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New Feature: Control Demo From Inside Your 2Checkout Account

The ability to control the demo parameter has been added to the 2Checkout system. You can now choose from the following 3 options inside of your 2Checkout account to control the use of the Demo parameter. Those choices are:

  • 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.

This setting is located on your supplier account’s “Look & Feel” page. To access this page log into your account and scroll down to the “Helpful Links” section and then click the link titled “Look & Feel”.

To access this feature in the new Vendor Admin section you will first need to access your account by logging in to your account here. After you have logged in to your account you will first need to click the Account tab, and then click the Site Management sub tab on the Account page.

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.

Demo Parameter Changes

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.

Affiliate Program Limited Beta

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.

If you would like to participate in this beta program, please send an email to affiliatebeta@2co.com with the following information:

subject: Affiliate Beta
name: your name
SID: your 2CO supplier id
Would you like to offer commissions on your products? Yes/No
Would you like to earn commissions on others’ products? Yes/No

We will be contacting the first round of beta participants over the course of the following week.

Custom Purchase Links

Many of our suppliers have asked if they can customize their Plug and Play purchase links. This article will demonstrate an easy way to do so.

Below is an example of part of an HTML Snippet we may provide. This snippet can be found in the ‘Set Up Products’ section of your account by clicking the ‘HTML’ link for the appropriate product:

<a href="https://www.2checkout.com/checkout/purchase?sid=11&quantity=1&product_id=4"> PRODUCT NAME </a>

Once a supplier has copy and pasted this auto-generated code into their site, it will appear like this to a web browser:

PRODUCT NAME

Using the auto-generated code as a starting point, we can simply remove the link text and replace it with the HTML code for an image:

<a href="https://www.2checkout.com/checkout/purchase?sid=11&quantity=1&product_id=4"><img src="XXXXXX” alt=”PRODUCT NAME”></a>

Please make sure that you replace “XXXXXX” with a link to the desired purchase image hosted on your site, “PRODUCT NAME” with your actual product name or other appropriate text and “11″ with your own 2CO supplier ID.

Country Codes

Below are all the available countries to ship to through 2Checkout and their relative country codes, listed in alphabetical order by country name. These codes are to be used with the ‘country’ parameter. This listing reflects the changes made in the new version of our purchase routine effective as of July 17, 2007.

