Shopping Cart Screen

The Shopping Cart screen shows customers the products that they’ve ordered and the product subtotal. It also includes fields for coupons, gift certificates, surcharges, tax and shipping charges, and shows customers the total cost of the order.

Combine Same Products

Check this box to have ShopSite increment the quantity when a shopper adds a product to the cart that already exists in the cart instead of adding another line item of the same product.

Display Remove Buttons

Check this box to have ShopSite display a "Remove" button next to every product in the shopping cart. Without this button, customers can delete products by setting the Quantity to zero or by clicking the Empty Cart button.

Display Update Buttons

Check this box to have ShopSite display an "Update" button next to every product in the shopping cart.

Display How Much Customer has Saved

Check this box to have ShopSite display how much a customer has saved using Coupons and the Discount Schedule.

Use minimum quantity on an add to cart

Check this box to have ShopSite automatically increase the product quantity to meet the minimum order quantity when that product is added to the cart.

Text displayed to the shopper when using a minimum product quantity:

Enter the text ShopSite should display to notify customers that the quantity has been increased to meet the minimum quantity setting. You can have ShopSite automatically insert the appropriate values in place of the following text:

[PRODUCT] - insert the product name.
[SKU] - insert the product SKU.
[MINIMUM] - insert the product minimum quantity.

Note: These tags only work in this field and can not be used anywhere else.

Merchant Product field

Check the first box to allow ShopSite to provide a merchant field that will be submitted with a product when it is added to the cart. Check the second box when debugging to show the value of the merchant field in the cart.

Quantity Cannot Be Changed

Check this box to prevent customers from changing the quantities of products in the shopping cart. Leave this box unchecked if you want customers to be able to change product quantities.

Ordering Options Cannot Be Changed

Check this box to prevent customers from changing the order options in the shopping cart.

Ordering Options can be defined outside of ShopSite

Check this box to allow you to hand code ordering options outside of ShopSite, such as in order anywhere links. Warning: Enabling this feature to allow for custom Options may also allow malicious users to submit bogus Options and modify the Option pricing.

Customer Text Entry Cannot Be Changed

Check this box to prevent customers from changing the product text entry field after the product has been added to the cart.

Product Name

Select if you want the product name to appear as a link to the page the order came from, and whether that link should open in a new window.

Display Subproducts without Parent Name

When this is not checked, subproducts appear in the cart with this name format:

subproduct name: parent product name

This format is fine if you are using the subproduct feature for product variants, such as "500mg, 100 count: Vitamin C" However, if you are using the subproduct feature to cross-sell additional or related products, you probably don’t want the parent product name displayed. Check this box and the subproduct name will display by itself, just like all other products.

Default for the "Show me my shopping cart" checkbox

Near the top of the shopping cart page is a checkbox labeled "Show me my shopping cart every time I order something." If a customer unchecks this box, they can only get to the shopping cart page by clicking a View Cart button. Also, they will not see any change when they click an Add to Cart button unless you have enabled the mini shopping cart. This setting will be ignored if Do Not Display the "Show me my shopping cart" checkbox is checked.

Do Not Display the "Show me my shopping cart" checkbox

Check this box to not show the "Show me my shopping cart" option at the top of the shopping cart screen. Customers will see the shopping cart each time they add a product to the cart.

Display coupon button

Check this box to display the "Apply Coupon" button in the shopping cart instead of the default text: "If you have a coupon, enter the code and press recalculate." Clicking the Apply Coupon button is the same as clicking the Recalculate button.

Display gift certificate button

Check this box to display the "Redeem Certificate" button in the shopping cart instead of the default text: " If you have a gift certificate, enter the code and PIN then press recalculate." Clicking the Redeem Certificate button is the same as clicking the Recalculate button.

Display Country above Zip/Postal Code

Check this box to have the country field displayed above the zip/postal code field on the Shopping Cart screen.

Text at the Top of the Shopping Cart Screen

You can customize the text that appears on your customer's shopping cart page in this field. You can use this field to create a header for the shopping cart. You may want to give them brief instructions on how to proceed through the shopping cart as well as remind them to specify size and color for some items, or provide an explanation of tax or shipping costs (this will be where they choose which type of shipping they want.)

This field supports use of the HTML Editor.

Create an Ordering Instructions Box

If this box is checked, there will be a box on the shopping cart page for customers to enter comments about the items they are ordering. You can ask for specific information or give instructions by entering text into the "Text at the top of the Shopping Cart Screen" field. Remember that this field is not for specific instruction about a particular product, such as size or color, but for the whole group of products. Individual product options should be specified under Ordering Options in the Products section.

Surcharge text displayed to shopper

Enter descriptive text here for optional surcharges that you want to appear on the shopping cart. Use this for additional charges such as shipping C.O.D. or gift wrapping. Read the help on surcharges for more information.

Surcharge pull-down menus

Enter the choices here for your surcharge pull-down menus. Read the help on surcharges for more information.

Return to Shopping Button

Specify what function the Return to Shopping button should have. Choose between returning the customer to the last page that they ordered from, or specify the full URL of another page within your store for all customers to return to from the shopping cart screen.

Text at the Bottom of the Shopping Cart Screen

You can customize the bottom of the screen with your store's footer or include final reminders before the customer places an order

This field supports use of the HTML Editor.

Minimum amount an order can be

If you want to require orders to be over a certain amount, enter that value here. Enter just the amount, with no currency symbol or non-numeric characters. Use zero to indicate no minimum value required. Also select whether the minimum should be enforced for the product subtotal or whether it should be calculated on the order total, which includes tax, shipping, and surchages.

Text displayed to the shopper when using minimum order amount

If you are requiring a minimum order amount, enter the text here that will be displayed to customers who try to finalize an order that is less than the minimum amount.

Empty cart button return to cart

If the check box is selected, clicking on the "Empty Cart" button in the shopping cart will remove all cart content and return the shopper to the shopping cart. The shopper will need to click the "Continue Shopping" button to get back to store pages. If the check box is cleared, clicking the "Empty Cart" button will remove all cart content and return the shopper to the store pages.

Keep unfinished shopping carts

Customers in online stores often put products in a shopping cart and then go to other sites before completing the purchase. When they return to your store, they like to find that their shopping cart still contains the items that they had selected. Set this value for the number of days that you want your store to retain the old unfinished shopping carts. (Note that each old unfinished cart does take up a little disk space, so you may not want to set this value to its maximum, which is 99 days. Do not set this value to less than 1.)

If you are using Associates, this is a very important setting. If a customer comes to your store from a link on an Associate’s site and starts to shop but then leaves without completing a purchase, this setting allows the Associate to get credit if the customer returns and completes the order within the number of days that you define here.

Note:

ShopSite stores unfinished shopping carts on the ShopSite server. These unfinished carts are linked to the customer using a cookie, or if the customer's browser has cookies disabled, using the customer's IP address. ShopSite will be able to link a customer with an unfinished shopping cart only if the customer is using the same computer, and the computer has either a shopping cart cookie, or the same IP address.

Javascript added at start of built-in CheckIt function

You can insert additional JavaScript here to enhance the functionality of the CheckIt function which verifies that required fields have valid content. See Shopping Cart JavaScript Variables for a list of the built-in JavaScript variables generated by ShopSite.