Below are the parameters supported by the Plug and Play Cart. These parameters can only be used if you have added your products to the 2CO database. You are using the Plug and Play cart if you are passing in the three parameters listed under the Required section below.
Multi-page Payment Routine:
https://www.2checkout.com/2co/buyer/purchase
Supports all payment methods. Supports tangible and intangible products/services.
Single Page Payment Routine:
https://www.2checkout.com/checkout/spurchase
Credit card-only payment routine only available for intangible products/services.
Required Parameters:
sid - Your 2checkout vendor account number (64 characters max)
product_id - The 2CO ID for the product or service in the 2Checkout database
quantity - The Quantity of the product (99 max value)
Additional Parameters:
demo - Y to enable demo mode, do not pass this in for live sales
fixed - Y to remove the Continue Shopping button and lock the quantity fields
lang - “sp” for Spanish purchase routine pages, defaults to English if this is absent, but “en” may be used for English as well.
return_url - used to control where the Continue Shopping button will send the customer when clicked (255 characters max)
merchant_order_id - Specify your order number with this parameter. It will also be included in the confirmation emails to yourself and the customer. (50 characters max)
pay_method - CC for Credit Card, CK for check, PPI for PayPal, PPL for PayPal Pay Later, or FXS for FXSource. This will set the default selection on the payment method step during the checkout process.
skip_landing - If set to 1 it will skip the order review page of the purchase routine. If there are options on the products it will cause an error and redirect the customer back to the order review page.
To populate the billing information page you may pass in:
card_holder_name - Card holder’s name. (128 characters max)
The card holder’s name can also be populated using the first_name, middle_initial, and last_name parameters. IMPORTANT: If you use these three parameters, the data will be combined into and returned as card_holder_name to your Approved URL script.
street_address - Card holder’s street address (64 characters max)
street_address2 - The second line for the street address, typically suburb or apartment number information (64 characters max)
city - Card holder’s city (64 characters max)
state - Card holder’s state (64 characters max)
zip - Card holder’s zip (16 characters max)
country - Card holder’s country (64 characters max)
email - Card holder’s email address (64 characters max)
phone - Card holder’s phone number (16 characters max)
phone_extension - Card holder’s phone extension (9 characters max)
To populate the shipping information page you may pass in:
ship_name
ship_street_address
ship_street_address2
ship_city
ship_state
ship_zip
ship_country
Please note that shipping information will only be collected for items that are defined as tangible in our system. Shipping is also only charged for tangible items. We will ask for shipping information if you pass in any of the shipping parameters, regardless of whether the item is tangible or not. This does not mean we will apply shipping charges to the sale, but their information will be collected.
The billing information page will also be populated with the information from the shipping page if the shipping information is collected on that sale and the billing information is not passed in.
Custom Parameters:
You may pass in any additional parameters that you may need and they will be returned to you at the end of the sale. The only restrictions on custom parameters are that they can not share the name of ANY parameter that our system uses, even from the other sets. Please note that you WILL need a return script set up on the Look and Feel page to receive any of these parameters back as they are not included in the confirmation emails.
Passing Multiple Plug and Play Products:
You may also pass multiple plug and play products in one form. To do this add a corresponding digit to the quantity and product_id parameters to group them for each product. For example, if we wanted to pass two products into the system we would be passing in first the sid parameter, then product_id1 and quantity1, and then product_id2 and quantity2.
Example:
<form action='https://www.2checkout.com/2co/buyer/purchase' method='post'>
<input type='hidden' name='sid' value='123' >
<input type='hidden' name='quantity1' value='1' >
<input type='hidden' name='product_id1' value='1008' />
<input type='hidden' name='quantity2' value='1' >
<input type='hidden' name='product_id2' value='1014' >
<input type='hidden' name='quantity3' value='1' >
<input type='hidden' name='product_id3' value='1011' >
<input name="submit" type='submit' value='Buy from 2CO' >
</form>
You can receive back all of the parameters that were passed in as well as the following parameters:
order_number - 2Checkout.com order number
total - the total amount of the purchase
ship_method - the shipping method that was selected for this order (if applicable)
credit_card_processed - Y if successful (Approved), K if waiting for approval (Pending)
merchant_product_id - your product ID for purchased item
key - the MD5 hash that can be used to verify that the sale came from one of our servers
Also note that this is the only parameter set that can be used for recurring billing with our service.
Important: You can not mix the three parameter sets. This will cause problems during payment or may prevent the payment pages from working at all.
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