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HistoryUpdated Jan 29, 2008 2:18 PM by David…

GroovyCart is an online shop hosting service that allows anyone to set up an online shop.

To create your own online shop you will need to go the GroovyCart registration page.

There are only 6 fields that you need to fill in to open a Groovy Cart online shop.

Registration Page

Required Information

Shopping Cart Name:

This will be used as the name and URL of your online shop. We recommend that you do not use the word shop in your shop name as we will put this on in all the necessary places.

The URL to your shop will be www.groovycart.co.uk/YOUR SHOP NAME so if you called your shop JillsSocks the website address for your site would be www.groovycart.co.uk/jillssocks We do allow users to use spaces in their shop name but we feel this is not recommended because customers may not be used to putting blank spaces in URLs and may find it hard to find your shop.

Examples of shop names are:

JillsSocks
The Photo Company
Funky Furniture

For more information see shopping cart name.

Login Name:

This will be the name you use to login to your administration panel, from here you can change all aspects of your shop from putting up products and viewing orders to changing the colours and moving widgets around.

You must remember your login name because without it we will not reset your password.

For more information see login name.

Login Password:

This is the password you will use to login to your administration panel.

Your password should contain numbers and letter, we also recommend that you do not use words that are in the dictionary because this will make your password easy to guess.

For more information see login password.

Repeat Password:

We ask that you retype your password that you used above to look for mistyped letters.

For more information see repeat password.

For more information on passwords see login password.

Your/Company Name:

This is what you want people to know you by, this could be your name or if you own and shop/company you may wish to enter that.

This may be displayed to your customers in E-mails sent by us on behalf of you, or on orders that people have made with you.

Examples of names could be:

Joe Blogs
The Picture Company
The Art Shop

For more information see your/company name.

E-mail Address:

This is the E-mail address that will be used as your contact address. It will be used for:

GroovyCart administrators to contact you
To update you about information about your shop (new orders ect)
It will be put on all of your shop pages as your contact E-mail address
It will be put in E-mails to your customers

You must enter a valid E-mail address format before you are allowed to open your shop.

For more information see E-mail address.

Once you have filled in Shopping Cart Name, Login Name, Password, Repeat Password, Your Name, Your E-mail address you have filled in the 6 essential fields needed to open a groovy cart shop, you can skip all the other fields if you wish but it it not recommended.

Optional Information

Optional Link to your Website:

If you already have a website you can put your website address in this box and we will link to it on all of your shop pages.

You must use your full path name including the HTTP://

Examples of domains are:

http://www.example.com

http://www.example.co.uk

http://www.example.co.uk/folder/

You are not required to provide a website.

for more information see optional link to your website.

Initial Style:

This will change the starting colours that your shop will use.

You can change any of the colours of your online shop at any time from administration panel > change your cart colours (click here to go directly to the change colours page).

for more information see initial style.

Create/select a Cart Category:

This is the category that you would classify your shop as.

The first box allows you to type a new Category for your online shop, you should use this feature if you feel there are no items in the dropdown that describe your shop.

The second box allows you to select a category that is already in use, we recommend that you select a category from this box because your shop will be categorized with these other shops and will be easier for people to find.

Examples of cart categories are:

Arts and Crafts
Clothes
Furniture

It is possible for you to provide any category of shop you like, but it is recommended that you select a category that other people use because this will mean your shop will be grouped with them and will be easier to be found.

For more information see cart category or select cart category.

You should have now successfully filled in all the required information to start a Groovy Cart online shop. Click 'Create Shopping Cart' to produce your online shopping cart.

You shouldn't worry too much about getting all the information prefect because all of the information can be changed at a later date.

Now you have made your online shop you may find the next guide Getting Ready For Business helpful.

Optional Payment Information

To access the optional payment settings you must click on the link saying "click here to insert optional payment information" this will then be displayed below the link.

Cheque Made Payable to:

If you wish to accept cheques you can put the name that people should make their cheques out to here.

If you do not wish to accept cheques then you should leave this field blank and it will remove all the payment by cheque methods from your online shop.

For more information see cheques.

Your PayPal Address is:

PayPal is a method that money can be sent/received over the internet without having to give out any personal information like a credit card number.

If you do not wish to receive money via PayPal then leave this field blank.

To get a PayPal account go to www.paypal.co.uk/uk

Your PayPal address should be in E-mail format and is the E-mail address that you used to sign up to PayPal with.

For more information on this field see Paypal.

Your Google Checkout Merchant ID is:

Google Checkout is a method that allows credit cards to be be used easily online.

To get a Google Checkout account go to www.google.co.uk/checkout

Your Merchant ID is a unique, numeric code assigned to your business by Google.

To find your Merchant ID, sign in to Google Checkout and click the settings tab. Your Merchant ID will appear under 'Primary contact information.'

For more information see Google Checkout merchant ID.

Your Google Checkout Merchant Key is:

Google Checkout is a method that allows credit cards to be be used easily online.

To get a Google Checkout account go to www.google.co.uk/checkout

Your Merchant Key is a unique, alphanumeric code that helps secure your communications with Google

To find your Merchant Key, sign in to Google Checkout and click the Settings tab, then click Integration. Your Merchant Key will appear under 'Account information'.

For more information see Google Checkout merchant key.

Check this if you accept payment via post:

If you wish to allow your customers to pay you via post (i.e. cheque, postal order) you should tick this box.

If you tick this box you will have to provide an address to us because this address will be provided to your customers that select to pay via post.

For more information see payment via post.

Optional Contact Information

To access the optional contact settings you must click on the link saying "click here to insert optional contact information" this will then be displayed below the link.

Phone Number:

This should be a contact number that people can use if they have problems with their order.

If you provide a phone number here when users make an order with you they will be shown your phone number so they can contact you if they have problems.

Your phone number will not be displayed to people unless they make an order with you.

For more information see phone number.

Fax Number:

At the moment your fax number is not displayed at any point on your online shop, if you do use fax then we recommend that you still fill this in so when we do implement it your shop will display your fax number.

For more information see fax number.

Address Line 1:

This is the address that you wish any postal payments to be sent to.

Address line 1 should be used to display the street and house number.