How do I enable SSL to WP eStore for the checkout process?

[mrdan]

How do I enable SSL to WP eStore for the checkout process? I have an SSL certificate already installed.

[admin]

You don’t need to do anything in eStore… the plugin is smart enough to realize that the visitor is viewing a HTTPS url and if this happens it will use the “https” keyword to include all script and CSS files in that page. So for example when you place the shopping cart on the following page it will know that this is HTTPS page and it will do thing accordingly:

[https://www.your-domain.com/checkout]

After you install SSL Certificate on your site and make the chekcout page HTTPS, you can use a plugin like the following to force users to use the HTTPS URL:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/https-redirection/

[mrdan]

Hmmmm… but when I go here [http://mindfulhub.com/test-product/] and then add it to cart, and then click on checkout, it does not go to https.

[admin]

You did not create a particular checkout page for your store. Simply create a WordPress page (you can call it “Checkout”) then embed the following shortcode on that page to place your shopping cart there:

[wp_eStore_cart]

Now, go to your eStore settings menu and enter the URL of this checkout page in the “Checkout Page” field and check the “Automatic redirection to checkout page” checkbox.

This will make it so when someone clicks the add to cart button it will add the item and send them to the checkout page where they can view the shopping cart. This checkout page that you created can be a HTTPS page.

[mrdan]

Thanks. I added the checkout page. Now I attempt to purchase test product.

If I do not preface the URL in the settings for the checkout page with https, it does not go to https, so I set it explicitly to https. Likewise I must force the collect-details page to https in the payment gateway bundle settings to force it to go to https. When I attempt to buy my test product, on the collect-details page, after pressing the submit button, it goes to my thank you page, but nothing is actually happening. No sales in the WP eStore under stats, and no activity in my live authorize.net account.

[mrdan]

It seems to be working now.

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