recurring products/services.
   • Approved URL – This is the URL your customer will be returned to when the payment has been confirmed. Most credit card orders will be sent here.
5. Once you have edited the product to your satisfaction, press “Save Changes” to save the product to the database.

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• New Vendor Admin: Product Page Advanced View and Enable Editing

Traditional shopping carts, like X-Cart and ClickCartPro, have supported 2CO for many years now. Others, like Summer Cart and ViArt, are more recent additions. 2CO is also supported by hosted shopping carts like 3DCart and hosted invoicing systems like FreshBooks.

We’re proud to recommend these carts and services and all of the others we’ve reviewed and confirmed for compatibility. You can see our entire recommended cart list, organized by category (PHP, ASP, Hosted Services, etc.), here. There’s a solution for almost every need and we’re adding more all the time, so check back frequently.

If you have developed a 2CO-compatible shopping cart and would like to have it included in our recommendations, please email us directly at integration@2co.com and we’ll be happy to provide all the information you need to confirm compatiblity.

Important Note: The unit of measure for weight fields in the Shipping Wizard will display pounds.This measurement is given as an example only, and you may consider 1 pound to equal 1 of your unit of measure.

To begin, you will first need to log in to your account and then click the Shipping tab to be redirected to the Shipping Methods page in your account.

Step 1: Click the blue plus sign “+” next to Add New Shipping Method on the right side of the Shipping page. A new Shipping Wizard window will open in your browser.

Step 2: Enter a Shipping Method Name, Tracking URL (if applicable), select what shipping charges will be based on, customers country, order total or order weight, and then select what countries this method will be offered to. Suppliers may offer the method to customers from all trusted countries, the supplier’s home country only, or, from a custom list. If you will be shipping by a method that will provide tracking numbers, you may want to list that url in the Tracking URL field as the url will be included in the shipment confirmation email that can be sent to the customer when the order is marked as shipped. After you have entered a Shipping Method Name, Tracking URL (if applicable), selected how shipping charges will be calculated and what countries the method will be offered to click Continue.

Step 3: Enter a Base Price for the method, and select how shipping charges will be calculated, based on customers country, order total or order weight. Please note: The Base Charge will be charged on all orders regardless of order weight. After you have entered a Base Price and selected how shipping charges will be calculated, click Continue.

Step 4: If you had selected Home Country Only or All Trusted Countries, you will not see this screen and will go directly to Step 5 or 5A. If you had selected Custom List, you will now select the countries this method will be offered to. To add countries to the list, highlight the country and click the Add Countries button. After you have added all of the countries the method will be offered to, click Continue.

If you will be calculating shipping charges based on exact order weight please follow Steps 5 and 6. If you will be calculating shipping based on weight ranges please follow Steps 5A and 6A.

Step 5: Enter a Weight Max and Amount . When calculating the charges based on exact order weight, you will need to enter the maximum order weight that will only be charged the Base Price in the Weight Max Field, then enter 0.00 in the amount field and click Add Surcharge. Please note: The Weight Max field will only accept whole numbers, 1, 2, 3, etc.

Step 6: Set Overweight Charge. The Overweight Charge will be the amount that is added for each pound over the Weight Max that was set in Step 5. When charging shipping based on the exact order amount, Overweight Charges will be based on the exact order weight. As an example: If you had set up the method to charge a Base Charge of $1.00 and the Overweight Charge is set to $1.00 for each pound over 1, the shipping charges for an order that weighed 1.50 pounds would be $1.50. $1.00(Base Charge) + $.50(Overweight Charge)=$1.50 Shipping cost. After you have entered the Overweight Charge, click Continue. Go to Step 7.

Step 5A: Enter the Weight Max and Amount. The first Weight Max that you enter will determine the maximum order weight that would only bill the customer the Base Charge that was set up in Step 3. For the Amount for the first Weight Max you will enter 0.00 and click Add Surcharge. Continue to add additional Weight Maxes and Surcharges for each weight range you wish to use on the method. In the below example the method is set up to charge customers a Base Price of $1.00 for the first 10 pounds and to then add a Surcharge of $1.00 for orders from 10.01 to 20 pounds, $2.00 for orders from 20.01 to 30 pounds, $3.00 for orders from 30.01 to 40 pounds. After you have entered all of the weight ranges for the method go to Step 6A. Please note: The Weight Max field will only accept whole numbers, 1, 2, 3, etc.

Step 6A: Set Overweight Charge. The Overweight Charge will be the amount that is added for each pound over the highest weight that you had entered for your weight divisions in Step 5A. When charging shipping based on weight ranges, the Overweight Charges will be based on the exact Overweight amount. As an example, if you were charging $4.00 for orders up to 40 pounds, and adding an additional $1.00 for each pound over 40, for an order weighing 40.50 pounds the customer would be charged $4.50 for shipping. $4.00(Charge for weights up to 40 pounds) + $.50(Overweight Charge for .50 pounds)= $4.50 total shipping cost. After you have entered the Overweight Charge click Continue.

Step 7: Review the settings for the method and save the Shipping Method. To save the method to your account click Save after you have reviewed the settings for the method. The page will refresh and advise the method has been successfully created and you may then click Close to exit the Shipping Wizard.

