Setting Order Totals in OpenCart 1.5

Order Totals are Opencart extensions that will be displayed to a customer when they checkout. For example, an order total may be for a store credit, coupon or shipping costs. These totals may be displayed in a separate screen or line depending the total involved.  Note that not every order total option that defaults within OpenCart will appear to a customer during checkout and setup will vary from extension to extension used for Order Totals.  The following tutorial will review the common Order Totals used during checkout.

Managing Order Totals in OpenCart 1.5

1. Login to the Administration Dashboard as an Administrator
2. To setup new ORDER TOTALS, go to OpenCart Extensions- Order Totals  and select the new extension you wish to load.  Follow the installation instructions that they provide.  Make sure that the extension version matches with your OpenCart version.  Once you finish the installation continue with the steps below.  Otherwise go to the menu and click on EXTENSIONS to proceed editing existing ORDER TOTALS.
3. When the drop-down menu appears, find and click on ORDER TOTALS.  You will see a screen similar to the one below:
   
   
   
   
   
   Quick summary of Each Order Total Default
   
   

   Coupon	Allows customer to apply coupon discount towards product
   Store credit	Store credit that can be used against total purchase
   Handling Fee	Additional Fee for handling product
   Low Order Fee	Extra charge if customer orders below the minimum specified amount
   Reward Points	Benefit that allows customer to accumulate points that will lead towards product or discounts in the store at a future date
   Shipping	Allows display of the shipping price and selection of carriers
   Sub-Total	Displays Sub-total on a separate screen
   Taxes	Displays Taxes on another screen
   Total	Final total before billing of purchase
   Gift Voucher	Gift credit used towards purchase in store

   
   
   
4. Select the ORDER TOTAL you wish to install or edit in your OpenCart installation
5. Once you have completed editing the ORDER TOTALS or installing them, make sure you select SAVE in the top right hand corner in order to save the options or entries that you may have modified

The ORDER TOTALS are used to summarize information in an easy to read format.  They may involve different values that a customer may obtain as a gift or be required to pay because there is a specific extra cost. Order totals differ in type and format and are loaded into the OpenCart as an extension.  Customers will see order totals in the invoice when checking out with a purchase.  In the screenshot below, the SUB-TOTAL is a type of ORDER TOTAL being displayed: