Shopping Cart | The Payment Type window

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Shopping Cart | The Payment Type window

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The Payment Type is opened by the Add... or Edit... commands in the Payment type List in Shopping Cart | Order Management, and you can add the payment methods for the shopping cart.

The Payment Type window has the following sections:

General
Cost
Type
E-mail message
Click to expand/collapseReference: Commands in the General section

You can use these commands to add a new payment method:

Name: give the method a concise and clear name, so that you can easily identify it.
Description: you can give a complete explanation for the method.
Image: select the image to associate with the current method in the shopping cart pages.
Click to expand/collapseReference: Commands in the Cost section

You can use the commands in this section to specify the total extra costs that will apply if the customer chooses the current payment method.  This amount can be defined in one of the following ways:

Cost: you can specify the handling costs (if any) that are applied to the selected payment method.
Cost as percentage: you can specify the percentage to be applied to the total order cost to calculate the extra costs.
VAT (%): you can specify the VAT rate that is applied to the cost of the payment method. This option is available if you have set the Type as "VAT included" or "VAT excluded" as the VAT settings in Shopping Cart | Options.
Click to expand/collapseReference: Commands in the Type section

You can use the commands in this section to choose the payment method, which may be:

Pay later: the customer can send an order and pay later (for example, by bank transfer).
Pay now: the customer can send the order and pay immediately (for example, by PayPal™, or other similar circuits, or by credit card).

If you select the Pay now option, you have to define the requested Payment Type. In the Professional edition  some suggested payment systems are:

Depending on which payment system is chosen, you have to set the parameters for registered user recognition and those for managing the payment process. These parameters include:

Payment Confirmation Page: you can select the page from the website map that is to be displayed to confirm payment.
Payment Error Page: you can select the page from the website map that is to be displayed if an error occurs during payment.
Process the purchase automatically after having received the payment: only available for digital products with certain payment methods (for example, PayPal), this allows orders to be automatically fulfilled as soon as the Client’s payment is received.

If the shopping cart contains both digital and physical Products, it cannot be fulfilled automatically; you must fulfill it manually.

Sandbox enabled (Test mode): if the chosen payment system includes this parameter, it is possible to publish the website online in test mode, to check that both the purchasing and payment procedures work correctly.

Finally, if  a different payment system from the ones suggested is used, you must set the Custom Code option as Payment Type. You should receive an HTML code from the service provider when you register, and this must be entered in the HTML Code for 'Pay Now' Button field.

The HTML code from the payment service provider is used to create the "Pay now" button, and it must include the ordered article's code and its price. You have to enter the following tags manually in the code, otherwise the shopping cart will not work correctly:

[ORDER_NO] - the order number is entered here;
[PRICE] - the price is entered here.
Click to expand/collapseReference: Commands in the E-mail message section

You can write a message in the field in this section that describes and explains the selected payment method. This message will be included in the order confirmation e-mail that is sent to the customer.

 


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