The August 15, 2008 Checkout Manager migration deadline has passed. Stores that have not moved to Checkout Manager will be automatically migrated, but not republished. All merchants are reminded that Order Settings MUST be republished following migration. If you do not republish your Order Settings, your store will not be able to accept orders once the old checkout servers are shut down on September 1. Learn more.

What resources are available to help with using Checkout Manager?

Information about moving from Order Forms to Checkout Manager is available in the Checkout Manager Testing and Enabling section of online help. To learn more about Checkout Manager's features and functions, you can consult Checkout Manager help, and download the Getting Started with Checkout Manager Guide.

In July, we held webinars to:

• Introduce you to Checkout Manager.
• Answer questions about the migration.
• Address any concerns about the migration that may have kept you from moving to Checkout Manager.

Presentation slides from one of these sessions are available for download in PowerPoint format:

Download webinar slides (3.4 MB)

Where can I find developers to help me customize my checkout pages?

A number of developers from the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Developer Network can help with checkout customization. You can find a list of these developers here: http://developernetwork.store.yahoo.com/checkout-manager.html

All developers listed are authorized partners of Yahoo! Merchant Solutions.

What happens if I do not republish following the shutdown of the older checkout systems?

If you don't republish Order Settings after moving to Checkout Manager, your store's checkout will not function once the older checkout systems are shut down on September 1. Once Order Settings are republished, your checkout will again become functional.

How will customizing my cart page change?

Once you've migrated, you will no longer customize the look of your shopping cart using Store Editor. Instead, you can recreate its look using Checkout Manager. As an added benefit, this look will also be applied across all checkout pages.

If you've created top or left navigation regions for your checkout pages using the Checkout Wrapper feature, Checkout Manager lets you choose which pages to display these on. For example, you can choose to show this navigation on the cart page, but hide it on the shipping, billing, or order review pages where it may be distracting to buyers.

Why did you migrate all stores to Checkout Manager?

By standardizing onto one version of checkout, we'll be able to develop new features that merchants have requested in less time. Supporting multiple versions of checkout means a great deal of time is spent in development and quality assurance testing to make sure any change will work with all versions of checkout.

We also strongly believe that Checkout Manager offers far superior customization capability and features that will allow merchants to optimize their checkout pages and increase overall site conversion.

Checkout Manager is a feature that has been available for some time. Merchants have been able to test and enable Checkout Manager since its beta release in August 2005, and have been able to use it in general release since April 2006.

What are the benefits of using Checkout Manager?

Checkout Manager has significant benefits over the older forms of checkout. Additional features and functionality include the ability to:

• customize your checkout flow—use single page, combine shipping and billing onto the same page eliminating a step, show or hide your Order Review page to have the checkout flow that maximizes conversions for your business
• customize the visual appearance of checkout page regions: add header and footer contents to pages as well as side navigation
• choose the color and style of all buttons including using your own custom button images
• use PayPal Express Checkout and PayPal Website Payments Pro
• use the latest Cross-Sell features, including product page cross-sell and auto suggest.
• integrate 3rd party features such as analytics tracking code or capture Order Confirmation data from JavaScript variables
• add a shipping calculator to your shopping cart page
• add a coupon entry capability to your shopping cart page
• enjoy greater flexibility with custom fields

For an overview of Checkout Manager's features and functionality, please see our Help pages, or download the Getting Started with Checkout Manager Guide.