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    Can a customer use 2 gift certificates at a time? How? 


    A customer can enter as many Gift Certificates as they want on the checkout_payment page or gift-certificate redemption page, and then apply what ever portion of ...
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    Is the Zen Cart Program Safe from Hackers and/or Injection Attacks? 


    We take security issues VERY seriously. Whenever a true security risk is discovered, a fix is posted immediately, using whatever means is most appropriate.

    Please see the ...
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    How do I enable free shipping for orders more than $XX? 


    Open your Admin, point your cursor at Modules on the top menu, choose Order Total from the dropdown. Then select Shipping from the list. If the module ...
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    Can I skip the shipping selection page when shipping is free? 


    Set all products as free shipping in by editing each one and setting the button in the middle of the product-info/edit screen.

    Then enable the free shipping ...
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    How do I set up VAT? 


    Contributed by wilt

    UK Tax, First of all although it will help UK customers enter their address you do not need to add counties to the database to get the tax to work.

    Heres how to do it, and I am assuming here that you want to have VAT added for goods shipping to any EEC country.

    Admin->Locations/Taxes->Zone Definitions


    Click on insert.
    Name of Zone EEC ...
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    How do I set a default Tax Class for new-products? 


    Is there a way I can get it to select a certain Tax class automatically from Tax Class to Products Price (Net): i.e. without having select the Tax in admin via entering products?

    1. Find out the tax class ID number in Admin> Locations/Taxes> ...
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    How do I use my currency instead of US Dollars? 


    There are two parts to configuring your currency settings. The first is whether you want to accept more than one currency and the second is adding the new currency.

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    How do I set up Banner Ads? 


    by Ajeh

    You can control your banners in Admin> Tools> Banner Manager.

    You will see that you can add delete and edit the banners at will.

    To add a new banner, click the "New Banner" button.

    To edit an existing one and change its link, its picture, etc, click on the banner you want to change, and click ...

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    Error: Catalog images directory is not writeable 


    The /images directory needs to be set with a chmod 777 for write access.

    Note: This includes all subdirectories for /images as well as their subdirectories.

    Example:

    /images
    /images/large ...
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    My shipping is figured wrong, it is 3 pounds too heavy 


    Any shipping module that uses weight for the calculations also takes into account a built-in Tare weight.
    The Tare setting (configurable in your store Admin) adds extra weight to compensate for packaging materials.

    To change ...
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    The USPS module is returning an error when I try to checkout 


    If you are recieving this error:

    An error occured with the USPS shipping calculations. If you prefer to use USPS as your shipping method, please contact the store owner.

    You ...

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    Warning: mkdir() failed (No such file or directory) in ... 


    This error seems to be common on Windows installations. Open your includes/configure.php and admin/includes/configure.php and change:

    define('DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE', '/tmp');

    to:

    ...
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    Warning the installation directory exists... 


    One of the most commonly encountered errors is a warning that the installation directory exists at /such/and/such/an/address. It is recommended that you delete or rename ...

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    Warning: Your Admin login is not secure ... 


    If you are getting this note in your Admin area:

    "Warning: Your Admin login is not secure ... either you still have default login settings for: Admin admin or have not removed or changed: ...

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    Parse error: unexpected T_STRING (or similar) 


    If you are getting an error similar to:

    "Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /var/www/myaccount/public_html/includes/languages/english/SOMETHING.php on line 28"

    ...
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    My Payment Methods aren't showing up during checkout 


    During checkout, if your payment methods aren't showing up, go into Admin> Modules> Payment and check:

    1. Is the payment module Installed? If not, click the Install ...

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