Understanding Shopping Carts

1. Customers view your online catalogue
2. Customers add items to a 购物车
3. Customer proceeds to check out
4. System calculates freight 和 sales tax 和 discounts if any and determines a final price
5. Customer may enter vouchers or promo codes to reduce the final price
6. Customer enters their delivery details and any customised checkout questions
7. Customer selects method of payment, then pays through a payment gateway （如适用）
8. Merchant receives an order notification 和 payment receipt by email
9. Merchant sends the goods with a shipping docket
10. Merchant can view sales reports

How to create a new shopping cart (summary for merchants)

1. 添加一个 shopping cart page to your website.
2. If you have more than 20 products, you should create some categories.
3. 把你的所有东西都加进去 products to the catalogue, with descriptions, photos and prices.
4. Define shipping and freight calculations.
5. Define currencies and sales tax rates.
6. Define payment options for the customer, eg credit card, payment plans, online banking or pick up.

Payment Options - You provide the options for how your customers pay online.

• Credit Card - 兼容 payment gateway is required for credit card payments. Alternatively, we provide an industry standard secure form if you are able to process credit cards offline.
• Online Banking - Links to banks with your account number and a reference ID enable the customer to pay using online banking payments.
• Paypal / Paymate - These type of prepaid accounts can also be used by your customers to pay you.
• Vouchers - You can issue fixed value vouchers with expiry dates that can be used to discount a purchase or pay it completely.
• Enquiry/Invoice - The customer is posting the order as an enquiry only, and will probably require further communication before the sale is completed.
• Customer Code - If you are in business to business sales, your customers may have an account code they can use.
• You can show or hide any of these payment methods.

Catalogue / Shopping Cart Layout Customisations

• “Custom gallery” layout versus "list layout with summary text and price", plus many more layouts to choose from.
• 所有产品都可以有照片、标题、描述、代码、链接、双价、双币种、购买选项和分类。
• Plus each product can have upto 3 additional text fields, like Brand, Model, Supplier Code.
• Products can have colour swatches or dropdown, size dropdown and a third custom style/option dropdown. These options affect pricing/stock.
• Products can have unlimited additional customisation options, checkboxes, text inputs, etc that don't affect price/stock. 
• Products can have small gallery view (multiple product shots)
• Categories can be by photo or have associated text and product index introductions.
• Each product can exist in several categories.
• Categories are multi-leveled, so you can organise your products for optimum navigation ability.
• Long lists of products are broken into pages with direct page number acess and next/previous page links.
• Product search by keywords, codes and category.
• Price has multiple formats, simple sales tax inclusive price, excl/incl price, domestic/export prices, RRP discounted.
• Quantity in stock can be displayed in multiple formats or none, or be used to automatically hide products. 
• Products can be prioritised or hidden or made unavailable for purchase.
• Products in each section can be ordered by most cheapest/expensive price, title, code, random, historical, chronological order.
• Popular or similar products can be suggested during shopping process.
• Options to re-label or add graphical elements to the shopping process.

Trade Pricing / Group Member Pricing

• Trade pricing can be hidden behind a customer login
• Each product can have up to eight associated trade prices, in addition to a retail price.
• 授权客户可以被分配到某个价格组。
• 已授权用户登录时会自动显示折扣价格。
• You only need to manage one catalogue.

Bulk Purchasing

• Options for discounted pricing for Bulk Purchasing of products

Stock Levels

• Our catalogue manager can maintain your stock levels, displaying out of stock messages once sold out.
• Maintain supplier information and codes against your inventory
• Display graphs indicating approximate stock levels, without indicating actual numbers of stock you maintain.
• Customisable reorder level points for inclusion of stock items in the out of stock reports.

Checkout Customisations / Gift Cards

• Customised instructional text can be inserted in several places in the checkout process and thank you screens
• You can insert unlimited additional fields into the checkout process.. eg Gift cards, special delivery address, gift recipient name, etc
• 其他字段将自动添加到订单备注字段并存储在数据库中，并在订单的任何重印件中显示。
• Orders or Tax invoices can be generated at the checkout.
• You choose which payment options the customer can select.
• Optional voucher redemption can happen at the checkout process.. Vouchers cope with part cash payment and multiple voucher entry
• Sales tax is calculated automatically if you have entered tax rates, and is displayed clearly in the orders/invoices.

Freight and Shipping Calculation Options

• Unlimited freight destination options (eg Across town, inter-island, by country, choice of courier)
• Different fees per product type per unit
• Base fee per order
• Minimum fee per order
• Maximum fee per order
• Fee per unit
• Fee by weight (weight must be entered for all relevant product items)
• Fee by percentage of order value

Partners, Plugins and API Integrations

• Xero
• MYOB
• Unleashed
• Lightspeed
• TidyStock
• Dear Inventory
• Go Sweet Spot
• Starshipit
• 阿拉麦斯
• NZ Couriers
• Zappy (ParcelPort)

Click here to view the full list of available integrations.

What is a Payment Gateway?

Our shopping cart integrates with several payment gateways您需要使用支付网关从客户的信用卡中收款，并将款项存入您的银行账户。支付网关通常是银行或专门提供支付网关解决方案的公司。Website World 与所有网站托管服务商一样，并非银行，也不提供这些金融服务。但是，我们集成了目前最流行的支付网关。请继续阅读，了解更多关于产品目录、购物车和支付网关的信息。 payment gateways.  

View compatible payment gateways here.

 How a customer uses the shopping cart

1. Depending on your shopping cart, the customer may click a product classification link first.
2. The customer may search or browse your products
3. Click on a product title for more information
4. Click on the "buy" button to add this product to your shopping cart
5. Change the quantity and press "click update".
6. Continue shopping or...
7. Enter a destination shipping address
8. Tax and shipping charges are automatically calculated
9. Enter remaining order details and payment method
10. 订单将通过电子邮件发送给商家。
11. If the customer chose "credit card", then a secure form will appear to collect credit card details.
12. If the merchant is a World Pay customer, then the payment will be cleared immediately and both the merchant and customer will also receive a receipt email.
13. If other payment gateways/methods are used, then the merchant needs to manually check for receipt of payment before shipping goods.

How the customer pays for their order

We provide several order and payment methods, and ensure you get details of the order and customer, irrespective of a successful payment. Click here to review payment gateways in more details

How much does the Shopping Cart Software cost?

You pay us nothing extra for our shopping cart software, its free!!!  Shopping carts are included for free in most of our hosting plans. There are no special costs from our perspective for providing you with a shopping cart. There is no setup fee and there is no additional hosting fee. Please note however that the hosting plan is dependent on how many products you have. If you require training, then additional fees apply for that. If you choose to use our plugins to integrate with external software, there may be a fee for this. Please login to the CMS to view these fees in your CCY.

We do NOT charge any transaction fees when a customer makes a purchase from your website. However, your chosen bank 和/或 payment gateway may charge you a setup fee and/or monthly/annual fee and/or transaction fee 和/或 remittance fee. Expect to pay about $200 to setup in your first year, then ongoing fees of 5% of transaction value and about $40 per month. These fees will be payable to your bank and/or payment gateway.

Note: You cannot use our shopping cart software on your own server. It is not for sale. You can continue to host your website elsewhere and link to our shopping cart, but sorry, there is no financial saving to do so.