AFG - Afghanistan
ALB - Albania
DZA - Algeria
ASM - American Samoa
AND - Andorra
AGO - Angola
AIA - Anguilla
ATA - Antarctica
ATG - Antigua and Barbuda
ARG - Argentina
ARM - Armenia
ABW - Aruba
AUS - Australia
AUT - Austria
AZE - Azerbaijan
BHS - Bahamas
BHR - Bahrain
BGD - Bangladesh
BRB - Barbados
BLR - Belarus
BEL - Belgium
BLZ - Belize
BEN - Benin
BMU - Bermuda
BTN - Bhutan
BOL - Bolivia
BIH - Bosnia and Herzegovina
BWA - Botswana
BVT - Bouvet Island
BRA - Brazil
IOT - British Indian Ocean Territory
BRN - Brunei Darussalam
BGR - Bulgaria
BFA - Burkina Faso
BDI - Burundi
KHM - Cambodia
CMR - Cameroon
CAN - Canada
CPV - Cape Verde
CYM - Cayman Islands
CAF - Central African Republic
TCD - Chad
CHL - Chile
CHN - China
CXR - Christmas Island
CCK - Cocos (Keeling) Islands
COL - Colombia
COM - Comoros
COG - Congo
COD - Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
COK - Cook Islands
CRI - Costa Rica
CIV - Cote D’ivoire
HRV - Croatia (Hrvatska)
CYP - Cyprus
CZE - Czech Republic
DNK - Denmark
DJI - Djibouti
DMA - Dominica
DOM - Dominican Republic
ECU - Ecuador
EGY - Egypt
SLV - El Salvador
GNQ - Equatorial Guinea
ERI - Eritrea
EST - Estonia
ETH - Ethiopia
FLK - Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
FRO - Faroe Islands
FJI - Fiji
FIN - Finland
FRA - France
FXX - France, Metropolitan
GUF - French Guiana
PYF - French Polynesia
ATF - French Southern Territories
GAB - Gabon
GMB - Gambia
GEO - Georgia
DEU - Germany
GHA - Ghana
GIB - Gibraltar
GRC - Greece
GRL - Greenland
GRD - Grenada
GLP - Guadeloupe
GUM - Guam
GTM - Guatemala
GIN - Guinea
GNB - Guinea-Bissau
GUY - Guyana
HTI - Haiti
HMD - Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands
HND - Honduras
HKG - Hong Kong
HUN - Hungary
ISL - Iceland
IND - India
IDN - Indonesia
IRQ - Iraq
IRL - Ireland
ISR - Israel
ITA - Italy
JAM - Jamaica
JPN - Japan
JOR - Jordan
KAZ - Kazakhstan
KEN - Kenya
KIR - Kiribati
KOR - Korea, Republic of
KWT - Kuwait
KGZ - Kyrgyzstan
LAO - Lao People’s Democratic Republic
LVA - Latvia
LBN - Lebanon
LSO - Lesotho
LBR - Liberia
LBY - Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
LIE - Liechtenstein
LTU - Lithuania
LUX - Luxembourg
MAC - Macao
MKD - Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of
MDG - Madagascar
MWI - Malawi
MYS - Malaysia
MDV - Maldives
MLI - Mali
MLT - Malta
MHL - Marshall Islands
MTQ - Martinique
MRT - Mauritania
MUS - Mauritius
MYT - Mayotte
MEX - Mexico
FSM - Micronesia, Federated States of
MDA - Moldova, Republic of
MCO - Monaco
MNG - Mongolia
MNE - Montenegro
MSR - Montserrat
MAR - Morocco
MOZ - Mozambique
NAM - Namibia
NRU - Nauru
NPL - Nepal
NLD - Netherlands
ANT - Netherlands Antilles
NCL - New Caledonia
NZL - New Zealand
NIC - Nicaragua
NER - Niger
NGA - Nigeria
NIU - Niue
NFK - Norfolk Island
MNP - Northern Mariana Islands
NOR - Norway
OMN - Oman
PAK - Pakistan
PLW - Palau
PSE - Palestinian Territory, Occupied
PAN - Panama
PNG - Papua New Guinea
PRY - Paraguay
PER - Peru
PHL - Philippines
PCN - Pitcairn
POL - Poland
PRT - Portugal
PRI - Puerto Rico
QAT - Qatar
REU - Reunion
ROU - Romania
RUS - Russian Federation
RWA - Rwanda
SHN - Saint Helena
KNA - Saint Kitts and Nevis
LCA - Saint Lucia
SPM - Saint Pierre and Miquelon
VCT - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
WSM - Samoa
SMR - San Marino
STP - Sao Tome and Principe
SAU - Saudi Arabia
SEN - Senegal
SRB - Serbia
SCG - Serbia and Montenegro
SYC - Seychelles
SLE - Sierra Leone
SGP - Singapore
SVK - Slovakia
SVN - Slovenia
SLB - Solomon Islands
SOM - Somalia
ZAF - South Africa
SGS - South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
ESP - Spain
LKA - Sri Lanka
SUR - Suriname
SJM - Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
SWZ - Swaziland
SWE - Sweden
CHE - Switzerland
TWN - Taiwan
TJK - Tajikistan
TZA - Tanzania, United Republic of
THA - Thailand
TLS - Timor-Leste
TGO - Togo
TKL - Tokelau
TON - Tonga
TTO - Trinidad and Tobago
TUN - Tunisia
TUR - Turkey
TKM - Turkmenistan
TCA - Turks and Caicos Islands
TUV - Tuvalu
UGA - Uganda
UKR - Ukraine
ARE - United Arab Emirates
GBR - United Kingdom
USA - United States
UMI - United States Minor Outlying Islands
URY - Uruguay
UZB - Uzbekistan
VUT - Vanuatu
VAT - Vatican City State (Holy See)
VEN - Venezuela
VNM - Viet Nam
VGB - Virgin Islands, British
VIR - Virgin Islands, U.S.
WLF - Wallis and Futuna Islands
ESH - Western Sahara
YEM - Yemen
YUG - Yugoslavia
ZAR - Zaire
ZMB - Zambia
ZWE - Zimbabwe

