Easy to follow Shopsite Tutorials that guide you through how to manage Shopsite's Commerce settings. within the shopping cart. Each of these Shopsite tutorials is 'image driven' with a small amount of instructional text.
Let's face it; a lot of customers just add a product to their shopping basket just to see how much the merchant is going to charge them for shipping. Since this is the case wouldn't it be nice to offer FREE shipping through your Shopsite store so you could increase your customer conversion ratio? If your store can't afford to offer free shipping on ALL orders then you should setup Shopsite's Free Shipping based on Order Total option. This way when a customer reaches the qualifying dollar amount they will no longer be charged any shipping for their order. This way both of you win!
Once you've setup and configured your AuthorizeNET payment gateway with the Shopsite shopping cart it is very important that you change the processing mode from within your AuthorizeNET control panel from Test Mode to Live Mode. If you don't do this any orders that are processed through your store will be treated as real transaction however you won't be collecting any of the funds. In the event that you discover that your store is processing orders in Test Mode you will need to contact each of your customers and request their payment details for off-line manual processing.
I have received a fair number of complaints from clients about how they don't like the 'Please Select Payment Type' drop down menu that loads on the Shopsite Add to Cart shopping cart page. They feel, and I agree with them, that this is a step they don't need their customer to take until they get to the Checkout page of the shopping cart. Shopsite creates this drop down menu when the merchant has opted to accept more than just credit cards through their store, i.e. Checks, Pay Pal. The reason why is because it needs to know what type of payment fields it needs to generate on the Checkout page.
Worldpay is one of the supported 3rd party payment processing companies that the Shopsite shopping cart can be setup to use. The majority of businesses who use Worldpay as a payment processor typically reside outside of the U.S. where it is a lot harder to secure a merchant account for their on-line business.
During a recent conversation with AuthorizeNET I learned that in an effort to increase security they are no longer storing the merchant's login, password and transaction details within the store's source code. Before anyone who could read HTML code could potentially gain access to the merchant's login and password information. This tutorial will show you how to properly configure the AuthorizeNET payment gateway with Shopsite.