To change the shopping cart admin password, select the Change Admin button of the admin interface. Refer to Figure 2-1. Once you submit this change, it will take effect immediately. After submitting a new password, you will be prompted to enter your new password before proceeding. Once you enter your new password in your browser's login box, you will be able to continue to administer your shop.
2.6 Purge Cart Database
To purge the cart database, select the Purge Cart Database button on the main admin interface as seen in Figure 2-1.This helps you save disk space by deleting all shopping carts that have expired. The expiration time is set in the shop configuration section discussed in the Cookie Timeout section above. We suggest you purge expired shopping carts every month or so. Figure 2-43 shows information displayed after shopping carts are purged.
Your cart database has been purged
Active carts in database
3
Expired carts that have been removed
4
Number of Empty Cart
2
Disk space recovered (bytes)
15
Figure 2-43
2.7 Review Orders
To review orders, select the Review Orders button from the main admin interface. This will show you all orders. Some of the orders may not be authorized yet, but all are shown. Once you have used the purge cart database option (see purge cart database for an example), you will see only declined and approved orders. Mcart will not distinguish between approved and declined orders.
Review Your Orders
Click on one of the ID's listed below to view, edit, delete, and if the Pro Module Upgrade is activated, the tracking information for that order (Tracking Info Setup).
ID
Date
Email
Ordered via
69439868
Thu Mar 14 17:18:26 2002
you@yahoo.net
Offline checkout
69441579
Thu Mar 14 17:59:47 2002
me@yahoo.com
Offline checkout
Go back to Main Menu
Figure 2-44
2.7.1 Tracking Info Setup
Top of Form
Top of Form
Tracking Information for Order #69439868
Tracking Number:
Date Shipped:
Shipping Handler:
Shipping Method:
Bottom of Form
Figure 2-44-1 Mcart allows you to enter your specific tracking information for each individual order.
Use this form to submit a PGP public key that will be used to encrypt your credit-card orders before mailing them to your order address.
If you are not familiar with PGP, you'll want to start by visiting the Pretty Good Privacy homepage to get the software you will need to generate your encryption keys and to decode your messages.
If you have not already done so, generate a PGP public and secret key pair for the address test@mcart.com. Your public key must belong to this email address, or the order program will not know which key to use when sending your orders. If this is not the address that you want to use, go back to your Mcart Admin program and change the Order Email address before returning to this form.
Extract your public key to an ASCII file. On a unix system, the command to use would be:
PGP 2.x: pgp -kxa test@mcart.com
PGP 5.x: pgpk -x test@mcart.com
Cut and paste the ASCII-armored key data into this box
(Be sure to include the BEGIN and END PUBLIC KEY BLOCK lines!)
Top of Form
Click on this button to submit your key:
Bottom of Form
Figure 2-45 The PGP key interface shown in Figure 2-45 displays the email address entered in the html options setup page (see the email section under 2.2.4) as the email where all orders will be received. If you are not familiar with PGP, you’ll want to start by visiting the Pretty Good Privacy at http://www.pgp.org. You can download the software needed to generate your encryption keys and to decode your messages. PGP can be obtained as freeware for non-commercial use or can be purchased for commercial use. The commercial versions are inexpensive for small businesses. For licensing information, please review the Network Associates website at http://networkassocicates.com
2.8.1 Generate public and secret key
If you have not already done so, generate a PGP Public and Secret key pair for the email address orders will be sent to. Your public key must belong to this email address, or the order program will not know which key to use when sending your orders. If you want orders sent to a different email, go back to your Order Info Setup and change the Order Email address before returning to this form.
2.8.2 Extract your public key
Extract your public key to an ASCII file (A readable file). On a UNIX system, the command is the following:
PGP 2.x: pgp -kxm youremail@youraddress.com
PGP 5.x: pgp -x youremail@youraddress.com
If you’re using a Windows Operating System, you can extract your key using the following instructions:
Launch PGP keys (This can be done by clicking the icon in your system tray or by clicking the icon on Outlook or Outlook Express).
Highlight the email address that the key was created for.
Right click, and select export.
Save this to a location where you can easily access, such as your desktop or main HDD.
2.8.3 Insert Key
Cut and paste the key data into the input box shown in Figure 2-45 and be sure to include the BEGIN and END PUBLIC KEY BLOCK lines refer to Figure 2-46. Then click the button to set your key. This will automatically set your key to send all orders to the email address that you provided. If you do not know how to extract your key, use the following instructions. Note that this is for Windows operating systems only.
Go to the file. (If located on your desktop, just minimize all windows.)
Select the file. (Do not double click, just single click.)
Hold the shift key and right mouse click at the same time.
You will see the “open with..” option. Click it.
From the menu, select notepad or Wordpad.
The key will open in notepad or Wordpad.
Copy and paste the key from notepad or Wordpad into the MCart Admin area to set your PGP key.
Extract your public key to an ASCII file. On a unix system, the command to use would be:
PGP 2.x: pgp -kxa emailaddress
PGP 5.x: pgpk -x emailaddress
Cut and paste the ASCII-armored key data into this box
(Be sure to include the BEGIN and END PUBLIC KEY BLOCK lines!)