ShopPlus Overview
Global
Tax
CARTTAX is the easiest one of them all. You can have an
unlimited number of tax rates, based on percentage of the order subtotal. For
example, let's again assume you have purchased $90.00 worth of merchandise
(that's subtotal before tax and shipping). If the tax rate is 10%, then your
total tax costs equal to $10.00 (10% * $100). Tax is only calculated for taxable
products (defined with each product).
When building an online store, you must think about an
entire ordering procedure or shopping flow that you have to give to your site.
You must decide how products are ordered, where your customers are taken after
items are added to their order and what they see or don't see as a consequence,
how they can finalize their order, where and how to ask for them to choose
shipping and tax, etc...
To allow for creativity and put the full
control of your store in your hands, we have created "actions" and
"variables". As a result, each link or "submit" button can
accomplish a different task and go to a different page which displays different
things.
Actions
Each submit
button or link that you put in your store can have a different action or set of
actions associated with it to accomplish different tasks (if desired). Actions
can add purchases to orders, review items purchased, make changes to the order,
clear the entire order, or submit orders to you (with or without Cybercash
integration).
Files
Each
submit button or link that you put in your store can have different actions but
can also can also take you to different pages in any frame, and accomplish any
task (if desired). File allows you to specify which html (or htm) page to go to.
Variables
On some pages, you
might want to show your customer his or her order. Since we wanted to give full
customization of your store and the way you show the order, we have created
variables and a tag that you can use freely on any page. Each variable is
subsituted by its value when the page is requested. Some variables are
associated with each item ordered, others are associated with your store.
Orders
Since e-mailing
incoming orders to the merchant (you) is not secure because email is not a
secure protocol, all orders are stored in a file in a directory inside your
secure directory (the ssl directory). Each day, a new file is created and all
incoming orders from that day are immediately stored in that file according to
an "orders template page" that you specify. You can access that
directory through the secure server to view your orders at anytime. You can then
choose to print the orders or save the viewed pages on your computer. Since you
have access to the secure directory through FTP, you can delete these files
using FTP when you wish. IT IS STRONGLY RECOMENDED NEVER TO DOWNLOAD THESE ORDER
FILES THROUGH FTP SINCE FTP IS NOT A SECURE PROTOCOL.
The ShopPlus can
also be configured to email you a notification that an order has been placed.