1. Log into your account.
2. Click on the “Products” tab.
3. Click on the edit icon listed under “Actions” for the product you wish to edit. The edit icon looks like a blue file folder.
4. You will then be redirected to the edit product page for the product you wish to edit.

   Below is a list of the fields that can be edited and descriptions for those fields.

   • Your Product ID (Required) – This is an internal reference number for your use. A part number, bin location or other reference that will be useful to you. This field can consist of only letters and numbers with no spaces or special characters.
   • Name (Required) – This is the name or title of your product. Keep this as short as possible (no more than 30 characters) or it can cause the payment page to become distorted.
   • Short Description – This is what your product is. We recommend you keep this short as well to keep the payment page from becoming distorted.
   • Long Description – This is a longer description of your product, this will not be shown during the checkout process.
   • Price (Required) – This is how much the customer will be charged each payment cycle. Do not include any currency symbols (like “$”) in this field or errors will result.
   • Tangible (Required) – This indicates whether or not your product is tangible. Tangible goods must be shipped in a timely manner in order for you to receive payment. Tangible goods are also subject to sales tax for Ohio customers. This field must be set correctly, if 2Checkout becomes aware you have deliberately lied about whether or not a good is tangible, your account will be suspended, and further penalties may apply. Note that if you set this field to intangible, the customer will not be charged for shipping and the option to select shipping methods will not be shown on the order page.
   • Weight – If you plan to use our shipping systems and will ship by weight, specify the weight here.

     Handling - If there are any product-specific handling charges, they go here. These charges are above and beyond your normal shipping charges, and are only applied if this product is purchased, they are applied for each product ordered, i.e. if 3 of this product are ordered, the customer will be charged 3 times this amount. Do not use currency signs (like “$”) and do not use commas. Prices can be specified in whole numbers or as decimals to 2 places (example: 4.95).

   • Start Up Fee – This is a one time fee billed together with the first installment. This amount will be billed only once, not on a recurring basis.
   • Recurring (Required) – This indicates whether or not your product is a recurring product. A recurring product is one which will rebill the customer with a specified recurrence for a specified duration.
   • Recurrence (Required for recurring products) – This is a two-part field. The first part is a numerical field that tells us how long between billings as a number. The second box tells us the unit of time measurement, current options are; weeks, months and years. So, if you want a customer to be billed once every month, you would put in a ‘1′ in the first box, and then select “months” from the second drop-down box. Note that we no longer support daily recurring billing.
   • Duration (Required for recurring products) – Like the last setting, this is a two-part field. The first part is a numerical field that tells us how long to continue billing as a number. The second box tells us what unit of time you are referring to. If you put in ‘6′ and then selected “months” from the second drop down, your charge would automatically cease billing after 6 months. If you want to bill the customer until they or you cancel, leave the first box blank and select “Forever” from the second box.
   • Affiliate Commission – Affiliate Commission can be specified either as an amount (in your pricing currency) or as a percentage. It is how much you want to pay other 2CO vendors who act as affiliates, re-marketing your products on their websites.
   • Pending URL – This is not used for recurring products/services.
   • Approved URL – This is the URL your customer will be returned to when the payment has been confirmed. Most credit card orders will be sent here.
5. Once you have edited the product to your satisfaction, press “Save Changes” to save the product to the database.

Related Article:

• New Vendor Admin: Product Page Advanced View and Enable Editing

Advanced View

By default, the Product page in your account will display the following fields:

• Actions
• Images
• Assigned_product_id
• Vendor_product_id
• Name Price

Suppliers may select the fields that are displayed on the Products page by enabling Advanced View on their Product page. After you have logged in to your account, click the Product tab on your account homepage. On the Product page, place a check in the Advanced View box on the right side of the Products page and click the blue Update View button. The page will refresh and there will be a new Fields list below the Advance View box on the right side of the page.  You may then place a check in the View box next to any additional field(s) you wish to have displayed on the Product page. You can also remove the checkmark from any default field that you don’t wish to view on the Product page. After you have completed your selections, click the blue Update View button to see the changes applied to your Product page.

