Storefront setup and setting your shopping cart

Store Settings - Allows you to edit all of the settings for your shopping cart.

1 - Shipping Options Label - Enter the label for your shipping options.  This setting will be stored in the shopping cart for your customer.

2 - Offer Gift Cards in Amounts of - SiteGidget offers Gift Cards within your cart, in the amounts of $5.00, $10.00, $25.00, $50.00.

3 - Page for In-store Details - If you want to catalog Products that are only available for purchase in your 'brick and mortar' store, specifying a page here will show a link to that page on the Product's details page for the customer to follow.

4 - Page for storefront home - On Category and Product details pages, there is a 'breadcrumb trail' of links at the top which shows the heirarchy of the Category or Product, all the way back to the Storefront 'Home'. By default this is your website's homepage.

5 - 'Customer Comments' Label - Within the shopping cart checkout, you can have customers leave comments during a purchase.  This label will allow you to change the heading 'Customer Comments'.

6 - Show Customer Comments box in Order 'Checkout' page - This setting allows your shopping cart to have a customer comments box.

7 - Only accept orders from North America - Accept shopping cart orders in the United States and Canada [North America only].

8 - Enable 'Repeat Customer' login on 'Billing Details' page - This setting allows your customers to return with a username and password to review all of their billing details.

9 - Allow different 'BILL TO' and 'SHIP TO' names & addresses - When a customer places an order, you can give them the option of having their credit card billing address be different from the mailing address of your product.  We do however suggest to be very careful in this setting because of credit card fraud.  By default the system sets the credit card / shipping address to be the same.

10 - Allow only one coupon per order - SiteGIDGET shopping cart software allows you to offer coupons to your customers.  Choose to allow multiple coupon codes in one order.

11 - Enforce 'Customer Agreement' to any 'Terms/Policies' - Within the settings of your shopping cart, you will be able to offer Terms and Conditions and your Website Policies.  With this selection you will force the customer to click the check box agreeing to your Terms and Conditions and Site Policies, before they can go any further in the shopping cart. 

Take payments online - Allows you to set up payments for your storefront.

12 - Accept these credit cards - Allows you to select from Discover, American Express, MasterCard and Visa to offer on your website as payment options.

13 - Domain for secure pages - Tells the system where the secure pages for your shopping cart will be. As a customer begins the purchase process, whenever they enter private information for their billing and shipping and any credit card information, the system will redirect them to this secure page.  This page will contain the secured "SSL" to protect and encrypt their information.

14 - Paypal Email - Enter your Paypal e-mail address and the system will automatically route all orders to Paypal for you.  If you do not have a Paypal account you can also sign up for a Paypal Account here.

15 - Authorize .net API login - Enter your Authorize API login ID and transaction key. SiteGIDGET is tied directly into Authorize.net.  If you do not have an Authorize.net merchant account, sign up for the Authorize Merchant Account here.

16 - Google Checkout ID - Enter your Google ID to use Google checkout account.  If you do not have a Google checkout account, signup for one here.

17 - Payflow Pro Vendor Name - Enter your Payflow Pro vendor name, password and partner. If you do not have a Payflow Pro merchant account, sign up for one here under Paypal a BUSINESS ACCOUNT for a Paypal Payments Pro Account.

Default display of categories - This tab will help configure the way categories of products will be sorted and shown on your product pages.

18 - Number of columns - You can choose from one, two, three or four columns of products to be displayed by default.  Normally, the system sets one column as a default.

19 - Maximum products per page - This setting will allow you to choose how many products per page you would like to have by default.  Unlimited will allow you to put an unlimited amount of products onto your a page.  (Please note, if you can imagine having 100 products in a  category, this means that the customer would scroll and download 100 products on your page!).  We suggest, 10, 20 or 50 products per page at most.  SiteGIDGET will automatically set up "paging".  A navigation will appear above your listed products, allowing them to go from one page to another easily.

20 - Category shows product text - Within the categories you can show product text for all of your products.  This is done by default.

21 - Category shows 'add to cart' buttons - By default, all categories will show the 'add to cart' buttons.  You can also choose to have the customer click into the product detail page using the 'more info' button for each product.

22 - Category shows 'filter your search' links - Within all categories by default, SiteGIDGET shopping cart software will allow the customers to filter their searches just above the listed category.  This is a powerful option, because it allows the customer to go through an entire category of products faster.

