The shopping cart script allows
a website owner to easily sell their products and/or
services online. The information below will help you
start utilizing the shopping cart script quickly and
effectively.
Configuration Settings
You can set nearly all
configuration options on the shopping cart's configuration
page include email notification options, disclaimer, etc.
Steps:
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Login to your master admin at
www.<yourdomain>.com/cgi-bin/master/Admin.cgi
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Click on "Shopping
Cart"
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Click on
"Configuration"
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Set options
accordingly
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Setting payment options
You can allow your customers to
purchase your products or services in three different ways.
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Login to your master admin at
www.<yourdomain>.com/cgi-bin/master/Admin.cgi
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Go to "Payment
Config"
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Check the
boxes next to the payment options you want to provide
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Manual payments:
This is the payment option for your members or
shopping cart visitors can simply mail in the payments
to you.
Paypal: You can offer paypal payments using
the service located at
www.paypal.com.
You will need to have a business account which is
still typically free other than the normal transaction
fees. The downside of paypal is that your
customers also have to have a paypal account to
purchase from you which may cause you to lose sales.
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Adding products
Steps:
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Login to your master admin at
www.<yourdomain>.com/cgi-bin/master/Admin.cgi
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Click on
"Shopping Cart"
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Click on "Add
New Product" button at the bottom of the page
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Fill in the fields accordingly
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Specify product
info link pages
There are three
different options for how to handle product information pages.
Steps:
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Login to your master admin at
www.<yourdomain>.com/cgi-bin/master/Admin.cgi
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Click on
"Shopping Cart"
When adding or
editing a product, you'll see a section called "Information
Page". Under that section specify how you want the
products to be displayed from the shopping cart.
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Auto
Generated: This will automatically create the
product page. You can modify the product information
page template as well.
Click here for more info
to do that.
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URL:
If you already have custom product pages and you just want
the shopping cart to link to them, fill in the url
accordingly.
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None:
If you don't want any product links specified then click
on the "None" option.
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Creating "Buy Now"
buttons
If you want to
show specific items anywhere on your website and include a
"buy now" button you can.
Steps:
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Login to your master admin at
www.<yourdomain>.com/cgi-bin/master/Admin.cgi
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Click on
"Shopping Cart"
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Click on the
"edit" button of the product you want the buy now button
to be for
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Get the "Buy
Now" id that's automatically generated for that particular
product from the individual product page.
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Copy and paste
the sample html code below replacing the product id in the
"idx" value below.
Sample html
code:
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Modifying help
files
If you want to
provide your members with a more extensive or "modified"
version of help files you can.
Step:
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Using your
html editor on your pc, modify the following template:
help-scripts/help-shop-cart.htm
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Simply save
the file with your new design and move it over to the
server. You will want to keep your images outside of
the cgi-bin.
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Modifying templates
You can customize
any template that your website visitor sees.
Click here
to view the template customizing information.
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Linking
the shopping cart to your
website
Simply point
your shopping cart button on your website to the following url:
http://www.<yourdomain>.com/cgi-bin/shop-cart/ShopCart.cgi
Note: This url can also be found under the "Important
URL's" link on the main startup page of the master admin.
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