The ppSD2 shopping cart is designed to handle all sales, whether they are being placed through the cart catalog, user registration, or during event registration.

• Catalog of Products
• http://www.yoursite.com/ppSD2/catalog.php
• View Active Cart
• http://www.yoursite.com/ppSD2/cart.php

Cart Settings

• "Settings > Payment Gateways"

Select Your Gateway

Select the merchant gateway that you use to process transactions. Once selected, your gateway's requirements will appear. Input the requested information and save your changes.

Gateway Fees

For your reference only, this allows you to set up per-transaction gateway fees and have those reflected in the stats throughout the control panel.

Currency

Select the currency you do business in.

Tax Classes (Taxes)

You can establish tax classes and assign them to products through this section. Each tax class can have it's own rate and a specific region in which the user must reside for the fees to be applicable.

Loophole Credit Card

For testing purposes, this allows you to set up a 16-digit "loop hole" credit card number, which when inputted during purchase, will always result in a successful transaction.

Terms and Conditions

See the section below named "Terms and Conditions".

Shipping Rules

If you are selling physical products, you can establish your shipping options in this section. For more intricate shipping rules, click on "Click here to establish special shipping rules." These rules allow you to accommodate things like cart weight, shipping regions, total items in the cart, rules for specific products, and even whether a saving codes was used (useful if you want to offer free shipping savings codes).

Additional Options and Settings

Additional cart options can be customized from "Settings", expand the "Billing & Cart Related Options" section.

Administration

Managing Orders

• "Shopping Cart > List all orders"
• Click on "Show Filters" to filter the list.

Use the "Unorganized Billing Logs" to view orders containing specific products:

http://www.yoursite.com/ppSD2/admin/index.php?l=billing_logs_unorganized

From there click on "Show Filter [+]" to filter the list.

Managing Subscriptions

• "Shopping Cart > List Subscriptions"
• Click on "Show Filters" to filter the list.

Managing Credit Cards

Both of the following locations will allow you to delete and edit a credit card.

• Viewing all credit cards on file:
• "Shopping Cart > List Subscriptions" > "Credit Cards"
• This screen will show you whether a subscription is associated with the card and whether it is expired or will soon expire.
• Viewing a specific user's credit card:
• From the "User Management Screen" click on "View Credit Card".

Statistics

You can view Growth Charts from "Statistics > Growth Charts".

You can view a calendar of daily sales from "Statistics > Calendar View".

Creating an Online Shop

If the feature is turned on, ppSD2 will automatically generate your shopping cart for you.

Creating Categories

You can create categories and then add products to those categories from "Shopping Cart > Add a Cart Category".

Creating Products

Please click here for more information.

Payment Links

A payment link allows a user to directly add a product into his/her shopping cart. You can manually create payment links as follows:

http://www.yoursite.com/ppSD2/cart.php?action=add&id=product_id

Note: Replace "product_id" with the product's actual ID, found at "Shopping Cart > List Products"

If a user is logged in, the sale will always be credited to the account that he/she is logged into. However you can also force the program to credit a specific username with a sale using the following link format:

http://www.yoursite.com/ppSD2/cart.php?action=add&id=product_id&username=username

Note: Replace "username" with the user's actual username.

The above method is often used on outgoing e-mails when you aren't certain if the user is logged into his/her account or not. On an email, you would type the following:

http://www.yoursite.com/ppSD2/cart.php?action=add&id=product_id&username=Guest

Package Links

You can add multiple products to a cart at once using a "package" link as follows:

http://www.yoursite.com/ppSD2/cart.php?action=package&id=[product_id1:qty1],[product_id2,qty2]

Example

This example will add quantity "2" of product ID "10" and quantity "1" of product ID "42". Product IDs can be found at "Shopping Cart > List Products".

http://www.yoursite.com/ppSD2/cart.php?action=package&id=10:2,42:1

Terms and Conditions

If you wish to require that users agree to cart terms and conditions before purchasing, do the following:

• "SETTINGS > PAYMENT GATEWAYS"
• Scroll down to the "Edit Cart Terms and Conditions" section and input your terms and conditions.
• We recommend using full HTML in your terms!

Last updated on 4 August 2011 6:58pm