eCommerce - Linking to eCommerce Homepage when cookied in

Ben Smith

Is it possible to link an eCommerce user back to our eCommerce homepage (https://secure2.convio.net/wnet/site/Ecommerce?store_id=1141) that displays the intro content, IF they're already started an eCommerce search and are cookied in? I've only been able to get cookied eCommerce users into a version of eCommerce homepage without the important intro info, which is less desireable.

David Hart

Try this

https://secure2.convio.net/wnet/site/Ecommerce?store_id=1141&VIEW_HOMEPAGE=true&FOLDER=0&TYPE=

The additional arguments are:

VIEW_HOMEPAGE=true indicates to go to the home page rather than the catalog page

FOLDER=0 resets any filtering based on product category

TYPE= resets any filtering based on product type

It's actually even better to use this URL:

http://support.thirteen.org/site/Ecommerce?store_id=1141&VIEW_HOMEPAGE=true&FOLDER=0&TYPE=

or the relative URL

../Ecommerce?store_id=1141&VIEW_HOMEPAGE=true&FOLDER=0&TYPE=

The reason that I say that is that in general, you want to link to insecure URLs and let the Convio system redirect to secure ones if it needs to. Because the secure and insecure pages come from different domains, it's possible that the user may not have been pushed a session cookie for the secure domain if he/she has not already viewed a secure page. Using the relative URLs and/or the insecure URLs helps make sure that you don't lose a session.