We have addressed the Google Checkout issue to the extent we are able to; please see this System Status post for details:

http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/4124



Website tracking, in the sense of identifying which URL a sale conversion originated from, is actually not easy for us to implement at our end, because we do not control the entire purchase process from start to finish. We can only pass and collect data fields which are supported by all of the third-party payment processors we support, such as PayPal and Google Checkout. To get an idea of the inherent limitations we need to work within, this post explains how the process works in "layman's terms" using real-world analogies:

http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/2702#post7080



For the best tracking possible with our cart system, we can suggest using Google Checkout with Google E-commerce Tracking and our cart's Google Analytics integration features:

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



If you need to add a direct card-based payment option, you could combine that with Authorize.Net, and since we control the checkout page in that case, we can and do auto-redirect buyers to your thank-you page where the conversion (and sale origin) could be tracked via Google Analytics. Unfortunately, accepting PayPal (both Std and Pro) would introduce unreliability to this tracking process, as checkouts going though PayPal's site cannot be forced to auto-redirect buyers to a thank-you page after completing checkout.

We can only do what's necessary to support Google Analytics in our cart and in your page where the cart is being used, and this is what we mean by GA integration being "built into" our cart. All information collected by Analytics would be managed at Google Analytics' end and completely inaccessible to our system. Also note that this will only work with our standard cart buttons that display an overlay-style cart "inside" your page. It will not work with Buy Now buttons, nor with the non-javascript version of our cart that opens in a new window/tab.



In order to use the Google Analytics features of our cart, you would need to paste our version of the GA tracking code into every page of your site where you're using our cart buttons:

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

Most other carts on the market work as a software package that you would install and configure on your own server, so that software can control the entire purchase and payment process from start to finish entirely on your own server. If an outside service is involved for payment, in that case it's usually entirely in the background and invisible to the buyer.



As E-junkie is a centrally-managed, independently-hosted cart system shared in common among all our merchant subscribers, and which hands-off the checkout stage of purchasing to a third-party payment processor's Web site, we take care of the server and software end of things for you, and the payment processor takes care of the payment end, so this spares you the considerable technical hassle of installing, configuring and maintaining that software (along with an SSL certificate for your own domain, etc.), but some inherent technical limitations are part of that tradeoff.



We are indeed an entry-level system, very simple and basic for very simple and basic needs, and that is intentional and by design. You can try to trick out a VW Beetle to be more like a Lexus or Jeep, but what you wind up with will never be as good as just getting that Lexus or Jeep in the first place, if that's what would actually meet your needs. Perhaps you have simply outgrown what we are and what we can do for you.

If you want a selection of different products from your E-junkie Admin listed in a menu, so the buyer would pick an item from the menu and click a single Add to Cart (or Buy Now) button to order that item, you'd do something like this (where XXXXXX and YYYYYY are the products' Item Numbers):



Add to Cart version:



<form action="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=cart&cl=3614&ejc=2" target="ejejc" method="POST" accept-charset="UTF-8">

<select name="i">

<option disabled selected>↓Pick one↓

<option value="XXXXX">Product A Name

<option value="YYYYYY">Product B Name

</select><br>

<input src="http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/ejadd_to_cart.gif"

type="image" border="0" alt="Add to Cart" class="ec_ejc_thkbx"

onClick="javascript:return EJEJC_lc(this.parentNode);"/>

</form>



Buy Now version (using Google Checkout in this case):



<form action="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=gc&cl=3614&ejc=4"

method="POST" accept-charset="UTF-8">

<select name="i">

<option disabled selected>↓Pick one↓

<option value="XXXXX">Product A Name

<option value="YYYYYY">Product B Name

</select><br>

<input type="image" border="0" alt="Buy Now"

src="https://checkout.google.com/buttons/checkout.gif?merchantid=541174735521589&w=160&h=43&style=trans&variant=text&loc=en_US"/></form>



The general concept here is that any Add to Cart or Buy Now button's href= URL will also work as a form action= URL, and any &name=value parameter in that URL will also work as a form field or vice-versa.

Yes, picking an item from the menu and then clicking the button to order it will work exactly the same as if you had separate cart buttons for each item in the menu. To get the overlay-style cart to work, just remember you need a block of View Cart code in your page as well. :^)