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Martin Hill
11-30-2001, 11:02 PM
Has anyone been able to successfully impliment the 2checkout.com recurring payments system into their web site? I mean, yeah, recurring payments are cool, but I don't want that embarrassing "2checkout.com" logo that looks like it's been made my a 2 year old at the top :)

Before I paid the $49 it clearly said it could be completely implimented into your own web site with your own logo's, etc..
So, I downloaded the free shopping cart script after signing up and it's customizable, but you can't do recurring payments with it :/

Chicken
12-01-2001, 06:31 AM
I think they have an area where you input the text for header/footer (just be sure the HTML includes full paths to images, unless you can upload them). I remember seeing it, just not sure where/how...

cyansmoker
12-01-2001, 06:45 AM
Actually,
they use a header and footer pages; these pages are on your server.
The integration is great, it really looks like your clients never left your server.
The only drawback with their system is that, once your clients have completed the transaction, they have to click on an extra button to 'Notify the vendor'. Some just don't and we're not notified.

If you want to have a look at an example of UI integration, you can see that on our server (www.hostinggroup.com (http://www.hostinggroup.com) ).

Cheers...

HostZIP.com
12-01-2001, 08:39 AM
Make sure you put the complete URLs for images and links ( http://site.com/image.gif ) else they won't show!

Martin Hill
12-01-2001, 10:43 AM
I've checked tons of times, I can't find where you do this.

cyansmoker, the way you've implimented it looks cool, but do you need to use frames?

Where do I go in the control panel of 2checkout? I'm really stuck with this, I've checked everything - Unless I'm missing it as it's not obvious enough :/

Martin Hill
12-01-2001, 10:53 AM
Ahhhh, found it - guess where it was?

"shipping details" - Someone please tell me what that's got to do with customization, geez :)


Thanks for your help guys :)

The Laughing Cow
12-01-2001, 11:24 AM
Hey, i have just done a 2checkout customisation and i am really pleased with the outcome. I needed to learn a couple of lines of PHP and mine all looks really good i think.

(please note i am not posting this as advertising, remove if its not allowerd :))

http://horizonhosting.co.uk/hosting.php

basically you click the link and are taken to a generic order page. it automatically selects the plan that you clicked. then you fill in basic details that are forwarded to us to setup your account. then forwarded to the SSL.

feel free to play about

:)

The Laughing Cow
12-01-2001, 12:58 PM
For your viewing pleasure I enclose the contact form i used. :D

Martin Hill
12-01-2001, 01:40 PM
Hey The Laughing Cow,

It's pretty cool, sorry if I mucked up your system (I registered as "testfromtheforums") :)

On question though - How do you get the images to display? I see thing getimage.rc thing or something in the source, I'm confused :/

Martin Hill
12-01-2001, 01:48 PM
I've just checked the image src on my order page for my header logo, and it's:

https://www.2checkout.com/cgi-bin/getimage.2c?img_file=images/logo.gif

Is there any way to get the image source to look on my web site instead of 2checkout.com without entering the full URL of every image that is displayed? I use the header page (and footer page) on every page of my site, so it would be inefficent to add the full URL of every image.

The Laughing Cow
12-01-2001, 02:03 PM
Login to your 2checkout control panel and click

ACCOUNT DETAILS > SALES DETAILS

it allows you to put in the FULL URL of your header and footer pages.

HTH!

Thanks everyone for testing it out. And we know who you are :D

Martin Hill
12-01-2001, 02:07 PM
Yup, I put the full URL of the header and footer pages, but the images don't link to the full URL (for example logo.jpg is at www.2checkout.com/images/logo.jpg in the source code, but instead it should be mysite.com/images/logo.jpg) :/

HostZIP.com
12-01-2001, 02:09 PM
so?

It calls the images from 2checkout's server, cause if it called them from yours, it'd be using a non secure server, and the browser would display a warning message ("not all items are secure, show insecure items?" - something like that)

Martin Hill
12-01-2001, 02:14 PM
I know that :)

The images are being taken from: https://www.2checkout.com/cgi-bin/getimage.2c?img_file=images/logo.jpg

(ie taken from 2checkout.com's server, not mine)

But surely it should be:
https://www.2checkout.com/cgi-bin/getimage.2c?img_file=http://www.mysite.com/images/logo.jpg

?

HostZIP.com
12-01-2001, 02:19 PM
oh, sorry

you have to type the full url in your header and footer files. your tags should be
<img src="http://yoursite.com/images/img.gif"> instead of <img src="/images/img.gif">

Martin Hill
12-01-2001, 02:25 PM
Oh right, damn :)

Thanks for your help :)

The Laughing Cow
12-01-2001, 02:25 PM
yep thats exactly how i did mine. though thinking about it, there must be security issues since in the header and footer files a company could easily run some kinda key logging script to steal peoples CC numbers?

(and FYI we haven't done that)

I suppose there is the assumption companies using 2checkout are all legit.

Martin Hill
12-01-2001, 02:28 PM
Hmm, hope they don't read this and remove the feature :)

The Laughing Cow
12-01-2001, 03:00 PM
FYI here is the signup form that gets mailed to our accounts dept.


New Account signup! Please set this account up ASAP.
____________________________________________________________

Username: tester
Password: 1234

Email: test@me.com
Domain: http://webzac
JSP:
SSL:
FPX:
Plan: Linux_1

Userinfos
Sender: 213.123.41.117
Referer: http://horizonhosting.co.uk/hosting.php

____________________________________________________________



We also receive the 2checkout email when somebody signs up. Although i probably shouldn't advertise here (if so please could you edit mods :)) If you need any help with customising 2checkout or sorting out a payment system. I can help.

Kylecool
12-01-2001, 05:52 PM
2checkout.com is cool. My friend uses it, and it works nice. Once the form is submitted, depending on which plan they chose, it goes to a different 2checkout.com url and it emails the customer and admin, etc. I'm going to make an order form soon that will be freeware and it will have error checking, and this type or redirecting. :)

-Kyle

mripguru
12-08-2001, 10:24 PM
Originally posted by Martin Hill
Has anyone been able to successfully impliment the 2checkout.com recurring payments system into their web site? I mean, yeah, recurring payments are cool, but I don't want that embarrassing "2checkout.com" logo that looks like it's been made my a 2 year old at the top :)

Before I paid the $49 it clearly said it could be completely implimented into your own web site with your own logo's, etc..
So, I downloaded the free shopping cart script after signing up and it's customizable, but you can't do recurring payments with it :/

You can pass back information to the signup script from your own script, and just do that. I believe it's called spidering, you can take a look at www.kayako.com for an example of this.

perpetual
01-07-2002, 02:58 AM
You can pass back information to the signup script from your own script, and just do that. I believe it's called spidering, you can take a look at www.kayako.com for an example of this.

hey I'm looking for this script. Anyone got one that integrates with 2checkout.com?

Tetraboy
01-07-2002, 09:05 AM
I don't know if this is what you're looking for but its a signup script that integrates with whm/cpanel and 2checkout .

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30855