How to pre-select products, campaign codes, and custom attributes for a customer, i.e. adding them to the cart as part of linking or redirecting the customer to Atomia Order Website.
Overview
Atomia Order Website supports adding pre-selected properties to the cart as part of linking or redirecting the customer to Atomia Order Website. You can also link directly to a domain search. This can be done e.g. from a marketing site or an email newsletter.
Adding one or more products with optional campaign code to the cart or adding custom attributes can be done by sending a form with a POST request. Adding a campaign code can be done by using a POST request or a special link.
Limited Validation
There is limited direct validation in using these forms, and when validation fails it does so silently by ignoring the invalid field and not adding anything to the cart. It’s done like this to keep the use of these forms simple and to let an end user continue with adding products manually in case anything goes wrong.
This means that you need to be careful to add the correct values. For example, article numbers for products must exist and renewal periods must be available for a particular article number.
Be extra careful when adding custom attributes since they are not validated at all, e.g. a DomainName attribute on a domain registration product will be checked neither for correctness nor availability.
Adding a Single Product
Adding a single product is done by a POST request with the following form fields:
- ArticleNumber – Required.
- RenewalPeriod – Required depending on product. Format is [1-9]-(MONTH|YEAR), e.g. 1-MONTH.
- Quantity – Optional, defaults to 1.
- Campaign – Optional, campaign code.
- Next – Optional URL for where redirect should go after product has been added, e.g. /Account. Default is start of order flow.
- CustomAttributes – Optional, one or more. Needs to be indexed. See example below.
- CartCustomAttributes – Optional, one or more. Needs to be indexed. See example below.
The following is an example of a hidden form adding a product with two custom attributes, a campaign code, and next redirect URL:
<form action="https://store.example.com/Select" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="ArticleNumber" value="HST-GLDY" />
<input type="hidden" name="RenewalPeriod" value="1-YEAR" />
<input type="hidden" name="CustomAttributes[0].Name" value="Foo" />
<input type="hidden" name="CustomAttributes[0].Value" value="Bar">
<input type="hidden" name="CustomAttributes[1].Name" value="Fizz" />
<input type="hidden" name="CustomAttributes[1].Value" value="Buzz">
<input type="hidden" name="CartCustomAttributes[0].Name" value="ReferralCode" />
<input type="hidden" name="CartCustomAttributes[0].Value" value="FooBar">
<input type="hidden" name="Campaign" value="SUMMER-2015" />
<input type="hidden" name="Next" value="/Account" />
<button type="submit">Gold Package</button>
</form>
Adding Multiple Products
Adding multiple products is done similarly to how a single product is added, with the addition of indexing for each added product. This works the same as for custom attributes. See the following example and note that the action is /Select/Multi in this case.
<form action="https://store.example.com/Select/Multi" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="Items[0].ArticleNumber" value="HST-GLDY" />
<input type="hidden" name="Items[0].RenewalPeriod" value="1-YEAR" />
<input type="hidden" name="Items[0].CustomAttributes[0].Name" value="Foo" />
<input type="hidden" name="Items[0].CustomAttributes[0].Value" value="Bar">
<input type="hidden" name="Items[1].ArticleNumber" value="XSV-MYADDON" />
<input type="hidden" name="Items[1].RenewalPeriod" value="1-YEAR" />
<input type="hidden" name="Items[1].CustomAttributes[0].Name" value="Fizz" />
<input type="hidden" name="Items[1].CustomAttributes[0].Value" value="Buzz">
<input type="hidden" name="CartCustomAttributes[0].Name" value="ReferralCode" />
<input type="hidden" name="CartCustomAttributes[0].Value" value="FooBar">
<input type="hidden" name="Campaign" value="SUMMER-2015" />
<input type="hidden" name="Next" value="/Account" />
<button type="submit">Gold Package with MyAddon</button>
</form>
Adding Only a Campaign Code
If you want to add just a campaign code you can do this either by POST request like the product examples. Note the /Select/Campaign action:
<form action="https://store.example.com/Select/Campaign" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="Campaign" value="SUMMER-2015" />
<input type="hidden" name="Next" value="/Account" />
<button type="submit">Summer campaign</button>
</form>
You can optionally use a nicely formatted regular link on the form /Campaign/{campaign}, e.g. <a href="https://store.example.com/Campaign/SUMMER-2015">Summer campaign</a>
Here you can also use the optional Next: <a href="https://store.example.com/Campaign/SUMMER-2015?Next=/Domains">Summer campaign</a>
Adding Only Cart Custom Attributes
If you want to add cart custom attributes only (and optional campaign code) you can do this by a POST request without any products. E.g. for setting a referral code, it would be done as follows (note the /Select/Attrs action):
<form action="https://store.example.com/Select/Attrs" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="CartCustomAttributes[0].Name" value="ReferralCode" />
<input type="hidden" name="CartCustomAttributes[0].Value" value="FooBar">
<input type="hidden" name="Campaign" value="WINTER-2015" />
<input type="hidden" name="Next" value="/Account" />
<button type="submit">Order now!</button>
</form>
Linking to a Domain Search
Since domain name registration requires a lot of validation checks it is not recommended to add such products directly to the customers cart. Instead you can use a link or form that will start a search for the customer for a particular query.
Use a link like this: <a href="https://store.example.com/Domains?query=foobar">Find foobar.com</a>
Or a form like this:
<form action="https://store.example.com/Domains" method="get"> <input type="text" name="Query" value="" /> <button type="submit">Search</button> </form>
This will start a domain search query on the /Domains page.