How to integrate eStore shortcodes in HTML sales pages?

[trock]

We are switching from Premium Web Cart to WP eStore and how we have things set up now is that a potential customer clicks on an ad at our site and is then taken to a separate HTML sales page (non-WP) for each product and then from the sales page, when they click on the “Buy Now” button they are taken to the PWC shopping cart via an code surrounding the button.

Since eStore uses shortcodes, how would we accomplish the same result without having to recreate all our HTML sales pages as php WP pages or without having to give the potential customer an extra step of going from the sales page to a separate WP product page (1 per product) that contains the shortcode?

Thanks, Tony

[wzp]

In previous posts, I have made a suggestion on how this might be accomplished…

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/using-iframes-in-a-static-site-to-forward-to-wordpress#post-17698

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/integration-with-a-static-site#post-17124

HOWEVER, this integration option is ONLY SUGGESTED FOR THE TECHNICALLY ADEPT, and is beyond the scope of the normal support channel.

[trock]

Thank you.

[wzp]

I’d like to know if anyone ever tried the above, and if it worked…

[trock]

I looked at the HTML code generated by the eStore Buy Now button and pasted that into my HTML page and it works great

[wzp]

You realize that now I’m obligated to quote this thread, if anyone else inquires in the future, LOL.

[trock]

LOL

[rebekahzjones]

wzp,

Hi! I’ve done that too and it works great. The only problem is that it doesn’t track affiliate sales through the WP-affiliate platform. Just FYI!

~R

[wzp]

@rebekahzjones

Was it between two different domains, or was the initial page and the eStore on the same domain?

[rebekahzjones]

@wzp,

the initial page and eStore were on the same domain. I’d added the HTML code for the button, but it doesn’t capture and pass on the affiliate information. Once I switched to the actual short code, the affiliate info was passed through. I’d done HTML ’cause I’d forgotten about the option to add a different “buy button” image through the product. So that worked for me.

~R

[wzp]

Thanks for the info.

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