Actinic Checkout Speed Up Plugin
As a user of Actinic since V5.0 one thing that has remained constant in an ever improving world is the checkout process. As I use Secure Hosting as my PSP, My customer has to click ‘NEXT’ five times before I can take their money off them.
If you look at optimising your website for your customers (rather than Google), one of the key issues is to make your checkout easy for your customer to use. An easy checkout is a good checkout and if you can get it down to 1 page it is perfect!. Key issues at this point are:
- Eliminate unnecessary steps and only ask for information that is completely necessary in completing the transaction.
- Let the visitor know that you value their privacy and you have a secure site.
- Don’t keep the visitor in the dark about anything – clearly let them know about shipping costs, returns and tax
- Remind them what they are buying!
We spent the best part of two weeks developing this code which reduces the Actinic (V8) checkout process from 5 to 2 pages. With the information gathered from our Google Analytics we have seen an increase in order conversions of 24% and a significant reduction in trolley abandonment.
This addon also fixes an annoying bug where if a user presses ‘enter’ on the checkout form they are sent back to the first page of the checkout.
Developing this code has cost us money in terms of time spent, but it will give us a return quite quickly.
I am willing to give you this code for nothing – but (there is always a but!) I want a decent link back from your site to me, there – not too painful was it. If you feel you are unable to link to us then please donate £34.99 to keep us in tea and biccies?.
To make it easy I have listed five different links here and would ask you to look at your nearest printer and choose the relevant code for that manufacturer, if your printer is not listed, use the last one:
Got a HP Printer? Copy and insert on your page:
Got an Epson Printer? Copy and insert on your page:
Got a Canon Printer? Copy and insert on your page:
Got a Lexmark Printer? Copy and insert on your page:
Not Sure? Copy and insert on your page:
To help with the continued development of actinic plugins or if you can’t link to our site you can donate using paypal:
On to the code…
Do not use this code if you have more than one psp (i.e. paypal and protx).
You will need to download the following files: (right click save target as)
Place both of these files into your current site directory!
Add the following lines to the <head> section of your page layout.
Make sure you place this above the existing actinic javascript files.
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="jQuery-1.2.2.pack.js"></script> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="checkout_speedup.js"></script>
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February 28th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
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September 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
What is the code to be added to the section of the page layout please? It does not appear in any of my 3 browsers on the web page?