Coupons are items, that shop administrators can create and provide to customers (for some reasons). Using this item, the customer receives discount for the current order. Cuponst are NOT assigned to products or the cart. They can be used on any cart that matches the requirements, the coupon has. Consider them as extra item, added to the shopping cart that reduces the total price.

To use the coupons in Your shop, You have to do follow these two steps:

1.  Add the coupon macro on the cart page of the shop;

1.  Define the coupons that will be used in the shop online administration

Information about the fields in the coupon settings page:

ID - something like a label or name. You define the coupon and this is what users fill out when they have it. 
Order Minimum - The minimum amount the order has to be. If order amount is below this number, coupon cannot be used.
Order Limit - How many times you can use this coupon (0 means no limit)
Order Count - How many times coupon is used. It can be edited (if problem occurs or something else). 

(Note: Order count field may not be there)
Valid From - To - (the start/end the coupon can be used).

By default, shop in EzGenerator works with Taxes Included in price of products.

To display prices without Taxes, go to shop settings and enable 'VAT EXC MODE' and 'Tax Handling' options:

in payment settings, make sure tax is included in payment settings :

do upload and login into shop online administration, taxes tab and use "Add CA taxes" button to add tax values for Canada and/or "Add Tax Line" to add US taxes

on tax line use abbreviations --> US (for United States)   CA (for CANADA)

you can find US states abbreviations here

when ready, all prices in shop will be without taxes and tax will be calculated on checkout page (when custommer select country and state)

you can use following macros on cart page to display vat and prices :

or, to make it easier : add new shop page and select : paypal_IPN_ex_vat page layout preset...

To use add custom fields to the shop products data, follow these steps:

1. Open the shop page settings
2. Open the Data dialog
3. Edit the fields
4. Confirm the changes
   
   

   
   
   

5. Open the page where the changes should be visible.

6. Open the macros fields dialog

7. Select the new fields from the macros list

8. Place the macros to the desired place
   
   
   

9. Upload your project changes

10. Go to the shop Online Administration

11. Go to the "settings" section

12. Click on "Update database" button

13. Modify the products (or add new ones)

Note: User input field does not have corresponding field in the products management section (as this is something users fill, not the shop moderator).

To Use Ogone as payment provide in shop: 

a. add new page and select layout "shop_ogone"

b. create Ogone account (on Ogone website)

c. Configure following options in Ogone account

in 1. use url of your shop page with ?action=checkout at the end

in 2. SHA-IN : define password phrase here, you will also need it inside ezgenerator payment settings (see below)

in 3. use url of your shop page with ?action=return at the end

enable option 3. and 4.

in 6. SHA-OUT : define password phrase here, you will also need it inside ezgenerator payment settings (see below)

c.) inside EZGenerator, shop page settings, payment tab define following parameters

ID : your Ogone account ID

SHA-IN,SHA-OUT:  password phrases you defined inside Ogone

multiple shops can be linked to single products database

in this example SHOPA is main shop with source products database and SHOPB is linked shop (will use products database from SHOPA). Also we will create new price field in SHOPA to use different prices for same products in SHOPB (this is not required, both shops can also use same prices)

follow this steps to link SHOPB to SHOPA:

1. in SHOPA, go to shop settings, data and add new field of type 'price', (in this example we will give it name price2)

2. in SHOPB, go to shop settings, settings and define LINKED ID property, Linked ID is internal Ezgenerator page ID of SHOPA, you can find this id on status bar:

3. to use price field, set 'Linked Price Field' to 'price2' (name of field we created in step 1), also you will have to replace all %price% macros on pages of SHOPB with macro %price2%

4. do upload and login to SHOPA first (to apply database changes), then to SHOPB

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how things works:

both shops use their own databases for orders/settings, but share products database from SHOPA

some things you have to know:

- all shop settings defined inside EzGenerator and in online administration are not shared between SHOPA and SHOPB (except for data)

- if you visit administration panel of SHOPB, you actually edit products from SHOPA

- stock information is shared between SHOPA and SHOPB

since version 4.0.0.459 you can limit products/items in shopB by using "limit by" option:

1. in SHOPA define new field (let's call it : "linked") of type boolean

2. in SHOPA set for all products which you want to use in SHOPB, value for field "linked" to TRUE (or YES)

3. in SHOPB settings select "linked" as "limit by" option