Enable Editing

The Advanced View will also allow you to edit product fields from the Products page. To enable editing you will leave a check in the Advanced View box, place a check in the Enable Editing field and then click the blue Update View button. The page will refresh and there will be a new fields list that will allow you to select Edit, View or Skip for the product fields on the right side of the page. You will first want to place a check in the Edit box for any product fields that you will editing, then place a check in either the View or Skip box for any fields that you won’t be editing, or don’t wish to view, and click the blue Update View button below the fields list. The page will then refresh and any fields that you had checked Edit for will now be able to be edited on the Product page. Please note, if you don’t place a check in Edit, View or Skip for a field, that field will not be displayed on the Product page after you click the Update View button. After you have edited the field(s) for the product(s) that required the change, click the blue Save Product Changes button listed on the left side of the page under your products list. The page will then refresh and an “All updates succeeded”  message will be displayed in the top left side of the page.

Related Articles:

• Tutorial: Creating Products in the New Vendors Administration Area
• New Vendor Admin: Adding Product Options
• Attaching Images to Products in the New Vendor Administration Area
• Uploading Product Images

After you have logged in to your account, click the Products tab.

To create a new product click the Create sub tab on your Products page. You will then enter the product information for the product you are creating.

Name*: This is the name that you use to refer to the product or service that you are creating.

Your Product ID*: This will be an identifier that you use to identify the product for your records.

Short Description: A short description of the product. This will be displayed to the customer on the order details page after the customer is redirected to 2Checkout to complete their transaction.

Long Description: This will be a more detailed description of your product. This field is primarily used for products that are included in the Affiliate program.

Product Price*: The price of the product.

Product Tangible*: This designates whether this is a physical product. The product will be physically delivered to the customer, place a check in Yes. If the product is delivered electronically, place a check in No.

Product Weight: This field will only be displayed if the product is tangible. If you will be charging shipping fees based on order weight you will need to enter the weight of the product.

Product Handling: This field will also only be displayed if the product is tangible. If you will be charging a handling fee for the product it will be entered in this field.

Product Recurrence: If the product will automatically re-bill the customer place a check in Yes. If the product is a one time billing select No.

Product Startup Fee: This field will only be displayed if Yes is selected under Recurring. If you will be charging a start up fee for the product or service you may enter it in this field. If a startup fee is entered, that fee will only be applied to the first installment on the order. Subsequent billings will bill at the price entered for the product. As an example: If you want to charge the customer $100.00 dollars for the first installment and then $75.00 on all future installments, you would enter ‘75.00′ as the price and ‘25.00′ as the Startup Fee. If you wish to provide customers with a discounted price as a trial period and then bill them the full amount for future billings you would be able to enter a negative startup fee for the product. As an example: If your service normally bills at $19.99 a month and you wanted to allow customers a trial period price of $1.00 for the first month, you would enter the Price as ‘19.99′ and the Startup Fee as ‘-18.99′. In this example, the customer will be billed $1.00 for the first month and then $19.99 each month thereafter.

Product Recurrence*: This field will only be displayed if Yes is selected under Recurring. This is a two part field on the product creation page. The first field, labeled Bill Every, is a numerical field that tells us how long between billings as a number. The second field, with drop down menu, tells us the unit of time measurement, weeks, months or years. If you want the product to bill every month you will enter ‘1′ in the first box and then select ‘Month’ from the drop down menu.

Product Duration*: This field will only be displayed if Yes is selected under Recurring. This is a two part field on the product creation page. The first field is a numerical field that will tell us how many installments you wish to bill for the product. The second box tells us what unit of time you are referring to. If you put in ‘6’ and then selected ‘months’ from the second drop down, your charge would automatically cease billing after 6 months. If you want to bill the customer until they or you cancel, leave the first box blank and select ‘Forever’ from the second box.

Product Category, Affiliate Commission: These fields will only be used if you are adding products to the Affiliate program.

Product Pending URL: The Pending URL field is no longer used and may be left blank as 2Checkout no longer accepts e-checks as a payment method.

Product Approved URL: This would be a page on your site that you wish to have customers  returned to upon completion of orders paid via Credit Card or with the PayPal payment option.

Images: Feature will allow you to upload and attach images for your product that can be displayed on your order page.

Please note: *= Required Field

After you have filled in all of the required fields on the Product Creation page, click the ‘Save Changes’ button at the bottom of the page.

If you have created product options they will be listed on the right side of the product creation/edit product page. You may add an option, or options, to the product after you have created it by placing a check mark in the box next to the name of the option(s) you wish to add and then click the ‘Save Changes” button at the bottom of the page.

