WordPress Shopping Cart plugin

• Description
• Installation
• Usage
• Quick Start
• Release Notes

Description

The WordPress Shopping Cart plugin gives you, as a webmaster, the ability to quickly and easily transform a WordPress website into an online shop with a beautiful presentation of products and other related elements.

With the easy to use interface, you can set up your multiple products and categorize/organize them into multiple product categories. Add additional images to showcase your products so that users know what they are buying and add digital downloads to products if needed so that users can securely download paid files from your website.

Multiple payment methods, including PayPal, 2CheckOut, Authorize.net, Realex Payments, eMatters, MoneyBookers, First Data (Linkpoint/YourPay), eWay, Ogone, Bank Wire, Manual/Custom payment method, etc. give your users the ability to choose how they would like to pay and process their payments without any fuss at all. In just a few minutes with a few clicks, your users will be back at your site with a completed order

System Recommendations

• WordPress 2.9 or higher
• PHP 4.2 or higher.
• MySQL 4 or higher.

Installation

1. Ensure that you have WordPress installed
2. Download the WordPress Shopping Cart plugin from the downloads management section in a ZIP archive (you may need to login to your Tribulant Software account in order to access your download).
3. Extract the ZIP archive named wp-checkout.zip in order to be presented with a single folder named wp-checkout.
4. Upload the wp-checkout folder to the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation. If you are upgrading, overwrite all existing plugin files from an older version.
5. Access the “Plugins” panel in your WordPress Dashboard once logged in as administrator.
6. Activate the “Checkout”  plugin if it isn’t already active.
7. Access the “Checkout ” administration menu item and the submenus to manage the plugin. This can be found on the left hand side of Your WordPress Dashboard

Upgrading the plugin

If you are upgrading the plugin from an older version to a newer version, the steps to follow are the same as the installation steps above. All your settings, products and other data will remain intact and nothing will be lost.

We recommend that you deactivate the plugin before uploading the files and then re-activating the plugin again after you have uploaded the new files to prevent errors on a production site.

Installation Video

Usage & Integration

Once the WordPress Shopping Cart plugin is setup it is quite easy to use and maintain. However some effort and thought needs to go into the way you want your WordPress virtual shop to run. It is suggested that you start with pen and paper and jot down what product categories you want, suppliers names, styles if they are particular to a product, the products etc. A tip is to start working in reverse order, first set up you configuration, then move on to suppliers, Categories, Styles and finally Products.

Quick Start Guide

Activation

• Go to “Plugins” in your WordPress dashboard.
• Go to Checkout and Click the “Activate” link.

Configuration

• Go to “Checkout” > “Configuration”.
• Read carefully through the configurations and select the options that best suit what you want.
• Remember to select default country and default currency.
• There is an easy configuration menu for payment methods on the right side of your screen.
• Be sure to configure the payment method(s) which you are going to use. Each payment method has its own configuration section.
• Watch out for “Thumbnail Dimensions” if you have a product image remember to change the size.
• Be sure to configure both shipping and tax calculation according to your needs. For shipping, you may need to add shipping methods in the “Checkout” > “Shipping Methods” section first.
• Click on blue “Save Configuration” at the top of the page.

Create Categories

• Go to “Shop Categories” and click the “Add New” button.
• Enter title such as “Category”.
• Enter description such as “Category description”.
• Click Save Category.

Create Products

• Go to “Shop Categories”  > click Add New
• Enter product title such as “Fresh Milk” enter description below the title such “12litres of boxed fresh milk”.
• Enter products relative details under the required fields.
• Upload a picture of your product in the top right corner of your screen.
• Click the Category you want the product you created to go under.
• Click Save Product.

Create a Shop Page

• Go to “Pages” > “Add New” and enter title e.g. Shop.
• Enter the shortcode into the content of the page such as [wpcocategories type="grid"] to display a list of shop categories or [wpcoproducts] to display your latest products with pagination and sorting.
• Click on the “Publish” button to publish the shop page.

Add a Shopping Cart Widget

• If you want products to be added via Ajax, you can go to “Checkout” > “Configuration” and set “Add to cart Ajax” to Yes under the “Shopping Cart” configuration section.
• Go to “Appearance” > “Widgets” in your WordPress dashboard.
• Drag a “Checkout” widget to your sidebar.
• Choose “Shopping Cart” for the display.
• Click the blue “Save” button to save the widget.

Release Notes