I'm just wondering how everyone on here that uses a 3rd party merchant ( paypal, 2checkout, revecom ) handles offering promotions, or specials, or coupon codes.

Revecom has support for specials with coupon-codes.

Do you know if 2checkout does?

Originally posted by Tetraboy
Do you know if 2checkout does?

Hi Tetraboy.

2checkout.com doesn't currently support "discounts". This feature is on the programmers "to do" list and we hope to have it in place during the first quarter of 2002


TomD

tom@2checkout.com

Thanks tom.

Untill then 2checkout users do you just create another product for the lower price and put it on a special page or something?

I can't think of how else you'd do it :D

You could on your end add your plans to a database, add coupons to
the database, there percentages off and the write a small php or
perl script to process the discount and create the buy now buttons
with the correct discounted price.

To track this you could add the coupon code to the product description.

Then you could check if the card was processed succefully or not
if it was flag the order as ok in the DB if it was not Flag it as bad.

Use the passback functions at 2checkout to send you the information back.

They will pass you back all the client information, tehrefore you
could add it to a database on your end as well.

Just a few suggestions.

Regards,
Ray

There are many shopping carts (both free & paid) that will let you run a very simple store, most of which have some sort of discount coupons or user tier pricing which is ideal for dynamically changing your hosting site.

create the buy now buttons
with the correct discounted price.


Ray, are you saying one could send in the price of a product to
https://www.2checkout.com/cgi-bin/crbuyers/recpurchase.2c ???

According to the docs https://sellers.2checkout.com/cgi-bin/sellersarea/recpassback.2c it only allows
sid, product_id and merchant_order_id

If it works please tell us the name of the variable

After looking at it a bit more, you can send the price using
the cart module. Therefore allowing you to create a small
script on your end that generates the discounted price then
send it to the 2checkout.com Shopping Cart module.

This also passes back more information to your script.
Look under the Shopping Cart > Cart Details option to
get more information about it.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Ray