I. SuperSite
If you select this option, all purchase related links from within your and your Customers Control Panel will be re-directed to your SuperSite. Click on the links below to understand what the SuperSite is and its full potential:
Click here to see a Flash Demo introducing the SuperSite >>
Click here to see a Flash Demo on Customizing the SuperSite >>
Click here to read the SuperSite Guide >>
Click here to read how to set the Supersite >>
II. Custom URL
- If you are NOT using the SuperSite, and have instead integrated with our platform using our API, you should choose this option.
- If you select this option, you will need to specify a Custom URL (which should ideally be a URL hosted on your website), to which we will redirect you as well as all your Customers when ANY purchase link is clicked within the respective Control Panel.
- Alongwith the redirection we will also pass a querystring containing parameters that you can use on your website to show appropriate products and services. Details of the format of the query string can be provided below
Query String Format
There are two types of redirections that your Custom URL may receive.
First: Your Customers may click on a link for purchasing some Product from within their Control Panel. The querystring in this case will be - <YOUR_SPECIFIED_CUSTOM_URL>?p=<PRODUCT>&tid=<AUTHENTICATION_KEY>&r=customer
Second: Your company users, or you may click on a link for purchasing some Product from within your Control Panel. The querystring in this case will be - <YOUR_SPECIFIED_CUSTOM_URL>?p=<PRODUCT>&tid=<AUTHENTICATION_KEY>
The variables passed as query strings are explained are explained as under -
p=<PRODUCT>
This is the product which you or your Customer wants to buy. Following are the possible values of this variable:
| Product (p) |
Product Name |
| domain |
Domain Name Registration |
| bulk |
Bulk Domain Name Registration Registration |
| Product (p) |
Product Name |
| domainfwd |
Domain Forwarding |
| mailfwd |
Mail Forward |
| dns |
Managed DNS |
| Product (p) |
Product Name |
| hosting |
Web Hosting |
| email |
Email Hosting |
| Product (p) |
Product Name |
| sitebuilder |
Website Builder |
| Product (p) |
Product Name |
| engage |
Live Chat |
tid=<AuthenticationKey>
This is a randomly generated authentication key which you MUST validate to ensure that the redirection is being made by a authenticated Customer or User. This Authentication Key is valid only for a short period of time.
On the Custom URL you specified above, you must write a script to make an API call to our system to the authenticateLoginID (<authentication key>)method of the Customer class or Reseller Class in the CoreKit, depending upon whether the "r" variable is passed as a query string. You need to pass the Authentication key as parameter to the authenticateLoginID method.
The method authenticateLoginID(<authentication key>) returns the details of the user who initiated the purchase order process from within the Control Panel, if the <authentication key> matches and has not timed out. Otherwise, an authentication failure exception will be thrown.
r=customer
This is the role of the user. This variable will be passed only in the case your Customer is initiating the product purchase process from within his Control Panel.
III. Storefront
This Storefront is being deprecated and it is advisable that you begin migrating to one of the options mentioned above. If however, you select this option, then you and/or your Customers will be re-directed to the product purchase links on your Storefront from their Control Panel.
Click here to know how to setup your Storefront >>
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