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.)
Example URL with “fixed” implemented:
https://www.2checkout.com/2co/buyer/purchase?quantity=1&product_id=10&sid=11&fixed=YExample HTML form with “fixed” implemented:
<form action="https://www.2checkout.com/2co/buyer/purchase" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="sid" value="11" />
<input type="hidden" name="product_id1" value="9" />
<input type="hidden" name="quantity1" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="product_id2" value="10" />
<input type="hidden" name="quantity2" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="fixed" value="Y" />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Buy from 2CO" />
</form>Important Note: When you are testing parameters, please be certain to clear the cookies in your browser between tests to ensure the changes you have made are applied.
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Hi 2CoStaff,
Late last July I conducted a study about how to integrate Paypal’s Express Checkout flow works for my client’s website and later, they have decided to use 2CO to handle the system’s payment.
And ideally, this is how their system works.
Your Page 1: Show shopping cart items. Click checkout - Call API 1.
PP Page: User will login their accnt in PP, it will show them their details. Click Continue, it will redirect you to your page.
Your Page 2: Validate the data by calling API 2. If validated redirect to another page(Your Page 3) to confirm payment.
Your Page 3: If confirm button is pressed, call API 3 in order the payment to take place.
Based on my study on PP’s flow, we have to call 3 API in order to make the flow work. Now, I’d like to ask if 2CO, do have API’s like what PP have. Or when the abovementioned form was POSTed, the payment will take place?
Also, do 2CO have developer forums like what PP have? So that we can easily interact and help each other and make 2CO much more developer friendly than “3rd party cart merchant” friendly?
Thanks!
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Our process is a little simpler. Basically, your cart just passes us the necessary parameters, the customer completes the purchase on our site and then, if desired, is passed back to your site along with the return parameters.
The Creating 2Checkout Purchase Links tutorial offers a lot of useful information. You may also be interested in our new Instant Notification System.
For more specific information, just give us a call or open a support ticket in the Tech Support category (click “Help” above for our contact info.).
We are currently working on creating a developer community and will make an announcement when that has launched. Until then, you may participate in our current community. You’ll probably be most interested in the tech support category.