Web Site Name
Place your web store’s site name here. This value is used in the Merchant Administrator pages and in emails as well.
Web Site Logo (image)
In this field you may specify the location of an image to be used as your web store’s logo. You may either enter a full url to the image, or a file path relative to the root directory.
Enable Site Design Mode
If you would like to use Site Design mode to select themes, choose buttons, and customize the color, font, and layout of your templates, check this box.
Once changes are submit, a new Site Design menu item will appear on the Main Menu. This link will open the Site Design menu to begin customizing the look of your PDG Shopping Cart store templates directly through your Cart Administrator. If you prefer not to use the Site Design mode, and enter
your template file names and button file locations manually, do not check this box.
For detailed instructions on Site Design mode, please see the PDG Software Design Guide.
Web Site Text
In this field you may specify a short text statement to be used as your web site’s tagline text. You may enter up to 255 characters in this field.
Thumbnail Image Size
In this field you may specify a height and width (in pixels) to constrain the size of the thumbnail image for your products. For example, if you enter the same image file as both the product image and the thumbnail image for a product, but specify a size of 50 x 50 in this field, the thumbnail image will display the entire image scaled down to a size of 50 pixels by 50 pixels. If you do not specify a height or width in this field, the original height or width of the thumbnail image will be used.
Show Thumbnail Image for Product on Basket Displays: (Basket, Check-out, Verify)
This field allows you to specify which of these three templates (if any) will display a thumbnail image of the products in the basket. The “Basket (dis-play=action)” checkbox will determine whether or not the product thumbnails are displayed in the cart on the Basket.html page. The “Check-out (check-out=action)” checkbox will determine whether or not the product thumbnails are displayed in the cart on the Checkout.html page. The “Verify (ver-ify=action)” checkbox will determine whether or not the product thumbnails are displayed in the cart on the Verify.html page.
Note: These checkboxes determine the display of the default Basket.html, Checkout.html, and Verify.html pages. To display thumbnail images on pages that use a custom basket, you will need to add the appropriate tags into your HTML code. Please see the PDG Shopping Cart Technical Reference for fur-ther information.
Link Product Description on Basket
This field allows you to specify whether or not you would like the product descriptions appearing in the cart on your Basket.html page to be HTML links to the preadd page for each item.
Note: This checkbox determines the display of the default Basket.html page.
To display product links in a custom basket, you will need to add the appropri-ate tags into your HTML code. Please see the PDG Shopping Cart Technical Reference for further information.
Do not Use mono space font on Thankyou Template
This field allows you to specify whether you want to use the default mono space font on the ThankYou.html template, or if you would prefer that the Cart font (used on all other Cart templates) is used. Checking the box will use the Cart font, while leaving it blank will use the existing default mono space font.
Note: This checkbox determines the display of the default ThankYou.html page. Custom ThankYou.html pages do not use the mono space font.
Display Inventory Amount
If you wish for your PDG Commerce to display the specific amount of items in inventory to your customers, check this box. If it is unchecked, PDG Com-merce will only report if the item is in stock or not, and if not, whether the product can be backordered or not.
Display Pricing Subtotals
If you are using PDG Commerce to distribute items for free or if you are using PDG Commerce in some capacity where item price is not required, you can check this and pricing information and subtotals will not be displayed on any catalog page or order pages. The default is to leave this checked, and pricing and subtotals will display as normal.
Do Not Display Weights
If you are not using weights for shipping and do not want them to appear on your web store pages, in the emails, or in the order logs, check this box to turn off the weight display.
Do Not Include Credit Card Data in Vendor E-mail Notifications or Order Logs
Enabling this feature will prevent credit card information from being dis-played in vendor e-mails, order logs, or CSV files. This allows for the maxi-mum security of your shoppers’ payment information.
Note: PDG strongly advises that this field remain checked unless you are uti-lizing GPG encryption to encrypt such files.
Allow Price Recalculations on Catalog Pages?
Enabling this feature will allow PDG Commerce to recalculate a product's price based on the modified option(s) and/or quantity and display the updated price in real-time. For example, let's say that you are a computer manufac-turer selling systems online at your Web store. You offer a basic system that retails for $1,200.00, but you give customers the option of choosing a larger monitor over the standard one for an additional $150.00. On the product's Item page, the $1,200.00 price immediately changes to $1,350.00 when the
customer chooses the larger monitor from a ‘monitor options’ drop-down menu.
Note: You can instruct PDG Commerce to attribute an additional charge for a particular option selection when you define options for products.
Frequent Shopper Points Label
No doubt, you are familiar with many airlines’ “frequent flyer” programs which emerged in the 1970s as a way to build customer loyalty and encourage repeat business. Other industries (hotels, car rental companies and long dis-tance carriers, to name a few) have taken notice and developed variations of these programs.
If you have a similar program in place, PDG Commerce can help you manage the calculation of your “frequent shopper points.” In this field, place the name of the points that are accumulated when purchasing products on your Web store. For example, some airlines call them “frequent flyer miles.” Your Web store may call them “shopper bonus points” or something of that nature.
Add Item page showing Frequent Shopper Points feature
PDG Commerce will display each product's point value, along with the label that you enter in this field, on the Add Item page and again on the Checkout pages. The cumulative total of points for an order will appear on the checkout pages as a customer completes the checkout process.
You will assign a product's point value when you define, or set up, the product – as will be explained the chapter entitled ‘Maintaining Products.’
Shipping Charge Label
This setting controls what identifying text will be next to the shipping charges on the customer’s Checkout page (i.e. “Shipping & Handling”). This label will be applied to the cumulative shipping charge, regardless of how that total was derived.
frequent Shopper Points label appears here
this product’s Frequent Shopper Points value
Invalid Option Selection Error Message
In PDG Commerce, you have the ability to specify certain combinations of options that may be invalid. For example, if a product comes in red, blue and black and small, medium and large, but for some reason larges are not pro-duced in black, then you could specify “large, black” as an invalid option combination.
This text field allows you to enter the message that is to be displayed when a customer selects a combination of product options that is invalid. This mes-sage appears in an alert box when the “locked,” or invalid, option combina-tion is selected.
Note: For more information on products, product options and invalid option selections, see Chapter 6 of this User Guide, ‘Maintaining Products.’
Display ‘Shop Some More’ button?
This checkbox will allow you to disable or enable the “Shop Some More” but-ton on your Basket template. This butbut-ton, when clicked, will direct a shopper to another page in your Web store in order to continue shopping. The destina-tion of where the shopper is redirected should be indicated in the following field. Check this box if you would like to provide a link back to your Web store from the Basket page.
Complete URL of Destination of ‘Shop Some More’ button
In this field, enter the absolute URL that a customer will be taken to should he click the ‘Shop Some More’ button. This field should be filled out. This field may be overridden by referencing a different URL on the Basket template itself. When you have set these options, Click on the ‘Submit Changes’ but-ton. Then, return to the main menu and click ‘Make Changes Live.’