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New Notifications Tab and New INS features

April 18th, 2009, by: ricks 2CO Staff

The INS Notifications tab has been moved to a new location in your account. Previously the Notifications page was accessed by clicking the Account tab and then the Notifications sub-tab on the Account page. Notifications has been assigned it’s own tab that can now be accessed from any page in your account.

We have also added a few new features to the Notifications page, the ability to view logs of successful and failed INS notifications as well as a new testing feature. To access these features you will need to click the Notifications tab from any page on your account. On the Notifications page you will now see 3 new sub-tabs: Success, Failed and Test.

Tagged With: INS, Instant Notification Service
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Selling Recurring Products With 2Checkout

September 24th, 2008, by: knowledgebase

2Checkout provides you with the ability to offer recurring products. In addition, you can combine our Instant Notification Service (INS) with your recurring products to further automate your system.

What Is A Recurring Product?

A recurring product will form a sale that will automatically bill your customer at a specified interval. These types of products are typically used for such items as web hosting, membership services or ‘Item of the Month’ type products.

Tagged With: INS, Instant Notification Service, recurring, subscriptions
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Instant Notification Service

April 24th, 2008, by: richon 2CO Staff

2Checkout will be releasing has released a new beta version of our Instant Notification Service (INS) later this week.

This new version has streamlined message parameter definitions, and more INS messages than the original preview version.

Tagged With: beta, INS, Instant Notification Service
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Changes to Instant Notification Service

April 1st, 2008, by: richon 2CO Staff

On March 6th, 2Checkout announced an advanced preview of our new Instant Notification Service (INS). We have since been refining the service, and will soon be releasing a new version, with streamlined message parameter definitions, and additional INS messages, such as:

Order Created
Recurring Stopped

A full set of updated streamlined and simplified documentation will be posted online soon. These documents will provide detailed information and multiple examples of the parameters that are passed back for each message.

This release will also include changes to some of the parameters and values passed with each INS message. If you implemented INS based on the advanced preview documentation it will be important to review these changes and edit your scripts.

In the new release, all messages will share one of 2 parameter set definitions: Item level or Invoice level. Additionally, some parameters have been added, including:

customer_ip
customer_ip_county
ship_status
ship_tracking_number

Detailed descriptions of the new parameters will be provided in the new documentation. Release details and new documentation will be posted online soon; we’d like to thank everyone again for their participation and feedback!

Please Note: The INS Opt-in can only be found within our new Vendor Area, located here. Use your regular username & password from the old Vendor Area to login.

Also, keep in mind that suppliers can make use of the Instant Notification Service Simulator within the developers.2Checkout area as an additional way to test their INS scripts.

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Advance Preview of 2CO Instant Notification Service

March 6th, 2008, by: joel 2CO Staff

2Checkout is pleased to offer an advance preview of our Instant Notification Service (INS). This service has long been a top request, and we believe there are thousands of 2CO vendors who will benefit greatly from this new service. We wanted to get this in front of you, our vendors, as soon as possible so that we can quickly improve the documentation and support of this service.

INS is, in plain terms, a service which will post sets of cgi parameters to any URL you specify. These posts are each a message containing all the information you need about a specific event (such as when a recurring order re-bills successfully).

This service currently includes the ability to opt-in and receive messages for the following events:

Recurring Order Stopped
Recurring Installment Billing Failed
Recurring Installment Billing Succeeded
Order Refunded
Order Canceled
Order Fraud Status Changed

So what can you do with these messages? Well, please remember that you are getting the very first look at these messages, we do not yet have any prepared add-ons for carts you may be using. We are hopeful that several of the carts out there will be responsive and create add-ons which read in the information from the message and use it to automate some inventory or customer access tasks, making your lives easier. We also hope some of our very talented vendors will create message receiving tools on their own and share them with our community.

We, for our part, will be contacting carts and encouraging them to integrate INS as well as creating some example CGI scripts that our vendors can use as a starting point for integrating these messages into their systems.

The INS Opt-in can only be found within our new Vendor Area, located here. Use your regular username & password from the old Vendor Area to login.

Tagged With: INS, vendor admin
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