Cart Setup

The first thing you should do when you are setting up a store with jMarket is to configure your Cart Preferences.
To access the Cart preferences section of your jMarket dashboard, click on Orders and from the drop-down menu click on Cart Preferences.
There are several tabs that you can configure here, but the most important in terms of getting your store launched is the Cart Tab. We will go through each of the most important settings on this tab.

Cart: define your preferences for the product checkout process on your site.
Coupon: preferences for coupons.
Order: preferences for order notifications.
Scheduler: automatic background task for pending orders.

Cart Tab

Guest Account Checkout
Joomla Registration

These two options go together, if you have enabled Ghost Account Checkout. To deactivate "Require Confirmation", please follow the simple steps below;

In the Joomla admin panel, click on Users menu and from the drop-down menu click on User Manager
Click Options button, New User Account Activation >> None
Click [ Save ] to save your changes.

Use Vendor Tax
Select No if you want to use the tax defined by Store Manager.
Select Yes if you want to use the tax defined by each vendor. If this option is selected product purchased from different vendors may have different tax rates. Visit this article to learn how to setup your TAX/VAT.

Direct Payment to Vendor
Click Yes to redirect the payment to the vendor instead of the Store Manager. If a commission scheme is implemented the vendor will be responsible for paying commission to the Store Manager. This setup requires that each Vendor have there own payment system, before they can take customer orders.
If you select No, the payment will be directly received by the Store Manager. If a commission scheme is implemented the Store manager will be responsible for paying the balance to the vendor.

For automation you can use Paypal Adaptive Payment, view this article to learn how to setup Paypal adaptive.

Primary Receiver

Store Manager: The primary receiver for Paypal split payment will be the store manager. This allows a customer to checkout with products from multiple vendors. Unless you have elected to change the setting to Vendor Handle Shipping >> Yes, in this case it is not possible for a customer to checkout with products from multiple vendors. Instead this option will require multi-cart functionality which is currently not available (we have a release planed for April 2013 to accomodate this function).

Vendor: The primary receiver for Paypal split payment will be the vendor. In this case only products from one vendor at a time will be allowed at checkout.

Vendor Handle Shipping
Click Yes to allow vendors to handle their own shipping fees. The vendors will be notified of new orders and will be responsible for handling the shipping for the items.
Note: You must turn this option on to allow shoppers to purchase from only one vendor at a time. If he/she desires to shop from several vendors it will require that the shopper places a seperate order for each vendor.

Message Added to Cart
After clicking on the button "add to cart" a message will be displayed to indicate that the product has been successfully added to the cart.

Cart Item Id: Enter an item Id and the checkout pages will use that ItemId in their links so that you can customize the checkout pages with specific modules.

Skip CheckOut Page: Select Yes if you want to skip the checkout or the 1st process step before proceeding to the payment page.

Skip Address Page: Select Yes to skip the address page. Note, If the order includes tax or shipping, the address will be required because, it is necessary to calculate the total tax and shipping charges.

Use default Address: If you decide to skip the address you can instead choose to use the default address. If"Skip address" is turned on and an address is required (e.g: shipping) it will force the user to add an address. However if you click Yes for "Use Default Address" the cart will check to see if the user already has a registered address. If so it will not ask for an address. Addresses can be changed on the final checkout page if necessary.

Skip Payment Page: If you skip the payment page, you need to specify a default payment gateway in your payment page on the backend ( jMarket >> Payment). In addition if you only have one payment available (published) on your site then it would automatically skip payment.

Skip Validate Page: The validate order page is the last page of the checkout process. It enables the shopper to verify and validate the order before clicking Pay. Choose Yes if you do not want to give this option to the shopper.

Show Billing Address: Select Yes to show the billing address on the Cart validation page. Since the payment is usually done through an external payment system it might not be necessary to get the address of the user and therefore there is no need to show it in the checkout process.

Show Note Box: Enable the shopper to add a note with the order to share extra information with the vendor.

Basket Registration Link: You can specify a redirection page that you want the user to land on if they are not registered.
If left empty, they will land on the default basket registration page.

Minimum Order: Specify the minimum cart total in order to place an order. Input zero for no minimum order amount.

Require Terms at Checkout: Click Yes to require confirmation of the terms and conditions at checkout.