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Can I Remove the Link to CoffeeCup Software in the Footer?

All themes created in the trial version of Shopping Cart Designer Pro are hard-coded with a link to CoffeeCup Software in the footer. This link can be removed by purchasing the Pro version of the...

What is a Merchant Account?

Plastic, Not Paper If you own or run a business — especially an online business — you know that it's imperative that you be able to accept credit cards. To do this,...

How Do I Configure Google Checkout for Use With Shopping Cart Creator Pro?

Follow these steps to configure your Google Checkout account for use with CoffeeCup Shopping Cart Creator Pro: Create an account with Google Checkout. Make sure you’re...

Understanding Inventory Tracking in Shopping Cart Creator Pro

Inventory tracking is a powerful function that allows you to keep track of your inventory and automatically displays a “sold out” message to your visitor when the last of an item...

How Many Products and Categories Can I Add to My Shop?

You can add a combined total of 300 categories/subcategories and 3000 products to your shop.

How Do I Add a Logo to My Shop in Shopping Cart Designer Pro?

To add a logo to your theme using Shopping Cart Designer Pro, select Header Properties , go to the Background tab , and use the options available under the Shop Logo area to select and...

What Happens to My Custom Themes when the Trial Version of Shopping Cart Designer Expires?

When the trial version of Shopping Cart Designer expires, you will no longer be able to open any of the custom themes you created or apply them to a store in Shopping Cart Creator. However, if...

Shopping Cart Creator Pro Help Manual Errata

Pgs. 13, 14, and 36 References the e-mail tracking module, which has been removed. Corrected 09/24/2010. Pg. 14 Instructions for configuring inventory tracking changed. For...

My Store Header Disappears When I Remove the Logo and Shop Name.

If you remove the logo and shop name from the header in certain Shopping Cart Creator themes, the header will disappear. This is because there isn't any data in the header. To fix this, use...

When I Try to Add a Product to My Cart, Nothing Happens.

This issue is caused when your web server isn't properly configured to handle sessions. Sessions are how PHP remembers things like what a customer puts in their cart, subtotals, totals, and...

How Do You Configure Shipping Within the Software?

CoffeeCup Shopping Cart Creator gives you control over all the elements of your online store. This includes all aspects of shipping, including setting a description and price. At this...

When I Check Out Using Google Checkout, I Get an Error.

Possible Error #1: When I click Checkout using the Google Checkout payment option, I receive this error message: Google Checkout has returned an error! Ack: error Message:...

How Do I Locate Full Order Details When Using Authorize.Net?

The API Shopping Cart Creator Pro uses with Authorize.Net only allows a small number of characters to be sent over e-mail with the order details. However, this information can be found online in...

Transferring Your Work to Shopping Cart Creator Pro.

Follow these steps to transfer the files you created in the basic version of Shopping Cart Creator to Shopping Cart Creator Pro.  Option #1 If you haven't customized a...

Which Merchant Accounts Do You Support?

At this time, Shopping Cart Creator supports PayPal  (Website Standard and Express). We chose to support this option in particular because of its reliability. With more then 164 million user...

Chapter 2: Creating a Basic Shop

In this tutorial, we’re going to design a shop with two categories, each with one product. This example is going to create product descriptions for CoffeeCup merchandise, but you can use the...

How Do I Install Shopping Cart Creator?

If you are installing the registered version of the software, it is highly recommended that you uninstall the trial version before installing the registered version, and then restart your...

How Do I Configure Authorize.Net for Use With Shopping Cart Creator Pro?

Follow these steps to configure your Authorize.Net account for use with CoffeeCup Shopping Cart Creator Pro: Create an account with Authorize.Net. ( Click here more information about...

Chapter 8: Working in Pages View

Pages view allows you to customize the text on your static shop pages, create up to five additional webpages, and add meta keywords and descriptions and header text for every page in your...

Chapter 9: Creating an S-Drive or Server Profile and Publishing your Shop

In order to put your shop online, you’ll need to upload it to your server. You have two options for this process: Using CoffeeCup S-Drive or another FTP account. Once you’ve set up your S-Drive...

Chapter 5: Setting Up Payment

Follow these steps to set up payment in Shopping Cart Creator Pro: 1. Click the Payment button in the Toolbar.This opens the Payment tab of the Shop Settings window.    ...

Using the Product Grid Tab

The Product Grid tab lays out all the data about your products in one convenient place. It comes in handy when you want to make quick edits to a lot of products at once. To open  Product...

How Do I Manage Orders and Payments?

Shopping Cart Creator is not used to manage orders and payments. These aspects are handled through PayPal  for Shopping Cart Creator Basic and PayPal, Authorize.Net , Google Checkout ,...

Chapter 3: Managing Inventory

Using the inventory tool, you can keep track of your inventory and transaction history. In this section, you’ll learn how to use it. Please keep in mind that although this tool is a great...

I Am Unable to Update the Quantity of Products in My Cart.

When I am at the checkout page for my shop, I see the quantity is set to 1 for a product that I just added to my cart. When I try to change the value to another number and click update...

When Trying to Publish My Shop I Receive the Error "Failed While Saving Products"

If you are trying to export or publish your shop and you receive an error message that says, "Failed while saving products," the likely cause is a security setting in your anti-virus...

How to make Shopping Cart Creator Work with PHP 5.x

At this time, Shopping Cart Creator has not been updated to support PHP 5. However, with just a small change to one of the included PHP files, you can make the shop function correctly. Here is...

Chapter 1: Getting to know the Shopping Cart Creator Pro Workspace

    1. Product List view Allows you to view and manage basic information about all your products and categories. 2. Product Detail view Allows you to make in-depth...

What are the Limitations of the Trial Version of Shopping Cart Creator?

The trial version of Shopping Cart Creator has the same functionality as the registered version with two exceptions: You cannot remove the "Shopping Cart Software by CoffeeCup Software"...

When I Published My Shop, it Overwrote My index.html Page!

Shopping Cart Creator saves its shops with the filename index.php . This won’t present a problem if your shop has its own unique domain name, such as shop.mydomain.com , but it may be...