Common Error Codes

In the world of online payments, you may encounter the occasional error code. Some, like common browser errors and 2CO specific errors have their solutions documented (see below), while others receive little explanation. To help remedy this situation, we’ll be providing information about some of the errors you may receive if you’re a customer making purchases or a supplier testing the transaction process.

We’ll start with some of the more common processing errors:
Continue reading…

Affiliate Signup Program Update

2Checkout has updated it’s Affiliate Signup Program

The 2Checkout Affiliate Signup Program is our way of rewarding suppliers with compensation for referring others to use our service. Here are some of the highlights:

  • Suppliers now earn $11.00 for each new supplier they refer.
  • Suppliers now have access to an affiliate reporting system which allows them to track their affiliate signup sales. This report can be found in the vendor reporting section of your 2CO Admin Area.
  • A column has been added to the payment section of your 2CO Admin Area (’Aff Comm’). This column details money paid to you by 2Checkout for affiliate signup sales.

If you already have a supplier account, using the affiliate signup program is as easy as adding one link to your website (replace ‘XXXXXX’ with your vendor account number):

https://www.2checkout.com/2co/signup?aff_id=XXXXXX

After the account is active for 60 days you will receive payment for referring a supplier to start selling with us.

This is just the start of our new affiliate program revamp. Please keep sharing your ideas and recommendations as we continue to add to and improve this program.

Related blog post: 2CO’s New Affiliate Program
Related forum thread: Possible Integrated Affiliate Network?

2CO’s New Affiliate Program

2CO wants your help designing our new integrated affiliate program.

About a month ago, a 2CO community member started a thread in the forums asking if 2Checkout would consider an integrated affiliate network. It was good timing, because we are. We’re currently researching the possibilities and would love to get some feedback from our suppliers and the public at large.

This is currently a high priority for our developers, so now is a great time to take advantage of this opportunity. The more information you can provide, the better. We’d love to know exactly what you want from a 2CO affiliate program, so no detail is too small.

You can follow the affiliate program discussion in the forums or leave your suggestions as a comment to this post.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Reshipping Packages

Access USACustomers without a US shipping address can now receive products from vendors who only ship to the US!

2Checkout has partnered with Access USA to help international customers purchase products from suppliers who do not ship to their country. Access USA allows international customers to sign up for an account and receive a US street address to enter in their online order. Access USA will receive the goods and forward them to your international address.

Any questions regarding this service or orders shipped using this service should be referred to the Access USA directly.

Click here to learn more about Access USA.

Error Message: No shipping available to your country!

Why am I getting this “No shipping available to your country!” error?

No shipping available to your country!
(The vendor may need to define a shipping method.)

This error is generated when the supplier is selling a tangible product and the shipping country entered by the customer does not have a valid shipping method set up in the supplier’s 2Checkout account. If the supplier wishes to ship to that country they will need a shipping method that includes it. Suppliers can follow the instructions listed in our shipping method tutorial for assistance creating or editing shipping methods.

If you are an international customer and wish to place an order with a supplier who does not ship to your country, you can use the service provided by Access USA to facilitate shipping to your location.

Click here to learn more about Access USA.

Related Article: Reshipping Packages

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