Displaying Shopping Cart

[Power Kitten]

Hello

How do I get a shopping cart to display? At the moment, customers click on the buy button on the product page and it goes straight to PayPal. I am sure when I first started with eStore that I could see the cart when I made a test purchase, but it seems no more! I must have checked or unchecked something along the way…

Hope someone can help, as I’m very keen to use the shipping variation option for international sales. I am assuming that these shipping options only show up on a shopping cart page, as opposed to within PayPal.

Thanks!

[Peter]

Hi,

Please see my answers inline below:

1) “customers click on the buy button on the product page and it goes straight to PayPal”

This is the expected behaviour for a “Buy Now” button whereby you are using a shortcode which may look something like:

[wp_eStore_buy_now:product_id:1:end].

If you want customers to add items to a shopping cart you need to use the add to cart shortcode such as:

[wp_eStore_add_to_cart id=1]

Note: you should also change your button to reflect the type of shortcode so that your customers don’t get confused.

I highly recommend that you read the documentation about how to add an add to cart button which can be found here:

How to Show Add to Cart buttons Using the WordPress eStore Shopping Cart Plugin

2) “I am assuming that these shipping options only show up on a shopping cart page, as opposed to within PayPal”

You can use the eStore shipping functionality or alternatively you can revert to the PayPal profile based shipping. Please take the time to read about this in the “Shipping and Tax Related” section on this page:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wp-estore-documentation

[Power Kitten]

Thanks Peter.

[Power Kitten]

Argh. How do I get the shopping cart to display?? I have my add-to-cart buttons, but clicking on them appears to just refresh the page.

[Power Kitten]

Ignore me!

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