Shopping Cart

What is an ecommerce site? When might I need one?
Find out if an ecommerce site is appropriate for your organisation. [more]

Standard Online Sales Sequence
Description of the typical procedure for online sales. [more]

Setting up a Shopping Cart (printable tutorial)
This tutorial provides information on the main steps involved with seting up your own new catalogue and shopping cart, with credit card and other payment options [more]

Catalogue/Shopping Cart Layout Options
Find out the different shopping cart layouts available using the Content Management System [more]

Freight, Shipping or Delivery Fees
Find out how to charge freight. [more]

Options for colour and size (with different prices, SOH or codes)
How do I include colour choices with my shopping products as well as sizes? Or how do i give different styles a different code or stock on hand quantity? [more]

Delivery Address, Gift Message, File Upload and Checkout Customisations
If you want to modify the type of address the customer enters, or ask for a gift message, or allow them to upload a file, or add any range of custom fields to your checkout, then read on. [more]

Adding additional questions at product level
Can I add question fields for my customer to answer regarding my product? [more]

Quantity selection - allowing decimals or more than 20
If you want to remove the quantity dropdown box, in the shopping setup area, go to display options, then you can change the quantity format to be a free text field. Then users can enter 0.5 or 0.75 or 21 as valid quantities. [more]

Out of Stock, Hidden, Not for sale or Prioritised Products
Do you need to hide a product temporarily or just prevent people buying it with a message saying temporarily out of stock? Or do you want to prioritise the products on the page? [more]

How does quantity in stock reduce?
Quantity in stock reduces automatically when an order is placed. [more]

How to add Vouchers and Discounts
Here is how you add function of vouchers and discounts to your site [more]

Adding a currency converter
How to add a currency converter link to your shopping cart. [more]

What other Payment Options can I offer on my website?
Choose from the following list of payment options: [more]

What is a payment gateway and a merchant account?
This explains what a payment gateway and a merchant account is and when you might need one. [more]

Selecting the right credit card payment gateway / merchant account. NZ
Which payment gateway and merchant account is best for me? Who do i contact? information for our New Zealand clients [more]

Credit Card Payment Notifications
How do I access credit card payment notifications? [more]

Shopping Cart Transaction Messages
Here is how to create a thank you page after your customers place an order and process their credit card details. [more]

Hosted Payment Solution, or your own SSL cert?
Most payment gateways offer you to options, to implement your own checkout, or to use a hosted payment page. We suggest you use the hosted payment page. [more]

Information for Completing Merchant Account Forms
Here are the technical answers to questions you may find on the form when you setup a new merchant account [more]

Paymark Logins
If you are using Paymark for viewing your merchant transactions, please refer to these logins [more]

Order notification, but no payment notification?
If you have received an order notification, but no payment notification nor receipt, then this means the customer either not got that far, or they have changed their mind, or possibly they are short of funds. [more]

Trade Pricing / Member Pricing
Here is how to setup trade/wholesale/retail pricing options for your authorised customers [more]

How do I set up automated quoting?
Having your website automatically create a quote for your clients 24-7 is great - but how? [more]

Ordering Products Offline
What to do when customers want to order products offline. [more]

Exporting product info from MYOB
You can export your product information straight out of MYOB into the Content Management System. [more]

How to Import Products from a Spreadsheet into Your Shopping Cart
EDI - Data export and import. This advanced feature enables you to import product lists from third parties or from your accounting system. This feature is an advanced feature, intended for very technical users and is not provided with any warranty nor free support. We suggest you only attempt use on a new or trial site, and do not use without training on a site with an existing product inventory. [more]

Importing orders to my accounting system.
You can now import orders directly into the Xero accounting system to make doing GST returns much faster. [more]

Selling digital media like PDFs
Learn how to sell digital media like PDF etc [more]

How can i have a product under multiple categories
I want a product to show in more than one category [more]

Multiple Currencies
Adding different currencies [more]