2Checkout (2CO)

2Checkout (2CO) is one of the many payment gateways supported by ProductCart.

When you select 2Checkout as your payment gateway, customers will temporarily leave your online store to submit their payment information. They will be taken back to your Web site once the transaction has been approved.

When customers click on the Continue button after verifying the correctness of the order on your store, they will be asked to confirm their billing information, then will temporarily leave your Web site and will be taken to secure payment form located on 2Checkout.com Web site. the billing address is passed to the payment gateway by ProductCart, so the customer won't have to re-enter it.

Customers have the option to submit the order in a currency other than the one used by the store. To do so, they may click on any of the flags shown in the middle portion of the page. When they click on a flag, the page refreshes and the order total is converted into the selected currency.

Once the transaction is processed, customers will be redirected back to your store. You may want to include on your order confirmation email some information about the fact that your online store's name will not appear on your customers credit card statement, but rather the charges for the order will be under the name 2CO.COM.

To activate 2Checkout as your payment gateway, first log into the 2Checkout administration area and set the following system properties:

• Under “Helpful Links”, look for “Look & Feel”, and click on “Settings”.
• You will be taken to the “Look and Feel” page.
• On the 3rd input field that says “Input a URL for your customers to be sent to on a successful purchase”, insert the URL: http://www.yourstore.com/productcart/pc/gwReturn.asp
• Click on the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the page.

Now, log into the Control Panel, and enter the following information in the corresponding fields on the Add New Real Time payment Option page.

• Store ID. Enter the Store ID that you received when you set up an account with the company
• Processing Fee. You can choose whether to charge an additional transaction fee using the Processing Fee field. The transaction fee can either be a set amount or a percentage of the total order amount (e.g. 2.3% of the total).
• Payment Name. You can change the description that is shown to your customers checkout. For example,you could change “Credit Card” to “Visa and MasterCard”. Finally submit the form by clicking the Add button.