For each product that you want customers to be able to buy, you must create a small bit of HTML called a "CartLink". To create your first CartLink, fill out the form and click the "Generate Code" button. Do this for each item on your site, filling in the appropriate information for each one. If you have any questions or difficulty using this system, please call us at (919) 477-2100 and we will assist you for free.
Form Field Reference
Item Description
This is the description as it will appear once someone has added the product to their shopping cart. This should be short, but descriptive.
Item Price
This is the amount that you want to charge. Enter it without a dollar sign, euro symbol, or pound symbol. For example: 75.95
Currency
The reason that you did not use any currency symbol in the price field (above), is because you select your currency using this field's dropdown list. You may select from US Dollars, Euros, or British Pounds.
Item SKU
The SKU is also known as the Product ID. If the manufacturer already has a SKU assigned to the item, use it. If not, feel free to create your own, but it is extremely important that every item have its own unique SKU.
Item Image URL
If you want to show a small image (called a thumbnail) of the item when it is added to the shopping cart, enter its full URL into this field. Note that the URL msut be fully qualified which means that it must begin with http://.
Include Qty Field
If you want your CartLink to include a quantity, field, just check this box and the quantity field will be automatically generated by the software as part of the form.
Subscription
If this item is a subscription, membership, or a digital download such as software, check this box. Subscriptions and memberships are not taxable and not shippable. By checking this box, when the item is added to the shopping cart, the checkout software will know not to charge either tax or shipping for this item.
Taxable
If this item is
not taxable, uncheck this box. Since most items sold online are taxable, this checkbox is checked by default.
Discountable
The software allows you to setup special promotional codes which your customers can use to get a discount on products that they buy. But, you may want some items to be immune from this kind of discounting. If this item should not be discounted using promo codes, uncheck this box. Since most items you sell will probably be discountable, this box is checked by default.
Sold in Sets of
This field is used in a special circumstance. If you sell certain items in sets (say, a set of 4), but you want to price them individually (say, $5 each for a total of $20), set the "Sold in Sets of" to 4. When a customer puts it to their shopping cart, the software will only allow them to change the quantity in sets of 4. So, for example, a set of 4 items added to the shopping cart can only be changed to 8, 12, 16, 20, and so forth.
Button Label
By default, the text on the button is "Add to Cart". If you want to change that to something else, such as "Add to Shopping Bag" or "Put in Shopping Basket", change the text in this field.
TIP: It is not necessary to have CartLinks for every product in your catalog before you "go live". You can add CartLinks at any time and you may want to place CartLinks on your site for a few products so that you can move on to the rest of the setup and then go back and create the rest of them later.
If your website uses ColdFusion, ASP, PHP, .NET, or some other dynamic software system to generate your catalog pages on-the-fly, then you can encode your software to generate the CartLinks the same way. For more information about how to set this up, please
contact our support team.
