Link Help for Toolkits
The Toolkit (full cart) account uses Add to Cart, View Cart, and Checkout links. (If you have 15 or less products and wish to use the eOrder Form option, please follow the directions given for the Toolbag  account.) The HTML code for these links is automatically created for you in your eManager. All you need to do is copy the code, and paste it into your web pages.
Here's how:
1.  Enter your products into your eManager. If you are practicing, just enter one "test" product for now. 

2.  In eManager, in the Product Related Activities section, select Generate Cart HTML Code from the drop down menu and click Go.

3.  Select whether to use text links, or graphic links. (If you choose to use graphic links you will need to download the graphics as the instructions indicate, and place them on your host server.)  These examples will use the more basic text links.

4.  After selecting text links, click the Continue button.

5.  A page will come up that offers you the choice to Download a Zip File or Download Text File. For now, click on the link that says Download Text File.

6. A page will be displayed for you that contains HTML code sets. The top line of each set indicates what it is for. The first set on the page will be for your View Cart links and will look like this:

<!-- ------------------( VIEW CART HTML CODE )------------------- -->
<A HREF="http://www.gochargeit.com/youraccountcode/cart.htm?view">
View Cart</A>
<!-- ------------------------------------------------------------- -->

That same set of code can be used repeatedly throughout your web pages. All of your View Cart links will be the same. 

The second set of code will be for your Checkout links and will look like this:

<!-- -----------------( CHECKOUT HTML CODE )--------------------- -->
<A HREF="http://www.gochargeit.com/youraccountcode/safeorder.htm">
Checkout</A>
<!-- ------------------------------------------------------------- -->

Like the View Cart code, this single code set can be used repeatedly throughout your web pages. All Checkout links will be the same.

The rest of the code sets will be for your Add to Cart links. There will be one code set for each and every product in your database. Each code set can be identified by the product code. They will look like this.

<!-- --( ADD TO CART HTML CODE For Product Code: MyCode1 )--- -->
<A HREF="http://www.gochargeit.com/youraccountcode/cart.htm?add+MyCode1">
Add to Cart</A>
<!-- ------------------------------------------------------------- -->

TIP: To help you more easily match your products to the codes you used, select Email List of Product Codes from the Product Related Activites section of your eManager. The system will email you a list of your product codes along with the descriptions you entered for them.

7. You may save the web page with your HTML code sets as a .txt file on your local computer, or, if you wish, simply leave your browser open on it as you work. Remember that you can go into the HTML code generator any time you want, as many times as you want. It will always create code sets for every product in your current database. 

8.  Now open the FrontPage program on your computer, and open a web page. Let's work with a new blank page. At the bottom of your FrontPage screen you will see three tabs labeled Normal, HTML and Preview. The Normal tab is automatically selected when you open a new page. Your page will be completely blank. 

9.  Click on the HTML tab at the bottom of your screen. This will display the page in HTML mode. Depending on your version of FrontPage, the code you see will look something like this:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<title>New Page 1</title>
</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

Note the <body> tag. Think of that as the starting point for your page content. The tag that has the forward slash, </body> is the ending point for your page content. You want to be sure that you place your HTML code sets someplace between these two body tags.

10.  Go to the code generator, (or the .txt file if you saved it on your computer) and highlight the code set for View Cart. Once the entire code set is highlighted, you want to copy it. You can Copy in one of three ways:

  • Right click your mouse and select Copy from the menu, or...

  • Go to the top of your screen and select Edit, then select Copy from the menu, or...

  •  Press the Ctrl key on your keyboard and the letter C key on your keyboard at the same time.

The highlighted text will now be copied to your computer's clipboard.

11.  After you copy the code set, go back to the FrontPage you have opened in HTML mode on your computer. Place your cursor anywhere between the opening and closing body tags, and Paste. You can Paste in one of three ways:
  • Right click your mouse and select Paste from the menu, or...

  • Go to the top of your screen and select Edit, then select Paste from the menu, or...

  •  Press the Ctrl key on your keyboard and the letter V key on your keyboard at the same time.

The code set you copied from the generator will now appear in the FrontPage web page.

12.  Go to the bottom of your screen in FrontPage, and click on the Normal tab to take you back to normal view. You will have a single text hyperlink in your page that will say View Cart. 
Please note that if you attempt to test this link from your local computer it will not wok. You must publish your web page to your host server before testing your links.

13. Now go back to the code generator and repeat the copy routine for your Checkout code set.

14. Return to FrontPage, click the HTML tab to go back into HTML mode, and paste the code set. Now when you click on the Normal tab you will see two links..one that says View Cart, and one that says Checkout. Again, the code for these two links will always be the same. You can copy/paste these two code sets on as many pages and in as many places as you like. It will always be the same.

15.  To place your Add to Cart links you will use the same procedure. Copy from the generator, paste into FrontPage in HTML mode. Note that each code set will create a link that will appear the same from a web page...they will all say Add to Cart. For this reason you will want to place each Add to Cart link next to or near the product it applies to in your web page. 

16.  If you want to change the wording of your Add to Cart links, for example, if you want a link to say Order Me instead of Add to Cart, you can do this. Look at this code set..

<!-- --( ADD TO CART HTML CODE For Product Code: MyCode1 )--- -->
<A HREF="http://www.gochargeit.com/youraccountcode/cart.htm?add+MyCode1">
Add to Cart</A>
<!-- ------------------------------------------------------------- -->

Note the last portion of the link, where it says Add to Cart</A>
To change the label of the link, change the text. For example..

<!-- --( ADD TO CART HTML CODE For Product Code: MyCode1 )--- -->
<A HREF="http://www.gochargeit.com/youraccountcode/cart.htm?add+MyCode1">
Order Me</A>
<!-- ------------------------------------------------------------- -->

You can do this either in HTML view in FrontPage, or you can do it in Normal view after you have pasted the code in HTML view. In Normal view, simply highlight the link Add to Cart, and change the text to Order Me (or whatever you prefer).

How Does It Work?
Sometimes it is easier to understand how to use something when you better understand how it works. So, here is a simplified explanation of what happens. 

Let's say for example that you have a product called Cake. Your code for that product is Cake1, and the Add to Cart link for the product Cake1 is clicked on from your web page. When the link is clicked on a "message" of sorts is sent to your eManager database. It tells the database to find the product record with the code Cake1, and display it, along with it's description, and it's price. The description, price, and any other information, such as per product shipping, etc. that you have entered into your product record in your eManager, are accessed ONLY when that product's Add to Cart link is clicked on.

Let's suppose further that you want to change the price of Cake. As long as you do not change the product's code, you will not need to change the Add to Cart link in your web page to change the price of the product. You need only edit the product record for Cake1 in your eManager. The next time the Add to Cart link is clicked on, it will pull up the product record from your eManager and display it with whatever information it contains. 

In essence, the Add to Cart links in your web pages link directly to the product records in your eManager. The View Cart links go directly to the shopping cart when it contains items, and the Checkout links go directly to the order forms and payment input forms. All of these things...the order forms, product records, payment forms, are controlled from your eManager. Any changes you make in eManager take place immediately and require no changes to your web page links.


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