https://wiki.foxycart.com/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:01:26 +0000 FeedCreator 1.8 https://wiki.foxycart.com/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg https://wiki.foxycart.com/ https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/api?rev=1493190150&do=diff The FoxyCart API NOTE: This XML API will be deprecated Though this legacy XML API works and will continue to function in the future, it will not see any new functionality. We recommend any new integrations are built on top of our new Hypermedia API: anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/cart?rev=1493190150&do=diff The Cart of The Foxy What Is The Cart? The “cart” in “FoxyCart” is where your products are stored for each visitor to your website. The cart itself is highly flexible, and can be loaded as HTML or as JSON, allowing for unlimited customization potential. When we say anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/categories?rev=1493190150&do=diff Product Categories What Product Categories Are Categories offer a way to give products additional behaviors that cannot be accomplished by product options alone. While it's probably best to take a look at the category settings in your admin, we'll briefly discuss the functionality that categories offer. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/cheat_sheet?rev=1498589485&do=diff FoxyCart Cheat Sheet: Product and Cart Parameters Product Parameters Important Notes: * All product parameters will be trimmed of excess leading and trailing whitespace when added to the cart. This can cause problems with price validation if you're not careful. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Tue, 27 Jun 2017 18:51:25 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/checkout?rev=1493190150&do=diff The Most Efficient One-Page Checkout Available What Is the Checkout? When we refer to the “checkout” we refer to the page (or pages, in other systems) where the customer enters their billing and payment information, and where they submit their order for processing. In general, anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/coupons_and_discounts?rev=1493190150&do=diff FoxyCart Coupons and Discounts Coupon codes can be a very significant marketing tool, so it's important to understand what is and isn't possible with FoxyCart's coupon and quantity discounting functionality. While coupon codes and quantity discounts may not seem inherently related, FoxyCart uses almost the same logic and syntax for both, so we'll discuss them together. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/custom_domain?rev=1493190150&do=diff Sugar, Spice, and Custom Subdomains What the Custom Subdomain Option Is First off, the custom subdomain option is entirely optional. Your store will be perfectly functional without it, but read on to understand what it is and when it might make sense for you. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/customers?rev=1493190150&do=diff Customers: Notes and Features Without the customer, e-commerce wouldn't be very exciting (or profitable), so a thorough understanding of the customer as treated by FoxyCart is important for any merchant or developer using FoxyCart. How Customers Are Defined and Created anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/emails?rev=1493190150&do=diff Email Receipts What's In an Email Receipt? [An example email receipt sent by FoxyCart using the default HTML template] FoxyCart's email receipts include almost everything in the web receipt, as well as any additional text you have configured in your receipt template(s). (You can see an example receipt to the right.) The major difference between the web receipt and the email receipts is that email receipts have specific sections that are only included in certain situations. We recommend you go… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/forum_posts?rev=1493190150&do=diff Tips & Tricks from the Community "Your Site" Tips * Basic add-to-cart form validation Cart Hacks * Product Bundles/Addons - Allows setting certain products that are dependent on a parent product being in the cart. Ensures that all grouped products share the same quantity and removes them if any are missing. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/foxycarts_reason_for_being?rev=1493190150&do=diff FoxyCart's Reason for Being FoxyCart's raison d'être is simple: To provide web professionals with a powerful, flexible, secure, and enjoyable e-commerce platform with which to deliver more profitable e-commerce sites to their merchant clients. This focus on serving web professionals who in turn serve merchants is a unique approach, and can best be understood in the context of FoxyCart's birth. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/hmac_validation?rev=1493190150&do=diff HMAC Product Verification: Locking Down your Add-To-Cart Links and Forms The What & Why What Is FoxyCart's HMAC Product Verification? FoxyCart's HMAC Product Verification is a cryptographic method to prevent tampering with your product links and forms, available as of anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/i18n?rev=1493190150&do=diff Internationalization & Translations The USA Is Not The Center Of The World [The sundial at Felicity, California, USA] At FoxyCart, we know that the USA isn't the center of the world And though we're a US-based company, our goal is to serve all web professionals, regardless of their country. That said, and even though we do have a very diverse international team, the only way we'll ever learn enough about your specific needs is for you to teach us. Please review what is and isn't supported bel… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/integrations?rev=1493190150&do=diff Integrations Version-specific integrations are coming soon. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/javascript?rev=1493190150&do=diff FoxyCart's Javascript: foxycart.js FoxyCart's foxycart.js file is full of goodies that you probably won't ever need to think twice about. If default configurations are an anathema to you, if you need to get advanced for a custom integration, or if you're just curious about what's under the hood please explore this page and the anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/json?rev=1493190150&do=diff JSON and JSONP with FoxyCart What is JSON? JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation , and can be thought of as a very flexible method to store data. Conceptually it is similar to XML, but since it's actually a javascript object it's trivially easy to work with in javascript (whereas XML requires much more work to process by javascript). anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/minfraud?rev=1493190150&do=diff Fraud Prevention in FoxyCart What FoxyCart's minFraud Integration Is Though we strongly recommend setting up any and all available anti-fraud prevention tools at the gateway level (and most gateways do have fraud controls available, though sometimes at an additional cost), FoxyCart does have integration with anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/multiship?rev=1493190150&do=diff