22 Setting up the Shopping Cart
This part of the documentation takes you through the main Shopping Cart settings giving you some useful pointers on what to pay attention to as you set things up.
Below is a quick overview of the steps needed to set-up the theme’s shopping cart
- Select shopping cart mode
- Select payment gatways
- Select shipping calculation option
- Select delivery variations
- Customize order confirmation emails and PDF/HTML invoice
Please visit your settings under Shop Settings > General > Activate Main Shop Functionalities – Activate Shop mode (“Theme Options > Shop > General – Shop mode” in theme versions < 2.0)
Enquiry email mode
If you want the contents of the shopping cart to be collected and sent to you as an enquiry email instead of sending your customers to a payment gateway use the “Enquiry email mode”.
The
checkout steps are exactly as in the
“Regular Shop mode” Coming up in version 2.0 An optional setting can “shorten” this mode by hiding the default “Checkout Step 1″ (Selecting Delivery and Payment Options) as well as hide all price related information such as “Item Price”, “Item Total”, “Order Subtotal” etc.
Affiliate mode
This mode will transform your shop to one selling ONLY affiliate products.
Note: If you plan on selling your own products as well as affiliate products leave the
“Regular Shop mode” on and just add the additional
custom field required for affiliate products
PayLoadz mode
This mode will redirect your customers to PayLoadz for handling (payment and downloading) your digital goods.
This mode can be used if you sell ONLY digital items!
Activating your Payment Gateways
Please visit your settings under Payment Gateway Settings (“Theme Options > Shop > General – Delivery & Payment Settings” in theme versions < 2.0)
On site! Accept Credit Cards directly on your Website – for US, Canada and UK Merchants only!
Notes on setting it up.
To use PayPal: You must register a Business or Premier account with them. To use Authorize.net and/or WorldPay: You will need to register on their corresponding websites. They will provide you with the necessary data needed in your settings.
SSL is required only when accepting PayPal Pro and Authorize.net payments. All other payment gateways, including PayPal Payments Standard can be used without SSL as the actual transaction takes place on the payment gateway site.
Also worth mentioning is that each Payment Gateway allows you to set a payment surcharge.
Bank Transfer
Customers are given the Bank details where they can transfer their Order Total.
Payment on Location
Customers are given the Shop’s location (and a Google map) so they can come to collect their order and pay you (the Merchant) directly.
Cash on Delivery
Customers are given the details of the delivery service you use
Check Payments
Coming up in version 2.0. Customers are given your check details to fill out and send.
Whichever Payment Gateway you choose, make sure you test thoroughly, test early, and test often! This is preferably done at the very beginning of setting up the site using the dummy xml content you are provided with. This way should any problems/bugs come up during testing these can be resolved through our support long before any deadlines!
Selecting your Shipping Calculation Method
Please visit your settings under Shipping > General (“Theme Options > Shop > Shipping” in theme versions < 2.0)
In addition to what you see below, note please that with version 2.0, you have the possibility to define a shipping fee on a per product basis as well as offer unique shipping per category i.e. unique shipping (e.g. free shipping) for products based on the category they belong in. Both options override the global shipping calculation method you set from your admin.
The 10 different shipping calculation options offered can be divided into 4 types based on the order:
Total Weight
- WEIGHT FLAT : a set fee amount per kilogramm or pound. What actually happens: The Order Total Weight is multiplied by the fee you set, to determine the shipping fee.
- WEIGHT CLASS : a different fee amount applied to classes of Order Total Weights. What actually happens: The Order Total Weight is checked against a list of “weight classes” and the corresponding “class” fee, you set, determines the shipping fee.
- WEIGHT CLASS LIMIT : Coming up in version 2.0 a different fee amount applied to classes of Order Total Weights with the addition of an Order Value Limit. What actually happens: The Order Total Weight is checked against a list of “weight classes” and the corresponding “class” fee, you set, determines the shipping fee. However, if the Order Subtotal is equal to or more than a certain price limit you define; the shipping fee will be a set fee you determine.
Price Subtotal
- PRICE CLASS : Coming up in version 2.0 a different fee amount applied to classes of Order Subtotals. What actually happens: The Order Subtotal is checked against a list of “price classes” and the corresponding “class fee”, you set, determines the shipping fee.
