instant account activation
I just signed up with a hosting reseller to start my own little hosting business. While setting up the webpage I am facing some challenges.
My host offers an instant account activation for my clients, but I really have trouble working out how to build it into a shopping cart and into my website.Maybe someone can help me there.
Here is what my host says on their website:Instant Activation Order System
The Instant Activation Order System allows you to intergrate real time account setup into either your own shopping cart, custom code order form or with a WorldPay Select Junior account.
As a reseller this means you can offer your customers real time account setup from your web site. It should be noted that implementing this system does require a good level of technical expertise, we can only support our own server side scripts.
One important thing to remember is that this system does not register or transfer any domains so you must do this seperatly once the account has been activated.
Setup Instructions
Details on configuring the Instant Activation Order System are below.
Custom Order Form
These instructions apply to your own shopping cart system or custom web server script intergration.
Once you have taken your customers order and validated/charged them for the services you are providing then you should make a call to our special activation script, if you are a programmer you could do this within the script. If not you should set the page that is shown once payment is taken to be the URL below:-
https ://customer.myresellerhost.co.uk/addpack.cgi authcode=5382-H3ujGp7rKo;email=your@customer.com;M_domain=newdomain.com;M_typeid=12345;status=Y
The variables for this special script are defined as:-
authcode=5382-H3ujGp7rKo- The password which must be as shown
email=your@customer.com - The address to send the customer welcome email to
M_domain=newdomain.com - The domain for the new web hosting package
M_typeid=12345 - The web hosting package ID to be setup
status=Y - leave this as it is
Make sure you pass values for either M_typename (the name of the package type from your list) or M_typeid (the ID code of the package type from your list).
WorldPay Order Form
Only WorldPay Select Junior is directly supported.
When you pass payment information to WorldPay you must also pass the domain the customer wants along with their web hosting package type (using the package ID), here is an example:-
<input name="M_domain" type="hidden" value="newdomain.com">
<input name="M_typeid" type="hidden" value="12345">
Please note that you must make sure you pass values for M_domain (the domain name) and either M_typename (the name of the package type from your list) or M_typeid (the ID code of the package type from your list) in the form to send to WorldPay.
In the WorldPay Customer Management System:-
Set the callback URL to: https://customer.myresellerhost.co.uk/addpack.cgi
Set the callback password to: 5382-H3ujGp7rKo
Once payment is taken by Worldpay the back link you specify below will be presented to the customer.
Important Notes
You must use the correct password as mentioned above. Failure to do so will mean the account cannot be set up.
The domain name must either be in your parked domains list, or not with us at all (It may need to be registered). Otherwise, you'll have to get the domain name transferred to your account (and any web hosting account for it deleted) in order to set up the new web hosting account.
You will be emailed (at your log-in email address) notification of any errors setting up the account. You should be able to complete the setup manually in most cases.
You may want to consider using M_typeid instead of M_typename if you expect to change the name of your package types in the future.
Back Link
This will be the link that appears on successful, cancelled, or error pages. You must fill it in to use the Instant Activation Order System.
An example backlink would be http://www.yourdomain.com/orderdone.html