You may wish to review the following related articles for more information on our Affiliate program, the return options available to you, uploading and attaching images, and creating product options.

Related Articles:

• Does Your System Offer an Integrated Affiliate Solution?
• TUTORIAL: Adding Products to the Affiliate Program
• How Does The Return Process Work?
• Direct Return
• Uploading Product Images
• Attaching Images to Products in the new Vendors Administration Area
• New Vendor Admin: Product Options

Step 1: The customer places an order. Both the customer and the supplier receive a confirmation of the order via email and the order details can now be viewed in the supplier’s 2Checkout.com account. An authorization hold for the funds will be placed on the customer’s account. On the order details page, the Status field will display as approved, and the Date Paid field will display as Not Yet Paid.

Step 2: Order goes through Fraud review. The supplier is notified via email when the fraud review completes. Assuming the order passes the fraud review, one of two things will happen. If the product was configured as tangible and the supplier is using 2Checkout’s Plug n Play cart, the supplier will then need to mark the order as shipped in their account (after physically shipping the order, of course). If the product is intangible or the supplier is using a third party cart, the order will not need to be marked shipped and the funds will automatically be transferred to 2Checkout.com. On the order details page, the Status field will display as pending, and the Date Paid field will display as Not Yet Paid.

Step 3: Funds for the order are received by 2Checkout.com. On the order details page, the Status field will display as Deposited, and the Date Paid field will display as Pending.

Step 4: Supplier is paid for sale. On the order details page, the Status field will display as Deposited, and the Date Paid field will display the date the payment was sent to the supplier by 2Checkout.com.

Please note: Vendors using the plug-n-play cart for tangible orders are required to mark orders shipped in order to be paid for an order.

To add an established product to the affiliate program, first locate the product in the listing by logging into the Vendor Administration area 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.

Once you are on the page to edit the product, you will see in front of you all the product’s options. Adding the product to the affiliate program requires that you have two additional product settings defined: Product Categories, and Affiliate Commission.

First, scroll through the Product Categories list and click on the category that best fits the product.

Second, specify the commission amount that will be paid out to the affiliate in the Affiliate Commission field. This amount can be either a fixed value or a percentage of the total product price. For example, if your product is worth $10.00 and you set a fixed amount commission of $1.00, you as the vendor will receive $9.00 and the affiliate will receive $1.00. Similarly, if your product is worth $10.00 and you set a percentage commission of 10% (IMPORTANT: do not include the percent sign when specifying the number in the input box), you as the vendor will receive $9.00 and the affiliate will receive $1.00.

After you have selected the product’s category and set the commission rate, click the Save Changes button to apply the settings and add the product to the affiliate program.

Your affiliates are now ready to start offering your product on their websites! You can find a tutorial that will show your affiliates how to sign up for a free account and access products to offer here.

Once you have logged into your account you can browse our affiliate opportunities by clicking on the ‘Affiliates’ tab on your account homepage. Here you may search affiliate resale opportunities by keyword. You can also browse the affiliate resale opportunities by product category.

To search the affiliate resale opportunities please use the ‘Opportunity Locater’ to enter the keyword for your search. You may also narrow the search by selecting a category. Once the search terms have been defined please click on the ‘Search’ button.

To browse the affiliate resale opportunities please click on the ‘Browse Opportunities’ tab. From here you may select a category and browse through the opportunities.

Once you have found a product you are interested in you may click on the product name to obtain the HTML snippets and product image source. This information can then be added to your website to create the product listing and purchase button or link.

The commissions you have earned on each sale can be viewed by clicking on the ‘List Commissions’ tab on the affiliates page. This page displays a table that includes the commission amount, product name, commission status, date the order was placed and the date you were paid. You can click the column headers at the top of table to sort sales listings by the date, product, status, or commission amount.

In order to be paid out for your commissions you must fill out your payment information in our banking wizard. To do this please select the “Account” tab on your account homepage and then select “Bank Account” from the Account menu. From here, you will need to click on the “Banking Wizard” button and provide the requested information for the payment method you select. Affiliate earnings are held for 60 days before being released to the affiliate.

• 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.

Once you have logged in please click on the ‘Shipping’ tab.

