When using Google Checkout, you can sell with complete confidence. Google Checkout's industry-leading fraud protection program keeps you safe from fraud while helping you lower costs and increase sales. Here's how:

Guaranteed Payment: Checkout's Payment Guarantee protects 98% of Checkout orders on average -- when an order is guaranteed, you get paid even if it results in a chargeback.

Free Protection: While merchants are typically charged for fraud protection services, Google's comprehensive protection is free.

Lower Fraud Costs: Checkout's fraud detection systems reduce fraud and manual review costs by proactively filtering out fraudulent orders.

More Sales: The same systems also help increase sales by identifying legitimate orders that you might otherwise mark as fraudulent.

Fair Treatment: Unlike other services that immediately deduct funds from you for chargebacks, Google does so only after a decision has been made as to who is at fault.

You can now conveniently update customer billing & shipping information via the console.

Additional resources include editing status (registered, etc.), view password, click to email a customer their password.

This consolidation will help to minimize the number of areas an admin needs to go to make basic changes to a record or view basic information.

To add your Paypal account to your site and enable customers ability to pay by Paypal: Go to admin >> Manage General Information >> Payment Options. Then add your Paypal accounts email address. This is the address Paypal will deposit your funds after a completed transaction. You will receive a receipt from your site when a customer places a Paypal order. You will need to check your Paypal account to verify that the funds for the order were deposited.

Operations Manager Plug-in
-View orders

As each order is sent to you, we will send you an email and log the transaction here.
Note, if you use Paypal, you will want to wait for their email or check Paypal.com to confirm that the customer sent the payment. If you use a credit card service such as LinkPoint each sale will log if the card was charged successfully or not.
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Those are the basics to getting started. Feel free to email us with any questions.

 Post it on Base. Find it on Google.

In working with Google we have created an application to create an XML format of all your products. This XML feed is an easily digestable format for Google to index. With our Google base product feed you can easily submit all your products to Google. This is a great way to get your products extra visibilty in search results in Google.com and Froogle.com

For more info on Google Base from Google.com, click here

View sample product XML product feed created for Google:

MintCoinDealer

PacMansPlace

Feeds last for 30 days on Google. We will script your database to feed Google monthly for a service fee of $25 per month. Contact: Billing@CaliforniaImage.biz

You now have detailed item information for each items on a given order. You can now specify when an item is backordered, or shipped. Each product has a status date indicating when the order is placed, shipped or placed on backorder.

When you set the order status as "shipped" all your items are set as shipped along with the date you made the update. (So if all but one item is shipped you can then set that item to backordered.) Your customer can view their order status when they log in and see an updated order status with any messages you sent via the "email customer utility".

*Note, the platform is using Google services which is subject to change.

To add Paypal as a payment option, go to: -Manage General Information: -Payment Options Then under "Paypal" enter the email address you have on your Paypal account.

The Paypal payment option will appear on each products webpage under the typical add to cart button. The product name and single unit price will be sent to Paypal. So integration with Paypal is now seamless.

To edit the graphics login to the admin then choose: Manage General Information:/
And select "Cart Buttons".

There you will see a list of button sets to choose from. Just click the left hand button and press update to apply the new graphic set.

To make changes, go to:
Admin Page/
Choose options:
Manage General Information:/
Payment Options/

Easier managment for controlling payment options you receive from customers:

Credit Card: Checkboxes
VISA
MASTERCARD
AMERICAN EXPRESS
DISCOVER
DINERS
Mail Order (Check/Money Order) Invoice Option

This plug-in includes a utility that allows you to input the following information: source code, destination URL, program, description, keyword, even offer free shipping from a given link.

When you submit the above information to program will output a link. Ex: http://www.cfwebmaster.com/source.cfm?id=254. When people place an order via the tracking link the order will be tagged with the "source code" you entered when creating the tracking link. You can view the source code when your "view order" or view the email copy of the order.

