PayPal is a payment gateway which you can use to accept donations online via your website. However, it can be overwhelming to get started, especially if you are not computer literate. Thus I came up with this 1-2-3 step tutorial after helping a Non Profit.
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Note: This post is relevant to Virtuemart 1.1.3 as installed on Joomla 1.5.10. Several of the notes are pertinent to the YOOtheme template, Rollout, but in general may be applicable to other themes.
Installing and configuring the Virtuemart shop will include:
The purpose of the post is as a supplement to official procedures and to introduce a few workarounds to make the cart more user-friendly. (more…)
Unless you have fairly simple shipping needs, you are probably better off setting up the APIs with USPS, UPS, Federal Express and DSL (internatonal only) so that shipping charges are pulled directly off their servers and you don’t have to manually input this stuff. This FAQ is a combination of process and tech. Perhaps 50-75% of your time will be spent in weaving your way through their system and FAQ files to obtain the little pieces of the puzzle that you’ll need to do the tech work on the server. (more…)
Virtuemart, v1.1.3, the eCommerce solution which can be bundled with Joomla does not include a native tax code module which works with U.S. states which have any kind of complex regional or district sales tax structure. Off the shelf, the best you can get is a single tax rate for an entire state. The fix which I developed is a more simplified, yet versatile, version of the original fix that was created for Virtuemart 1.0.x. Besides the zip code and custom tax rate need I am also including some loose documentation on how to change some display preferences so that for U.S. customers taxes do not get confusingly added to product prices. Note that the .zip file has been updated for Virtuemart 1.4 and also includes the relevant ps_checkout. (more…)
Email defense is one of the spam and virus filtering programs that LuxSCI.com offers to its customers. The procedures outlined here assume that you already have an LuxSCI email account and have been set up for Email Defense.
With certain Joomla templates (Joomla 1.5), primarily narrow, fixed width, the dollar amount displayed in the shopping cart splits onto 2 lines in either the Price or Subtotal columns. This usually occurs if the dollar amount is 4 digits or more. The problem may also show on templates where you can select a large font. (more…)
Tips primarily applicable to version 1.3.7 and under:
edit: includes/languages/english/classic/header.php:define(’HEADER_SALES_TEXT’, ‘Sales Message Goes Here’);
logo resides in: includes/templates/template_default/images/ header logo: includes/templates/template_default/images/logo.gif
defined in: includes/templates/classic/css/stylesheet.css: background-image: url('/../images/header_bg.jpg'); image resides in: includes/templates/classic/images/header_bg.jpg
header file: includes/languages/english/classic/header.php template images stored in: includes/templates/classic/images
Customizing the zen-cart new account email response template. This will be primarily applicable to versions 1.3.7 and below. The following sections/variables are defined in the file: (more…)