- PERCENTAGE LIMIT : Coming up in version 2.0 a percentage-based fee applied to the Order Subtotal w/ a maximum fee amount to a set limit What actually happens: The percentage fee you set is applied to the Order Subtotal to determine the shipping fee. However, if the Order Subtotal is equal to or more than a certain price limit you define; the shipping fee will be a set fee you determine.
Total Number of Items
- PER ITEM : a fee applied according to the Number of Items in the Order. What actually happens: The Total Number of Items in the Order is multiplied by a fee you set, to determine the shipping fee.
- ITEM CLASS : Coming up in version 2.0 a different fee amount applied to classes of Total Number of Items in the Order. What actually happens: The Total Number of Items in the Order is checked against a list of “item number classes” and the corresponding “class” fee, you set, determines the shipping fee.
- ITEM LIMIT : Coming up in version 2.0 a fee applied to the first item in the order and a subsequent fee applied to every additional item. What actually happens: You set two shipping fees. The first Item in the Order “falls” under the first shipping fee. The remaining number of items is multiplied by the second fee. The two amounts are added together to determine the final shipping fee for the entire order.
Miscellaneous
- FREE : what it says. Shipping is free regardless of item number, price or weight
- FLAT : a set fee applied to the entire order regardless of item number, price or weight.
- FLAT LIMIT : a set fee applied to the order regardless of item number, price or weight however when the Order Price Subtotal is equal to or more than a certain amount you define, shipping is free
- DIMENSIONS CLASS : Coming up in version 2.0 a different fee amount applied to “classes of item dimensions” which also takes into account the number of items in each class. What actually happens: Each product in the Order is checked against the “dimensions” classes you set. You set two shipping fees. The first fee will apply to the first item that matches the “dimension” class and the second fee will apply to every additional item found for the same “dimension” class.
Selecting your Delivery Variations
Coming up in version 2.0 Please visit your settings under Shop Settings > Delivery & Payment (“Theme Options > Shop > General – Shop mode” in theme versions < 2.0)
Theme settings allow you to customize the text that will display for each option as well as decide whether a surcharge should apply when customers select this type of delivery.
Standard Delivery
Regular Delivery and usually the most economical service.
2 Day Delivery
Rush Delivery which usually costs more than the Standard Delivery.
Next Day Delivery
Priority Delivery. The most expedited delivery and possibly the one with the highest cost(?)
Pick-up
The customer will collect his order from the shop. A map to the shop’s location will display on the confirmation page when this delivery option was selected.
International Delivery
If you want to ship internationally you can assign the countries you deliver into “country zones”. After that, you can set the shipping charges (see “Selecting your Shipping Calculation Method“) to be applied to each international delivery zone.
Digital / Email Delivery
Digital products are, by default,“delivered” directly on the confirmation page (“instant download”) after a successful transaction has been completed. In the case of pending transactions, you have the possibility to send the download link by email after the transaction has been cleared.
If you do not want your digital products to be delivered immediately on the confirmation page, you will want to activate the “Email” delivery option.
Please note that unlike with the other delivery options, your visitors are not given the option to choose between “instant download” or “email delivery”. This is a decision that the admin makes according to the type and nature of the digital products he sells.
The digital delivery option (“instant download” / “email delivery”) will apply to all digital products in the shop.
The Order Confirmation, Shipping-Notification Emails and Other Communication
The script will send out the following emails when the action requires it.
Notification Emails sent to merchant
- New Order
- New Pending Payment Order
- Cleared Pending Transaction
- New Enquiry
- Low Stock
- Low License Keys
- New Registered Member
Emails sent to Customers
- Order Confirmation
- Shipping Notification
- Inquiry Confirmation
- New Member Welcome
- Password Reset
Other
Printable Invoice document that your customers will receive on the order confirmation page. In PDF format for languages using the
ISO 8859-1 characterset and in HTML format for all other languages.
Don’t forget to configure your settings under Theme Options > Shop > PDF / HTML Invoices!
You can of course
edit / rewrite / translate the email body-text entirely! Please don’t forget to visit your options under
Theme Options > Shop > Emails to configure some additional settings
Some frequently asked questions include:
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