TOWeb e-Commerce features

How to access to the e-Commerce features ?

You can access and activate the e-Commerce features from the Settings step of TOWeb. For further details click on the picture aside to enlarge it.

Payments from your website require the use of at least one catalog with both its prices & shopcart options activated.

In addition to different type of payments, the e-Commerce features provide the support of VAT and shipping prices per country as well as the customization of the order form of your website.

How to add a new payment mode ?

You can add other payment modes to your shopping cart like check or wire transfer with the "+" button located above the payments list in the shopping cart payment configuration dialog box. If the payment you are looking for is not present in the list, you will need to add one (the closest to your needs) and customize it. For example if you want to add a payment by cash, select the payment template "Check" and update the instructions for this new payment mode.
If you want to use another secured credit card payment service than PayPal (like for example the credit card payment service of your bank), you need to add your own payment script and copy/paste your "Custom script" into the field located under the Payment script tab and specify the scripting language to use (HTML, PHP or ASP) in the "form action & script" tab located in the advanced payment information.
The creation of your own payment scripts requires advanced web programming skills on which no support will be made by Lauyan. The development of your payment script is not assisted by TOWeb and such script adapted to your needs will NOT be provided by the Lauyan support. To obtain such payment scripts, ask them to your payment service provider and have them customized to your needs by their services or by yourself. More information about other payments.

How to use the order number in my texts ?

To use the order number inside your texts you need to add the field named : $TW-OrderID
The text areas where you can use this field are :

the payment page title
the payment page introduction
the payment instructions

You may also use the following fields :
$TW-OrganizationName : field containing the name of your company/organization
$TW-OrganizationAddress : field containing the address of your company/organization

How to configure the PayPal payment in TOWeb ?

If you do not have yet a PayPal account, you will need to sign up for a new PayPal account from their website. Then indicate in the TOWeb's shopping cart payment configuration dialog the same email address as the one you used for Paypal. And that's it, your website will then be ready to go with the Paypal payment service !
If you want to customize this payment, you may change its title and its introduction message.
Since PayPal manages the billing & shipping information of your customers directly from the PayPal payment website, you do not necessarily need to activate the option "Use a custom form" for this payment, unless you want them to be also managed from your website (this option is not activated by default).
By clicking on the "Payment script" tab you may also access to more PayPal parameters such as the style of the Paypal payment button and the "return from Paypal" behavior (if you want your customer to be able to return to your website after proceeding to their payment or cancelling).

How to customize the order form ?

To customize the order form, click on the button "Order form fields" button located in the "Settings > e-Commerce" step. From there you will be able to select the fields you want to add or remove from your form and indicate whether these fields are mandatory or if they can be empty. And if you want your customer to indicate both a billing address and a shipping address, you can check the corresponding option there too.
You may also want to customize any fields labels, an to do so you will need to open the "Start > Languages" step of TOWeb and click on the button named "Translate TOWeb's predefined texts" to change any labels to the ones of your choice.

How to manage fixed shipping prices ?

Please see our page related to the shipments & shipping prices.

How to manage my catalog products ?

Please see our page related to the catalog & stock management.

How to manage rebate codes ?

You van access the configuration window of your website's rebate coupons from the rebate coupons button located in the "Settings > e-Commerce" screen. By enabling this option and adding one or more coupons your customers will have the enter any code that you will communicate to them so they can have price rebate on their purchase. The rebate can be either a fixed amount (eg $5 discount on a purchase) or a percentage of the total amount of the order (eg 5% reduction).
If, later on, you don't want any more coupons to be used on your website you can delete them or disable this feature before to republish your site to make your changes effective online.

Can I sell files or digital documents online with TOWeb ?

TOWeb doesn't provide any particular feature to assist you in providing digital download after a payment is processed on your website. What you could do with TOWeb is to protect some pages of your website (using the .htaccess protection), the ones where you will place one or several downloadable files so that only authorized persons can access them and download your files. Let suppose for instance that you have a PDF file for sale and that a customer orders and pays for it from your website. Then what you could do is :

to create a login & password for this person in order to authorized him/her to access your donwload page
publish your website to have this change available online
and contact back you customer to provide him/her the URL of your download page as well as the login & password required

And later on, if you want the access to expire, all you need is to remove his/her login & password from the list of authorized persons and publish again your website change online So depending on your needs, this might be possible but will not be automated : you will have to manually create and remove your customers' login & password, publish your website changes and provide to your customers their login & password by email for instance.

How to add another payment with my own scripts ?

The e-Commerce features allow you to include your payment scripts but do not provide any programming assistance to create or maintain such scripts. If you do have sufficient programming skills to create the scripts, contact your payment providers to have the one recommended by their system and have them adapted to your needs.
Once you have your redirection payment script ready you need to copy/paste it inside the field located in the "Payment script" tab. If your payment system requires the use of a particular input hidden field to be transmitted thru the redirection form for the amount and/or the order number, then indicate their name and they will be automatically added to the form during the generation of your website.
Depending on your script language, verify that you have correctly specified the payment web page extension in the tab "Form action & script" located in the Advanced payment information. If you have more than one payment script, you may use and add additional script using the topic' script fields.
Be aware that your scripts will not run properly when previewed locally from your machine as they must run from a host server. As a consequence, we recommend you to backup your website before any important changes and while preparing or modifying your scripts, we recommend you to publish the testing version of your website to a different web space so that your visitors will still be able to use the working version of your website while you are preparing the new version with your payment scripts.

What comes with the e-Commerce features ?

For more information visit the questions & answer about the TOWeb e-Commerce licence.

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