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TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce

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TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce

Overview of this book

The popularity of online shopping has increased drastically over the past few years. TYPO3 is fully equipped to meet all the challenges of modern electronic commerce. TYPO3 can be enlarged afrom a pure content-based online catalog to a fully-grown shop system with a variety of extensions. It may be easy to plan a website but when it comes to implementing the design and developing a successful e-commerce site, you might come across a lot of difficulties.This book teaches all the aspects of quickly setting up a feature-packed, easy-to-build e-commerce site—from basic installation and configuration of TYPO3 through adding features step-by-step to an example website. It demonstrates the setting up of an online TYPO3 e-commerce site from scratch and walks you through lucrative tips on attracting customers and maximizing profit.This book takes you through the creation of an appealing online shop in steps. It starts with the basics of TYPO3 and TYPO3 installation and shows how to use its standard features to begin construction of an online shop. It will help you improve the selling interface and handling of orders with new modules and other customizations. It discusses various template configurations and plugins. You will learn how to build attractive product catalogs, profiles for registered and unregistered users, and online shop SEO. You will also learn to provide effective search facilities for systematic navigation of your site. Further, various modules for payment and delivery will be discussed. Finally, you will learn how to manage and market your site.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
TYPO3 4.2 E-Commerce
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 7. Ordering Organization—Modules of Payment and Delivery

This chapter describes how to add modules of payment and delivery for your products. Also, this chapter covers the safety aspects of ordering. For managing an online shop, you need a solution for processing these orders. Some extensions are necessary for managing orders from the backend side. But security certificates (SSL) become necessary when you are performing transactions using credit cards, which are very handy for your online shop visitors.

Topics covered in this chapter are:

  • Modules of payment and delivery

  • Use of SSL

By the end of this chapter, you will have configured add-ins for safe payment and products delivery.

Processing orders

If you are going to use your online shop not only as a web catalogue but also to allow customers to order products, then you need some solution to process these orders in your online shop.

The previously described extension "tt_products" already includes all the elements for your e-Commerce:

  • Processing...