When a product is passed into 2Checkout’s purchase routine using our Plug and Play parameter set, the customer has the ability to edit their product quantity and navigate back to the supplier’s website using the continue shopping button. These options are great for someone selling many different products, but can get confusing when a single product is being sold or a script is passing in products using our Plug and Play parameter set. To help correct the confusion, 2Checkout has implemented the fixed parameter to lock the quantity fields in the purchase routine and remove the continue shopping button. This way, you will not have to worry about the duplicate product purchases that can lead to confusion and even sale abandonment.

Implementing this parameter is as easy as passing in the “fixed” parameter
with a value of “Y”. (Please note that this value is case sensitive and must be in uppercase.)

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The way the demo parameter behaves has changed. The demo parameter can be passed to the purchase routine with 2 values: Y for demo mode or N for live sales mode. Now when you pass this parameter in with a value, that value is “Locked In” until the session is cleared by ending the sale or manually clearing the browser’s cache and cookies. This means that if a vendor passes in demo=N it is not possible to change it to a demo purchase once the customer has reached the 2Checkout page. Changing the URL to read demo=Y and reloading the URL will have no effect. Same goes for passing in Y. You will not be able to remove or edit the value.

If the demo parameter is not passed into the purchase routine you will be in live sales mode. Your purchase session will not be “locked in” to any mode so it would be possible to add the demo parameter, reload the URL and change the sales mode.

You can also turn the demo parameter on and off using the Demo Settings inside of your 2Checkout account. More information on how to do this can be found here.

When using the Demo feature for testing purposes, please be certain to clear the cookies in your browser between tests to ensure the new account settings have been applied. For more information on clearing the cookies please click here.

Vendors who use our 3rd party cart parameters often wish for the product details to be displayed on our 2Checkout.com order page. By default, when using this parameter set, only the value of the cart_order_id parameter and the total of the sale are displayed on this page. Did you know it was possible for you to create the products in your vendor account, reference them with a few parameters, and still pass 2Checkout an arbitrary total value? The process is quite simple. We will start from the beginning and you are welcome to follow along by placing your Supplier ID number as the value for the sid parameter in our example links.

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To add a button to your site, right click the button and save it to your computer. Then upload the button to your server and place the following code on your site:

<a href="http://www.2checkout.com/" target="_blank"><img src="path_to_button" border="0"></a>

To include credit card logos, please see Can I have Credit Card logos on my Site or Cart?

Demo mode is enabled on a per transaction basis, using the demo parameter, or it can be turned on or off from within your account. The Account Demo Settings located in the accounts Site Management page allows you to select one of three options to control demo mode.

• On: Using this setting all sales will be treated as demo, regardless of any parameter value.
• Off: Using this setting all sales will be treated as live, regardless of any parameter value.
• Parameter: Using this setting a demo parameter sent to the purchase routine will control the demo setting.

Demo sales allow you to see the purchase process as a customer would. No card will be billed during a demo purchase, but you must fill in all fields as you would for a live purchase. The only visual difference you should see is a note along the top of the purchase pages that reads “This is a demo sale. No charges will be levied, no payments made.”. Confirmation emails will also be sent for demo mode as they would for a live sale so that you can see the entire process. Confirmation emails for demo sales will indicate that they were demo sales as well, but will look the same as a live confirmation email otherwise.

To put your account in demo mode and make a test purchase you can select “On” for your Account Demo Settings option. If you choose the “Parameter” setting you would need to pass in parameter named “demo” with a value of capital “Y”. Demo mode will be enabled for every sale that includes this parameter and value. You do not need to pass in “N” to disable demo mode as it is disabled by default. You should either pass this in for a demo sale, or do not pass it in at all.

If you are using buttons on your site to sell your goods through 2Checkout, you would add a single line to the button such as this :

<input type=”hidden” name=”demo” value=”Y”>

This must go between the opening and closing FORM tag that you see when you view your existing code.

If you are using links to sell your goods through 2Checkout, then you would enable demo mode by adding this parameter to your links, such as this :

&demo=Y

If you are using a third party shopping cart, it may have an option within its setup pages or configuration options to enable this for you. If so, please use the method the cart provides for you.

IMPORTANT NOTES : The value of the demo parameter MUST
be a CAPITAL “Y”. Don’t forget to remove this parameter when you have concluded testing and wish to make your sales live again. When using the Demo feature for testing purposes, please be certain to clear the cookies in your browser between tests to ensure the new account settings have been applied. For more information on clearing the cookies please click here.