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Streamlined Checkout™ Knowledge Base
Installation
Guide
Streamlined Checkout™
can be installed in minutes on any LaGarde
StoreFront™ shopping cart-based online
store. Merchants can install Streamlined Checkout™
themselves or take advantage of our
installation and advanced configuration
services.
1) Implementation.
a) Extract the zipped files from .SC2_x_x.zip. to a temporary
folder.
i) The files are organized into
folders, which correspond to the website
folders into which the
files belong,
the StoreFront™ type (SE or AE & XE), and
the StoreFront™ version. For
example:
ii) Note: You can determine
your current StoreFront™ version by looking
at the version
information inside the AssemblyInfo.vb file
located within your web root.
b) Make backup copies of the following files
located in the root/ssl folder of your
website. If
you need to revert back
to the standard StoreFront™ checkout for any
reason (such as a
StoreFront™ support
issue), simply re-upload the following files
to your site. No recompile is
necessary:
i)
Payment.aspx
ii)
Shipping.aspx
c) Upload the following files (Note:
No recompile is necessary unless section
c.ii.3.d below
applies to
you).
i) Bin
Folder:
(1) StoreFront™ sites are configured
differently depending on the web host. Some
sites
only have a root/bin folder, and other
sites have both a root/bin folder and a
root/ssl/bin folder.
(a) Root/bin folder only:
(i) Upload the following files from the
unzipped bin folder to the root/bin folder
of
your website:
1. PENDX.dll
2. PENDX_SC.dll
(b) Root/bin folder and root/ssl/bin folder:
(i) Upload the following files from the
unzipped bin folder to both the root/bin and
root/ssl/bin folders of your website:
1. PENDX.dll
2. PENDX_SC.dll
ii) SSL Folder:
(1) Upload the following folders from the
unzipped SSL folder to the root/ssl folder
of
your website:
(a) Controls
(b) Management
(c) PopUpHelp
(2) Upload the following file from the
unzipped SSL folder to the root/ssl folder
of
your website:
(a) PrivacyPopUp.htm
(3) Upload the following files from the
unzipped SSL/[StoreFront™ version] folder to
the root/ssl
folder of your website:
(a) Shipping.aspx
(b) ShipSummary.aspx
(c) Payment.aspx
(i) Note: The new Payment.aspx file is not
part of Streamlined Checkout™,
and is not
required for Streamlined Checkout™ to work.
The new file is
the StoreFront™ 6 out-of-the-box file with a few PENDX additions
(Pendx,
a Digital Beach company, has obtained written permission from
LaGarde, Inc. to
distribute this customized version of their
Payment.aspx
file to licensed StoreFront™ 6
users), which adds the following features:
1. The cart items are displayed next to the
order total.
2. The shipping address information is
displayed next to the billing
address information.
3. The Edit buttons are changed to
redirect to .Shipping.aspx.
a. If you choose not to use the PENDX
customized Payment.aspx,
you will probably wish to
manually modify the Edit button in your
existing Payment.aspx.vb
file to redirect to Shipping.aspx.
Otherwise, the shopper will
be reverted back into the out-of-the-
box
checkout process to edit her billing
address.
4. For payment type of credit card, the
credit card that was selected in
Streamlined
Checkout™ is pre-selected in the credit card
dropdown
list.
(d) Note: If you are using StoreFront™
version 6.7.0.0 or above and also use
the
StoreFront™ Ship to multiple addresses feature, then
you must upload
the files in the SF
Multi-Ship
Support folder and then recompile. If you
do
not ship to multiple addresses then you
can skip
this step.
d) Open Streamlined Checkout™ Admin page.
i) Open a web browser and navigate to your
StoreFront™ Merchant Tools page. Using
the
path that is in the address bar of your
browser, navigate to
PENDX_SCadmin.aspx.
ii) After the Admin page successfully loads
in your browser, Streamlined Checkout™ is
fully
functional.
iii) You can perform the following actions
from the Admin page:
(1) Generate your license key (see
Installation section 1.f below).
(2) Sort and provide custom descriptions for
StoreFront™ carrier shipping methods
and
payment
methods.
(3) Customize the content of the Welcome
Email, which is sent to new shoppers after
Streamlined Checkout creates their new
account.
