“I have made my own product pages, and just want to add an “Add to Cart” or “buy now” buttons to my pages.”

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Short Answer:

In other words, “I already have my own catalog (or product pages), and just want to use Veracart for the shopping cart.”

This can be done, but please remember that you will lose a good amount of functionality.  Please see the related article to see exactly what functionality you will be losing.

Detailed Explanation:

You should follow the standard setup for your store (the CODE tab), including the catalog page—since it is used for certain things such as the search tool. 

After you do this, you can create categories and products the usual way (from the PRDOCUTS tab), and you will notice that we automatically generate the direct links to products, categories, and Attributes. 

If for example, you are looking at your items list, you will see an icon of a little link.  Click on it.  Alternatively, if you go into edit a specific product, you can click the link on the top right that says “Direct URL and Add to Cart Code for this item” which will give you the “Add to Cart” link that you can use on your own custom add to cart buttons, on your static product pages.

You will also notice that there is some other information in this section as well. You can see the related questions below to learn more about these, as well as various points at which you may want to integrate your store with the automatically generated product/category pages.

Advanced note for button roll-overs:

Althought this exceeds the scope of the cart, and falls under general web design practices, we include this here for your convenience.  If you are using rollover images for your buttons, and want to use our form code, then here is a sample you can refer to. Of course, you will need to use the correct image names, and URL's:

<form action="http://www.your_website.com/cart.html" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="Cl" value="2"> <input type="hidden" name="Iit" value="5">

<input type=image src="button_buy_off.jpg" name="buy" border="0"
id="buy" alt="Buy" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()"
onmouseover="MM_swapImage('buy','','button_buy_on.jpg',1)">