Yes!
Some merchants may want to include a payment option that only applies
to their phone orders. This payment method's function is not
necessarily to collect payment, but rather to simply allow the phone
order to be processed on the store while ac...
Shift4Shop keeps tracks of orders from the time that a customer adds a
product to their shopping cart, all the way to the last page of
checkout. This allows you to keep an eye on where/why customers decide
to stop shopping on your store.
Before we ...
Not Completed orders most often occur when a customer abandons the
shopping cart before they complete the checkout process. They can be
quite useful because you can see at which step customers may be
leaving the checkout process and what items they w...
Shift4Shop provides you with the ability to split your shipment into
multiple shipments and track them with the Split Shipment option. This
can be useful in situations where you have most of the items in the
order on hand, but need to split one or mo...
Once a customer has placed an order and you have contacted the
shipping carrier to setup a shipping label for the order, you can
import a list of tracking numbers to multiple orders at the same time.
This is useful as you can update many orders at th...
On occasion, you may have a time where an existing customer may type
in their login email address incorrectly or enters different
information on their subsequent visits to your store - thereby
inadvertently creating a new customer login for him/herse...
Merchants using Shift4Shop's Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) feature
sometimes run into an issue where their FBA orders appear in the
Online Store Manager with a message stating that the shipping method
attached to the order is invalid, thereby preventin...
Merchants using Shift4Shop's recurring order add-on may sometimes come
across this error message when the system attempts to generate a
recurring order:
Error generating recurring order: the shipping method that was
originally used doesn't match wi...
* ISSUE
When viewing some order packing slips, the shipping address is listd
as "Multiple Packages" instead of showing the shipping address.
* CAUSE
The order is part of a SPLIT SHIPMENT
[http://support.3dcart.com/search.html?k=split+shipment]. ...
Shift4Shop will assign invoice numbers to any customer carts that
reach Checkout Step 4. If the customer gets to step 3, enters their
billing information, chooses a payment method and attempts to pay by
clicking the "checkout" button, they are taken ...
Your Shift4Shop store comes equipped with a various amount of order
processing queues with which to process orders. When an order comes in
through your Shift4Shop store, it will normally be placed in either
the "New" or "Unpaid" status depending on h...
As mentioned in our previous article, you can utilize the different
Order Status Queues to efficiently process your incoming orders as
needed.
As an added benefit, you can also edit and customize the existing
status queue names (as well as add new ...
If you are using the Return Merchandise Authorization feature of
Shift4Shop, you can review your store's RMA history with the RMA
search tool located in your Orders menu.
Note:
For the purposes of this article, we will be covering the use of the
R...
There may be times when you need to process an order for your customer
manually rather than having them navigate through your store to place
the order. The reason could be that the customer has visited your
brick and mortar store or perhaps they are ...
Shift4Shop allows you to export your order history in CSV format. This
ability can be useful when you need to import your order history into
specific accounting software, or if you need to review your order
history for a particular date.
EXPORT/IMP...
When viewing an order in your Shift4Shop Online Store Manager, you
will see the main details along the left hand side of the page
including order total, status, items and balance.
Beneath the order details, you will see a tab labeled "Payment
Infor...
Yes!
You can use the store's "Batch Action" menu to print invoices (and
packing slips) for multiple orders at once.
To do this, log into your Shift4Shop Online Store Manager and, using
the left hand navigation menu:
* Go to ORDERS >MANAGE ORD...
When a gift certificate is used on an order, the order confirmation
page generated by your store will reflect the order's subtotal as well
as the gift certificate's use on the order.
However, the order confirmation emails that are sent to customers...
If using Custom Export Sets for your Order Exports, you will have the
following list of fields to choose from.
NOTE:
Several of these are dependent on different add-ons and/or specific
features of the cart, or are otherwise no longer used on the ...
Internal comments on orders are used to record specific details of the
order that may be needed for future use. These can be details such as
authorization numbers from a specific fulfillment services like
Fulfillment by Amazon, or perhaps internal no...
So there you are, watching the big game while processing orders using
the store's "Batch Actions" method.
You've just finished selecting 5 new orders and, just as you're about
to move them into the "Hold" queue, your team scores the winning goal!
T...
* INTRODUCTION
* How to View Not Completed Orders
(3 page checkout)
* How to View Not Completed Orders
(Single page checkout)
* How to Contact Customers of
Not Completed Orders
* Emailing Customers of
Not Completed Orders
* Moving Order...
* VIEW A NEW ORDER
* MOVE AN ORDER TO A DIFFERENT STATUS
* MOVE MULTIPLE ORDERS TO A DIFFERENT STATUS AT ONE TIME
* AUTOMATIC EMAIL FOR ORDER STATUS CHANGE
* EDIT TEMPLATE OF STATUS CHANGE EMAILS
* EDIT ORDER STATUS
* VIEW GATEWAY ...
Yes! Shift4Shop allows you to create any checkout questions to ask the
customer during the checkout process. These questions can either be
required or not required to be answered before the customer completes
the checkout process.
To do this, pleas...
* ENABLE RMA
* RMA MAX PERIOD
* SETUP RMA SETTINGS
* EDITING RMA METHODS
* EDITING RMA REASONS
* INITIATING THE RMA
* CUSTOMER INITIATED
* MERCHANT INITIATED
* PROCESS RMA
* FINALIZE RMA
* DENYING AN RMA
The RMA (Return Me...
After an order has been placed by a customer, you have the ability to
modify the order by adding or removing products as needed. It is
important to note that after an order has been made, you will need to
manually refund/charge the customer through y...
