NATS4 2000Charge Gateway
Signing up at 2000Charge Gateway
Before you can begin configuring 2000Charge Gateway as a biller in NATS4, you must first register a merchant account with them. This can be done through their website at http://www.2000charge.com/.
Setting up in Nats
Billers Admin
Go to the Billers Admin, select 2000Charge Gateway. from the drop-down, and click Add. Enter your Client ID that were provided by 2000Charge Gateway.
Note: 2000Charge Gateway will need to be added to a cascade before it can be used.
When setting up 2000Charge Gateway in your cascades, you can choose the processing type to be used in the cascade step by selecting it from the drop-down menu. 2000Charge Gateway currently supports the following processing types:
- Credit Cards
- Euro Debit
Sites Admin
2000Charge Gateway has no site-specific fields that need to be configured in NATS. However, there are optional settings you can set up for 2000Charge Gateway when configuring your join options.
Join Option Setup
Next, Edit (or create) the option(s) you want to use with 2000Charge Gateway. You will see the following list of available option fields (all preceded by 2000Charge Gateway id:#):
- Price Point: - Price point for this join option.
- Currency: - the currency that this join option should be billed in.
This option setup may also require rules to be setup. You can do so with the purple arrows next to the option row.
Cross Sales
Go to the Cross Sells Admin, click incoming or outgoing cross sales from the navigation tabs (depending on whether you are sending or receiving the cross sale).
For Incoming Cross Sales/ Upsells, go to the Incoming Cross sales/ Upsells section. Add 2000Charge Gateway from the biller drop-down. Fill in the the following options for the cross sale:
- Initial Days
- Initial Dollar
- Recurring Days
- Recurring Dollar
- Currency
- Price Point
You will also want to select the site and program that you want to associate with this cross sale once you have entered in the "Data" fields.
For Outgoing Cross Sales, go to the Outgoing Cross Sales section. Add 2000Charge Gateway from the biller drop-down. Also in this section you will fill in the following: Title , Description, and Disclaimer for this cross sale. In the Biller Info you will fill out the data for the receiving end (the person you are doing cross sales with will provide this information for you). Fill in Ref Code, Domain and HTTPS Post.
There is also an option to choose 'Recalculate Ref Code'. This will cause NATS to attribute credit for the cross sell to the referring affiliate over the affiliate whose Ref Code was entered in the 'Ref Code' field. In order for this to take effect, the referring affiliate must be enabled in a cross-sell program, which means that the cross sell must be coming from your own NATS installation.
Upgradeplus
2000Charge Gateway supports Upgrade Plus: a feature that allows trial members to click a link in your member's area to shorten the duration of their trial membership and upgrade to a full member. For more information, visit our Upgrade Plus wiki.
Expire Padding
You can configure NATS to allow for extra time for rebills to come in for 2000Charge Gateway members. Further details can be found in the following article:
Editing Site Templates
2000Charge Gateway requires brand information (Visa/Mastercard/etc). Without retrieving brand information, this biller transaction will fail.
To avoid facing this issue, you need to insert the code on your gateway join page in order to retrieve this information. This can be done through the Sites Admin. Simply edit the site templates for the join page you wish to change, and edit the subsequent gateway_join template.
You can use the following code to display the drop-down menu. Please make sure this is found with the form tags (<form> .. </form>) within the template.
<<div style="padding-top:3px;">
<label style="width:120px;text-align:right;float:left;padding:0 1em;">Brand :</label>
<select style="width:75px" name="signup[brand]" id=brand>
{html_options options=$brands selected=$vars.brand}
</select>
</div>
If you have any further questions regarding the setup of in NATS v4, please put in a support ticket.
