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I noticed that there was a type-o in the address i entered. I just fixed it, but maybe that was the problem. I will email you a little later, as I'm in and out today.

Thank you,
Barbara

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Barbara at Oasis Soap Co.
http://www.oasissoap.com

So am I right that the shopping cart charges a percentage fee, on top of the credit card/PayPal service charge?

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Barbara at Oasis Soap Co.
http://www.oasissoap.com

Mal's does not charge a percentage. It is just a cart. I think if you accept cc through them, I don't know how to do that since I only accept paypal online, then they do but I can't confirm that.

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Haven

It would probably be the same thing. They charge a percentage, and of course credit cards, and PayPal charge a percentage for their services (accepting money).

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Barbara at Oasis Soap Co.
http://www.oasissoap.com

I would recommend Magento, I found it really easy to set up and its easy to maintain, for payments I use SecPay now called Online Gateway http://www.paypoint.net/solutions/payment-gateway/, im not sure about its worldwide status but almost any card can be accepted and I found it really easy to use.

I've been setting up the cart at Mals-E.com, and all appeard to be going well. I made drop down boxes for all the zillions of sizes I have in my bars. The drop boxes are suppose to enter the price of each size. It looks right, but when you click to add it to the cart, you get an error that says the price is not set. I've searched my codes for errors - mind you, I'm no html expert, but can't find a thing wrong. As far as I can determine, after rechecking numerous times, I've done what the support pages tell me to do. Can anyone out there help? Haven has been fantastic at guiding me this far, but doesn't have experience with this particular problem.

Here is the page that doesn't work. [/url]http://www.barakafarm.com/store/soap.html[/url] You can set the code from the source, or ask and I can email it. It's probably too large to post here. THANK YOU! I'm exhausted and frustrated!!!

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Barbara at Oasis Soap Co.
http://www.oasissoap.com

Barbara-
I took a brief look and picked a soap and got that msg that you said. Try this -
I noticed you have "2 oz., $3.20" and so forth on the drop down - I'm curious if the system can't interpret the 'text'. Maybe it *only* wants a number (i.e 3.20 or $3.20) - which of course could be problematic but not unworkable I'm sure based on what your original intent was with the weight/price. I used to be a tech pm and worked with systems and User Acceptance Testing -- my gut feel says 'test' it with only numbers in the drop down (first with no $ and then with.) and see if it let's you get past the error msg. If you get past with no number - great, if you get past with $ - good then keep trying to see how many of the other characters you have in the list - i.e. the period, the comma, maybe it doesn't like those characters? The other thing is do you know of other websites, companies using the same software? You could look at their sites and see are they trying to do what you are doing?

If that is the case (where it only wants a number) you will need to figure out a different approach but at least you will stop tearing your hair out of your head!!

Let me know
Hilary

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http://www.asliceofdelight.etsy.com

Very good point. You can only enter numbers such as 3.50. No $ sign or it won't work. If you want to email your code, I will look it over and see if I can figure it out. I dont have much to do today. I am being a lazy bum. LOL!

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Haven

Hadn't thought of this. I'm off to try these suggestions. I thought that the text with the $ was just for the buyer to read, but maybe it's throwing things off.

I've been making scarab soaps while I took a break. Have aabout a dozen to deliver tomorrow.

Pray that this works. Haven, I'll email you the code.

Thanks again,
Barbara

P.S., Are many of you getting this error code often on this site when you try to post messages, or visit a page? It's started happening very often for me.

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Barbara at Oasis Soap Co.
http://www.oasissoap.com

Okay, working with the top soap option, I removed the $ and the commas. Nothing changed. I can't imagine that it wouldn't allow for a period in a price, such as 5.50. Here are the instructions for coding this - from the Mals-E website:

Sometimes different options result in a different price. For example, with our Musto Jacket, small, medium and large are $150.00 but Extra Large is $170.00. Instead of posting separate price and product fields you can use a combined field productpr:

<select name="productpr1">
<option value="Musto Ocean Jacket, S:150"> Small </option>
<option value="Musto Ocean Jacket, M:150"> Medium </option>
<option value="Musto Ocean Jacket, L:150"> Large </option>
<option value="Musto Ocean Jacket, XL:170"> Extra Large </option>
</select>

The syntax for the productpr field is "Description:Price:Units:Scode:Hash" so you can't have a colon in your product descriptions. Units, Scode and Hash are optional. Any normal product or product[] fields present in the form will be appended to the end of the description.

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Barbara at Oasis Soap Co.
http://www.oasissoap.com

Here is that error message I get most of the time lately... anyone else getting it? Sometimes it says that it is lost because the server is shutting down.

BTW, I set up a new file for these test. It is www.barakafarm.com/store/soaptest.html.

General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

Lost connection to MySQL server during query [2013]

An SQL error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact the Board Administrator if this problem persists.
Please notify the board administrator or webmaster: info@teachsoap.com

Next I got this..... I've smartened up and now copy each post before I hit send... that way I don't lose it.

General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

Server shutdown in progress [1053]

An SQL error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact the Board Administrator if this problem persists.
Please notify the board administrator or webmaster: info@teachsoap.com

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Barbara at Oasis Soap Co.
http://www.oasissoap.com

Hi. I'm sorry I can't really decipher your last note however I tried again on your site and saw that you now have " 2 oz 3.20".... did you try *just* a number in the drop down first to see if you could get further?

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http://www.asliceofdelight.etsy.com

My apologies for that last note. I'm sure it was confusing. It did not refer to this code, but to a message I keep receiving when I try to post to this forum, or visit a page. Several tries are necessary to get in.

I did try with just a number, and no improvement. All I know to do, until I learn how to get this to work, is to just do "Buy Now" buttons for each size. Shame, as I know there is a simple answer hidden somewhere. I don't know how to find others who use this software. I'll try to find a way to email these people - but as I'm using a free version, not sure that is an option.

Thank you

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Barbara at Oasis Soap Co.
http://www.oasissoap.com

Operative word "free" --- maybe there is some forum for the software you can post a question. Keep your expectations low for 'service' and maybe just maybe they will 'wow' you with help and actually help you find the answer.

Keep us posted - because now I must know if you do come accross a solution
Hilary

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http://www.asliceofdelight.etsy.com

I'll be out of town all day tomorrow, so it's going to be a couple of days before I can get my head into this again. Thank you so much for your help and interest. It's a problem to be solved.

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Barbara at Oasis Soap Co.
http://www.oasissoap.com