eCommerce Integration
Checkout Flow:
Section 1: Create a new form on your shopping cart’s page
Begin by adding a new form to your shopping cart page. This should be separate from any pre-existing forms used by your cart. The opening form tag should appear as follows:
Your form should contain multiple hidden input fields which contain your merchant information and data regarding the items in the current cart. The values of these fields should be generated by your shopping cart, although several fields are static and therefore can be hard coded. You should format your input fields as follows:
Detailed information on each of the input fields can be found in the following table:
| Field | Description | Inclusion |
|---|---|---|
| merchant_id | Your merchant ID can be found within your account settings on eLayaway.com. Place either your production merchant ID or sandbox merchant ID in this field. | required |
| currency_code | The international currency code for the type of currency used in the transaction. At this time eLayaway only accepts U.S. dollars, so set this value to “USD”. | required |
| months | Leave this value blank, it is handled by our calculator. The eLayaway payment calculator allows consumers to select their payment amount and frequency. Inclusion of the calculator is detailed below. | (PASSED BY CALCULATOR) |
| payment_frequency | Leave this value blank. Currently, only monthly payments can be set by the customer. | (PASSED BY CALCULATOR) |
| return | Customers will be re-directed back to this URL when they have confirmed the layaway. Click here to see return status data sent back. Replace http://www.yourretrunaddress.com with the return address of your choice. | required |
| merchant_order_number | Allows you to pass an order number from your system to eLayaway. This lets us use your system’s order number when sending you order status notifications. | optional |
Section 2: Select the Submission Method.
We support two methods for sending items from your shopping cart to eLayaway. Each method will have the same starting form data (outlined above) but depending on which method you choose, the remaining form data will differ.
An explanation of each submission method is detailed further on their respective page.
Choose a method: