Chapter 5:  Shopping Cart

In this chapter:

• 5.1: Introduction
• 5.2: Cart Options
• 5.3: Payment Options
• 5.4: Shipping Setup
• 5.5: International Shipping
• 5.6: Tax Setup
• 5.7: Confirmation Setup

Where can I process payments?
Anywhere.  EDatCat is set to integrate automatically with AuthorizeNet, a remote secure server, or local SSL.  However, you can, by modifying certain variables, integrate EDatCat with any payment service around such as CardService international, CyberCash, VeriSign, etc.

What do I need?

• To process payments automatically through your bank, you need a virtual merchant account.  See http://www.authorizenet.com for details on setting up a virtual merchant account through AuthorizeNet. 

• To accept credit cards- regardless of where you process them, you need a secure server.

OK, now on to the details.  On the main Payment Options page, you will three options to configure.  We'll take them one at a time.

Setting up Payment Options
The below options will ask you to configure your setup with regards to accepting, processing, and delivering orders and payment information.  Once you configure these options, you will be asked to provide additional details about your setup.   Begin by walking through the Payment Options below...

This is basically asking you how the orders should be delivered.  You have three options: 

• Email Merchant Order using Regular Email.
  This option will send the order to the merchant using regular email.
  
• Email using PGP.
  This option sends the order via email securely using PGP.  PGP must be installed on your system for this option.
  
• Don't send email, Merchant will export order info.
  This option specifies that the order will NOT be emailed at all.  The merchant will need to manually export orders by using the Export function.  The orders will be exported in a tab or comma delimited format and will be viewable using a database application or a spreadsheet application such as MS Excel.  From here, orders can be imported to QuickBooks or other accounting software.

Now that you have told EDatCat how to deliver orders, it needs to know how the orders will be processed.  The options here are very general and allow you to process your orders virtually anywhere.

• Local/remote SSL with no payment processing service.
  This option specifies that you have your own secure server on which to collect payment details and will be delivering orders directly to the merchant for manual processing.
  
• Local/remote SSL with payment processing service.
  This option allows you to collect payment details on your own secure server and then have that info processed via a remote payment service such as AuthorizeNet.
  
• Collect info on remote server provided by a service (i.e.- AuthorizeNet).
  This options provides that the payment details will be gathered on the default form at your payment processing center.  In other words, you will be bypassing your own secure server and going directly to theirs.
  
• No online Credit Card processing will be utilized.
  Check this options if you will not be taking orders online at all.

If you will be using a remote payment processing service, EDatCat needs to know the role it should play in preparing your customers' data.  In other words, should EDatCat prepare and package the data for your remote service, or will you be doing that manually on the payment template?

EDatCat is designed to integrate automatically with AuthorizeNet.  You do not have to adjust the templates at all for this service.  If you are using another service, you will need to adjust your payment template accordingly to meet their guidelines.

Hopefully, this is fairly self-explanatory.  Check the credit cards you are accepting.  If you wish to offer additional payment methods such as COD, Phone, Check by Mail, etc., enter those options in the "Others" field separated by commas.

Step 2

When you save the first screen with your settings above, you will, depending on your settings, be taken to a second screen and asked to further supply the details of your payment process.  Be sure that all info is entered correctly.

How do I configure EDatCat to work with my secure server?
Walk through the options above to configure your setup.  Then...

• Upload your abcSSL.pl script (located in your cgi-bin) to your secure server directory.  Make sure it is executable (chmod 755 abcSSL.pl).

• Then, create a templates directory on your secure server and upload the "payment" and "payerror" templates to the directory.  Make sure both the directory and the templates have 777 permissions.  Upload any images your template will be using to this directory also (make sure they are referenced correctly from your payment tempalte).

• If you are using Authorizenet to process payments, use the au_payment template instead of payment.

What about the confirmation page?

• Finally, the confirmation page of the order process is "confirm_page".  This template resides on the regular server, but must be coded as if it were on the secure.  All images, style sheets, and embedded objects must be referenced on the secure server.

Next:  Shipping Setup