Entering Your Terms and Conditions

The 'Terms and Conditions' area of Actinic allows you to set up a range of marketing messages and also outline your company's policies on things like returns and customer privacy. Whatever terms and conditions you enter here will be displayed in the online store.

To access the 'Terms and Conditions' area, go to 'Settings | Business Settings menu' (or select the  button on the toolbar) and select the 'Terms and Conditions' tab.

Editing Your Terms and Conditions

·      Actinic provides example text, which you can personalize to reflect your own policies and circumstances.

·      If you leave any of these panels blank, then the heading will not be displayed.

·      If you want to edit the headings, then go to 'Design | Text' and search for the heading you want to change.

·      You can type up to 20,000 characters in all tabs except 'Remittance Terms' where the limit is 255. Any text you enter into the 'Remittance Terms' tab is also printed on the invoices generated by Actinic (see Order Processing Reports).

·      The 'Privacy Policy' tab contains some extra settings that are described in Privacy Policies.

·      You can enter custom HTML into the panels using 'Embedded HTML'. For more on this, go to Embedding HTML.

·      The company information you enter in 'Business Settings | Company/Contact' (see Entering Your Company Details) can automatically be transferred into your terms and conditions. To do this, use any of the following variables within the panels in the 'Terms and Conditions' tabs:
[COMPANYNAME]
[ADDRESSLINE1]
[ADDRESSLINE2]
[ADDRESSLINE3]
[ADDRESSLINE4]
[POSTCODE]
[COUNTRY]
[PHONE]
[FAX]
[EMAIL]
[TAX1DESC]
[TAX1NR] (tax registration number)
[TAX2DESC]
[TAX2NR] (tax registration number)

Making People Agree To Your Terms and Conditions

In order to force customer to agree to your Terms and Conditions before placing an order, select the 'Terms and Conditions to be Agreed before Checkout' button in this area. This will create a checkbox in the checkout that customers are required to click on before continuing.

Layout Out Your Terms and Conditions

In 'Design | Design Options' there are some options for where your terms and conditions appear in your online store. These are as follows:

Option	Meaning
None	Your terms and conditions will not appear at all in the online store.
Terms and Conditions on Separate Catalog Page	Your terms and conditions will be on a separate page in the online store called 'info.html'.
Terms and Conditions on Catalog Front Page	Your terms and conditions will appear on the front store page in the online store.
URL	Your terms and conditions will not appear at all in the online store. Instead the 'info'/'terms' navigation link will point to the URL specified here.
Brochure Page	Your terms and conditions will not appear at all in the online store. Instead the 'info'/'terms' navigation link will point to the brochure page specified here.

The Marketing Message

You can create a range of marketing messages that will be displayed (by default) above your terms and conditions, and at the top of your site map page. Several messages may be created and saved, but only one can be displayed at a time.

Option	Meaning
Display	Select this to display a marketing message in your store.
New	Create a new marketing message.
Edit	Edit the selected marketing message.
Remove	Remove the selected marketing message from the list.
Name Within 'Edit Marketing Text' window	Give the marketing message a name within Actinic.
Text Within 'Edit Marketing Text' window	The actual content of the marketing message.