YAK for WordPress Installation Manual

For full installation details, covering all the flexible options YAK has to offer (external payments gateway, such as PayPal, Authorize.net, etc), consider purchasing the YAK Installation Handbook. Download the zip distribution and unzip into your wp-content/plugins directory, or alternatively, in the WP dashboard, under plugins, select “Add New”, and enter YAK as the term to search for.Activate the plugin. You’ll now find a new menu group “YAK” containing: “Orders”, “Products”, “Sales Reports”, “General Options”, “Shipping Options”, “Misc Options” and “Sales Tax”. A new checkout page will have been automatically created (if not already present). You will also find two new categories have been created: one called “products”, and another subcategory, labelled “default”. This is like a marker for YAK products (mainly used for products of only one type). If you have products with different types (for example, you’re selling T-shirts in sizes large, medium and small), you’ll also need to create them as child categories of “products”. At the end of this process, you might have the sub-categories: “default” (automatically created for you), “large”, “medium”, “small”.Create a new landing page for a type of payment you wish to accept. There are a number of ways you can accept payment (including PayPal), but for the purposes of this basic introduction, we’ll stick with Deposit. Click “Add New”, in WordPress’s “Pages” section. Give the landing page a title, such as “Deposit”. For the content of the page, you should provide instructions on how a customer is to pay by deposit. For example:

Thanks for your order. Your order number is [yak_order_id]

You should receive a confirmation message shortly.

Please deposit the amount of [yak_order_value] into the following bank account:

Bank: SomeBank

Branch: Some Branch

Address: blah blah blah blah

Account Number: 00-0000-000-000

SWIFT CODE: 00000

Another example of a landing page might be paying by cheque. Create another page in the same way as you created the Deposit page using the text:

Please a cheque in the amount of [yak_order_value] to:

12 Vulcan Lane

Auckland City

Auckland

Please note reference number [yak_order_id] on the back of the cheque.

Save this new page as before. Note that you’ll probably want to exclude these pages from the main menu — which you can do using the pluginExclude-Pages.

Configure how you want YAK to function, by clicking on the “General Options” link in the YAK menu. On the “Basic” tab:a. Enter a confirmation email address, if you want to send order confirmations (if so, you’ll also need to enter a confirmation message).b. If you want to display the checkout immediately when a customer clicks the Buy button, select your Checkout page from the drop down list for the option “Redirect on buy to”.c. Most importantly: select the “products” category from the dropdown “Product category name”, if it is not already selected.d. Click the Update Options button to save the changes.On the Products price/quantity tab:a. Set an automatic discount for your online products (if you don’t want to discount your products, set the fraction to 1).b. Enter a currency symbol ($, £, ¥, etc).c. Select the number of decimal places for displaying amounts.d. Select the currency format.e. If you want all new posts to be setup as products, you can enter an automatic quantity to use.On the Payments tab:a. Next to “Redirect URLs for Payment”, in the box labeled “Type Name”, enter the text “Deposit”.b. For the “Redirect To” select the page you created earlier.c. Click the plus (+) button and do the same for the Cheque landing page you also created.Configure the default shipping options, by click on the “Shipping Options” link in the YAK menu. On the “Basic” tab:a. Select a default country.b. Tick the checkboxes for what to include in the shipping address.Create a new product by performing the following steps:a. Write a new post (Click on “Add New” in the Posts section).b. Give your product a meaningful title.c. Enter details about the product. Add the price to the post using the tag [yak_price], and add a buy button using the tag [yak_buy]. For example:

Here’s a description of my product, which you should buy. No really, you should.

Price: [yak_price]

[yak_buy]

In the “YAK Product Details” tab below the post, give your product a price, and if necessary an alternative (display) title.Also in that section, click the plus button to add a product type. In the dropdown, select the “default” category you created earlier. Set the quantity of this product that you have available.Publish the post.

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