Canned Messages - The shopping cart displays content in the store during checkout and after your customer orders

23 - Privacy policy - The privacy policy will be placed within the shopping cart during the purchase of any of your products.  Your customers will see that you take their privacy seriously.  We strongly suggest providing a privacy policy not just in the shopping cart but also within the website itself.

24 - Return / Shipping policy - The return and shipping policy is part of the shopping cart during the purchase of any of your products.  We also suggests providing pages on your website detailing your return and shipping policies.

25 - Terms and conditions - It will be important for you to provide terms and conditions to all of your customers when they are purchasing from your Website.  You can also ensure that every customer will read your terms and conditions by requiring that a box be checked before they can continue their purchase. This is located in the 'Site Settings' of the SiteGIDGET Application.

26 - Conversion code - The conversion code is provided by tracking services such as Google Analytics.  This will help you track marketing all the way through from the customer browsing your site to the conversion [completed purchase] of your products. There are two different text areas that you can paste into (HEAD or BODY). Which one you use depends on the instructions from the provider of the code. 

27 - Storefront badges - This tab allows you to update the SSL Certificate, Authorize and Paypal badges to be shown on your shopping cart page.  Again, this gives the customer confidence in knowing that their purchase is protected.

28 - Order messages - You can customize the messages that your customers receive after they have purchased a product from you.  Whenever you take an action using the controls provided during order management such as, selecting 'order pending a payment approval' or a 'shipped order', the customer is emailed automatically with your updated message regarding their order.

Storefront badges - This tab allows you to update the SSL Certificate, Authorize and Paypal badges to be shown on your shopping cart page.  Again, this gives the customer confidence in knowing that their purchase is protected.

29 - SSL Certificate badge - The SSL certificate is essential for any shopping cart, as it allows your customers to enter their information with confidence, and that all that they are entering is protected.  Secure socket layer (SSL), is shown to the customer within their browser as a LOCK ICON and possibly an alert that says that your information is secure.  Again, if you are running a shopping cart, this is absolutely essential. Simply enter the code for your SSL into the space provided and SiteGIDGET will automatically place this badge into your shopping cart for your customers to see during their purchases.

30 - Authorize.net badge - With Authorize, if you sign up for their merchant services, they will provide you a badge that is placed on the shopping cart, to show that you are an authorized merchant using Authorize.net.  Simply enter the code into the space provided and SiteGIDGET will automatically place this badge into your shopping cart for your customers during their purchases.

31 - Paypal Badge - Paypal also provides badges for their Payflow Pro Merchant Services as well as their standard 'Verified by Paypal'. Simply enter the code into the space provided and SiteGIDGET will automatically place this badge into your shopping cart for your customers during their purchases.

Order messages - You can customize the messages that your customers receive after they have purchased a product from you.  Whenever you take an action using the controls provided during order management such as, selecting 'order pending a payment approval' or a 'shipped order', the customer is emailed automatically with your updated message regarding their order.

32 - Product Inquiry - SiteGIDGET allows you to have products within your shopping cart that cannot be purchased online, but can be set to 'In-store Only'.  The customer will be able to submit a request for information regarding their chosen product.  You will receive an alert as a standard order, within the order management section of your shopping cart, showing you that you have received a product inquiry.  The system will automatically respond to your customer for you, provided that you enter information within the 'product inquiry' section. 

33 - Pending payment approval - When a customer goes through your shopping cart and has entered information but has not been approved or is pending approval, because you are manually authorizing their credit card, they will automatically receive a notice saying that their order is pending payment approval. Your customer will receive this alert as you change the 'Order status' within the Order Management Section.

34 - Active order (Paid) - An active order, is in order that has been paid in full.  A notice will be sent to your customer telling them that their payment has been approved. Your customer will receive this alert as you change the 'Order status' within the Order Management Section.  

35 - Order in progress - An email will be sent to your customer alerting that there order is in progress. Your customer will receive this alert as you change the 'Order status' within the Order Management Section. 

36 - Picked (Ready for shipping) - An order that is picked, is an order that has been packaged and is ready for shipping.  Your customer will receive this alert as you change the 'Order status' within the Order Management Section. 

37 - Shipped - Your customer will receive this alert as you change the settings of the 'Order status' to shipped within the Order Management Section.