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Add to Cart
the second method of interfacing to your existing web site is slightly more complex. a specific hyperlink is added anywhere in your existing web site to routine shopaddtocart.asp . this will allow add...

Adding ClixGalore code to your checkout for affliate tracking
open shopthanksmerchant.asp and change to: <% '******************************************************** ' vp_asp 6.50 jan 5, 2003 ''*******************************************************...

Adding Close Shop link back into short cuts for version 6.50
you can add the close shop short cut back into the admin or any other short cut using the following changes. make sure you make a back up of your files first before proceeding! open shopheaders.asp ...

Adding customer reviews to product page
using the ajax (asynchronous javascript and xml) technology, you can add the customer reviews page to the products page simply by adding some code to the product template file (tmp_product.htm) and mo...

Adding customer reviews to product page (SEO Friendly)
the following code will include the full product review on the extended description page. this solution will be more seo friendly compared to the other guide as search engine will be able to see the r...

Adding Google Analytics to your VPASP site is using 5.50 or earlier
these changes will allow you to use the google analytics tool on your site. open shopproductsubs.asp and add the following sub routine at the bottom of the page before the final %> tag: cons...

Adding surchages to UPS Real-Time
the built-in ups real-time method by default does not support an extra surchage. this can however be added through a simple modification to the file upsxmlrealinterface.asp. please follow the guide be...

Alternate row colours on shopa_editdisplay.asp
untitled document to make it easier to define each row in shopa_editdisplay.asp, you can add some code to alternate the row colours. 1. open shopa_editdisplay.asp and locate the follow...

Batch Printing Order
to enable batch printing for orders you need to: 1. login to you administration page 2. search for xlistallorders and set it to yes. setting this to yes will create "all orders" link...

Buttons as Images
it is possible to replace any or all buttons using images. this can be achieved by changing the values of the xbutton*** configuration settings - where the *** generally refers to the text on ...

Canada Tax
canadian provinces either charge gst and pst on a sale and some provinces charge only hst. vp-asp has the functionality to allow you to set up provincial tax rates for canada, by simply modifying t...

Cart Maximum Limits
there are a number of limits in vp-asp. the following can be altered in shop configuration. these are designed to reduce memory load and overheads. but if you have more categories than the limit sets,...

Changing icons in the header of pages in 6.50
in some pages in vp-asp 6.50, there is a header with a small icon - such as shopcustcontact.asp, shopcustomer.asp and shopcheckout.asp. to change this icon, you need to edit the file directly, rathe...

Changing online HTML Editor to add P tags instead of BRs and DIVs
to replace <div> & <br> while using innovate html editor in v7. 1. open admin\admin$db.asp 2. locate routine function addhtmleditor. 3. to add these lines, below oedit_<%=fieldna...

Credit card payment at order confirmation page
if you are only accepting credit card payments through just paypal or with a hosted payment gateway such as authorize.net sim, you can modify one file so that the "pay with credit card/paypal" button ...

Custom formatting of products on shopdisplayproducts.asp
if you are using templates, then in vpasp version 6, you can define a separate template for displaying a product on shopdisplayproducts.asp. by default, all products will use the tmp_productformat.ht...

Customers are losing the contents of their cart and are getting an error when checking out.
some customers may be complaining that they are losing the contents of their shopping carts when trying to check out or are getting "order has been processed" errors. this is generally caused by the u...

Different homepage content on sites using the same database
i have multiple sites and want to have different homepage content for each one. while there is no built in way to have different homepage content for multiple sites running off the same vp-asp datab...

Dynamic Default Page
you will need to create a new default.asp page to enable it to use the dynamic content tool in the adminstration. to achieve this functionality please try the following: make a backup of the curre...

Editing the menu in VPASP Free Version
one of the features not included in the free version of vpasp is the ability to easily modify the horizontal navigation menu from within the vpasp administration section. if you need to do this in th...

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