Advanced View

By default, the Product page in your account will display the following fields:

• Actions
• Images
• Assigned_product_id
• Vendor_product_id
• Name Price

Suppliers may select the fields that are displayed on the Products page by enabling Advanced View on their Product page. After you have logged in to your account, click the Product tab on your account homepage. On the Product page, place a check in the Advanced View box on the right side of the Products page and click the blue Update View button. The page will refresh and there will be a new Fields list below the Advance View box on the right side of the page.  You may then place a check in the View box next to any additional field(s) you wish to have displayed on the Product page. You can also remove the checkmark from any default field that you don’t wish to view on the Product page. After you have completed your selections, click the blue Update View button to see the changes applied to your Product page.

Enable Editing

The Advanced View will also allow you to edit product fields from the Products page. To enable editing you will leave a check in the Advanced View box, place a check in the Enable Editing field and then click the blue Update View button. The page will refresh and there will be a new fields list that will allow you to select Edit, View or Skip for the product fields on the right side of the page. You will first want to place a check in the Edit box for any product fields that you will editing, then place a check in either the View or Skip box for any fields that you won’t be editing, or don’t wish to view, and click the blue Update View button below the fields list. The page will then refresh and any fields that you had checked Edit for will now be able to be edited on the Product page. Please note, if you don’t place a check in Edit, View or Skip for a field, that field will not be displayed on the Product page after you click the Update View button. After you have edited the field(s) for the product(s) that required the change, click the blue Save Product Changes button listed on the left side of the page under your products list. The page will then refresh and an “All updates succeeded”  message will be displayed in the top left side of the page.

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To begin, you will first need to log in to your account and then click the Shipping tab to be redirected to the Shipping Methods page in your account.

Step 1: Click the blue plus sign “+” next to Add New Shipping Method on the right side of the Shipping page. A new Shipping Wizard window will open in your browser.

Step 2: Enter a Shipping Method Name, Tracking URL (if applicable), select what shipping charges will be based on, customers country, order total or order weight and then select what countries this method will be offered to. Suppliers may offer the method to customers from all trusted countries, the supplier’s home country only, or, from a custom list. If you will be shipping by a method that will provide tracking numbers, you may want to list that url in the Tracking URL field as the url will be included in the shipment confirmation email that can be sent to the customer when the order is marked as shipped. After you have entered a Shipping Method Name, Tracking URL (if applicable), selected how shipping charges will be calculated and what countries the method will be offered to, click Continue.

Step 3: Enter a Base Price for the method, and select how shipping charges will be calculated, based on customers country, order total or order weight. Please note: The base charge will be charged on all orders regardless of order total. After you have entered a Base Price and selected how shipping charges will be calculated, click Continue.

Step 4: If you had selected Home Country Only or All Trusted Countries, you will not see this screen and will go directly to Step 5. If you had selected Custom List, you will now select the countries this method will be offered to. To add countries to the list, highlight the country and click the Add Countries button. After you have added all of the countries the method will be offered to, click Continue.

Step 5: Enter the Order Max Total and Amount. The Order Max total is the maximum order amount that would only be charged the Base Price created in Step 3. As an example, if you wanted customers to be charged $1.00 shipping for orders up to $10.00, you would enter 1.00 as the Base Price, 10.00 in Order Max Total field, 0.00 in the Amount field and then click the blue Add Surcharge button.

Step 6: Adding additional order total surcharges. To add additional order total surcharges, you will enter the amount for the Order Total Max and the amount for the Surcharge to be added to the order total and click the blue Add Surcharge button. In the example in the image below, the method is set up to charge customers $1.00 for orders up to $10.00, and to then add an additional $1.00 shipping charge for every $5.00 ordered over $10.00. In the below example, customers with orders totaling more than $45.00 would only be charged the base price that had been entered for the method as there isn’t a designated surcharge for orders totaling more than $45.00. After you have entered all of the surcharges for the method, click Continue.

Step 7: Review the settings for the method and save the Shipping Method. After you have reviewed the settings, click Save to save the method in your account. The page will refresh and advise the method has been successfully created and you may then click Close to exit the Shipping Wizard.

Related Article:

• Tutorial: Creating Shipping Methods

ViArt Shop is a 97% open-sourced, PHP-based, feature-rich shopping cart that enables anyone to start small and medium online business or develop a huge e-commerce solution. Possessing great flexibility and numerous features, like Affiliate, Merchant, and Call Centre modules, Multi-site capability, variety of payment methods and shipping modules, powerful CMS and a lot more, ViArt Shop is an excellent platform to manage your online business in an efficient and effective manner.

Web site: http://www.viart.com/

Summer Cart is easy-to-use full-featured PHP shopping cart. Designed to be 100% Search-Engine-Optimized (SEO), fully XHTML and CSS compliant, with meta tags and search engine friendly URLs. Summer Cart includes not just powerful product catalog, order management, reporting and marketing tools, but is also completely customizable and has built-in content management system, forms builder, and multiskins support. Sell to more customers with the multi-language and 39+ auto updated currencies features. See the online demo.

Web site: http://www.summercart.com/

The email will include a link to pass the buyer to our purchase routine for the selected language so the customer can complete their purchase. The following languages are currently supported:

• Chinese (Traditional)
• Danish
• Dutch
• French
• German
• Greek
• Italian
• Japanese
• Norwegian
• Portuguese
• Slovenian
• Spanish (European)
• Spanish (Latin American)
• Swedish

In an effort to eliminate confusion for both the customer and supplier, the English translation will be included under all non English invoices. Instructions on creating a invoice can be found in the tutorial listed below.

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• TUTORIAL: Creating an Invoice