Mal's E-Commerce Instructions

This is a set of instructions on how to integrate some aspects of Mal's E-Commerce into your website. Mal's E-Commerce is a free shopping cart solution available at http://www.mals-e.com.

1. Login at www.mals-e.com
2. Click on the Cart Setup tab
3. Click on Advanced Settings then Downloadable Products
4. Enter the skew number in the Code box
5. Enter the Description and Price
6. Leave the Units field blank
7. Enter an HTML link to the MP3 file into the Link box (see below).
8. Click the Add button.

Here's an example of what the link should look like.

<a href="http://www.example.com/product.mp3">Download Product</a>

To break that down a little bit more, it's in the following format. Just replace [url] below with the URL to the downloadable file and replace [text] with the text you want to appear. Clicking on [text] will then take you to [url].

<a href="[url]">[text]</a>

Your downloadable product is now managed by the shopping cart and is available for purchase.

Now add a buy button to the product page on your website. Just copy and paste the following code into the raw HTML of your web page. Replace [server] with the name of the server you were assigned, replace the userid value with your user ID at Mal's, and replace the pcode value with the skew number you entered at Mal's.

<form action=http://[server].aitsafe.com/cf/add.cfm method=post>
<input type=hidden name=userid value=[userid]>
<input type=hidden name=pcode value=[pcode]>
<input type=submit value="Buy Now">
</form>

For shippable products, there is no need to enter any product information on the Mals' E-Commerce side. Instead, you just create buy now links with the information in them.

Just copy and paste the following code into the raw HTML of your web page. Replace the userid value with your user ID at Mal's, replace the product and price values with the short description and price of the item, and replace the units value with the weight of this item in ounces.

<form action=http://ww12.aitsafe.com/cf/add.cfm method=post>
<input type="hidden" name="userid" value="E096838">
<input type="hidden" name="product" value="Test Product">
<input type="hidden" name="price" value="9.99">
<input type="hidden" name="units" value="5">
<input type="submit" value="Buy Now">
</form>