Shopping cart option basically helps you to decide what kind of products you will show and sell on your site. It has 3 main options “Shopping Cart”, “Digital Shop” and “Catalog mode”.
- Shopping Cart – Allows users to add as many products as they want into their cart and then make a final checkout paying for all of them together.
- Digital Shop – As soon as you click buy now button, it will redirect to the checkout page. You cannot add products to your cart and then make a final payment. For each product you buy, you will have first make the payment and proceed further.
- Catalog Mode – It only displays “Send Inquiry” button on your product detail page using which users can place you an order but cannot buy immediately from there.
Let’s see what else you can do here,
Call to action button for product purchase on your site
It has 2 options to select “Shopping cart” and “Buy Now button”. Ideally “Buy Now button” is for digital shop.
How people can buy product from your site?
Using Checkout Login Method option, you can decide this very easily. It has 4 options to select,
- Normal Login checkout – User has to login and buy his products
- Checkout as Guest – Allows all your site visitors to purchase product on your site. registration will not be compulsory.
- Login and Registration not allowed – It disables both login and registration on your site.
- Registration not allowed – Disables only registration and not the login. It is helpful when you have fix clients and being an admin you create your client account from WordPress back-end. But yes, on doing that theme will not fire credential email to your users. However WordPress itself gives you email option.
Other options that affects your checkout page
- From Email Name – Used as “From” name in the email that gets fire to user on a particular purchase
- From Email ID – Used as From email Id in the email that gets fire to user on a particular purchase
- Default Currency – Write the currency in which you trade
- Default Currency Symbol – Write your default currency symbol
- Price Format Decimals – Specify the decimal points up to which your product costs. By default it set to 2, e.g. 250.50
- Price Format Currency Symbol Position – Shows the currency symbol as specified with amount figure.
- Default weight unit – Specify the default weight for your products
- Product Tax – Specify tax here and it will get included on the checkout page of product.