Panel Settings
Checkout Settings
EasyCart’s checkout works with 30+ gateways and shipping systems out of the box. This is an integral, complex part of your store — fine-tune every step of the flow so it fits your business exactly.
Cart Settings
Enable or disable the fields and features shoppers see on the billing, shipping, and confirmation pages.
- Force Site Secure (SSL Certificate Required): Puts your entire site on https:// and secures it. Requires a valid SSL from your web host — once installed, turn this on, since most payment gateways won’t work without a secured site.
- Prevent Cart Caching Problems (Prefer to Leave On): Loads the cart and account system via script so caching plugins stay compatible. You’ll see a brief loader while it loads, but caching plugins and server-side caching will work fine with this on.
- Add to Cart: Stay on Page: Choose whether a shopper stays on the product page after adding to cart, or jumps straight to the cart to view it.
- Enable Estimate Shipping: Lets shoppers estimate shipping — useful with live shipping, such as entering a zip code. Trigger-based shipping calculates automatically, so this section can be safely turned off.
- Enable Zip Code for Estimate Shipping: Let shoppers enter their zip code to estimate shipping.
- Enable Country for Estimate Shipping: Let shoppers select their country to estimate shipping.
- Enable Gift Cards: Let shoppers redeem gift cards by entering a gift card ID at checkout. Disable if you don’t sell or use gift cards.
- Gift Cards Apply to Grand Total: Apply gift card value to the cart total only, with shipping and taxes still applying, or to the entire grand total including shipping and taxes.
- Enable Coupons: Let shoppers redeem coupons at checkout. Disable if you don’t use them.
- Enable Tips and Gratuity: Present shoppers with tip options at checkout — static percentages via a comma-separated list, such as 10, 15, 20, 25 — plus a field for any custom amount.
- Customize Continue Shopping URL: Point the cart’s continue shopping button to a custom URL of your choice.
- Units of Measurement: Choose STANDARD or METRIC for package calculations and certain advanced option sets.
- Cart Minimum Order Total: Require shoppers to hit a minimum cart value before they can proceed to checkout.
- Next Order Number: Bump the auto-incrementing order ID up to a higher integer. You can only raise it — lowering it risks inconsistency with existing order data.
WP EasyCart — Cart Settings
Checkout Form
Shape exactly what shoppers fill out on the way to placing an order.
- Country Combo Box (Recommend to Leave On): Offers a dropdown of valid countries instead of an open text field, keeping data clean for payment gateways, live shipping APIs, and shipping zones. An open text box invites misspelled or non-standard country names that break processing — leave this on in nearly every situation.
- Default Country Selection: Pre-select a default country during billing/shipping so checkout starts one step closer to done.
- Display Country Selection at Top of Form (Recommend to Leave On): Put country first on the billing/shipping form, since it can change the available state/province list and language headers. Off, and country appears near the bottom after city, state, and zip.
- States Change with Country Selection (Recommend to Leave On): Smart state lists — changing the country automatically updates the states/provinces shown. Leave this on to protect data integrity across gateways, live shipping APIs, and shipping zones.
- States Combo Box (Recommend to Leave On): Same logic as the country combo box, applied to states — a dropdown avoids misspelled or non-standard entries that cause payment and shipping errors. Leave this on in nearly every situation.
- Enable Address Line 2: Add a second address line for businesses that need it — some stores relabel it via the language editor to collect a business name instead.
- Enable Phone Number: Choose whether to collect a shopper’s phone number.
- Require Phone Number: Make the collected phone number optional instead of required.
- Enable Company Name: Choose whether to collect a company name and address.
- Require Company Name: Make the collected company name optional instead of required.
- Enable VAT Registration Number: Let shoppers enter a VAT registration number during billing/shipping — required in some countries.
- Enable Customer Notes: Give shoppers a spot on the confirmation page to leave notes or comments for you.
- Enable Terms Agreement: Link to a terms & conditions page you build in WordPress — it appears in the agreement statement shoppers must accept before confirming their order.
- Privacy Policy URL: Link to a privacy policy page you build in WordPress — it appears alongside the terms agreement for shoppers to review and accept.
- Custom Return to Cart URL: Empty by default, sending the continue shopping button back to the store. Set a custom URL here and every shopper’s continue shopping button goes there instead.
- Contact Name for Account Creation: Collect a shopper’s first and last name during account creation — useful when it differs from their billing/shipping details. Off, and only a password is required to create an account.
- Bypass Shipping Selection Page: Skip the shipping panel after billing/shipping when it’s not needed — trigger-based shipping is already calculated, or you may simply prefer a streamlined flow with shipping choices on the payment page instead.
- Allow Guest Checkout: Let shoppers skip creating a password and saving account data. The only real difference from a regular checkout is that password. Digital-download products still require an account to access purchased goods.
- Additional Email: Let shoppers enter a secondary email during checkout — every receipt, shipping notice, and EasyCart email for that order goes there too. It’s tied to the order only, not the shopper’s account, and shows on the order details panel.
WP EasyCart — Checkout Form
Order Statuses
Relabel standard statuses or build your own — a few critical fields stay locked.
Change the label on any standard order status, or add a custom one at the bottom of the list. Mark each status as approved, pending, or no-payment — that flag controls what a shopper sees on the front end, including access to downloadable products and membership content.
WP EasyCart — Order Statuses
Checkout Stock Control
Decide how EasyCart reacts as tracked inventory runs low or runs out.
- Send Low Stock Admin Emails: Email your admin users automatically once a tracked product’s inventory hits its low-stock trigger.
- Low Stock Trigger Quantity: Sets the quantity that fires the low-stock email.
- Send Out of Stock Admin Emails: Email your admin users automatically the moment a tracked product’s stock quantity drops to zero.
WP EasyCart — Checkout Stock Control
Payment Page Options
The final settings that shape your last checkout screen.
- Collect Card Holder Name: Collect the card holder’s name during live gateway credit card transactions. Rarely required by processors, but helpful when it’s passed along.
- Default Payment Selection: Choose which payment method is pre-selected at checkout — handy when manual, third-party, and live payments are all enabled at once.
WP EasyCart — Payment Page Options
Premium Feature
Text Alerts On Every Order Status Change
Let customers punch in a phone number and get a text the moment their order status changes. It’s a low-cost monthly cloud service from WP EasyCart — sign up once and we handle every send, with messages you fully customize. Shoppers opt in right from the thank-you page after checkout. Read the full guide here to sign up.
WP EasyCart — Cloud Messaging Setup
Store Scheduling Checkout Settings
Flip on restaurant scheduling and EasyCart becomes a full preorder and pickup platform — these settings appear right on the final Payment page next to each item.
- Restaurant Orders: Scheduling Range: Sets the time intervals shoppers can pick from — 15 minutes means shoppers choose their preorder/pickup time in 15-minute increments.
- Restaurant Orders: Expected Prep Time: The time you need to prep each order. Choose ASAP and shoppers see this exact window as their pickup estimate — 30 minutes means ‘ready in 30 minutes’; need 45, select 45.
- Cart Schedule: Preorder for Pickup Instructions: Custom instructions shown on the final payment page for the preorder section.
- Cart Schedule: Restaurant Pickup Instructions: Custom instructions shown on the final payment page for the restaurant section.
WP EasyCart — Store Scheduling Checkout Settings
Checkout Running Exactly How You Want?
From SSL to scheduling to stock alerts, checkout touches every part of the sale. If a setting isn’t behaving the way you expect, our support team can help you sort it out.