LinkPoint Connect

You can easily setup ProductCart to work with LinkPoint Connect (formerly LinkPoint Basic). When your account is set up on the LinkPoint Payment Gateway, you will receive an introductory email “Welcome to LinkPoint HTML” the following information is included in this email (print the welcome letter and store it in the same place):

• Your “doing business as” (DBA) store name.
• Your store number (typically a six-digit number). This 6-digit number is the only piece of information you will need to complete the integration with ProductCart.
• Your user ID number, secure host name, and instructions for obtaining your activation password.

Before activating the gateway within ProductCart, you will need to configure a few settings using the LinkPoint administration console, called LinkPoint Central. Log into LinkPoint Central using the login information you received when you setup your account.. The first time you access LPC with your temporary password, you will be prompted to change your password. Once you are logged in, click on “Customization” from the top navigation menu.

To log into LinkPoint Central, go to: https://secure.linkpt.net/lpcentral/servlet/LPCLogin

Select “Settings” from the left navigation and set the settings as follows:

• Order Submission Form URL: The URL should be formatted as follows (replace the path to ProductCart as needed):
  https://www.yourStore.com/productcart/pc/gwlp.asp
  Note that the URL above and the ones shown below use SSL (the URLs being “https” rather then “http”). You can input URLs that do not use SSL. However, strongly recommend that you use an SSL certificate as credit card information is sentthe gateway. The HTTPS protocol ensures that such information is sent in an encrypformat.
• “Thank You” Page URL The URL should be formatted as follows (replace the path to ProductCart as needed):
  https://www.yourStore.com/productcart/pc/gwReturn.asp
• Check here if this url is a CGI script: Must be checked.
• Check if you wish to automatically display specified URL after the LinkPoint HTML receipt page: Must be checked.
• “Sorry” Page URL
  The URL should be formatted as follows (replace the path to ProductCart as needed):
  https://www.yourStore.com/productcart/pc/sorry.asp
• Check if you wish to automatically display specified URL after the LinkPoint HTML receipt page. Must be checked.
• Receive a copy of each receipt. Check this option if you want customers to receive an email receipt from LinkPoint (on top of the order confirmation email that will be sent from ProductCart). This option can be checked or left blank.

Click on the “Submit” button to save your changes.

To place the system in “Test” mode from the LinkPoint administration area, follow these steps. When the system is in test mode, credit cards are never charged.

• Click on “Admin” from the top menu
• Click on “Live/Test Mode”
• Set your gateway into “Test” mode.

Note that this is different from using the Enable Test Mode option discussed below.

You are now ready to go back to ProductCart to finish setting up LinkPoint Connect.

• Click on the link to Enable LinkPoint Connect
• I’m using YourPay
  If you are using YourPay, a payment gateway that is powered by LinkPoint, check this box. Otherwise, leave this option unchecked. When you check this option ProductCart will post a transaction to the processing server that is different from the one used by other LinkPoint customers. So it is very important that this option is properly set. Otherwise transactions will not be processed correctly.
• Store Number
  Enter the store number that LinkPoint assigned you when you signed up for the LinkPoint account.
• Transacton Type: can be set as either “Sale” or “Authorization Only”. Choose “Sale” to authorize and capture funds (the credit card is debited). Choose “Authorization Only” to authorize the credit card, but not capture the funds.
• Test Mode: LinkPoint may have provided you with a “staging” account, along with your “live” account, for testing purposes. When you use a test account, transactions are sent to a different server for authorization (staging.linkpoint.net). If this is the case, you can test the system using LinkPoint’s staging servers. To do so check the Enable Test Mode option in ProductCart. This is not the same as placing the gateway in test mode via LinkPoint Central, where you are testing using your LIVE Account. According to the technical documentation that we have access to, LinkPoint does not “recommend performing tests with your LIVE account other than those necessary to validate correct functionality of your live account. Please request a test account if you need to do extensive testing.”

For testing purposes, you can use any of the card numbers listed below. The card numbers that will not result in any charges to the card. Use these card numbers with any expiration date in the future.

• MasterCard: 5419-8400-0000-0003
• Visa®: 4111-1111-1111-1111