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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The following information should assist you in setting up the osCommerce shopping cart software to work with our service.

There is a module that has been developed for osCommerce that is needed to work with the V2 system. This module is absolutely necessary to be compliant with our V2 system. You may find this module at the following URL:

http://www.osCommerce.com/community/contributions,904

It is a common problem to have the sales work in the 2CO account but not the osCommerce cart after a sale. This is because there has to be a return URL set up in your V2 account to tell the 2CO system were to send the sale information after it is placed. osCommerce needs this information to correctly process and finish the sale on your end. This URL can be set up on the Look & Feel setting page of your 2CO V2 account. You will find this link under the Helpful Links section of your account homepage.

On the Look & Feel Page in your account, the URL below must be in both the Pending and Approved URL boxes. If you installed OSC to a directory other than the default directory, you will need to use that directory structure here. Be sure to replace “www.your-domain.com” with your actual domain name.

http://www.your-domain.com/catalog/pm2checkout_process.php

The osCommerce shopping cart, Version 2.2 or Higher, is 2Checkout Enabled and automatically set up from within the cart admin provided with the cart.
You can find information, or download the osCommerce Cart here: osCommerce.com

You can also look here for more details on installing and setting it up: oscdox.com

The following information should assist you in setting up this cart to work with our service. Please note that we cannot provide any direct support for osCommerce or other third party shopping cart.

1.) First and foremost, you must have the cart itself installed properly. There is a text file that is distributed with the cart, as well as the module mentioned in step 3 below, and this file will explain how to install and set up the cart and module. Please first verify that the installation of the cart and 2CO payment module are correct.

2.) You must be using osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 or later. If you are using any other version, it will not work and you will be unable to use our services. If in doubt as to the version currently running on your cart, install the latest version.

3.) There is a module that has been developed for osCommerce that is needed to work with the V2 system. This module is absolutely necessary to be compliant with our V2 system. You may find this module at the following URL: http://www.osCommerce.com/community/contributions,904

4.) It is a common problem to have the sales work in the 2CO account but not the osCommerce cart after a sale. This is because there has to a be return URL set up in your V2 account to tell the 2CO system were to send the sale information after it is placed. osCommerce needs this information to correctly process and finish the sale on your end. This URL can be set up on the Look & Feel setting page of your 2CO V2 account. You will find this link under the Helpful Links section of your account homepage.

On the Look & Feel Page in your account, the URL below must be in both the Pending and Approved URL boxes. If you installed OSC to a directory other than the default directory, you will need to use that directory structure here. Be sure to replace “www.example.com” with your actual domain name.

>> http://www.example.com/catalog/pm2checkout_process.php

5.) It is also strongly recommended that you set the Direct Return option on the Look and Feel page to Yes. This will help ensure that the customer is returned to the osCommerce shopping cart after the sale.

There is also a known issue that osCommerce has alerted us of. The osCommerce cart requires ‘Force Cookie Use’ set to ON. This means that web Sites using a shared-SSL cert will not work. Most problems with the osCommerce contribution are due to cookies not being set up properly and there unfortunately is not a work around for this.

Please also remember that 2CheckOut does not provide technical support for third party scripts including OSC. For assistance with OSC, please refer to OSC’s support forums which may be found at the following URL: http://forums.osCommerce.com

If you are using a 3rd party cart, all shipping charges should be handled in the cart prior to getting to our payment form. The shipping features in the Admin are for our Plug N Play carts and links.