From the shipping screen click the icon labeled ‘Add New Shipping Method’ to open the Shipping Wizard. The first screen has three sections, as described below.

The shipping method name field is used to create a name for your shipping method. This name will be displayed to customers when the shipping method is available for them to select, so you may want to make it fairly descriptive.

The options in the Pricing section decide how the cost of your shipping method will be calculated and has three options.

• Free- Will create a shipping method with a base price of ‘0.00′. Will show ‘Free’ in the price column at checkout.
• Fixed- Allow you to specify a static flat-fee.
• Price based on delivery country, weight, or order total- Opens more advanced pricing schemes. As the name suggests it can be used to charge a higher shipping fee based on the country the product will be shipped to, how much the products ordered weigh and/or the amount of the order total.

The Countries section is used to specify what countries your shipping method applies to. If you will be using this method to ship internationally select ‘all trusted countries’. If you are only shipping within your home country select ‘home country only’, otherwise you can select ‘custom list’ to select specific countries that your shipping method will be used for.

If you selected a pricing option other then free then you will be presented with the Surcharge Options page. Enter a base price for your shipping method to use. If you selected fixed for your pricing scheme, this will be the flat-rate that is used to calculate shipping, otherwise you will have a chance to add additional surcharges on the next screen. Your base price can be 0.00 but cannot be a negative value.

If you selected price based on delivery country, weight, or order total for pricing then you will also see a Countries section that can be used to further customize the pricing for your method. Select whether you want to customize your shipping method by country, weight, order total or any combination thereof.

The Custom Country List section serves two purposes. It allows you select the applicable countries for your shipping method if you selected the Custom List option and will allow you set country-specific surcharges if you selected price based on delivery country, weight, or order total. You can add countries to your method using the list at the top of the page or remove countries using the list at the bottom. Use the surcharge amount field to enter your desired surcharges for each country if you selected that option earlier in the process, otherwise the field will not be displayed.

The Set Overweight Charge / Add A Weight Surcharge page will be displayed if you chose to add shipping surcharges based on the total weight of the order. The set overweight charge field can be used to specify how much will be added per pound if the order weight goes over your maximum weight division. To create a weight division use the weight max field and specify an amount to be charged if the order weight is under or equal to your weight setting (but above any weight divisions below it). For example, if you create a surcharge for 2 lbs at 2.00 and 4 lbs at 6.00 and the order weighs 1 lb the shipping surcharge will be 2.00 plus your base price. If the order weight is 3 lbs, the surcharge will be 6.00 plus your base price. Another way to think of this process it that the weight of the order is rounded up until it finds the nearest weight max. One thing to keep in mind is that although the weight measurement used throughout the admin area (and, therefor, also in this tutorial) is pounds (lbs), our system doesn’t know the difference between this and any other measurement (ie. ounces or kilograms). Feel free to use your preferred weight measurements so long as you use them globally for your account.

The Add An Order Total Surcharge page is used to specify a total price and how much the surcharge should be if the order total is equal to or below it. This feature works similar to the weight based method in that the order total will be rounded up until the next division is found.

The Confirmation page will give you a quick overview of the options you have selected for your shipping method. Click the ‘Save’ button to complete the shipping wizard or ‘Back’ to return to a previous page and make additional changes.

After you have logged in to your account, 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 on 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.

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.

After you are logged in, to get to the INS opt-in page, you need to select the “Account” tab, then the “Notifications” sub-tab. You can also get there directly by using this link after you’re logged in: https://www.2checkout.com/va/acct/ins_settings.

Opting into the INS is as simple as checking the box next to each message you wish to receive, and entering the URL you want it sent to.

Technical specifications detailing each message type and the parameters it will include can be found online here, but we are very interested in receiving your feedback in order to improve it. Please feel free to reply to this post or contact us via the ticket system if you have suggestions or additional questions.

On omission in the current documents has already come to our attention, but rather than the delay this preview while we corrected it, we felt we should move forward with the preview and just add the information here.

The message_type parameter, which indicates the event which triggered the message, can have one of the following values:

• Recurring order stopped
• Recurring installment failed to bill
• Recurring installment successfully billed
• Recurring installment retry successfully billed
• Order refunded
• Order cancelled
• Order fraud status changed

Thank you again for your interest in the 2CO Instant Notification Service and thank you in advance for your valuable feedback!

Sincerely,
2Checkout.com