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Hostahoy Shopping Cart™
Card Services International /
LinkPoint HTML
Setup
Instructions |
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The Hostahoy Shopping
Cart makes it simple and easy to interface with your LinkPoint HTML
account. All that is needed to make this work is three changes and of
course, a valid Card Services International account.
With LinkPoint, each
merchant has two processing choices:
1) use the LinkPoint
HTML payment form on the LinkPoint secure server (payplus)
2) use the Hostahoy Shopping Cart
secure payment form to collect credit card information, then just use LinkPoint
HTML for the real-time approval and processing (payonly)
Option number 2 allows
for a better customized look by using your Hostahoy Shopping Cart store to
collect the data however you must have a secure store. Although LinkPoint
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:
# CardServices
International Required Variables
$linkpointHTML =
"https://secure.linkpt.net/cgi-bin/hlppay";
$linkpointHTMLcr =
"https://secure.linkpt.net/admin/LOGIN/vlp";
%STORENAME =
('YOURUSENAME','LINKPOINTUSERNAME');
Replace "YOURUSERNAME"
with your Hostahoy Shopping Cart username and replace "LINKPOINTUSERNAME" with
your LinkPoint username.
Save the modified file
on the server.
Note:
If you do not have your own full version of the software, you must ask the
owner of the software to enter your usernames in this file for you.
Step
2: for
choice 1 only
In the
"Payment/Tax Configurations" area of the online admin of your store, copy and
paste this line exactly as it appears here as the link for the secure URL for
processing credit cards.
https://secure.linkpt.net/cgi-bin/hlppay
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 Hostahoy Shopping
Cart 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
"CSI LinkPoint" in the Authorize only pulldown menu right below where you
entered secure URL.
Step
3:
"tweaking" your virtual terminal
LinkPoint allows you to make some additional choices
that streamline the order process. Here are some suggestions on tweaking
your LinkPoint gateway:
"Thank You" page URL: for the "thank you" page URL, we suggest you
use the following:
https://[yourdomain]/cgi-bin/cart/cartt.cgi?[username]STORE:thankyou
"Sorry" page URL: for the "sorry" page URL, we suggest you use
the following:
https://[yourdomain]/cgi-bin/cart/cart.cgi?[username]STORE:sorry
That is it! The
Hostahoy Shopping Cart already has all of the needed variables embedded it it's
code. If you have questions about Card Services International or its
services please visit their
site. |
