Payment Gateways - Start Here
All eCommerce features require you to first set up at least one Payment Gateway.
{% content-ref url="../../ecommerce/get-started-ecommerce/payment-gateways/" %} payment-gateways {% endcontent-ref %}
Basic Payment Forms, Checkout and Subscriptions
Siteglide offers three main different kinds of eCommerce flow. You can use a combination of these or just one depending on which kinds of products your Site will be selling.
Below we'll give you some common use cases which might point you towards a particular route so you can start reading there:
Basic Payment Forms
Most Suitable for:
Allowing the User to decide how much to pay
E.g. Charitable Donations
Paying Invoices or one off payments
Buying Lifetime Access to content stored within one of your Secure Zones
{% content-ref url="basic-payment-forms/basic-payments.md" %} basic-payments.md {% endcontent-ref %}
Cart, Checkout or Quotes
Most suitable for:
Customers Choosing multiple products with a price and then purchasing
E.g. An online shop
Customers Choosing multiple products and requesting a Quote on their list
{% content-ref url="cart-checkout-and-quotes/about-cart-checkout-and-quotes.md" %} about-cart-checkout-and-quotes.md {% endcontent-ref %}
Subscriptions
Most Suitable for:
Storing a Customer's Card in the Payment Gateway with permission to charge it on regular occasions to provide continued access to a product
Taking regular Payments to provide access to a Secure Zone on your site, removing access once the payments are cancelled or stop.
{% content-ref url="../../ecommerce/get-started-ecommerce/introduction-4/about-subscriptions.md" %} about-subscriptions.md {% endcontent-ref %}