Purchase Links
OVERVIEW
2WayMicropay™ purchase links allow users to make a purchase with just two clicks. The product can be online content, such a web page, or a physical item. The cost of the product can be as little as one cent up to the maximum amount authorized for the seller’s account.
Some key advantages of 2WayMicropay™:
- payments can be processed without the high costs associated with credit cards;
- there are not credit card forms to complete;
- buyers can login to their payment account only once per day and have access to numerous web sites and resources, eliminating the need for multiple login ID’s and passwords;
- buyer’s ID’s can automatically be used to track buyers, to collect contact info, and provide guaranteed permission based follow-up communications with buyers in a way that NEVER involves the risk of being accused of spam.
When a buyer who is already logged in activates a purchase link this will bring up a confirmation window identifying the item and the cost. Upon confirming intent to buy, the funds are transferred and the buyer is redirected to the “delivery page” associated with the purchase. The delivery page may contain the paid for content (such as a video or downloaded content) or it may be a web page containing confirmation that the order has been received and will be shipped to the automatically provided shipping address. If the buyer is not logged in, he or she will be required to login before the purchase can be completed.
Currently, both the buyer and the seller must have a Qixit™ account. The funds will be transferred from one Qixit account to the other.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Manual Creation of Purchase Link
Description of Fields Used in Manual Entry
Automated Creation of Purchase Links
After Creating A Product, How to Use the Purchase Link
Additional Protection of Your Content From Multiple Access
To create a purchase link, you must first upgrade your Qixit Account to a Vendor Account.
The first time you log into this page, you will be required to complete a form to upgrade your account to a vendor/advertiser account. A one time fee of $10 is required to upgrade your account.
Upgrading your account will allow you to create both purchase links and payment links.
There are two ways to create purchase links: manually and through an automated process.
Manual Creation of Purchase Link
If you are not using our WordPress Plugin, you can manually create a product by logging into your account at https://products.qixit.com/login. When you then select “Create New Purchase Link” you will see a page like the image below.
To create a product, the following fields are required: Description, Cost, Delivery URL, and Commercial Code. All others are optional. The default Refund Message is “All Sales Are Final”
Additional fields can be used to (a) modify the receipt the buyer will receive with each purchase, (b) split payments between up to two additional parties, and (c) produce automated reporting of data regarding the buyer and the transaction.
After completing the form, a product ID will be created which will also be shown in the “Product Link” field. The Product Link field is the link that buyers must use to purchase the product. Cut and paste this purchase hyperlink anyplace you wish to use the purchase link. If you wish to mask the purchase link, use a redirect link that will activate the purchase link.
Automated Creation of Purchase Links
Your programmer can easily define products, set pricing, and setup feedback on all sales using our web API. Developers need to obtain developer credentials through our credentialing portal. Once this is done, they can access the developers portal which will have all the documentation and a sandbox for testing.
After Creating a Product, Use the Purchase Link
After you create a product, a basic purchase link will be generated and will appear in the Product Link field, if you are logged into the manual product creation / editing form at http://www.qixit.com/products/
The basic purchase link requires only a single variable, the product ID (PID) generated when the product is first created, as shown below.
https://products.qixit.com/purchasefast?PID=f7655163-bfa3-46fe-a6aa-f48056134544
Additional Protection of Your Content from Multiple Access
You may choose to not provide the Delivery URL in your customer’s receipts if you require them to pay each time they wish to access your content. However, if the user saves your Delivery URL from their browser cache, it is feasible that they could access the content repeatedly, or share it with others, unless you take additional precautions.
This is one example of where the echo string can provide very valuable options for your security processes. One way to prevent reuse of your Delivery URL for each sale using the echo string is to append to the purchasefast link a unique, one time code, each time it is served to a prospective buyer.
To do this, your programmers may display an intermediate payment link (ie. www.yourowndomain.com?p=23abc) on the pitch page when when activated redirects the prospect’s browser to the actual purchasefast.aspx payment link (i.e., www.qixit.com/purchasefast.aspx?pid=98312) which has appended to it a unique one time code: (i.e., www.qixit.com/purchasefast.aspx?pid=98312&echo=se90ads1)
After the payment is received, the onetime code is appended to your the Delivery URL for your product (ie. www.yourowndomain.com/product.htm?echo=se90ads). When this URL request hits your servers, the server is programmed to check this one time code against your own database. If the code is valid, has not yet been served and perhaps meets other verification tests, such as the browser’s IP address, it represents confirmation of payment and the server so delivers the content.
But, if the one time code was already used, your servers can retrieve from your database when it was used and who the original buyer was. Instead of serving up the content (again), you can serve up a page stating something like:
“The link which brought you to this page was is probably copied from a browser cache following a purchase that was previously made and for conent previously delivered.
“The purchase was made on July 1, 2010 after payment from Joe12@Qixit.com for [product description] which was delivered to the buyer that same day.
“If you still wish to buy this content, click here.”
Additional options for masking and controlling access can be found by studying the WordPress 2-WayMicropay Plugin.