Shopping Cart

Clients who wish to build their own catalogs on their site can choose to use the Shopping Cart feature with the billing service. After setting up the Shopping Cart, you will need to paste at least two system-generated codes on your site — one for the Cart Status (generated at the end of this page) and one for the add-to-cart Button Code (generated when you add the product on the Catalog Builder option on the navigator bar after this setup).

To set up the Shopping Cart:

  1. Select the Shopping Cart link from the navigation bar.

  2. Edit Site Header:

  1. Complete the Choose Color Theme section by selecting the radio button under the theme that you wish to use. You may preview a larger version of the themes by hovering your mouse pointer over the image161.gif icon at the lower-right of the thumbnail for the theme.

  1. Complete the Return URL section by entering in the URL of your home page for your site. Be sure to use full URLs, including any prefixes such as http://, https://, etc...

  1. You may choose to have the Download Manager embedded in the receipt that your consumer receives after purchase, or you may choose to have the receipt present a link to the download manager by selecting the appropriate radio button in the Choose Receipt Page Layout section (Java 1.5 or higher is required for Download Manager functionality).

  1. Save your choices by clicking the green Save Settings button.

 

 

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Page Options

The four buttons at the bottom of the page allow you to do the following:

WarningIcons.gifYou must save your settings before jumping to custom emails. If you do not, all changes will be lost.

 

 

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Status Code

For the cart to work properly, you must generate a Status Code after saving your settings and paste this code into your catalog.

  1. At the bottom of the Shopping Cart page, click Generate Status Code.

  2. Copy the Status Code and paste it into the source file of your catalog.