Gateway One Step Join

Origination and Version History

As of version 4.0.74.1, Nats supports a one page gateway setup. This article describes how to setup this feature and how it works.

Setting up in NATS

Cascade Setup

In order for Nats to recognize a cascade as a gateway one step cascade, you will need to set a special cascade weight. Go to your Billers Admin and find the cascade you want to use, or create it. Once you had selected your cascade, click the pencil icon to edit this cascade. In the settings for this cascade select "Gateway One Step Cascade" or set the weight to 258. Next you can add billers to the cascade. You will need the cascade id that is located on the left hand side of the cascade you created.

Note: The first biller in a cascade of this type MUST be a gateway. If anything other then a gateway is used, the surfer will redirected back to your regular prejoin page.

Query String Setup

In order for Nats to know that you want to use the gateway one step process, you will need to specify the cascade number in the query string. For example, let's say that your default Nats join link is (below) and you want to use the cascade id of 3 (your gateway one step cascade number) :

http://joinow.toomuchmedia.com/signup/signup.php?nats=<?=$_REQUEST['nats']?$_REQUEST['nats']:'MC4wLjEuMS4wLjAuMC4wLjA'?>&step=2

You now modify this url to:

http://joinow.toomuchmedia.com/signup/signup.php?nats=<?=$_REQUEST['nats']?$_REQUEST['nats']:'MC4wLjEuMS4wLjAuMC4wLjA'?>&cascade=3

This will bypass the prejoin page entirely and show a combination of the pre/gateway join pages. From here the process continues as any normal gateway join would.