The detail affiliate HTML page provides you with the HTML code snippets for each affiliate product. Once obtained, this information can be added to your website to create the affiliate product listing and purchase button or link. To access the affiliate HTML page in our new vendor administration panel login at the following url: https://www.2checkout.com/va/
Once you have logged in click on the ‘Affiliates’ tab and then select the ‘Browse Opportunities’ sub category. From here you may view the affiliate opportunities by selecting the affiliate category that you would like to browse. Once you have found a product you are interested in you may click on the product name to view the affiliate HTML page. This page will list all of the affiliate product information as follows.

• Short Description- Short description of the product.
• Long Description- Long description of the product.
• Recurring- Whether the product is recurring or not. (Y/N)
• Startup Fee- Startup fee for the product. (Added to the product total)
• Handling- Handling fee for the product. (Added to the product total)
• Tangible- Whether the product is tangible or not. (Y/N)

• Show the product image on your site- HTML snippets provided for both the thumbnail and full version of the product image.
• ‘Buy from 2CO’ Button- HTML snippet to create a ‘Buy from 2CO’ Button for the product.
• ‘Buy from 2CO’ Button with Quantity- HTML snippet to create a ‘Buy from 2CO’ Button with a variable quantity box.
• Add a Shopping Cart ‘Checkout’ Link- HTML for a view shopping cart/checkout link.
• Add a Shopping Cart ‘Checkout’ Button- HTML for a view shopping cart/checkout button.

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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Each button added to the page needs to have its own opening and closing form field. This tells the browser that each form is separate, and not part of the same one.

The following correct example generated two separate buy buttons:

<form action="https://www.2checkout.com/checkout/purchase" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="sid" value="XXXXXX" />
<input type="hidden" name="product_id" value="10" />
<input type="text" name="quantity" size="5" value="1" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Buy from 2CO" />
</form><form action="https://www.2checkout.com/checkout/purchase" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="sid" value="XXXXXX" />
<input type="hidden" name="product_id" value="10" />
<input type="text" name="quantity" size="5" value="1" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Buy from 2CO" />
</form>

** Notice that there are two opening tags ( <form> ) and two closing tags ( </form> ).

Another possibility, if you are using an HTML editor, is the editor may be adding extra numbers to the parameters, thinking each identical one is part of the same form, and not a separate form. Look at the parameters in the forms, and make sure there are not extra numbers added to it.
Incorrect Example:

<form action="https://www.2checkout.com/checkout/purchase" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="sid1" value="XXXXXX" />
<input type="hidden" name="product_id" value="10" />
<input type="text" name="quantity" size="5" value="1" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Buy from 2CO" />
</form>

** Notice that the in second line from the name=”sid1″, this should always be name=”sid”

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