SHOPPING OPTIONS

1. Show Cart Between Orders – If turned on, the customer will be shown the shopping cart page after placing an item in the cart. Otherwise, the item will be added, but the current page will be redisplayed.
2. Use Gift Registry – This turns on the gift registry functions. You will need to turn this on to view and use the gift registry tools in the admin section as well.
3. Use Wishlists – This turns on the wishlist feature. Users will be able to add products to a wishlist versus the shopping cart, and will have a link to view their wishlist in thei account section. Wishlists are only viewable to the user that creates them, for public shopping lists, use the Gift Registry feature.
4. Offer Gift Wrapping – This turns on the gift wrapping options in the shopping cart. You’ll need to configure this with the various gift wraps you offer.
5. Use Coupons/Certificates – This gives the customer a field for entering a coupon code or gift certificate number (generated by the Gift Certificate Manager). You may want to leave this turned off if you don’t use these features.

CHECKOUT OPTIONS

6. Minimum Order Total – This allows you to configure a minimum amount that a customer must order to checkout.
7. International Orders – Use this setting to configure your store to allow orders from outside your home country.
8. Skip Address Form – This option will skip the address form during checkout if the user is logged in and has valid addresses entered. They will still be able to go back and edit the addresses from the shipping options screen but this will streamline the checkout process for existing users.
9. Require Login to Checkout – You can set your store to require a user account when the customer checks out, or otherwise they have the option to checkout as a guest.
10. Use Gift Cards – This setting will give the customer a field to enter a gift message for their order.
11. Use Delivery Date – Allows the customer to enter a desired delivery date for their order.
12. Allow Backorders? – This determines if a customer will be allowed to place an order for items that are not in stock.
13. Base Order Number – This is the starting number you wish to use for order numbers. This should not be changed once your store is live. For new stores you may wnt to enter a value here so your invoice numbers do not start at “1”.

TERMS AGREEMENT

If you have terms you need the customer to agree through before purchase, enter them here. The terms will be displayed when the customer begins the checkout process and they must agree to them to continue. Version 6.50 also saves these terms to the database so you can refer to them should any question arise over the terms in place at the time the order was placed.

CUSTOM CHECKOUT FIELDS

CFWebstore gives you some custom fields to ask your customer for additional information when checking out. You can add three text fields and/or two selectboxes. For text fields, enter the label for the field which will prompt the user for what they should enter. For selectboxes, enter the label and then a comma-separated list of choices to display. For each custom checkout field you create, you can also specify whether to make the field required or not.

EMAIL CONFIRMATIONS

These settings determine which types of email confirmations will get sent out when orders are placed.

1. User Confirmation – Sends an email confirmation to the user with their order details.
2. Merchant Confirmation – Sends an email confirmation to the merchant with the customer information and order details.
3. Affiliate Confirmation – Sends an email to the affiliate when a customer orders after having followed one of their links.
4. Drop-Shipper Emails – This enables automatic emails to the drop-shippers, to send an email with the shipping information and order details.
5. Email Drop-Shipper When – Determines when the emails to the drop-shippers are sent in the ordering process. You can send the email when the order is placed, when it is marked as in-process or when it is filled.
6. Order Email – Address used to send the merchant confirmation and to use as the return address for other emails.
7. Drop-Shipper Email – Default address to send drop-shipper emails to. This is the address that is used for any items not assigned to a specific vendor in the Product Manager. You must have something entered here to send drop-shipper emails, even if all your products are assigned to vendors!