Initial Shopping Cart Setup

• From the Top Menu, select Settings.
  • From the Storefront Administration menu, select Storefront Settings
    • Set company information and contact information.
    • For the global settings, Select true or false, set your currency and home country.
    • Set order min amount (if any) and order deposit amount (if you are willing to take a partial payment to begin the order fulfillment process).
    • Optional: Enter the checkout page slug if you want to use a custom WordPress page for checkout on your site instead of using the OrderStorm modal window. You can further customize the checkout page if you use a WordPress page. Most customers skip this step and use the default checkout. Note that you cannot accept credit card data on a WordPress page without a valid encryption certificate (SSL) of 256 bits or more.  Accepting credit card data on the WordPress site without a valid SSL violates OrderStorm policy and your account will be suspended.
    • Enter custom names for the labels or use the defaults.  The order label is displayed on the product page where the customer presses the button to add an item to their shopping cart.  Examples: Order now!, Send me one!
    • The features/options label is used for the section where you add colors, sizes, and upsell items. Examples: Product Options, Customize.
    • Set display for left and right sidebars. These settings will override your theme. If you have a theme with sidebars and these are set to false, the sidebars will not be displayed on the product pages or category pages.
    • Enter the category page slug from the page you created when you installed the plugin.
    • Contact OrderStorm if you want to use a different location for the main image set-up.
    • Enter the small, medium and category image default URLs. These will be displayed if there is no specific photo uploaded for a product or category. Many customers use their logo.
  • From the Storefront Administration menu , select payment options
    • Accept credit cards, checks, money orders, wire transfers and PayPal
      • Select Credit cards configure to choose which credit cards to accept and then enter your  payment gateway information.
      • Special instructions for the InternetSecure gateway:
        1. To use InternetSecure you need to have InternetSecure white-list the IP address 67.212.146.26 on your account.
        2. For the payment gateway fields, enter your merchant ID (MID) in the login field, leave login 2 blank, enter anything at all in the API key/password field.  The API key/password field cannot be blank but it is NOT used by Internet Secure.
    • Set high and low limits for each payment type. Ex. No credit card payments larger than $3,000. Wire transfer for larger orders.
    • Select (configure) to set up your Wire Transfer Information for incoming wires.
  • From the Storefront Administration menu , select Finishing pages – set the text to display on your Thank You pages for credit card orders and check orders.
  • From the Storefront Administration menu , select edit check-out terms to set the Terms and Conditions for your cart. Note: Terms can also be set by product from the product detail page.
    • Enter your Terms and Conditions for a credit card purchase and for a check purchase. Select Update All Terms.
  • From the Storefront Administration menu, select edit New Order Notification emails addresses. Enter the email address for someone in your organization to receive notification that you have new orders. This will typically be the shipping department or customer service department. New order notices are sent out automatically each time an order is placed on your website. The email address you used to sign up with is automatically added here. If you do not want an email notification each time your cart takes an order, make this blank.
  • From the Storefront Administration menu, select edit country options.  This brings up a list of countries.  You can select which countries you want to receive orders from.  The countries you select will appear in a drop down list at check-out for customers to select.
  • From the tabs across the top, select Tax Tables to select locations to collect sales tax and enter the tax rate for each.
• Add Users – Additional users can be added at any time.
  • Go to Home.
  • From the Admintab, select Manage Users
  • Note: OrderStorm charges a fee for additional users.
• Assign users to departments
  • From the main menu Admin tab, select Manage Departments
  • Create a new department by entering the department name in the text box and selecting Add.
  • Select the department name to manage the department information.
  • Select Manage Members to assign employees to a department.

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