How do I add a URL parameter so Convio will auto-fill the Checkout form?

Paul McFate 2

I'm trying to create a URL for an email series that will be sent by one of our partners directing people to Convio shopping carts (using their own inhouse email system). We want to include the constitutuent ID or other parameter so that Convio will recognized the user and auto-populate the form fields - thus the donor will not have to fill out the form. I tried using:

&cons_ID

&member_ID

&consID

None of these work. I tried searching the help documentation and previous discussions in the community, but I've been unsuccessful. Please help a newbie.

Jon Reich 2

I think you need to call in the cons_ID with an S tag. Try this: &((S1:cons_ID)) or &px=((S1:cons_ID)) -- instead of just &cons_ID.

NOTE: in the above ( = leftbracket and ) =rightbracket

Hope that helps!

Let me know if it works.

Thanks,

Jon

c.stauffer

Jon Reich:

I think you need to call in the cons_ID with an S tag. Try this: &((S1:cons_ID)) or &px=((S1:cons_ID)) -- instead of just &cons_ID.

NOTE: in the above ( = leftbracket and ) =rightbracket

Hope that helps!

Let me know if it works.

Thanks,

Jon

I love you for this code. Cheers.

Adrian Cotter

c.stauffer :

I love you for this code. Cheers.

Can't you do an auto-login link from an email?

When you are creating a link using the link component, click options instead of insert. There is an autologin checkbox. I don't if there is a link directly to the shopping cart.

But what it does is insert a URL parameter of

&autologin=true

Which I think you can try and append to a link to a shopping cart and seeing if that works...

Seamus Leahy

I think people forgot to see that the email system is not Convio's email system. I tried what I could think of and it is ignoring it.

Adrian Cotter

Seamus Leahy:

I think people forgot to see that the email system is not Convio's email system. I tried what I could think of and it is ignoring it.

Ah, yeah that definitely makes a difference. I think if you look at an HTML email that comes out of Convio, the URLs are encoded and don't go directly to a link.

The only other thing I could thing that you could try would be first to create the HTML email, and then see how the links come out, and see if you could copy them into your other email system.

However, I really doubt this would work, as the links are probably in some way coded for individual users (to track interactions?).

David Hart

The donation forms support autopopulation of fields based on URL query parameters, but other applications (including eCommerce) do not.