Multi-Ship: Multiple Shipping Addresses on a One-Page Checkout What is Multi-Ship? FoxyCart's “Multi-Ship” functionality allows for a single order to contain multiple “sub-orders” of sorts, each of which can be shipped to a separate address. While this option really doesn't make much sense for a anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/products?rev=1493190150&do=diff Products and FoxyCart: What They Are and What They Aren't Where Are Your Products? If you haven't already read “FoxyCart is different” a dozen times by now, we'll state it again: FoxyCart is different, and we recommend reading more about what FoxyCart is and isn't. Most e-commerce systems have a built in anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/receipt?rev=1493190150&do=diff The Receipt... ...And All the Wonderful Things You Can Do With It The FoxyCart receipt is much like the checkout in terms of how it can be customized, but obviously the function of the receipt is to display the information about the successful transaction that just took place on the checkout. While it might sound rather dull, the receipt is actually quite an exciting place to be, for a few reasons: anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/security_and_privacy_considerations?rev=1493190150&do=diff Security & Privacy Considerations for FoxyCart Stores With any complex system there are things that might not be immediately obvious but are nonetheless important to understand and consider to ensure you're making the best decisions for your project. This is especially true with ecommerce, which collects sensitive information. None of the information on this page is intended to scare you; rather, it's to help you make good decisions based on your unique needs. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/session_variables?rev=1493190150&do=diff The Myriad Uses of Session Variables What Session Variables Are “Session Variables” allow you to store information (as name/value pairs) in a user's cart, independently of any products in the cart. Unlike a product, which is visible in the cart and added by the customer, session variables aren't necessarily visible to the visitor, nor would the visitor know that a session variable has been set. You can think of session variables as a way to attach extra information to the anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/shipping?rev=1493190150&do=diff Shipping A Shipping Haiku ... Prior to launching FoxyCart we had months of discussions about shipping. One of the scenarios that we discussed was a mattress store. The mattress store may need to ship very large and heavy items, but also may need to ship pillows. They may also need to ship things via custom shipping carriers or freight options. In our early discussions, the afore-attributed anonymous lead developer said something like, anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/sso?rev=1518621402&do=diff Single Sign-On (SSO) About Single Sign-On FoxyCart's SSO allows customers who are already logged into your website to proceed through to checkout without needing to re-enter their username and password. This allows for far greater integration options, and can provide for a significantly improved checkout flow if you have customers who may already be logged into an external system. In order to prevent possible security issues, SSO checkouts still require the customer to enter the anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:16:42 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/start?rev=1493190150&do=diff FoxyCart v0.7.2 Documentation Welcome to the documentation for FoxyCart v0.7.2. If you're on a different version you can find it from the documentation homepage. If you're looking to upgrade from an earlier version please view the upgrade notes, or visit the changelog to see what's changed since the previous version. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/subscription_xml_datafeed?rev=1493190150&do=diff The Subscription XML Datafeed The subscription datafeed does not send you a list of your subscriptions. Please see the import notes below as to what is contained in the subscription datafeed. If you want to be notified every time a subscription runs, please use the regular anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/taxes?rev=1493190150&do=diff Taxes. And Death. And More Taxes. How Taxes Work in FoxyCart A “tax” in FoxyCart is a standalone set of properties that define a particular tax that can be applied to your product categories. Your store can have zero tax rates or 100, and they can be applied individually or in parallel, but the best way to understand how taxes work in FoxyCart is to dive into the admin to look at the available options. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/templates?rev=1493190150&do=diff Templates, Caching, and Template Customization with HTML + CSS Customizing your template is easier than you might think. If there's one takeaway from this page, it should be that FoxyCart's makes getting a customized template easy. Really, we promise. No template language to learn. Just your own anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/transaction_xml_datafeed?rev=1493190150&do=diff Transaction XML Datafeeds: Instant Transaction Notification An Overview of FoxyCart's Transaction XML Datafeed In order to allow the flexibility and integration options that you need, FoxyCart can be configured to send encrypted XML to a URL of your choosing. This allows you to integrate FoxyCart without duplicating data across applications. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/unified_order_entry?rev=1493190150&do=diff The "Super Password": Unified Order Entry What UOE Is “Unified Order Entry” (UOE, aka The Super-Password, aka The Glorified Virtual Terminal) is a method by which a store admin can enter and complete orders on behalf of customers, using the same FoxyCart checkout flow as the customers themselves would use. It provides a way to unify your order channels through FoxyCart, allowing you to maintain any 3rd party integrations you may have set up through FoxyCart while giving you a single place wher… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/upgrading?rev=1493190150&do=diff Changelog and Upgrade Notes for v0.7.2 Note: This page is geared towards upgrading from v0.7.1. Please make sure you view all the version notes for versions you may be skipping (ie. from 0.7.0 -> 0.7.1 -> 0.7.2). Changelog Summary Please make sure you review the full v0.7.2 changelog (available in your FoxyCart admin's Store Settings page before upgrading. Also please ensure you've read the anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000 https://wiki.foxycart.com/v/0.7.2/webhooks?rev=1493190150&do=diff FoxyCart Web Hooks Overview FoxyCart can use “Web Hooks” to send critical information back to your scripts and applications. A Web Hook, or “Datafeed” as we like to call it, is simply an HTTP POST notification we send when certain events happen in your FoxyCart Store. You can send the notices to any anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:02:30 +0000