Shopping Cart Templates

A shopping cart template defines the layout and elements of the shopping cart pages for a store. The template actually defines five separate pages in one file, the Shopping Cart Page, the Shipping Page (which includes billing information), the optional Confirmation Page, the Thank You Page and the E-Mail Receipt that is sent to customers.

Shopping Cart Template

A shopping cart template uses fewer custom template tags than a page or product template. However, the amount of information produced by some of the tags can vary quite a bit, depending on options set by the merchant and selections made by the customer. Because of this, you have to construct the HTML layout carefully, and you should test your template thoroughly to make sure everything looks as expected in all situations.

Like the product template which is made up of many sections, the shopping cart template is also made up of many sections. However the shopping cart has 7 sections rather than 3. The various sections in the shopping cart template are:

• Shopping Cart Screen - which is the screen with the list of products, shipping information, tax information and payment options.
• Shipping/Checkout Screen - which is where the customer enters in their shipping, billing and payment information. This is also the first screen which goes secure.
• Confirmation Screen - which is where the customer confirms their order before the order is finalized. This is an option screen.
• Thank You Screen - which is the screen the customer views after they place their order.
• Thank You Email - format for the email receipt that is sent to the customer.
• Global Cross Sell - New in ShopSite version 9. This is the format for the global cross sell products in the shopping cart.
• Product Cross Sell - New in ShopSite version 9. This is the format for the individual product cross sell items displayed in the cart.

You would need to begin your shopping cart template with adding the DEFINE tags for all 7 sections of the shopping cart. Your template should look like:
[-- DEFINE Shopping_Cart --] # The code here defines how the shopping cart page will look [-- END_DEFINE Shopping_Cart --] [-- DEFINE Shipping --] # The code here defines how the shipping/billing page will look [-- END_DEFINE Shipping --] [-- DEFINE Confirmation --] # The code here defines how the optional confirmation page will look [-- END_DEFINE Confirmation --] [-- DEFINE ThankYou --] # The code here defines how the thank you page will look [-- END_DEFINE ThankYou --] [-- DEFINE ThankYou_Email --] # The code here defines how the HTML customer receipt will look [-- END_DEFINE ThankYou_Email --] [-- DEFINE GLOBAL_CROSS_SELL --] # The code here defines how the global cross sell products will look [-- END_DEFINE GLOBAL_CROSS_SELL --] [-- DEFINE CART_CROSS_SELL --] # The code here defines how the product specific cross sell products will look [-- END_DEFINE CART_CROSS_SELL --]

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