(4) Define custom shipping methods and
geographic constraints (see Optional
Features)
e) Add Streamlined Checkout™ entries to the
Web.Config file(s).
i) StoreFront™ sites are configured
differently depending on the web host. Some
sites
only have a
root/Web.Config file, and other sites have
both a root/Web.Config file
and a root/ssl/Web.Config
file.
(1) root/Web.Config file only:
(a) Add the entries to the root/Web.Config
file.
(2) Both root/Web.Config file and root/ssl/Web.Config
file:
(a) Add the entries to both the root/Web.Config
and root/ssl/Web.Config files.
ii) Add the following Web.Config entries
immediately above the <system.web> tag.
(Note: If you already have an <appSettings>
section in your Web.Config file, then
just
add the two <add> tags to the existing
<appSettings> section):
<appSettings>
<add key="PENDX.SC.Installed" value="True"
/>
<add key="PENDX.SC.License.Key"
value="Trial" />
</appSettings>
(1) Important: Complete step d before
setting key="PENDX.SC.Installed"
value="True". If you
specify in the web.config entries that
Streamlined
Checkout™ is installed prior to loading the
Admin page for the first time, then
Streamlined Checkout™ database tables will
never get
installed and
Streamlined Checkout™ will not
function.
f) Licensing Streamlined Checkout™.
i) Open Streamlined Checkout™ Admin page as
described in above.
ii) Enter your email address, password and
order number in the supplied fields, and
then
click the Generate License Key button.
iii) Modify PENDX.SC.License.Key in your
web.config file(s), replacing the word
.Trial. with
your
newly generated license key (see section e
above).
License Keys
Important: License keys are specific to
the SiteURL (case sensitive) as defined
within
StoreFront™. If you ever change the SiteURL,
you will need to reset
PENDX.SC.License.Key
back to Trial within
your web.config file(s) and then generate
a new license key in Streamlined
Checkout™
Admin page. Once you have generated
your new license key you can then reset
PENDX.SC.License.Key to the value of your new
license key.
Configuration
Streamlined Checkout™ automatically adds
the following tables and views to your
StoreFront™ 6 database, which are required
for Streamlined Checkout™ to work:
Tables
(1) PENDX_Shipping
(2) PENDX_PaymentMethods
Views
(1) PENDX_ShippingView
(2) PENDX_PayMethodView
Updates
Streamlined Checkout. v2.0.2.2 and higher
releases incorporates changes to the above
tables and views. If you are updating from
an earlier v2.0 release, you will need to
perform the following steps:
i) Within your web.config file(s), set key="PENDX.SC.Installed"
value="Update"
(1) Do this after uploading the new
Streamlined Checkout. files and before
loading the
Streamlined
Checkout™ Admin page.
ii) Load Streamlined Checkout™ Admin page.
(1) Once Streamlined Checkout™ Admin page
successfully loads the update is complete.
iii) Within your web.config file(s), reset
key="PENDX.SC.Installed" value="True"
Updates when Custom Shipping Methods are in
use
If and only if you use
Streamlined Checkout™ .custom shipping
methods. feature (see Optional Features
section 3), and you are updating from
Streamlined Checkout. v2.0.1.3 or earlier,
then you will need to delete your existing PENDX_ShipMethods and
PENDX_LocationConstraints tables and
recreate them using the updated scripts or
MS Access tables. The data in those tables
will be lost, so be sure to save the data so
that you can easily re-add it to the updated
tables.
Updates from version 1.x
If you are upgrading from
Streamlined Checkout. version 1.x, you must
restore the
StoreFront™ out-of-the-box version of the
root/ssl/payment.aspx.vb file and recompile
before completing a checkout.
Copy and Paste
The SC2_x_x.zip file contains a text file
named .CopyAndPaste.txt., which includes all
the things in this user guide that need to
be copied and pasted. Often times, the
correct format is not retained when copying
and pasting from an html file, so we
recommend using the CopyAndPaste.txt file.
Look and Feel
The colors in the Help Pop-Up windows
represent whatever is defined within
StoreFront™ for
TopSubBanner, LeftColumn, RightColumn and
Footer.
Digital Beach
Digital
Beach provides advanced Ecommerce and
Internet Marketing services to a wide range
of companies from small merchants to medium
and large corporate clients.
Digital Beach has been delivering Streamlined Checkout™
with the StoreFront™ cart as part of an overall
eCommerce solution to online merchants since
both products appeared on the market some three
years ago. Nearly two years ago, we
decided we liked
the product so much, we bought
the company.
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