Payment pages

Once the purchase transaction has been received by Web-Merchant/WM the shopper is presented with a series of forms in which to provide the information needed to process the transaction.

Customising the appearance

The payment pages can be customised by supplying header and footer files. These contain the opening and closing BODY tags plus any additional text or graphics you want at the top and bottom of the page. Note that these files are not complete HTML files but are fragments that are incorporated into the full payment page. They should be named "header.html" and "footer.html". If either of these files is missing then a standard default (blank) header and footer are used. The payment forms are placed in a table with a white background filling 80% of the page width, with the content of header.html before the form, and footer.html after.

You can use any graphics you wish to in your header and footer as long as you upload them to the Web-Merchant/WM server. You should reference them as /i/<installation id>/<file name>, as shown in the examples below. You can also substitute values of any Web-Merchant/WM parameters that are available at this stage.

Further instructions on the mechanisms for uploading and configuring these files can be found in the section Configuring Your Installation.

You are advised not to include any links to your own or other sites in your header and footer files. This may encourage shoppers to break off from completing their payment and cause them confusion. The payment forms provided by Web-Merchant/WM allow a shopper to cancel a payment, in which case they will be given your standard "payment cancelled" page. This page can then contain any links you wish. A link back to the original shopping site is usually a good choice.

header.html

This file should start with a body tag, which can then be followed by anything else you wish to include at the top of the page. As described above, graphics can be included. For example:

<body bgcolor="aaaa44">
<img src="/i/1234/logo.gif" align=right>
<h1>My Company Ltd.</h1>
<br clear=all>

footer.html

This file should end with a closing body tag, preceded by anything you wish to include at the bottom of the page. For example:

<center>
<img src="/i/1234/baseline.gif">
</center>
</body>

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