Passing a persistent ID through AbleCommerce

[CASE]

We are using AbleCommerce essentially as a payment processor for services, where we pass in a product ID directly to a shopping cart, process the order, and then need to get a response from AbleCommerce to a the application that provides the services (that resides on a different domain from AbleCommerce installation) that this particular order is complete and paid for.

We have set up a ‘confirmation’ page on our application that will take an order ID and set the appropriate permissions in its database to allow the service to move forward after payment is confirmed.

This implies that we can pass an order ID into AbleCommerce that will be maintained throughout the payment process and upon success, AbleCommerce will make the call back to the confirmation URI on our application with the same order ID so we know that particular order should be updated with successful payment.

Is there a mechanism for passing a persistent ID through AbleCommerce that will achieve this?

Thanks!

[mazhar]

You can either create some webservice for this purpose or directly pass id through query string parameter via direct links. For example here is a topic about passing product id in URL from external entity and add it to cart
http://wiki.ablecommerce.com/index.php/ ... nal_entity

[CASE]

Thank you very much. We need to pass multiple products at the same time (basically, we have a form that allows the user to select items for purchase, and those items need to be pushed to the cart at the same time. It sounds like this is something that needs to be customized and doesn't come out of the box with Able Commerce?