Passing order details to another web service

[Tiger]

Hello friendly forum folk,

This might actually be more of a question for Actinic themselves but perhaps someone else out there has already achieved the same as we're trying to.

What we're looking to do is pass details of an order (customer details and order line details) into another web service at the time of placing (i.e. when the receipt page comes up). We don't want to do this by exporting from Actinic on the desktop.

Basically, our client is looking to sell credits for a web-based application and we want the credits purchased to be passed into the customers account of that web application directly from the final stage of the checkout process.

We wonder if the contents of the session file could potentially be used in this way?

Does that all make sense?

Any and all help greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.

Angi

[clefty]

This would be tricky. The default permissions for the session file is write-only.
A 'dirty' was to do it would be to get Actinic to send a copy of the customer's receipt to your e-mail address. Depending on the web app you intent to use, it shouldn't be difficult to get the app to pick up the mail and parse it as necessary, extracting the fields you need (the e-mail receipt has a consistent format and adding a couple of anchor characters would help)

HTH