When PLACING A PHONE ORDER
[https://support.3dcart.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/168] in your
Shift4Shop Online Store Manager, as you arrive to the shipping methods
portion of the process, the store will populate the order with its
applicable shippi...
With Shift4Shop's Automation Rules feature, you can specify automated
actions that will be applied to orders when they meet conditional
requirements which you set. Orders meeting your pre-defined
requirements can then be made to apply certain actions...
Shift4Shop's Fraudwatch Program is a special service which actively
collects data points associated with your store's orders to provide
you with a fraud risk score on the order itself. The information
collected includes certain attributes like the sh...
Shift4Shop Fraudwatch users can create special "Screening rules" on
their store which will automatically approve, reject, or flag orders
for review, based on the information being reported by fraudwatch.
Important
Fraudwatch Screening Rules requir...
By going to your ORDERS >MANAGE ORDERS section and clicking on the
"Export/Import" button at the top right, you will see your store's
Order Export options.
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EXPORTING ORDERS
You can export all your store's with several pro...
The Amazon Order Sync App is available for purchase from our App
store. Click HERE [http://apps.3dcart.com/amazon-order-sync.html] for
more information.
Shift4Shop's Amazon Integration Module allows you to import your
processed Amazon Seller Centra...
To Enable Fraudwatch on your Store, follow these steps.
* Log into your Shift4Shop Online Store Manager
* Using the left hand navigation menu, go to Modules
* Use the search bar at the top and search for "Fraudwatch"
Expand the module and yo...
Beginning with version 8.1 of the Shift4Shop software, you will be
able to place phone orders using a single page interface.
* Log into your Shift4Shop Online Store Manager
* Using the left hand navigation menu, go to Orders >Phone Orders
* O...
On ENTERPRISE
[https://www.3dcart.com/enterprise-ecommerce-solution.html] level
Shift4Shop stores, you can add an unlimited number of Order Statuses
by using the following steps:
* Log into your Shift4Shop Online Store Manager
* Using the left ...
TradeGecko is a multi-channel inventory and order management service
that allows you to consolidate your multiple channels into one
interface instead of logging into each separate channel to run your
eCommerce orders. Integrating your Shift4Shop stor...
Shift4Shop's integration with ShareASale allows you to automatically
enable a tracking conversion script onto your store's checkout page.
The following instructions will show you how to enable this module.
* Log into your Shift4Shop Online Stor...
In previous versions of Shift4Shop - when adding a customer record
through a phone order - the store would create a "dummy" email address
as a placeholder on the customer record. This was intended so that you
could create the customer record and comp...
Yes!
Beginning with Shift4Shop version 9.1, the store will now show you an
"at-a-glance" look at whether your customer is a first time or a
repeat customer.
As you process individual orders, look towards the customer
information section and you w...
Merchants on Shift4Shop Plus (and higher; including the Free
End-to-End eCommerce Plan) plans can place phone orders for customers
at a temporary quoted price. The customer will then receive an email
notification of the quoted order that they can use...
Beginning with version 9.1 of the Shift4Shop software, merchants can
leave notes on invoice items. This can be useful if you'd like to add
notes to each individual item of an order for situations like the item
being out of stock until a certain date,...
Yes!
Beginning with Shift4Shop version 9.1.6, merchants can take their
store's NOT COMPLETED
[https://support.3dcart.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/355] orders and
convert them into Phone Orders for easier completion. Here's how:
* Log into you...
When an item is added to cart, it begins the online shop's order
process. If the cart is abandoned at any point before the order is
finished, the unfinished order will be placed in your store's "Not
Completed" order status.
In an EARLIER ARTICLE
[h...
When you log into your Shift4Shop Online Store Manager, the first page
you are taken to is the dashboard which contains snapshots of your
store's business. This includes:
* Order/Revenue/Visitor/Conversion Rate Overviews
* Sales Graph
* Traff...
When you create your store's PAYMENT METHODS
[https://support.3dcart.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/456/], the
advanced settings of the payment method allow you to specify whether
orders paid with that method go into the store's New or Unpaid order
s...
Shift4Shop's Cart Notices Add-on (available from the App Store) will
let you display special messages during checkout that will appear when
certain conditions are met by the shopper. There are four types of
conditional messages that you can create:
...
* ISSUE
Tax calculations are set up, but not being applied to orders
correctly.
* LIKELY CAUSE
Tax codes have been set up but not assigned to products.
A common mistake when setting up Tax Calculation on the store is to
create Tax Codes on the...
Typically, when an order is moved from one status to the other, an
automated email will be sent to the shopper notifying them of the
status change. However, there may be certain times when you need to
move orders one status to another without the sto...
Merchants using Shift4Shop's Web Connector with QUICKBOOKS ENTERPRISE
2020 may experience issues importing their store's orders into
Quickbooks.
This issue usually occurs when the "Most Common Sales Tax" field in
QuickBooks settings is left blank. ...
* ISSUE: An order is placed but the Company Field contains numbers
instead of an actual Company Name
* CAUSE: This is most likely being caused by the shopper's browser
auto-fill.
Typically, a customer browser's auto-fill will record information
...
To cancel an order on your store:
* Log into your Shift4Shop Online Store Manager
* Using the left-hand navigation menu, go to ORDERS >MANAGE ORDERS
* Locate the order you'd like to cancel and click on its invoice
number to open it
Toward th...
Merchants on the Shift4Shop End-to-End Ecommerce Plan now have access
to a new Fraud Prevention tool provided through KOUNT
[https://kount.com/]; which offers industry-leading protection for the
entire customer journey - from account creation and log...