Argus

Article Topics: Billers, Cross Sales, One Click Systems

Signing up at Argus

If you are interested in using Argus as a third-party processor please contact them directly: URL: https://www.inoviopay.com/

Setting up at Argus

When setting up at Argus, you will need to set up your postback urls to which Argus will post transactions:

https://<linkdomain>/signup/process_argus.php

You will need to replace <linkdomain> with the linkdomain of your site.

Setting up in Nats

Billers Admin

Go to the Billers Admin, select Argus Payments. from the drop-down, and click Add. Enter your Gateway Login and Gateway Password that was provided by Argus. Note: Argus will need to be added to a cascade before it can be used.

When setting up Argus in your cascades, you can choose the processing type to be used in the cascade step by selecting it from the drop-down menu. Argus currently supports the following processing types:

• Credit Cards

Sites Admin

Go to the Sites Admin and the "Edit" button next to the default tour of the site you would like to configure. In the "Billers Details" section will find the following fields for Argus:

• Site ID (required)

• Merchant Account ID

• Client ID (required)

Next, Edit (or create) the option(s) you want to use with Argus. You will see the following list of available option fields (all preceded by Argus id:#):

• Product ID (required) - the Product ID provided to you by Argus to identify this option.

• Upgrade Product ID: - the Upgrade Product ID for this option, required if you would like this members to be able to upgrade with this option.

• Currency: - the currency that this join option should be billed in.

• Count - The number of items associated with this option.

• CVV Check - Enabling this option requires a CVV check to be made for processing transactions.

• AVS Check - Enabling this option requires a AVS check to be made for processing transactions.

• Dynamic Descriptor - This is the description that appears on the bank statement of the customer.

This option setup may also require rules to be setup. You can do so with the purple arrows next to the option row.

Cross Sales

Go to the Cross Sales Admin, click incoming or outgoing cross sales from the navigation tabs (depending on whether you are sending or receiving the cross sale).

For Incoming Cross Sales, go to the Incoming Cross sales section. Add Argus from the biller drop down. Fill in the the following options for the cross sale:

• Initial Days

• Initial Dollar

• Recurring Days

• Recurring Dollar

• Product ID (required)

• Count

• Currency

• Upgrade Product ID

You will also want to select the site and program that you want to associate with this cross sale once you have entered in the "Data" fields. Please note that incoming cross sales with Argus will be processed within 20 seconds of the primary sale and so they may not show up immediately in the Members Admin.

For Outgoing Cross Sales, go to the Outgoing Cross Sales section. Add Argus from the biller drop down. Also in this section you will fill in the following: Title , Description, and Disclaimer for this cross sale. In the Biller Info you will fill out the data for the receiving end (the person you are doing cross sales with will provide this information for you). Fill in Gateway Login, Gateway Password, Site ID, Merchant Account, Product ID, Ref Code, Domain and HTTPS Post.

There is also an option to choose 'Recalculate Ref Code'. This will cause NATS to attribute credit for the cross sell to the referring affiliate over the affiliate whose Ref Code was entered in the 'Ref Code' field. In order for this to take effect, the referring affiliate must be enabled in a cross-sell program, which means that the cross sale must be coming from your own NATS installation.

Upgrade Plus

There is an additional account setting in Argus called "client_multi_mbshp_support," which allows multiple concurrent memberships for a single member in their system. To use Upgrade Plus with Argus, you will need to ensure that Argus has enabled this account setting.

Alternatively, the setting can be disabled, but you must then do the following:

• Configure a new product ID in Argus for the full price point, then input the new price point's Product ID in the 'Upgrade Product ID' in your original NATS trial option.

Expire Padding

You can configure NATS to allow for extra time for rebills to come in for Argus members.

Further details can be found on the "Member Expire Pad" page.

Additional Support

If you have any further questions regarding the setup of in NATS v4, please put in a support ticket.