Details:
Page Manager allows you to create an entire ecommerce shopping page
complete with shopping carts and integrated payment gateways. To create a Shop
Page, just select the‘Shop Page’ radio button in the ‘Change the type of the
Webpage’ page, and click ‘Submit’.
Once you click on the “Shop Page” in the “Choose the type of Webpage”. It takes
you to the choose page layout. Just click on the shop page layout that is most
appropriate to the kind of shop that you want to set up.
The Add Product page allows you to start adding the details of
each of your products that you want to sell online. All the mandatory fields are
marked by a ‘*’.
You need to fill in the details for each product that you want to display on your
Shop page separately.
The Shop Settings page allows you to set the Payment Gateway details, the
shipping options and freight rates for your online shop. When you begin to create
a shop for the first time, you will be entering this information before you actually
start creating your shop page using the Page Editor.
Payment Gateway & Shipping Fee Option:
This section allows you to choose a payment gateway and enter shipping fee
details or it displays the current payment gateway and shipping fee option that has
been previously selected by you. This is for your reference only and you may
continue with the same settings or modify them as you prefer.
Mode of Receiving Payment:
You need to select one of the available payment gateways for receiving online
payments from your customers. The available online payment gateway options
include Authorize.NET, 2Checkout, Verisign, Paypal or through Email.
Depending on your choice of payment gateway, you will be asked to enter the
relevant payment gateway parameters in the subsequent page.
If you choose 2CheckOut, then you will be prompted to enter your 2Checkout
Account Number. If you choose Authorize.NET, then you will prompted to enter
your Login ID, Transaction Key and your choice of currency. If you choose Paypal,
you will be prompted to enter your Paypal Email Address and your choice of
currency. In case you choose Verisign, you will be prompted to enter your Verisign
Login Name and the Partner’s Name. You may also choose to receive your
payment offline via email by choosing Email as your Mode of receiving payment.
Shipping Details:
You need to select one of the shipment methods from the drop down menu for
calculation of shipping charges. The options provided are ‘flat fee’, ‘flat fee &
weight fee’, ‘percentage of total order’ and ‘total weight’. Also you can select
the ‘no shipping charges’ option if you decide not to charge any shipping fee.
Unit of weight:
You need to enter the unit of weight for your product like pounds, kilograms etc.
Currency:
You need to enter the currency to be used for your shop (USD, Euro, etc.).
Tax Calculation:
Enabling this feature ‘Apply Tax’ allows you imply tax on items that are purchased
from the shopping page. Disabling the same does not allow you to imply tax on
any of the product purchased.
Once you fill in the above details and submit, the following page loads prompting
you to enter the Shipping Fee Details.
This is where you enter the actual fee for calculating the shipping charges for your
customers.
Once the shipping fee details are submitted, if the ‘Tax Calculation’ option is
enabled then this page loads prompting you to enter percentage of tax to be
added. This can be fixed at a flat rate or the same can be customized to vary
based on State or Status.
Note: Only one option can be selected.
Once you submit this detail, your shop would be all set and ready for you to create
the actual online storefront, which your customers would be visiting. You can visit
the Shop Settings page at any time in future to change your fee, currency and
freight options.
Importing data using a CSV file:
You will also be able to import data directly from a CSV (comma separated
values) file, instead of manually typing in the individual data for each product. To
do this just click on the “Import CSV file” link available on the top of the page, then
select and upload the particular CSV spreadsheet file which contains the shop
data.