Closing the cart?
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Topic: Closing the cart?
Posted By: AnnieCov
Subject: Closing the cart?
Date Posted: 18 December 2010 at 5:17pm
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to close the cart? We are closing for 10 days and I wanted to make the cart unavailable from 23-31 December.
I know I can mark all products as not available but that would take some time. I just wondered if the cart had an on/off button somewhere that I can't find?
We are deep in snow and had no couriers or postal collections on Friday. I've put a header on all our website pages to tell people they won't get anything from us before Christmas but they are still buying like crazy!
Merry Christmas!
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Quality Poster, Photo and Canvas Printing
CD/DVD Duplication
http://www.amc-photographics.com - AMC Photographics
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Posted By: Dave P
Date Posted: 18 December 2010 at 8:20pm
Hi,
'Tools / Options / General'; halfway down the page is a 'Cart Availability' Section. You can create another page on your website and direct your customers to that page instead of allowing them to go to the basket.
Hope this help,
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Regards,
Dave P.
http://www.honeypotgifts.co.uk - Gifts for all at HoneyPotGifts
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Posted By: AnnieCov
Date Posted: 20 December 2010 at 1:55pm
Thank you, I needed to close the cart immediately as we have been told there may be no more courier or postal collections.
I unchecked this in options > general
Cart Availability
Cart is available : *unchecked*
But people are still buying. I logged in to the cart and it is still showing as unchecked. How are people still buying?
I tried it myself and I could still buy if I had carried on to payment. Help!
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Quality Poster, Photo and Canvas Printing
CD/DVD Duplication
http://www.amc-photographics.com - AMC Photographics
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Posted By: raineshoe
Date Posted: 20 December 2010 at 2:29pm
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You could put a big notice in red on your checkout pages saying you are closed over the Xmas period and the dates. Say they can place orders but they will not be despatched until X date. This is what I usually do and its seems to work okay. If you put it at the top of the page if the customer fails to read it its down to them. Also, if they are prepared to wait and still order it means you don't lose orders to the competition.
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Posted By: raineshoe
Date Posted: 20 December 2010 at 2:30pm
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Ps - might be better to say closed due to stock taking which is my wording so that no one knows that the property may be empty, unless of course you have a specific shop unit.
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Posted By: Dave P
Date Posted: 20 December 2010 at 4:31pm
Hi Anniecov,
Did you create the new URL to redirect customers to? If not, the cart doesn't have anywhere to send the customer so they'll still end up in the cart.
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Regards,
Dave P.
http://www.honeypotgifts.co.uk - Gifts for all at HoneyPotGifts
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