Minimize required checkout data
Overview
Use this feature to streamline the shopping cart by minimizing data entry and providing an optimized ordering experience for customers.
Availability
Available by default to 2Monetize accounts.
Requirements
This feature requires the use of the SHORT_FORM parameter in buy-links generated in the Merchant Control Panel.
The SHORT_FORM parameter is case sensitive.
Purchase flow support
This feature supports the following purchase flows:
- Checkout with cart functionalities
- One page checkout with review
- One page checkout without review
- Add to shopping cart
- Checkout page
- Product page
- Express Payments Checkout
- Trial links
Generate buy-links with the SHORT_FORM parameter
- Log in to your 2Checkout Merchant Control Panel account.
- Navigate to the Generate Links area.
- Check the checkbox for the Compact shopping cart fields option when generating your buy-link to minimize the number of mandatory cart fields shoppers need to fill in during the purchase process. This action will automatically add the SHORT_FORM=1 parameter to the generated buy-links.
Create buy-links with the SHORT_FORM parameter manually
You can also add the SHORT_FORM=1 parameter manually to buy-links for shopping carts after you generate them.
When the feature is active for your account, and SHORT_FORM=1 is used in buy-links, the name, email, ZIP code, and country pair become the only required details of the billing address.
Using the SHORT_FORM=1 parameter without the feature being enabled for your account will result in shoppers following the classic purchase flow, where all billing address data is mandatory.
Workflow
Customers accessing buy-links that include the SHORT_FORM parameter after the feature has been enabled for your account will need to:
- Fill in only the country and ZIP code (if it applies), necessary for VAT/tax calculation. The name, email, ZIP code, and the country are the only remaining address elements still mandatory. Note: Shoppers in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Marshal Islands are required to provide a valid ZIP code for their location. The same requirement does not apply to shoppers worldwide.
- Not fill in the address information as the field is no longer mandatory. In fact, the address field doesn't need to be included in the cart design.
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Billing address field |
Mandatory |
Comment |
|---|---|---|
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First name |
Yes |
Becomes part of the Name field |
|
Last name |
Yes |
Becomes part of the Name field. |
|
Address |
No |
- |
|
City |
Yes |
Used for tax calculation. Shoppers from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Marshal Islands, Brazil, and Turkey are required to provide a valid city code for their location. |
|
Zip or postal code |
Yes* |
Used for tax calculation. Shoppers from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Marshal Islands, and Brazil are required to provide a valid ZIP code for their location. |
|
Country |
Yes |
Used for tax calculation. |
|
State or province |
Yes* |
Used for tax calculation. Shoppers from the US, France, Romania, Brazil, Canada, India, and Turkey are required to provide their state or province during the checkout process. |
|
|
Yes |
- |
|
Confirm email |
No |
- |
| VAT | Yes | Used for tax calculation. Shoppers from Turkey, India, and Serbia are required to provide a valid VAT id during the checkout process. |
| Company | Yes | Used for tax calculation. Shoppers from Turkey and India are required to provide a valid company id. |
ZIP validation
2Checkout performs checks designed to ensure that the ZIP code provided by customers is valid.
Tax calculation
Taxes are calculated after a valid ZIP code is provided, and if necessary, added to the value of the products in the cart.
FAQ
1. Is there any information included automatically for addresses?
A dash "-" is used for the address.
2. Does it work for trials?
Yes. SHORT_FORM is supported in scenarios in which your customers access trials for which they need to provide billing details and payment information.
3. Is it included in hash validation?
No. SHORT_FORM is not included when creating the hash for buy-links.
Upgrade test orders
Overview
You can use these instructions to upgrade test orders.
Requirements
- Configure at least 2 products for your account.
- Set up one of the products as the upgrade of another.
- Enable the test order system.
- Place a test order with the upgradeable product.
Workflow
- Navigate to Subscription management or to Order search and search either for a test subscription belonging to or a test order involving the upgradable product.
- Click on View subscription to access the details page of the item you wish to trigger the auto-renewal process for.
- Click on or copy & paste the Upgrade test link into your browser's address bar.
- You will land in the shopping cart where you can place an upgrade test order. The system adds the DOTEST=1 URL parameter to the Buy Link.
- The system updates the Subscription history area with the details on the upgrade test order.
Possible test order status transitions
|
Order status in search export |
Order status in Control Panel |
Approve status |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
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COMPLETE |
Finished |
Finished |
The order was fulfilled. |
|
AUTHRECEIVED |
Pending approval |
Pending approval |
2Checkout is yet to approve the order. |
|
In progress / Processing |
In progress |
The order was approved. |
|
|
PENDING (for automatic authorization failures) |
Unfinished |
Unfinished |
2Checkout is yet to approve the order. |
|
TOTAL REFUND |
Refunded |
Refunded |
Full refund. |
|
PARTIAL REFUND |
Refunded |
Refunded |
Partial refund. |
iDEAL
Overview
Standardized online banking-based payment method tailored to users in The Netherlands. iDEAL supports online payments via secure online transfers directly between bank accounts. With the participation of ABN AMRO, bunq, ASN, ING, Knab, Rabobank, RegioBank, SNS Bank, Triodos Bank, Van Lanschot Bankiers, Moneyou and Handelsbanken, nearly 97% of the Dutch consumers can be reached with iDEAL. About 75% of the consumers of these banks use internet banking. No less than 60% of all Dutch online shoppers use iDEAL, totaling 13 million transactions monthly. iDEAL supports the one-page checkout purchase flow.
Direct Debit must be enabled on your account in order to support recurring billing.
Workflow
- When placing the order, shoppers in the Netherlands can select iDeal as a payment option and choose their bank.
- Customers will have to access the online banking environment of the bank they selected, and follow the instructions presented to them in order to process the transaction.
SEPA compliance
In the process of supporting recurring payments, 2Checkout also adapted the iDEAL implementation for full SEPA compliance.
Recurrent billing support
- Dutch shoppers purchase subscriptions using iDEAL, and opt to be automatically charged for future renewals.
- 2Checkout receives the payment confirmation along with their bank account information.
- 2Checkout subsequently uses the bank account details received for the iDEAL transaction initially authorized to automatically charge customers through Direct Debit, collecting funds directly from their bank accounts when renewing their subscriptions.
