How to Set up an Ejunkie Shopping Cart

In the past, selling digitally downloadable items or tangible products online was not only tricky but expensive. Updating the shopping cart was complicated, and often required the help of a web designer who juggled your website with many others. Now, thanks to E-Junkie, updating your shopping cart, paying affiliates, altering prices and giving discounts are all as easy as "point, click and submit."

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Register for an E-Junkie account. (Follow the link in Resources.) Simply provide your name and mailing address.

2. Select a package. E-Junkie offers several packages, ranging from $5 to $265 per month. Packages also vary according to the type of product you sell. Digital-download products take up storage space on E-Junkie’s server, resulting in a slightly higher cost than tangible products that are mailed out manually, like a T-shirt, a vase or greeting cards.

3. Edit your profile. This is where you give your account a name--preferably your company name. It’s also where you set your log-in email and password, upload your company logo and select your payment options. Currently, E-Junkie allows you to accept payment using merchants like PayPal, Google Checkout, 2Checkout, Clickbank and TrialPay, but only accepts payments for its services through a subscription via PayPal.

4. Edit your shipping profile. This area allows you to pick the country from which you ship your products, as well as the countries to which you are willing to ship them. It also allows you to add a dollar amount for handling fees, and to automate shipping fees based on container size and weight.

5. Edit the sales tax and VAT profile. This area allows you to impose tax on products that are shipped to your home state. You can specify more than one state, should your company be registered in more than one.

6. Edit your "discounts and gift certificates" profile. This area allows you to assign a name to each discount you offer, complete with details on the type of discount, the product the discount applies to and the maximum number of products the discount can cover.

7. Add products. Give each product a name and select product requirements (like digital download), Specify the sales tax, price, currency and item number, and add an automated "thank you" email. Next, select how many times your item can be downloaded and when the download link should expire. You can even select inventory control, which allows you to only sell one, five or 10 items—thus guaranteeing that you don’t sell something you don’t have. This is ideal for tangible items.

8. Select shopping-cart functions. This area allows you to incorporate a button that allows visitors to keep shopping, or a button that allows visitors to buy the product immediately without purchasing any other item. Once you’ve selected the appropriate button, copy and paste its corresponding code on your website.

Resources

• E-Junkie
• How To Use E-Junkie Without Customers Seeing It