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One click (1-click) purchase - PayPal

Last updated: 13-Oct-2021
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Overview

2Checkout supports 1-click purchases for returning customers who paid for their previous orders with PayPal. 

Availability

Select 2Checkout accounts. Contact 2Checkout for more details. 

Requirements

  • Shoppers enabled recurring billing (auto-renewal) for their initial purchase with PayPal. 
  • The 2Checkout risk department needs to have approved the initial order whose reference you're using to place another order. 2Checkout uses complex fraud detection technology that blocks fraudulent transactions. This process is expected to take a few seconds. The time is usually covered by the action of showing a new offer to shoppers, but we recommend checking that ApproveStatus is OK. 

Workflow 

Validate previous order references

For 1-click purchase scenarios use the isValidOrderReference method. The initial order must meet the following requirements:

  • Shoppers enabled recurring billing (auto-renewal).
$Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->RecurringEnabled = true;
  • Its status is either COMPLETE or AUTHRECEIVED
  • The 2Checkout risk department approved the order. 

Create the order object

  • Populate the BillingDetails object with the same details as the billing info of the initial order. Make sure that at least the email addresses match.
  • Build your PaymentDetails object using the reference of the initial order as a payment method.
$Order->PaymentDetails = new stdClass ();
$Order->PaymentDetails->Type = 'PREVIOUS_ORDER';
$Order->PaymentDetails->Currency = 'usd';
$Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod = new stdClass ();
$Order->PaymentDetails->CustomerIP = '10.10.10.10';
$Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->RecurringEnabled = true;
$Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->RefNo = $orderReference;

Place the new order 

2Checkout charges returning customers using their payment-on-file information (their PayPal account). 

Cross-sell

If you need to track cross-sells, we recommend using additional fields to mark orders as such. With this particular flow, 2Checkout considers both the initial and the subsequent order, new purchases. 

Parameters

Parameters

Type/Description

sessionID

Required (string)

 

Session identifier, the output of the Login method. Include sessionID into all your requests. 2Checkout throws an exception if the values are incorrect.  The sessionID expires in 10 minutes.

Order

Required (Object)

 

Object designed to collect all data necessary for an order, including billing, product/subscription plan and payment details.

To place an order with PayPal rather than PayPal Express, use PAYPAL as the type of the PaymentDetails object and send the shopper email and a return URL as part of the PaymentMethod object. See code sample. 

Response 

Parameter Type/Description

Order information

Object

Request


<?php
echo "<pre>";
$host   = "https://api.2checkout.com";
$client = new SoapClient($host . "/soap/4.0/?wsdl", array(
    'location' => $host . "/order/4.0/soap",
    "stream_context" => stream_context_create(array(
        'ssl' => array(
            'verify_peer' => false,
            'verify_peer_name' => false
        )
    ))
));

function hmac($key, $data)
{
    $b = 64; // byte length for md5
    if (strlen($key) > $b) {
        $key = pack("H*", md5($key));
    }
    
    $key    = str_pad($key, $b, chr(0x00));
    $ipad   = str_pad('', $b, chr(0x36));
    $opad   = str_pad('', $b, chr(0x5c));
    $k_ipad = $key ^ $ipad;
    $k_opad = $key ^ $opad;
    return md5($k_opad . pack("H*", md5($k_ipad . $data)));
}
$merchantCode = "MERCHANT_CODE";// your account's merchant code available in the 'System settings' area of the cPanel: https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel/account_settings.php
$key = "SECRET_KEY";// your account's secret key available in the 'System settings' area of the cPanel: https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel/account_settings.php
$now = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s'); //date_default_timezone_set('UTC')
$string = strlen($merchantCode) . $merchantCode . strlen($now) . $now;
$hash   = hmac($key, $string);
try {
    $sessionID = $client->login($merchantCode, $now, $hash);
}
catch (SoapFault $e) {
    echo "Authentication: " . $e->getMessage();
    exit;
}
$orderReference = '45452071';

try {
    $validOrderRef = $client->isValidOrderReference($sessionID, $orderReference);
}
catch (SoapFault $e) {
    echo "validOrderRef: " . $e->getMessage();
    exit;
}
var_dump("validOrderRef", $validOrderRef);

$newOrder = new stdClass();

$newOrder->RefNo = NULL;
$newOrder->Currency = 'usd';
$newOrder->Country = 'US';
$newOrder->Language = 'en';
$newOrder->Items = array();
$newOrder->Items[0] = new stdClass();
$newOrder->Items[0]->Code = 'my_subscription_2';
$newOrder->Items[0]->Quantity = 1;

$newOrder->BillingDetails = new stdClass();
$newOrder->BillingDetails->FirstName = 'FirstName';
$newOrder->BillingDetails->LastName = 'LastName';
$newOrder->BillingDetails->CountryCode = 'us';
$newOrder->BillingDetails->State = 'California';
$newOrder->BillingDetails->City = 'LA';
$newOrder->BillingDetails->Address1 = 'Address example';
$newOrder->BillingDetails->Zip = '90210';
$newOrder->BillingDetails->Email = 'shopper@2checkout.com';

$newOrder->DeliveryDetails = NULL;

$newOrder->PaymentDetails = new stdClass ();
$newOrder->PaymentDetails->Type = 'PREVIOUS_ORDER';
$newOrder->PaymentDetails->Currency = 'usd';
$newOrder->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod = new stdClass ();
$newOrder->PaymentDetails->CustomerIP = '10.10.10.10';
$newOrder->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->RecurringEnabled = true;
$newOrder->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->RefNo = $orderReference;

try {
    $prevrefOrder = $client->placeOrder($sessionID, $newOrder);
}
catch (SoapFault $e) {
    echo "prevrefOrder: " . $e->getMessage();
    exit;
}
var_dump("prevrefOrder", $prevrefOrder);

?>

 

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