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Shopping Cart Lite Instructions

The Shopping Cart Lite Module is a module that allows you to add up to 10 products to your website at any time. You can delete products and add new ones as many times as you like. With the basic package the cart method is email ordering only and does not support any online transactions. You can upgrade to the Payment Processor at any time to be able to take payments for your products automatically online.

There are 3 options within the Shopping Cart Lite Interface:

Settings: Here you can choose payment method and edit the email that is sent to customer.
Manage Products: Add, Edit, Hold, Delete Products and Control Stock levels & delivery costs.
Order Archive: Here you find all orders that have been made via the website.


1. Settings

Before you add products you must check the settings, it is here the payment method is defined for the website and the email content which is generated and sent to the customer. It also defines what email address is used to send you the notifications of an order.

It is here that you also specify which payment method you would like to offer your clients. If you have the Payment Processor installed you will see the option for Paypal. Tick the relevant box and enter your Paypal Business Email Address. We are currently working on integrating the Google Checkout which is not currently ready.


There are also options for Cheque Payments, BACS, Postal Orders and Phone. In these you can enter your personnel details which will show on the website when an order has been made to prompt payment.


2. Manage Products

Click on the Manage Products icon and hit the big ADD PRODUCT button.

The top section allows you to add the title, description which will be displayed on the website. You can also add in keywords which will be picked up in the web search. These keywords are also helpful with search engine optimisation. You can also add a more detailed description – here you can add images and format the text.

The bottom section allows you to add the price, sale price, delivery cost which will be displayed on the website.

Stock Levels
You can also enter stock values, each time an item is successfully bought the total will be deducted until it reaches 0, when this happens the item will be taken offline automatically and hidden from the website. You can log back in and add more stock levels when they become available. As soon as the stock level is above 1, the product will appear again.

Delivery Costs
The delivery cost is per item only, the Shopping Cart Lite Module does not handle any other advanced postal solution.

Multiple Images
You can add up to 5 images per product. The Image 1 is the main image and will show on the website.

Product Results
The initial results are displayed one after another and will paginate. There is a search box and cart preview which adds up the amount of items and their value.

More Information Results
The more Info button shows more details about the product, including the delivery cost, a bigger image and the product keywords which also acts as a search facility. These links are also beneficial for search engine optimisation. Here the delivery price is also displayed.

We have also added a third much larger image which is available when you click on any of the 4 extra images as well as the main larger image displayed in the more info page. There is a prompt which lets people know it can be enlarged.

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The whole screen will grey out with just the image showing - this really makes the image stand out!

Once you have added products you can easily edit or delete them. Just go back into the main Shopping Cart Lit Module and all the products will be listed, just click on the EDIT or DELETE buttons.

You can also see at a glance the amount of orders and the total of revenue this module has generated. This is Top Left – just under the Settings icon.

Editing a Product

When you choose to EDIT a product the same form opens up that you filled in when you added the product.

You can simply make amendments, upload new images and hit

SAVE CHANGES.


3. Order Archive

The Order Archive section stores all the information about every sale that has gone through the Module. The Table Titles are actual filters. If you click on Order Date –
the orders will display in Date order etc etc…

You can see the total revenue of all orders and view individual order details.



4. How the Module works inside the website.

When the module is installed the Module becomes available in the Page Content Managers – Embed Plugin drop menu bar. This will allow you to assign it to a page.

You can choose where the Module displays by moving the text

Search Facility
The Module has a search facility which will look through the products keywords and display all results that it finds.

Add to Cart
This button will add the product to the shopping basket, this will add up the total amount of all products that have been added. There is a quantity box which allows you to update the amount of products required.

 

Buy Now
This button will take you straight to the payment page. Here your clients can add in their contact and deliver details.

View Cart
This button will show you the contents of your cart. This gives your client a chance to look at what they have added to the cart before they Check Out.

View Cart
This shows your client what they are purchasing and request they fill in their contact and delivery details. The order is emailed to you and the client is shown the relevant payment option. If you have the Payment Processor installed your client will be automatically redirected to Paypal for them to make payment. You will also receive a Payment Notification from Paypal – this confirms the money has been taken.

Do not dispatch any goods unless you have received this notification from PAYPAL.

The email from Areatrade only show what the client has ordered and is in no way a confirmation that the money has been received.

 


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