DigitalNuance
Online Support Manual
© 2003 DigitalNuance
- All Rights Reserved.
DigitalNuance
Online Support Manual
© 2003 DigitalNuance
- All Rights Reserved.
Shopping
Cart Overview:
The AlaCart Shopping Cart option is an easy-to-use e-commerce utility
you can install on your site. It allows you to sell merchandise on your
site and gives your customers a user-friendly way to quickly find and purchase
merchandise. Additionally, new features for the AlaCart Shopping Cart are
being developed which will further enhance the capabilities of this resourceful
tool.
Note: Help is provided in the reference links in the Shopping Cart. For detailed information on any topic, consult that tool’s help reference.
The "Look
and Feel" Tool:
The "Look and Feel" Tool allows you to control colors, text and images that
appear on your Shopping Cart.
Click on the Submit button to apply the changes you have made. Click on the Reset button to restore all of the settings to their default values. Single-click on the Help link for more information on using this tool.
The Categories Tool:
The Categories Tool contains five main sections all shown in this section.
These sections allow you to create, delete and edit the product categories
within your Shopping Cart.
Single-click on the Help link (available from all of the pages within the Category Tool for more information on using different features).
The
Products Tool:
The Products Tool works similarly to the Category Tool, allowing you to
enter products that to offer for sale in your Shopping Cart.
The remaining options: Edit, Delete and List are all shown on the following page and work identically to their counterpart options in the Category Tool.
The Edit a Product Tool allows you to change information about an existing item already in your Shopping Cart.
The List of Products Tool shows you the products that are contained within your Shopping Cart. (Note: only one item appears in the screen below.)
The Delete a Product Tool allows you to remove items from your cart one at a time.
The Shipping Tool:
The Tax Tool:
The Order Options Tool:
Once your site has been configured and administered, you can run the Shopping Cart. You may wish to do this periodically while setting up your site to verify that the setup is operating successfully.
The AlaCart Shopping Cart is similar to many e-commerce utilities now in use on the web. Essentially, your customer either browses the catalog or searches for an item until he/she finds the desired item. Once the item is found, your customer adds it to his/her "shopping basket". When ready to checkout, the customer confirms the items in the basket, and provides the method of payment.
Once you reach a level beyond which there are no further sub-categories, the list of products in the last selected sub-category is displayed.
The following procedure can only be used if the AlaCart Shopping Cart has already been installed on your site.