ECommerce

The eCommerce module in TopClass lets administrators configure and manage pricing for activities, including price plans, coupons, tokens, and account summaries for group payments. eCommerce functionality is controlled system-wide by the Shopping Cart Enabled setting (System Administration > System Settings > Configuration).

Admin access versus end-user exposure

Shopping Cart Enabled and the shopping cart experience are independent of each other:

• Shopping Cart Enabled: Yes — Administrators can access the E-commerce menu and all of its sub-menu items, manage price plans, and configure pricing within Activities, Users, and Group Operations. This is required for any e-commerce configuration to exist in the system, regardless of whether end users see a cart.
• Shopping cart visible to end users — Controlled separately, through External Catalog Redirect (System Administration > System Settings > Catalog). An organization can keep Shopping Cart Enabled: Yes for administrative purposes while, for paid items, redirecting to an external system (such as iMIS) for purchase instead of exposing a cart. In this configuration, the shopping cart icon and price plan pricing are automatically hidden from the catalog.

This setup is common for organizations that manage financial transactions in an external AMS/CRM but still want to use TopClass price plans and pricing tools for administration and integration purposes.

In this section

• Price Plans
• Coupons
• Tokens
• Account Summary
• Setting up eCommerce with PayPal