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Previewing and Managing Your Online Store

Now you can preview your online store and submit a trial order to understand how your store works in the live context.

  1. Previewing your online store. Open the Preview tab and browse the categories and products at your online store.
  2. Adding items to your shopping cart. Imagine that you are an online shopper. Add items to your shopping cart by clicking the Add to cart button next to the product you want to purchase. Each time you click Add to cart the item is added to the shopping cart.
  3. Viewing your shopping cart (non-registered user). At any time during your shopping, you can view the contents of the shopping cart by clicking Your cart at the top of the shop page. In the shopping cart, you can change the quantity of selected items. Type the desired quantity in the Quantity field and click Update cart. The total sum of your purchase will be updated. To remove an item, select its check box in the Remove column and click Update cart. To remove all products from the cart, click Empty cart.
  4. Registering at the online store. When you finish with your shopping cart, click Shipping to provide customer details. Do not forget that now you are acting as an online shopper. If you have already visited this store and have an account, enter your user name login and password under For registered users. If you are doing this for the first time, under For unregistered users, provide your contact information, user login and password to login to the store. SiteBuilder will send the user login and password to the customer's e-mail address specified in the form.
  5. Click OK.

After setting up e-shop properties web site owner is enabled to choose to print out information about every purchase made in his or her e-shop. This print out version of information about the purchase is called Print Version. To turn on

See Also

Creating Your E-Shop

Adding E-Shop Page

Selecting Design and Configuring Settings

Adding Categories and Products

Integration With PayPal