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I have recently registered with Alertpay and want to integrate into our shopping cart using the Advanced Integration Method and IPN.

Data for the items we sell must continue to be held on our site as prices vary depending on special discounts offered, discount codes used by our customers, etc.

As such, we want to pass the total customer transaction value to Alertpay for processing (without reference to the individual items sold).

In this case, am I right in saying that:

1. We do NOT need to set anything up (in terms of ADD AN ITEM) in the Alertpay control panel, and

2. All we need to do for each transaction is pass:

              ap_purchase_type = anystring,

              ap_merchant = our email address,

              ap_quantity = 1,

              ap_amount = total value to be charged to card,

              ap_currency = 'USD'

 This would seem logical from reading the Integration Guide, but I just wanted to confirm before getting the code written.

Many Thanks.

Yes all you need to do is send those fields except purchase type field is ap_purchasetype instead of ap_purchase_type and it must contain one of the following values

for

 other, value is "item"

Item Goods, value is "item-goods"

service, value is "service"

auction, value is "item-auction"

apart from the field mentioned above you can use item code to identify your item in case of multiple items, and There are six custom fields apc_1 to apc_6 are used to post back to you if IPN is enabled in order to uniquely identify the buyer at your end to process the order accordingly.

 huh?

I will apologize now, my coding knowledge is a lil slow at times; I'd like to do something like this as well - but I'm so unclear on "HOW" to do it.

I would like to sell .zip files - containing photos, files, whatever - so far I'm really liking AlertPay and am contacting people that I know to see what can be done to help improve things; anything I can do to help take down payPal lol - but seriously like most things it comes out of a selfish desire to improve how things go on my end;  But I was also wondering if there was some kind of Shopping Cart feature that would allow people to Add an "item" and continue shopping - and then once they've added multiple items, it'll calculate everything, verify the puchase, and then email the links to the buyer.

But I have no clue what I'm Doing.

I've uploaded the alertpay ipn .php script to my site, as is - but I'm wondering if I was supposed to add something to it first.

I think I've already said that in another forum so I won't repeat that again; but if someone could explain if the Shopping Cart feature works, or if I need to add something to the IPN Script, and if they can do it in (simple english) that would be great!