Simple Buy Now Links

If you have your items already on your site and want to use "Buy Now" Buttons or links for each of your items the setup is quite simple. Once you log in to eCOMpal with your UserId and password go to Cart Setup in the menu and select (click on) the "Personalization" sub item. On the lower left corner of the menu you will see an option "Build A Link" This program will create each of the links you need to connect your items to the eCOMpal shopping cart.

Each of the links you create will start with ww2.asafeweb.com/order.asp?userid=nnnnnnn, where the nnnnnnnn is your UserId. After that, you will see several other entities like &price=nn.nn where nn.nn is the price of the item; and &descr=aaaaaaa, where aaaaaaa is the description of the item; &weight=nn.nn where nn.nn is weight of the item.

There are two required fields for an item, Price & Description. By the way. The words in the description MUST be separated by + (plus signs). If there is a space (Blank) anywhere in the url being sent to eCOMpal, the rest of string will NOT BE SEEN by eCOMpal. If you are not getting the results that you expect when you connect to eCOMpal, check for spaces.

Optional fields are:

• &weight= - the weight of the item. This is used for calculating shipping charges. If you want to calculate shipping charges in any way shape or form, you must have weight in your item.
• &taxable= - if you want to charge sales tax for the item in your state this should be Yes or On
• &sku= - Used to identify the item for QuickBooks or fulfillment houses
• &continue= - The URL of the page you want your customer to go to to continue shopping
• &length= - Used for UPS only
• &height= - Used for UPS only
• &value= - Used for UPS only

So, your link may look like this

http://ww2.asafeweb.com/order.asp?userid=1011111&price=22.50
&weight=1.0&descr=this+is+a+wonderful+item+that+I'm+purchasing
&taxable=on&continue=http://www.mysite.com/shopping.htm
Note: The above link is broken into three lines so it will display in the page properly. Your link will be one long string.

You can secure your links so that your customers can't modify the information when it's being sent to the cart through a slightly different approach that's easy to implement. Learn about securing your links.

By the way, if you want create a link to show your customer what's in the cart or to start the check out process, all you need to do is set up a link with your UserId and, optionally, a continue link.

It would look like this:
http://ww2.asafeweb.com/order.asp?userid=1011111
&continue=http://www.mysite.com/shopping.htm
Note: The above link is broken into two lines so it will display properly. Your link will be one long string.

In the check out link you can optionally include - OrderId= - the Order Id that's returned from eCOMpal after each line that's added to the shopping cart.