How To's

Here is a list of articles on “How To” do a variety of things in ProductCart.

A number of articles that help learn how to perform simple tasks that help you personalize, improve, and secure your ProductCart-powered store.

• Adding a product to the cart from anywhere
• Adding Category Navigation to your store design
• Adding Category or Content Page Navigation using Spry
• Adding a Login Form to your store design
• Adding a jump menu to a brand
• Adding Recently Viewed Products to your store design
• Search Box:
  • Adding a Search Box to your store design
  • Adding an AJAX waiting message to the search box.
• Adding "shop by price" links to your navigation
• Adding a small Shopping Cart Summary to your store design
• Adding "Welcome Customer Name" message to your store design

• Additional views (product images) of the same height
• Background color when you mouse over something
• Back-Order Message when the quantity on hand is below a certain number
• Changing the AJAX product preview's look
• Hiding category matches on the search results page
• Different content depending on the category shown
• Hiding the Discount Code (only display the Discount Description
  By default v3.5 and above displays both the discount code and discount description when an electronic coupon has been used.
• Hiding prices for Not for Sale products
• Highslide-driven zoom for images in the product description
• List of content pages
• Links to hidden products in your store
• Long product description using tabs
• One Page Checkout: have the Order Comments box open by default
• Product's inventory location on the Pick List page
• Product prices in multiple currencies
• Setting the number of products shown on the search results page
• Showing different content to logged in vs. logged out customers
• Showing different content based on the customer type
• Showing a Low Stock Message
• Styling text strings without editing any code
• Twitter updates on your storefront

• Moving the home page to the root
• Moving a content page (e.g. privacy policy) to ProductCart's content management system
• Moving the Small Search Box to the root folder and preserving the AJAX
• Moving your ProductCart-powered store to a new Web server (or new Web host)

• Renaming the "pcadmin" folder
• Renaming the "productcart" folder

• Rule out your header, footer, CSS or custom code as an issue
• Avoiding security warnings on secure pages
• Changing the e-mail for the Contact Us form
• Changing the Store URL used in some links
• Creating a Private Sale for specific products
• Creating a Private Shopping Club
• Deleting, removing and restoring products
• Disable the CAPTCHA Code from the Contact US form
• Printing Thermal UPS or FedEx Labels
• Remove the "Please wait.." Dialog on Small Search Box
• Remove All Products (permanently)
• Secure the Tell A Friend form (tellafriend.asp)

You can find many technical articles in the Developers' Corner.