Enabling & Using Checkout

Auction Hawk Checkout allows your buyers to pay you by what is essentially a very fancy "Shopping Cart".

 

When you enable Checkout, your buyers will receive the following major benefits:

 

A fancier WBN, with a checkout buttons Payment via any method Combined purchases automatically Optional insurance Select state sales tax Status messages

 

How to set up to use checkout:

 

1. Enable checkout in your user profile.

2. Specify your mailing address in your user profile.

3. Learn about using the SH&I fields in 1-Page Lister.

4. Specify your state and tax percentage in your user profile.

5. When you mark an item as Shipped, the buyer sees the transaction as "Shipped" on the checkout status page mentioned above.

The Buyer's Perspective:

 

1. The buyer will receive a WBN from you like this one which has an Auction Hawk checkout button, or a PayPal button (if you enabled PayPal payments for that particular listing.

2. The buyer will click on the icon in their email and be taken to an Auction Hawk checkout page (see below).  The checkout page will summarize all items they have bought from you.  The buyer sees the payment and ship policies from your listing.

3. The buyer will select optional insurance or sales tax information, if you chose to use either of these options.

4. If the buyer chooses PayPal as a payment option, Auction Hawk checkout is bypassed, and the user is taken to PayPal's secure site. All of the items they have purchased from you will show up in their PayPal shopping cart!

5. The buyer receives a thank-you e-mail, with a link to the Checkout confirmation page, which shows the status of your item and gives the user a printable invoice which shows the combined purchases.

Merchant account needed to accept credit cards.

 

A merchant account is a special account you set up with a credit card company so that you can accept card payments.  Auction Hawk does not actually perform the credit card transactions for you.