Adding a product to the affiliate listing can be very beneficial to the promotion of your merchandise and/or services. Before reading this tutorial, make sure you have established at least one product under your 2Checkout account. You can get instruction on how to do this by following the tutorial regarding the creation of products here.

To add an established product to the affiliate program, first locate the product in the listing by logging into the Vendor Administration area (https://www.2checkout.com/va/) and clicking on the Products main tab. Find the product in the listing and click the Edit icon next to that specific product under the Actions column.

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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.

2Checkout has introduced a new payments feature called payment profiles. Payment profiles allow you to create different profiles for each of your supported payment options such as different payment methods, accounts or addresses. You are able to edit, delete, or set a payment profile live in your account from the banking details page of your account.

To access your banking details page and use the new payment profiles you must login to our new vendor administration panel at the following url: https://www.2checkout.com/va/

Once you are logged in please select the “Account” tab on your account homepage and then select “Bank Account” from the Account menu.

Your profiles will be listed under the Payment Profiles section on the right hand side of the page. To create a new payment profile please click on the “Banking Wizard” button and provide the requested information for the payment method you select. When you finish setting up your payment method you will be asked to enter a profile name on the Save Bank Account Profile page (optional) and select the Save Profile button.

Once created this payment profile will be displayed one your bank account page and will be set as live. You may edit this profile by clicking on the edit link which will route you back to the backing wizard to make your changes.

The Request Invoice feature exists primarily for invoicing purposes where it may be necessary to bill for a product or service that does not have a static price, or the final sales price is unknown.

Request Invoice can also be utilized for billing for excessive server time for web hosts, or for services that need to be billed in addition to the product/pricing structure hard-coded via 2Checkout’s product listing.

You can use our Request Invoice feature to have an invoice emailed to your customer. The email will have a link to a payment form where the buyer can make payment to you. This tutorial will walk you through the invoicing process so you can successfully request a payment from a client and can be followed by logging into our new vendor administration area here.

To issue a payment request please follow these steps:

1. Click on the Sales tab near the top of your account homepage.
2. Click on the Request Invoice tab in the sales menu.
3. Fill out each field on the Request For Payment page as they are listed below.
4. Your Invoice Number- number you will use to identify the invoice.
5. Relevant Web Site- The website that is providing the product or service. (optional)
6. Product- You must use the drop down menu to select the product that is being ordered. (Invoices cannot be sent for recurring products so they will not display on this menu)
7. Payment Amount- The total price of the invoice.
8. Payor Name- The customers name.
9. Payor Email- The customers email.
10. Subject of Email- Message in the subject line of the email. (optional)
11. Use the comment box to add any additional comments you wish to include in the invoice such a list of products being ordered or description of the payment. (optional)
12. Click on the Submit Request button to send the invoice.

That’s all there is to it. Once the customer completes the order with their payment information, the sale will be logged to your account and email notification sent to you and the customer. Please note that the order will be treated as intangible and will deposit automatically. The order will not show in your mark shipping report. If the order is tangible you may send the shipping information to the customers by adding a comment to the order.

The alert detail page provides you with the information for each alert listed in the vendor alerts section. To access the alert detail page in our new vendor administration panel login at the following url: https://www.2checkout.com/va/

Your account homepage will display the vendor alerts section where you can select the name of the vendor alert you wish to view. The alert detail page will display the title of the alert as well as the following information.

• Priority- Alerts priority.
• Status- Alerts status read or not.
• Alert Message- The full alert message.
• Link- Website url that the alert is from.

Once you have read the alert you can mark it as read to change the status.