This article, originally published October 29, 2007, has been updated today, October 30, 2007. Updates will appear in bold text.

By popular demand, 2Checkout will soon support now supports PayPal Express Checkout.

Suppliers have long been able to pay their 2CO set up fee with PayPal. Later this week Starting today, many customers will have the option to pay for their purchases with PayPal as well.

This will allow customers to pay for products and services with the funds in their PayPal account, even if the supplier does not have their own PayPal account and only uses 2Checkout.

The PayPal payment option will be available for all non-recurring orders in the following currencies:

• Australian Dollar (AUD)
• Canadian Dollar (CAD)
• Euro (EUR)
• British Pound (GBP)
• Japanese Yen (JPY)
• U.S. Dollar (USD)

For more information about the other customer payment options 2CO supports, please see: What Customer Payment Options Are Supported by 2CO?

Also coming soon: PayPal Pay Later

Your questions are welcome in the comments, or you may contact us directly.

The Canadian dollar is up, and the American dollar is down. This is not such a bad thing. Your products have just gone up in value. Canadians can now pay less by shopping in the U.S., and that means they will save money by purchasing your products from 2Checkout.com. Now is the time to sign up as a supplier, if you have not already! With the Canadian dollar sitting at .9367, Canadian shoppers have turned to the U.S. to get savings.

With the constant fluctuation of the currency exchange rate, no telling how long this will last. As a 2Checkout.com supplier, you are able to embrace this opportunity.

The New York Times weighs in with more on this subject: Canadian Dollar Aiding Online Retailers

Changes to the 2Checkout purchase pages took place today. Vendors selling e-goods will notice the first change. Once an entry for your product has been added, The 2Checkout system allows you to add a return URL where the customer can download the product. This feature is now working correctly when customers purchase 2 or more products at the same time. When a customer does this they will be presented the 2Checkout Order Confirmation page at the end of the purchase process. On this page a “Click Here to Access Your Good” link is presented below the description of each of the products that were purchased. These links will open in a new window so your customer can access each e-good that they purchased separately. Also included in this change are some fixes to the coupon system. Coupons can now be used on 3rd party cart sales and sales that use the fixed parameter with no side effects. Coupons will also have no adverse effects on the Direct Return setting of your account.

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.

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