Payment cards can include all types of plastic cards consumers (businesses) use to make purchases.
Here is an optional reading that explains the three types of cards – credit cards, debit cards, charge cards
Another interesting article is the history of credit card, click here.
Here are some interesting articles related to shipping
Shipping Modules
Explain each of the shipping modules and provide example of how shipping price is calculate
Flat rate setting
Example: Flat Rate adds a fixed shipping cost to a customer’s order regardless of how many items were bought. If a customer buys a product A priced at $5 where quantity is 4 and buys product B priced at $20 where quantity is 3, the shipping cost regardles of how many different products and quantity are purchased will be fixed price that the storeowner set. In this example, the shipping cost for Flat rate Shipping option will be $5
Basis Of Product Tax
If you have physical store or have sellers from many different states, you are obligated to pay sales tax to those states. In this scenario, you should use Shipping as the Basis of product tax and have zone definition for each state nexus exist between your business and the state. For the same scenario, if the product is a service or virtual, then you should use Billing as the basis of product.
If you want to have one sales tax for one zone and then another tax for all other zones, then use Store as Basis for product Tax.
Here are some good resources about US State Sales tax
Using the resources given above and reading assignment pages 350-351 from Schneider’s book, write a comment answering the following questions
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Configuring the US state sales tax – single rate (Reference)
Below are steps for creating new zone, zone definition, Tax class, and Tax rate, which we did in class already. You can refer to this post when doing your final project or future personal projects.
FIRST, set your store’s zone properly:
Admin > Configuration > My Store > Zone
Choose your country and zone from the lists provided by the edit button.
Here is an example, for setting up taxes for the state of Colorado:
Go to:
Admin > Locations/Taxes > Zones Definitions > Insert
Zone Name: Colorado
Description: Colorado State Sales Tax (or whatever you like)
click on ‘insert’
Click on ‘Details’ after creating a zone
Click on ‘Insert’
Country = United States
Zone = Colorado
Click on ‘insert’
Go to:
Admin > Locations/Taxes > Tax Classes
Click on ‘New Tax Class’
Title = Taxable Goods
Description = Whatever you like
Click on ‘insert’
Go to: Admin>Locations/Taxes> Tax Rates
Click on ‘New Tax Rate’
Select your zone, ‘Colorado’
Set your tax rate
give it a description, ex: Colorado State Sales Tax
Click on insert
Last, make sure you apply the new tax class that you created (Taxable Goods) to any and all products that you might be charging tax on.
To make this faster when adding new products, in the Admin area, you can select a default Tax Class to be applied to all new products you create, by selecting Catalog>Product Types>(choose a product type)>Edit Layout> Default Tax Class
There are essentially three steps to creating an attribute for a product.
Also here is another resource
How do I add attributes to my products?
While entering the product details, you can select the Record Artist, the Record Company, the Genre, etc.
Click here for additional information regarding this topic.
There are currently five product types in Zen Cart:
Here are some readings regarding this topic
Zen Cart Product Type Explained
Categories restricted to a specific Product Type
In order to add products to your site, you will first need at least one category.
Create a category by clicking the “new category” button.
warning: Products must be placed inside categories
You must have at least one category, and all your products must be placed inside categories, otherwise Zen Cart will not work as intended and you may experience various problems, like products not showing up and searching is not working etc.
Now click on the newly created category and decide what you want to do.
Do you want the category to have a subcategory or do you want to add products to the category? There can not be both products and categories in a category, it must contain one or the other. There’s no restriction to how many products or categories you can have in a category though, and there’s also no restriction to how many levels of subcategories you want. The only limitation is your server and how much it can handle.
Here are some helpful web pages on this topic
How to create new Category
click here
Zen Cart Category Setting
