E-Junkie Custom Site Integration Questoins:

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I have a few questions.. I think most were answered in the very helpful and detailed tutorials and help docs.. but being new..and having read so much lately.. I just want to summarize, ask and get clarification..



I saw a cart integration question here which sparked my own as to not clutter that thread:

http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/5291





My questions pertain ONLY to using your tools/service and integrating it with a custom designed website..



either HTML or FLASH or hybrid of both..





Summary of my account/purposes.



1.) ONLY digital items/downloads.. (nothing tangible sold yet)

2.) hosting my own downloads/files

3.) want to be able to track 'conversions' (not downloads..just actual payments what was purchased)







Shopping Cart:



1.) know I can make my own site.. and use any buttons HTML or Flash to add products set up in my E-Junkie admin panel



but......... this provides me an 'overlay' shopping cart...



can I 'embed' this shopping cart in an I-Frame or something? so that everything AROUND the cart is themed/looks like the original site?



2.) how customizable is the cart through the template? (html/css?)







Thank You /Download Page



here I am bit unclear as to how all this works.. from reading..



I think my 'download' page can be used to track conversions? (or is that auto sent back to e-junkie from PayPal?...in the transaction logs.. if a person cancels/closes the paypal page..doesnt pay.. does it still register in the transaction logs?)





Q: When a person DOES pay at paypal.. are they AUTOMATICALLY re-directed to the download page? or do they have to click the COMPLETE TRANSACTION button to go to the download page?





I believe I read I can make my own custom THANK YOU page..with the download links.. by using an I-FRAME to embed an e-junkie thank you/download link page?



OR..



can I grab the data sent in the URL to build my own dynamic download page,.. grabbing the download link..etc from the query vars?



I guess Im trying to understand how many E-JUNKIE pages there are total (shopping cart and thank you pages..etc)

and make sure I can integrate them into the current themed/site by using an I-FRAME or grabbing data from the URL itself to build the needed resources/page..







lastly..



the customer gets an EMAIL when he buys something..



this email DOES? have the same download link the user was just re-directed to after payment @ paypal? correct?

but if the link is expired.. doesnt matter when he goes to email and tries link.. if expired its dead.







trying to understand HOW to ensure the user gets re-directed to download page AFTER payment.. (and not have to MISS it or hit a button they might not see)





Anybody versed in all this before (as Im sure Im not the first to ask) I appreciate the feedback/advice.



Thanks!

[E-junkie_Monster]

You cannot embed the shopping cart in an iframe. It will either appear as an overlay on your site or appear in a new window. If you are using Flash on your website you will likely need to make the Flash transparent so that our cart shows through -- the help page I linked to you in a previous thread goes into more detail on that:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.flash-shopping-cart.htm



Our cart can be customized via CSS and other settings which you can add into your View Cart button code, see here for details:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.custom-cart.htm





Regarding conversion tracking, all of your questions about when the buyer is redirected and whether or not you should use a thank you page of your own are covered here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.tracking.htm

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/faq.tracking.conversions.htm



The page your emails link to after a sale behave slightly differently depending on what kind of email the buyer is getting.



The Common thank you email which is sent out for every order and edited via Seller Admin > Edit Account Preferences links to a thank you page that covers your entire order. If you replace our page with one of your own, it will link to your page.



Product emails link to a page that ONLY contains information and download links for that product. If you replace our page with one of your own, this link still goes to a basic page on our site. It only contains the thank you page settings for that one product.



If you are concerned about tracking you would probably want to disable your product emails, we have them on by default "just in case" so that new users don't accidentally prevent buyers from getting their links by turning off some of their email settings, but it really isn't necessary to send out both the common thank you email AND a product email that each contain different ways to download the same product. You can read about editing your email settings here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.email.htm



One thing to note is that we've taken care to put everything necessary into place as it is. You don't have to micromanage every account setting to sell successfully through our cart because everything is in place to begin with. You might want to consider using your trial time to get some basic tests done on your sales to better understand how everything works with normal settings before diving in to get everything perfectly tuned in one fell swoop.