Customizing a remote checkout form
Your merchant provider will require that information sent to the gateway meets with the architecture of their system and is configured appropriately to work within the settings of your merchant account.
The merchant gateway support provided within eCart is designed to facilitate the configuration of your checkout form, but you are responsible for the proper configuration of your merchant account to take advantage of these features.
Please review the documentation specific to your merchant gateway to determine what information is necessary in your checkout form specific to your merchant account configuration.
The form is inserted into the page using a simple table structure to organize all the visible form elements and their labels.
Once the form has been inserted, you can customize the look and feel specific to your needs using Dreamweaver's design features.
The action attribute of the form needs to point to the http:// location of your merchant gateway's hosted form to process the transaction.
You can add, remove, or modify the provided form elements as necessary. Insert Checkout Form can only create form fields of the type hidden, text field, or select list, so you may wish to modify these after the insertion.
Some variables have options to be configured that the user can select from a list, such as payment type. Insert Checkout Form cannot specify multiple options within its configuration interface for a given variable.
Variables that contain this type of information need to have the options added to the select list manually in order for the selection to pass the appropriate information based on a selection in the list. Select list options can be modified directly using the Property Inspector when a given list is selected on the page.
The value of an option needs to correspond to the available values associated to a given variable within your merchant gateway's architecture.
Insert Checkout Form also inserts a simple form button to submit the form. You may remove this and use an image form field if you don't want to use a form button. Image fields can be inserted into the form through the Dreamweaver menu Insert > Form > Image Field.
Note: Checkout button images specific to shopping cart displays are inserted into the WA_eCart/Images folder in the root of your site when you have used the eCart Display Manager to create a shopping cart display.
The merchant gateway support provided within eCart is designed to facilitate the configuration of your checkout form, but you are responsible for the proper configuration of your merchant account to take advantage of these features.
Please review the documentation specific to your merchant gateway to determine what information is necessary in your checkout form specific to your merchant account configuration.
Guidelines
The Insert Checkout Form feature creates a basic form that contains all the form elements necessary to submit a checkout.The form is inserted into the page using a simple table structure to organize all the visible form elements and their labels.
Once the form has been inserted, you can customize the look and feel specific to your needs using Dreamweaver's design features.
The action attribute of the form needs to point to the http:// location of your merchant gateway's hosted form to process the transaction.
You can add, remove, or modify the provided form elements as necessary. Insert Checkout Form can only create form fields of the type hidden, text field, or select list, so you may wish to modify these after the insertion.
Some variables have options to be configured that the user can select from a list, such as payment type. Insert Checkout Form cannot specify multiple options within its configuration interface for a given variable.
Variables that contain this type of information need to have the options added to the select list manually in order for the selection to pass the appropriate information based on a selection in the list. Select list options can be modified directly using the Property Inspector when a given list is selected on the page.
The value of an option needs to correspond to the available values associated to a given variable within your merchant gateway's architecture.
Insert Checkout Form also inserts a simple form button to submit the form. You may remove this and use an image form field if you don't want to use a form button. Image fields can be inserted into the form through the Dreamweaver menu Insert > Form > Image Field.
Note: Checkout button images specific to shopping cart displays are inserted into the WA_eCart/Images folder in the root of your site when you have used the eCart Display Manager to create a shopping cart display.