The goal of this tool is to help you see where your orders are coming from and how many clicks you have from a given link. Ex: In any ad that you setup for an ad program such as Google you can have a distinct sourcecode to track the performance of each ad. This is more accurate over Google's conversion tool because this tracking is built specific to your site.

We hope that this tool allows you to better monitor conversion of ad spend and the general value of outside programs in relation to sales.

-For pricing information email billing@californiaimage.biz

This utility will allow you to tag the source of orders from any link that you publish on another site such as Google adwords or any other advertising program.

By adding "?sc=source" onto any .cfm page your pages will be tracked. (Where "source" is a 9 character identification code.) You may need to substitute the ? for a & if you already are using a ? in your link. When people place an order via the link that you published the order will be tagged with that "source code". You can view the source code when your "view order" or view the email copy of the order.

The goal of this tool is to help you see where your orders are coming from. Ex: In any ad that you setup for an ad program such as Google you can have a distinct sourcecode to track the performance of each ad. This is more accurate over Google's conversion tool because this tracking is built specific to your site.

Ex: Link you publish on Google for a product that you sell: http://www.cfwebmaster.com/index.cfm?sc=GoogleAD1 Link you publish in an email to customers: http://www.cfwebmaster.com/store/newproduct.cfm?code=HDS534&sc=EmailAD44 We hope that this tool allows you to better monitor conversion of ad spend and the general value of outside programs in relation to sales.

The default message states: "Questions?
Comments?
How did you hear about us:"

To modify this text look for: >Site Manager Plug-in >Manage General Information: >General Site Text >"Cart Comments Text"

For the 3 main USPS shipping options we have a toggle to enable or disable the shipping options. Ex. Clicking N on parcel post will remove the shipping option from the site.

The shipping rates are served directly from USPS based on the weight of the order. Make sure that you have accurately entered the weight of the products to have USPS serve up the appropriate rates for the order.

Here in the admin you can add to the base cost of the USPS shipping option. Ex. Parcel Post and Priority Mail are generally close in cost. Thus Parcel Post can be you low price shipping option, and you can add a few dollars to the Priority mail option to cover your shipping and add to your bottom line.

Note the global shipping options "Packing weight" & "Added Shipping Cost" still apply to the USPS options. So adding a shipping cost will be additive with the USPS cost & base cost which you declare.

These message boards are easy to deploy onto an existing website.

Features include:
-Auto upgrading of software.
-Emotioncon icons
-Auto email- moderator to lookout for questionable posts.
-Auto email- original poster, to allow notification of a reply. This is a nice viral marketing tool.
-Improved ease of moderation. Once you are logged in as an ADMIN you can view any message and either edit or delete a post using the admin tools at the bottom of each message.
-Improved message board community member tools. Once a member is logged in they too can edit or delete any of their messages at the bottom of the message posting.
-For each message category, you can assign an image icon to be associated. Thus when looking at the message board index page you can recognize all messages in a category by that image.
You can also click on a category image to display only messages relating to that category.

-For pricing information email billing@californiaimage.biz

The field is called "SORT". You can assign a number to this field to change the sequence of the products.

A value of 1 will move the product to the first position in the category list and store index. Any remaining products with no declared SORT value will be listed alphabetically by the product name.

We have also added a shipping option called "destination". Here you can assign a shipping option to a specific country. This will reduce the options available to your customers to allow for a more targeted shipping rate.

Password Mask- NO | YES If yes, areas that display password as visitor types it in will display asterisks instead of characters being typed.

This differs from the Print Order in that it lacks the payment information and customizable message to the customer which is described below.

To edit the receipt, go to:

Update General Site Text: And edit: "Printable Receipt Top (html)" You can add html such as an image reference to your main logo and a text thank you message..

Note, we recommend changing the print settings (page setup) before printing. Remove the header and footer to look professional and prevent disclosing the webpage administrative url.