Setting Up - Quickstart Guide
This is a quickstart guide for setting up your website and FastCart so that you can begin trading as quickly as possible.
Basic Setup Guide
Please follow these simple steps to set up your WorldPay account, your FastCart account and your website.
| 1 | Login to your WorldPay account and set up the Payment Response as per the instructions on the WorldPay Payment Response page.
This will ensure that FastCart can send you the transaction emails with customer and order details.
Please note that the Payment Response was formerly known as the "Callback". |
| 2 | Login to the FastCart Control Panel and set:
You can set other options as required either now or later. Please read the shipping information pages carefully before setting up your shipping - you may find the quickstart guide useful.
Use the test link in the Control Panel to test that your shopping cart connects to your WorldPay account correctly, that your company name and logo are displayed and that the Back to Store button in your shopping cart works. |
| 3 | Create Buy Now or Add to Cart links or buttons on your website.
Remember to use your own FastCart account number instead of the demonstration account number of 1223. Please read the instructions carefully - a few minutes reading can save you a few hours fixing problems later. |
| 4 | Make test transactions through WorldPay. Make sure everything works as expected. |
| 5 | When testing is complete, request activation from WorldPay.
In the box for "payment page URL", enter any page on your site that has a BUY NOW or Add to Cart button or link. WorldPay will test your account and check your site. If there are any problems, they will let you know by email. |
| 6 | Go Live
If all is well, WorldPay will set your WorldPay account to "live" and ask you to change testMode to 0 (zero). You do this with one simple change in the Control Panel - then you can begin trading! |
| 7 | Promote your website. Use pay per click advertising to generate traffic quickly by getting your site listed at the top of search engine listings. We have a special promotion giving you £50 free credit with Yahoo Search Marketing.
Search engine optimisation is essential - it will help your pages be found in more search engines for more search terms. Likewise, a good link building strategy is essential.
Optimising and promoting your website is a lot of work. We can help. |
If you have any difficulty, please check the instructions again to make sure you haven't missed anything out. The most common errors are not setting up the Payment Response (Callback) as per step 1, and using incorrect link or button code in frames based websites. You may also need to consult the
help pages for further information or to contact us for support / help / advice.
