I am considering using Revecom for our recurring membership payments. Does anyone know if it's possible to pass a custom user variable to Revecom secure payment server and have their server return the variable upon succesful completion of payment? [basically I would like to track my user payments based on their customerID numbers that i assign to them].
Instabill apparently allows for this (there's an option in their TotalCart system to setup user variables) and since revecom/instabill are using essentially the same MerhcantControlPanel softare i believe it should be possible to do it also on Revecom.

Originally posted by mikula
Does anyone know if it's possible to pass a custom user variable to Revecom secure payment server and have their server return the variable upon succesful completion of payment?

Yes, Revecom allows up to 10 user-defined variables to be passed through the system and returned upon transaction completion.

Mark Vockler
Aletia Hosting

Originally posted by Mark Vockler


Yes, Revecom allows up to 10 user-defined variables to be passed through the system and returned upon transaction completion.

Mark Vockler
Aletia Hosting

Do you know where/how to setup and pass these variables? I looked into their MerchantControlPanel but can't find anything.
Also, when i define a product and access the actual sales form -- there seem to be 10 hidden fields names "usr1" through "usr10" if you look into the html source. I tried passing values for usrX variables in the url, but this doesnt seem to work.

Here's how it's done:

You'll need to add &optionX where X = 1-10 to the original product sale fragment. Once completed, Revecom will pass back the option variables to your return URL.

Your Revecom account should be setup as GET by default (for the return URL), but that can be changed to POST if required, by sending them a support ticket.

Remember to use URL.Encode (http://i-technica.com/whitestuff/urlencodechart.html) with the querystring. Netscape will generate errors if you have spaces in the variables. Here's a utility (http://www.dommermuth-1.com/protosite/experiments/encode/index.html) that helps you do it automatically.

Mark Vockler
Aletia Hosting