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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.

To preview and try your online store

  1. Open the Preview tab and browse the categories and products at your online store.
  2. Imagine that you are an online shopper. Add items to your shopping cart by clicking Add to cart next to the product you want to purchase. Each time you click Add to cart the item is added to the shopping cart.
  3. 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 it in the Remove column and click Update cart. To remove all products from the cart, click Empty cart.
  4. 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 e-mail address specified in the form.

    Now you, as a store owner, can go to the Users tab and view the user details you have just provided. SiteBuilder collects the contact information of registered users and displays them on the Users tab. On this tab, you can add user accounts manually or delete them.

  5. After you have submitted your registration form, you will automatically log in to the store. Click Shipping again to check out your cart and submit the order. Click I agree. On the next screen, check the correctness of your personal information before you submit the order. Click I agree again. Your order is submitted. You will receive a confirmation order e-mail at the address specified in the user registration form.

    After submitting your order you can choose to print out information regarding your purchase by clicking Print Version. The screen, displaying the information about your purchase, opens.

    Purchase Information Print Version

    Now you can print out this information by clicking Print button in your Internet browser (for example, in Internet Explorer it is located in the browser command panel under File, or you can press CTRL+P keys on your keyboard).

    If your online store is integrated with the PayPal payment processing system, after you click I agree for the first time, a new browser window will open at the PayPal website. You, as a shopper, should log in to PayPal (if you have a PayPal user account) or specify your data, including the credit card number, e-mail, address and so on. Your payment will be processed by the PayPal system.

    Now you, as a store owner, can view the orders in a table on the Orders tab. The table lists a unique ID number, date of order creation, date of order update, order status, and the sum of the order. To view the order details and change manually the status, click the ID number of the order. A new page will open. To change the order status, select the status from the Set status for this order list and click Update. To delete this order, click Delete. To return to the list of orders, click Back to Order List.

    If your online store is not integrated with PayPal, contact your customers either by phone or e-mail and accept payments using other ways, such as cash, cheque, money order or mail payments. In this case, you will need to change the order status manually on the Order tab.

    If you have integration with PayPal, all credit card payments will be processed by the PayPal service. After a payment is processed, the PayPal system will send an automatic payment verification and the order will be assigned the Paid status automatically. All you need to do is to check the status of orders on the Orders tab.

    Managing E-Shop Orders

  6. Click OK.

After setting up e-shop properties website owners are enabled to choose to print out information about every purchase made in their e-shop.

See Also

Creating Your E-Shop

Creating E-Shop Design

Adding Categories and Products

Configuring Mail Parameters

Integration with PayPal