Hostahoy Shopping Cart™ AuthorizeNet Integration Instructions

AuthorizeNet Setup Instructions

Hostahoy™ makes it simple and easy to interface with your account with Authorize.net. All that is needed to make this work is three changes and of course, a valid account with Authorize Net.

With AuthorizeNet 3.0, each merchant has two processing choices:

1) use the AuthorizeNet payment form on the AuthorizeNet secure server
2) use the Hostahoy Shopping Cart™ secure payment form to collect credit card information, then just use AuthorizeNet for the real-time approval and processing.

Option number 2 allows for a better customized look by using your Hostahoy store to collect the data however you must have a secure store. Although AuthorizeNet allows merchants to customize the look of their virtual terminal, the customization that can be done is very limited.

Step 1: for choices 1 and 2

Modify your "customize.pl" file in your cart directory. This file is a plain text file so must be transferred as ASCII if using FTP to edit. Look for the text:

# Authorize.Net Required Variables
$authorizenet30="https://secure.authorize.net/gateway/transact.dll";
%LOGIN = ('cart_username','authorizenet_username');

Replace "cart_username" with your Hostahoy™ username and replace "authorizenet_username" with your AuthorizeNet username.

Save the modified file on the server.

Step 2: for choice 1 only

In the "Payment/Tax Configurations" area of the online admin of your Hostahoy™ store, copy and paste this line exactly as it appears here as the link for the secure URL for processing credit cards.

https://secure.authorize.net/gateway/transact.dll

Make sure you are doing this in the payment option for credit cards. If a credit card payment option already does not exist, just create it.

Step 2: for choice 2 only

In the "Payment/Tax Configurations" area of the online admin of your Hostahoyt™ store, find (or create) your credit card payment option and use your secure URL. For example, If you use yourdomain.com for your secure store, then enter

https://yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/cart/cart.cgi

Now you need to select "AuthorizeNet " in the Authorize only pulldown menu right below where you entered secure URL.

That is it! the Hostahoy Shopping Cart™ already has all of the needed variables embedded it it's code. If you have questions about Authorize.Net or its services please visit their site.