Order Number in Confirmation & AuthorizeNet

I have 2 challenges with my confirm.php page and hope someone can give me some ideas:

Everything works perfect except 2 things:

1.) The order confirmation e-mail that the customer receives does sometimes have the order number included but most of the time not (it is displayed on the checkout_success page but not in the confirmation e-mail).

I do have the code for the order number in the confirmation e-mail as follows:

<?php echo ((isset($_SESSION["eCart1_OrderID"]))?$_SESSION["eCart1_OrderID"]:"")?>

And as mentioned. It sometimes works but unfortunately not all the time. I thought that this would maybe be a browser compatibility problem but was not able to see a difference among all browsers.

2.) The Order/Invoice number that is transmitted and then displayed in AuthorizeNet is different from the customers order number

I have the following value in the server behavior for authorize net for x_invoice_num which is:

<?php echo session_id(); ?>

It seems to be different from the actual order number.

Any ideas for those 2 challenges would be appreciated.

Best,
Joerg

use the session ID as the order number in both the email and in the x_invoice_num;


<?php echo session_id(); ?>



this will use the same order number in both places.

Hi Jason,

Thanks a lot for your prompt reply.

I did that and it works. However, I need to rather have the order number from the database displayed on the order confirmation as well as in authorizeNet. We can not use the session ID as an order number since it is far to long and creates problems with our order processing.

Is there a way in the authorizeNet behavior in the confirm.php page to have the order number that is created by the database transferred to authorize net rather then the session number?

Could I for example change the value in the x_invoice_num field from <?php echo session_id(); ?> to <?php eCart1_OrderID(); ?> or something like this?

Thanks,

Joerg

no, the x_invoice_num cannot use the order number session ID.

The reason for this is the order that the page processes.

First the order is sent to Authorize.net, if it is successful, the order is stored in the database, at this point the order number session is created.

the only unique value that is available at the time the orders sent to authorize.net is the session id.

OK. Understand.

But my main problem is that the order number that is created by the system and the customer sees on the confirm_success.php page is not visible in the confirmation e-mail the customer gets.

We can live with AuthorizeNet displaying the session ID. I just want to make sure that the order number that is created by the Database is actually displayed on the order confirmation e-mail.

Is the code that we have in the order confirmation e-mail correct in this regards:

<?php echo ((isset($_SESSION["eCart1_OrderID"]))?$_SESSION["eCart1_OrderID"]:"")?>

This is the code generated while originally setting up ecart and we never changed it. Strange is, that it sometimes appears on the email but most of the time it does not.

Thanks for your help,

Joerg

yes, that should be correct for the order id session. it sounds like the code may be in the wrong order on the confirm page.


make sure that the Universal Email code block is after the store order summary and store order details code blocks, it sounds like the UE code block is before those 2.

AWESOME. That was exactly what it was and after moving the UE code everything works perfect.

You guys are the best.

Thanks a lot for your help Jason.

Best,
Joerg

Excellent, glad to hear that helped.