eCommerce
Viart Shop: Creating News Articles
Creating news articles in Viart Shop is both simple and effective. The reason news articles are effective is that they perform a dual role: on the one hand they can keep site visitors informed about the latest products or services, while on the other hand they can assist with Search Engine Optimisation. Naturally to be [...]
Prestashop: setting up GST for Australia
This is a two step process: Create a zone called ‘Australia’ Create a tax code called ‘GST’ and assign it to the zone ‘Australia’ Creating a tax zone In admin select Shipping/Zones and then click ‘Add new’ Assign the name ‘Australia’ and save Tip: while you are there remove any zones that are not applicable [...]
Viart Shop: Offline order processing
Processing offline orders (i.e. those that are not processed automatically by a payment gateway in real time) received from Viart Shop is quite straight forward. Two methods that are common within Australia are Offline Credit Card processing (via a businesses EFTPos machine) and electronic Bank Transfer. The typical sequence of events is as follows: The [...]
Prestashop Offline Order Processing
‘Offline’ order processing refers to orders where the customer submits there credit card details as part of the checkout process for secure, encrypted storage in the database. The site administrator then (in the Australian context) retrieves the numbers and processes the transaction via an EFTPos terminal or online gateway. In this way processing offline orders [...]