Now that your products and informational content has been added, we can configure your payment, shipping and taxes. You will then be ready to test the site and go live!

CONFIGURE PAYMENT OPTIONS
Zen Cart comes with a multitude of payment options pre-installed. One of the easiest ways to set up payment is to use payPal. PayPal offers two account options, the features are listed below:

	Pay Pal Standard	Pay Pal Web Payments Pro
Accept major credit cards	YES	YES
Accept PayPal payments:	YES	YES
Visitor leaves your web site to make payment:	YES	NO
Instant Approval:	YES	NO
Long Term Contract:	NO	NO
Monthly Service Charge:	FREE	$30
Transaction Fees:	1.9% to 2.9% + $0.30 USD	2.2% to 2.9% + $0.30 USD

Follow the steps below to set up Zen Cart to accept payPal Web Payments Standard:

• Go to Modules --> Payment in your Zen Cart admin area.
• Click on "PayPal IPN - Website Payments Standard"
• Enter your primary payPal email address
• Enter your PDT token from payPal.
Follow these steps to configure your payPal account for PDT:
• 1. Log in to your PayPal account.
• 2. Click the Profile subtab.
• 3. Click Website Payment Preferences in the Seller Preferences column.
• 4. Under Auto Return for Website Payments, click the On radio button.
• 5. For the Return URL, enter the URL on your site that will receive the transaction ID posted by PayPal after a customer payment. You can copy the Auto Return URL from your Zen Cart Install PayPal IPN page.
• 6. Under Payment Data Transfer, click the On radio button.
• 7. Click Save.
• 8. Click Website Payment Preferences in the Seller Preferences column.
• 9. Scroll down to the Payment Data Transfer section of the page to view your PDT identity token.
• Select your transaction currency.
• Payment Zone, Set Pending Notification Status, Set Order Status, Set Refund Order Status, Sort order of display, Page Style, Mode for PayPal web services, and Debug Mode can be left at their default values
• Click update to activate payPal payments

The default installation of Zen Cart has other payment options pre-installed. To de-activate these options, click on the payment option and then click on the "Remove" option.

CONFIGURE SHIPPING OPTIONS
Below are directions for setting up Table Rate Shipping options which seems to be the most widely used shipping method.

• Go to Modules --> Shipping in your Zen Cart admin panel.
• Click on Table Rate
• Click on the "Install" button
• Select True for Do you want to offer table rate shipping?
• Enter your rate schedule following the instructions on the page. NOTE: Be careful, a misplaced semi-colon or colon will cause the shipping to not be configured properly.
• Under Table Method select weight, price, or item. NOTE: If weight is selected, you must enter a weight for each product.
• Handling Fee: enter a handling fee if you are charging one.
• Tax Class: If your state requires you to charge tax on shipping select Taxable Goods, otherwise leave as none.
• Tax Basis: follow the instructions on the screen.
• Shipping Zone: follow the instructions on the screen.
• Sort Order: If you are offering more than one shipping method, enter a sort order.

CONFIGURE TAX CALCULATIONS
To configure your tax rate, follow these steps:

• Scroll over Locations/Taxes and click on Zone Definitions.
• The default installation will have Florida listed. If your store is not in Florida, click the "Edit" button.
• Fill in your State and description. Click "Update".
• Now click on the yellow folder icon next to your state name.
• Click the "Edit" button.
• Select the state where your store is from the drop down menu.
• Click "Update"
• Now scroll over Locations/Taxes and click on Tax Rates.
• You will now see your state under the Zone column.
• Click "Edit".
• Enter the tax rate and description.
• Click "Update".

Congratulations, the nitty gritty of payment, shipping and taxes are now set up!