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OrderAnywhere Linker

The OrderAnywhere Linker is the easiest way to add a ShopSite shopping cart to an existing Web site. It allows you to place an [Add to Cart] button next to each product in your Web site without having to re-create all your pages in ShopSite. You can use your favorite Web page creation program to create your store's pages, and then place order buttons anywhere on those pages.

If you haven't already set up your store, you may want to use the New Store Wizard and select the option to add order buttons to my existing site. This option will guide you through all the essential steps to place Add To Cart links on your existing pages and begin taking orders in ShopSite.

Note:
Watch the Order Anywhere Video Tutorial to see how easily you can add order buttons to your Web site.

With the OrderAnywhere Linker you can:

To Click and Drag Buttons

  1. Enter the names, prices, and SKUs of all the products in your store into the products database using the Add Product feature.
  2. Make sure that the program you use for creating Web pages is running.
  3. From the OrderAnywhere screen, search for the specific product you want or click on List All Products to see a list of all products in your store. See the Merchant Search help page for more information.
  4. Select one or more products from the search results and click Show Selected Links. If you want to create buttons for all of your store’s products, just click Show All Links.
  5. The resulting screen will show the [Add to Cart] and [View Cart] buttons for the products that you selected. Highlight one of the buttons with your mouse by holding the mouse button down while dragging it across the desired button. Click and drag the highlighted button from your browser window to the design window of your WYSIWYG Web page creation program. All [View Cart] buttons are the same for an entire store (unless you specified different text or images), so you only need to drag one onto your page.

To Copy and Paste HTML

  1. Enter the names, prices, and SKUs of all the products in your store into the products database using the Add Product feature.
  2. Make sure that the program you use for creating Web pages is running.
  3. From the OrderAnywhere screen, search for the specific product you want or click on List All Products to see a list of all products in your store. See the Merchant Search help page for more information.
  4. Select one or more products from the search results and click Show Selected HTML. If you want to create buttons for all of your store’s products, just click Show All HTML.
  5. The resulting screen will show the HTML for the [Add to Cart] and [View Cart] buttons for the products that you selected. Use your mouse to highlight the HTML for one button and then copy it and paste it into your Web page creation program. You can replace the button text or image with anything that you want. All [View Cart] buttons are the same for an entire store (unless you specified different text or images), so you only need to paste one onto your page.

To Manually Type OrderAnywhere Links

  1. Enter the names, prices, and SKUs of all the products in your store into the products database using the Add Product feature.
  2. On the OrderAnywhere screen, check the Use SKU instead of record number checkbox.
  3. Generate the HTML for one product by searching for a product or clicking on List All Products. See the Merchant Search help page for more information. Select a product from the search results list and clicking Show Selected HTML.
  4. The first string of HTML code on the resulting screen is for the [Add to Cart] button for that product. Select this code and copy it into your Web page creation program. You can use this code to create buttons for any product in your store by changing the &sku= value for each product.
  5. The second string of HTML code on the screen is for the [View Cart] button for the store. All [View Cart] buttons are the same for a store; they are not different for each product. Copy that string to wherever you want a [View Cart] button to appear.

To Dynamically Generate OrderAnywhere Links

  1. Enter the names, prices, and SKUs of all the products in your store into the products database using the Add Product feature.
  2. On the OrderAnywhere screen, check the Use SKU instead of record number checkbox.
  3. Generate the HTML for one product by searching for a product or clicking on List All Products. See the Merchant Search help page for more information. Select a product from the search results list and click Show Selected HTML.
  4. The first string of HTML code on the resulting screen is for the [Add to Cart] button for that product. Configure your page generation scripts to output this string wherever you need [Add to Cart] buttons, but change the &sku= value for each product.
  5. The second string of HTML code on the screen is for the [View Cart] button for the store. All [View Cart] buttons are the same for a store; they are not different for each product. Copy that string to wherever you want a [View Cart] button to appear.
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Last updated: March 01, 2010
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