About the eCommerce Module

We've split the eCommerce Module into the following sections:

Payment Gateways - Start Here

All eCommerce features require you to first set up at least one Payment Gateway.

Payment Gateways

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

About Basic Payment Forms

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

About Cart, Checkout and Quotes

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.

https://github.com/Siteglide/documentation/blob/master/ecommerce/get-started-ecommerce/introduction-4/about-subscriptions.md