The Cactus Shopping Basket Service

 The Buy Example shows you the HTML code you add to your web page to place an item in the shopping basket.

     The Buy Button adds an item to the customer's shopping basket.   The information needed to do this is:

• MerchantID is a value that identifies your business to our server.  This is required because our server is supporting many businesses at the same time and needs to know who you are.
• ProductID identifies the individual product.  We recommend people use inventory numbers for the ProductID
• ProductName is a short description or title of the product.
• ProductPrice is the quantity-one price of the product.

     For our former demo site, a Buy Button for a pair of handcuffs has the following HTML coding:

<form action="http://taz.turbonet.com/Shopping/buy.asp" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="MerchantID" value="SilverCS">
<input type="hidden" name="ProductID" value="HWC-SSC-1">
<input type="hidden" name="ProductName" value="Stainless Steel Handcuffs">
<input type="hidden" name="ProductPrice" value="23.00">
<input type="submit" value="Buy">
</form>

     If your MerchantID is MyBiz and you are selling Flavored Gum, inventory number 2456 at $1.50 a pack then you would add the following HTML code to your Web page:

<form action="http://taz.turbonet.com/Shopping/buy.asp" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="MerchantID" value="MyBiz">
<input type="hidden" name="ProductID" value="2456">
<input type="hidden" name="ProductName" value="Flavored Gum">
<input type="hidden" name="ProductPrice" value="1.50">
<input type="submit" value="Buy">
</form>

     If you wanted to use the work "Order" or "Purchase" instead of "Buy" in the above example, then substitute the word you want for the word "Buy".

<form action="http://taz.turbonet.com/Shopping/buy.asp" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="MerchantID" value="MyBiz">
<select name="ProductIDNP">
   <option value="1234-R;Red Scarf;4.95">Red Scarf - $4.95</option>
   <option value="1234-G;Green Scarf;5.95">Green Scarf - $5.95</option>
   <option value="1234-Y;Yellow Scarf;3.95">Yellow Scarf - $3.95</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Buy">
</form>

The above creates a dropdown box where the customer can select which variation of a product she wants.  Sizes, colors, etc. work well in this format.  Notice that the product ID, name and price are separated by semicolons, and must be in that order.

Note:  Be very careful of the quotation marks - they must be exactly as they appear in the examples or the Buy Button will not work.

The Checkout Example shows you the HTML code to add to your web page to let the customer complete buying the items in the shopping basket.

     There are two ways to send your customer to the Checkout Stand.  One is a simple link and the other is a form which produces a button similar in appearance to the Buy Buttons. 

First Method:

<a href="http://taz.turbonet.com/Shopping/checkout.asp?MerchantID=SilverCS">
Checkout Stand</a>

Second Method:

<form action="http://taz.turbonet.com/Shopping/checkout.asp" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="MerchantID" value="SilverCS">
<input type="submit" value="Checkout Stand">
</form>

     If your MerchantID is "MyBiz" then you will need to substitute that for "SilverCS" in the above examples.

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