Pageville Shopping Cart for Cool Page

What's a SHOPPING CART?

HOW does it WORK?

STEP 1

While editing your website in Cool Page, open the E-Commerce in the Objects window. (Ctrl+Alt+O toggles the Objects window on/off) Drag the Add to Order button onto your web page. You will be prompted to enter the following information: Item ID, Description, Price, Shipping Measure, Max Qty Decimals, and Image. This is the information you will need to have ready when you want to set up items to sell with your shopping cart. All of these fields are defined in the Reference Section that follows.

STEP 2

Most shopping pages have at least one Checkout button. Drag and drop this button onto your page. Checkout allows customers to review their order and select from your payment options. Payment options are set up on your shopping cart administration page. Pageville's shopping cart uses a secure server to transfer your customers' payment information, so you don't have to worry about protecting this sensitive data.

STEP 3

The final step with a shopping cart is getting the order to you, the merchant, and sending an order confirmation to the customer. The Pageville Shopping cart collects all the data you need to accurately fill your customers' orders. Orders can be downloaded from a password-protected web page from any computer with Internet access. If desired, the Pageville shopping cart can send the merchant an e-mail every time a new order is received. An order confirmation is sent to the customer to assure them that their order has been placed, and to provide any additional information. This customer e-mail can be customized by the merchant.

Shopping carts don't get much easier than this. Try it out and see what a Pageville Shopping Cart can do for you!

REFERENCE SECTION

ADD TO ORDER Button

Item ID: The letters and/or numbers that you use to identify your product. Use letters, numbers and dashes (hyphens) only. No spaces permitted. For example, if you were selling furniture, your item ID might be CHutch-2D.

Description: The name of the product as it should appear in the shopping cart. To continue the above example, your description would be Corner Hutch with Two Doors.

Price: The price before any taxes or shipping. Tax and shipping charges are set up using the administration page. When you purchase a Pageville Shopping Cart site, you will receive instructions on how to access your administration page.

Shipping Options

Shipping Amount: Enter an amount if additional shipping charges apply to this product. This amount is product specific. If a flat shipping charge is used for this product, then enter 0 (zero) for Shipping Measure. Enter values for both Shipping Amount and Shipping Measure if the normal shipping charge also applies. "Shipping Amount" will not show if Product Specific Shipping Charges is set to No (set using administration page on your web site).

Shipping Unit: The weight (or other measurement) of the product used to calculate the shipping charges. The default unit of measure is ounce. "Shipping Unit" will not show if Shipping Unit is set to Currency or None (set using administration page on your web site).

The units of measurement for a Pageville shopping cart site can be currency, weight (Lbs, Oz, KG or Grams), other, or none.

Shipping Measure: The Shipping Measure is the total weight of the item, if a weight is used to determine the shipping price to be added to the order.

Shipping Method: The Shipping Method is set using your administration page. The methods could be UPS, UPS Red, Post Office, FedEx, or any other up to a total of 6 choices. These are the choices that would be offered to your customers in the Check Out process. The shopping cart allows you to enter a Fixed Extra Amount for premium shipping services.

Max Qty Decimal: The MaxQtyDecimal applies if partial units of measurement are available for this product (i.e. 2.33 meters, 1.5 gallons). The value designates the number of digits to the right of the decimal point. Default is zero.

Image Style: This allows you to select from the Pageville shopping images (buttons) that are on your PC.

Image: This allows you to select any image stored on your PC to be used as a shopping button.

Checkout Target: This is the browser used when the "Add To Order" button is clicked. Choices are:

• Self - Review and checkout is in same browser window as the "Add To Order" button.
• New - A new browser window is opened.
• Frame Cell - This should only be used when using frames. Then it goes to the specified row and column.

Return Target: This is the browser used when returning from the review, checkout and payment process. Choices are:

• Self - Review and checkout is in same browser window as the "Add To Order" button.
• New - A new browser window is opened.
• Frame Cell - This should only be used when using frames. Then it goes to the specified row and column.

CHECKOUT Button

This button will allow the customer to proceed to the Review and Checkout page if one or more items have been placed into the shopping cart with the Add To Order button(s). Normally the Checkout buttons are placed on each shopping page at the top and/or bottom of the page.

The Review and Checkout page displays the ordered items, along with tax and shipping charges as defined by the merchant. This page continues on to the customer's payment options.

Image Style: This allows you to select from the Pageville shopping images (buttons) that are on your PC.

Image: This allows you to select any image stored on your PC to be used as a shopping button.

Checkout Target: This is the browser used when the "Checkout" button is clicked. Choices are:

• Self - Review and checkout is in same browser window as the "Checkout" button.
• New - A new browser window is opened.
• Frame Cell - This should only be used when using frames. Then it goes to the specified row and column.

Return Target: This is the browser used when returning from the review, checkout and payment process. Choices are:

• Self - Review and checkout is in same browser window as the "Checkout" button.
• New - A new browser window is opened.
• Frame Cell - This should only be used when using frames. Then it goes to the specified row and column.

The Pageville Shopping Cart allows you to easily add attributes for each of the items you sell. For example, if you are selling shirts, your attributes might be size, color, and pattern. You will still have a single "Add To Order" button on your web page. When it is clicked, a selection window will open with a drop down selection list for each attribute.

You must enable attributes in the Plugin within Cool Page. Under Attributes, select 1, 2 or 3 and click on OK and then reload the button you are editing. You will then have 1, 2 or 3 attributes having title and option fields. The options are to be separated by vertical bars, |. Example input:

You can set up one or more Predefined Attributes. To use, just select one and click on 1, 2 or 3 to apply to attribute 1, 2 or 3. You can vary the options for an item by editing the option for that item. If you revise the options for a Predefined Attribute, we do not automatically update your items. To update an item you must select it, select the Predefined Attribute, click on apply and then on OK.

Use Preferences | Attributes to insert and modify predefined preferences.

NOTE: You must be using a version of Cool Page that supports GetPersistentString() in order to use PREDEFINED Attributes.

Shopping Cart ADMINISTRATION

The administration page allows the merchant to control shopping cart options such as sales tax, shipping charges, merchant information, product attributes, page design, and advanced functions (Currency Settings). Also get your buyers' credit card information using a secure browser link. Go to cp.pageville.com/coolpage/shop-admin.html

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