Checkout

Use this section to configure the appearance and functionality of the checkout page.

  • Disable anonymous checkout—if you enable this setting, only registered customers will be allowed to place orders in your store.

  • Offer guest to create an account after successful order—if you enable this setting, the buyer who placed an order as a guest will be offered to register an account afterwards.

  • Initial order ID value—an integer number to open the order ID numbering. The value you enter here will be used as the ID of the next order placed in your store. With every new order, its ID will increase by 1. The value of this field cannot be lower than any order ID that already exists in the database.

  • Zero price action—determines what can be done on the storefront when the product’s price is 0:

    • Do not allow customers to add the product to cart
    • Allow customers to add the product to cart
    • Ask customers to enter the price — customers will see an input field and will be able to enter the price that they’re willing to pay. That’s useful for charity events or donations.
  • Minimum quantity to buy per product—the minimum number of items that a customer can buy at a time. This number will appear on the product page on the storefront, right after the product price.

  • Maximum quantity to buy per product—the maximum number of items that a customer can buy at a time. 0 means no limit.

  • Quantity step—determines the step by which a customer can increase or decrease the number of products in cart.

    If the minimum order quantity is 3, the maximum order quantity is 9, and the quantity step is 3, then a customer will be able to purchase 3, 6, or 9 items in one order.

  • Number of available quantities—the maximum number of choices in the Quantity drop-down list. It comes useful when you set a quantity step and when there are a lot of items in stock.

  • Tax calculation method based on—select whether taxes should apply to individual products in the order (Unit price) or to the order subtotal, which also considers all discounts (Subtotal).

    Note

    Here is a complex example of how taxes are calculated if the tax calculation method is based on the order subtotal.

    Provided the order contains three products:

    Product A - $100 x 2 (tax1 = 10%)

    Product B - $50 x 3 (tax2 = 5%)

    Product C - $70 x 4 (tax1 + tax2 = 10% + 5%)

    Order total = $630

    Order discount = $60

    Step 1: Calculating the discounted subtotal

    630 - 60 = 570

    Step 2: Allocating the discount by the tax group subtotal

    $570 / $630 = $0.904762

    tax1 subtotal = (($100 * 2) + ($70 * 4)) * $0.904762 = $434.29

    tax2 subtotal = (($50 * 3) + ($70 * 4)) * $0.904762 = $389.05

    Step 3: Calculating taxes

    tax1 (10%) = $434.29 * 0.1 = $43.43

    tax2 (5%) = $389.05 * 0.05 = $19.45

    Step 4: Calculating the total (discounted subtotal + taxes)

    570 + 43.43 + 19.45 = $632.88

  • Minimum order amount—the minimum order cost of the entire cart required for placing an order.

  • Allow shopping for unlogged customers—determines if the store visitors will be able to add products to their carts and see product prices even if they haven’t signed in.

  • Allow checkout only from cart—if you enable this setting, a customer will be redirected to the cart page after clicking the Checkout button. Otherwise, the customer will go directly to the checkout page.

  • Show unavailable shippings—with this setting enabled, users will see all available and unavailable shipping methods, even if some cannot be selected for the current order. The unavailable shipping method will be marked as Not available.

  • Estimate shipping cost on cart page—if you enable this setting, a form for estimating shipping cost will be displayed on the cart page.

Default Customer Location

The values you enter here are automatically considered as the geographic location of all unregistered store visitors.

You can define the following details:


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