New install on joomla 3x site - Lots of How To's

:http://beeswaxcandleshop.com/Our-Beeswax-Candle-Catalog/category.html
-- HikaShop version -- : 2.2.2
-- Joomla version -- : Joomla! 3.2.1
-- PHP version -- :5.4.23

I have been using Hikashop for 1.5 years and are very happy with it. I am now in the process of re-installing the e-commerce portion of my website on a subdomain. with a joomla 3x install. I have a series of questions, I am trying to duplicate what I did in my previous install but forgot a few things.

1 - I want to get my orders to start at 5500. After a few crashes I did the php adjustment "You need to go in the SQL tab and paste the query below there and click on OK. "ALTER TABLE jos_hikashop_order AUTO_INCREMENT = 10000; " Can I just change the 10000 to 5500?
(I had made a few errors in pasting/syntax earlier and orders stopped going through - Re-installing hika fixed it - but I am a little gun shy about messing it up again)

2 - The Sub-categories in my hikashop ( beeswaxcandleshop.com/Our-Beeswax-Candle...s-large-candles.html ) do not have the link in them like the categories do ( beeswaxcandleshop.com/Our-Beeswax-Candle-Catalog/category.html ) How do I get the links?

3 - On the checkout - the default is France. How do I get the default to be USA?

4 - On my previous install, after and order is completed, the screen went to a article that said: "Thank you for the order etc..."
How did I do that? Put some code in the end.php? I did not see the code any longer.

1 - I still have a problem. I previously changed it to 10000 ok. But here is screenshot of what I just did and the error.

2 - This link: beeswaxcandleshop.com/Our-Beeswax-Candle...s-large-candles.html compared to the other one, does not have the Name or link of the product.

3 - Thank you - worked fine and made other good adjustments.

4 - I do get the small message at the top, but I want it to show a "thank your for the order..." type article I have. Send check is ok, but I need something in Paypal & Authorizenet. How do I make a "return url" for the payment plugin. Could you give me some code I could place in it??

5 - New Question - Her are 2 order emails that I received:

(a) Your order No. 10006 is now Confirmed at www.beeswaxcandleshop.com/
A new order has been created on your website
(This one is from the new site I am working on)

(b) Your order No. 5446 is now Confirmed at www.honeyflowfarm.com/
Customer Order: 5446 – Billy Bob
(This is from my old site that is active now - this was a test order)

How do I change the email format (in order 10006) to look like the Customer Order: 5446 – Billy Bob

Also, I am not getting an order confirmation when a customer uses Pay Pal - order goes through but I do not see it in email (although I see the payment mention from paypal - which is good)

Hi,

1. You have to add ";" at the end of the first line.

2. The first link is a category listing, the second one list is listing products, so you have to edit the associated module options of the menu displaying the categories listing.

4. You can set the return URL in the parameters of the payment method. Set the url of the desired Joomla article.

5. In the new site case, thanks to try to confirm the order manually and see if you have the correct email.
I think that you have different configurations regarding the order confirmations.

Regarding #1 - I went to cpanel and entered "see the image" and hit "go", it seemed to accept it, with no messages on top like before (when I successfully changed it to 10000) - but it did not break site - still works, but not change in number on next test order.

Regarding #2 - I AM CONFUSED! The second link is a product listing, but there are NO ASSOCIATED MODULES ENABLED - what is showing it?? I want to get the name & link showing.
Also, if you click on one of the product items (that do not have a name or link) and go to here:
beeswaxcandleshop.com/Our-Beeswax-Produc...ylinder-pillars.html , another problem is at the very bottom it shows "Small 2 Inch wide Beeswax Cylinder Pillars" which I am trying to get rid of and also the "related products" (which I want) however BOTH MODULES ARE DISABLED.
What is happening? I seem to be having things happen that are disabled.

Regarding #4 = Return url worked fine - thank you.

#5 - "How do I change the email format (in order 10006) to look like the Customer Order: 5446 – Billy Bob". In the past setup, I entered some code that you fine people at hikashop gave me somewhere to make the email look like "Customer Order: 5446 – customer name".

How do I do that again?

Regarding 1 - I did exactly as you suggested and even changed it to an even 6000 - It was accepted perfectly, but nothing changed. I think I will give up for now and leave it at 10000 - Maybe it will feel better in a week or so. There must be something else going on.

2 - I have resolved the name and link issue in my category menus, but still can not get rid of the "best selling and recent" views, They are both disabled. I like the related product view - it is enabled and working. Here is a page with extra views showing: beeswaxcandleshop.com/Our-Beeswax-Produc...ylinder-pillars.html

5 - I fixed the email, thank you.

6 - New - I have shipping modules, UPS, USPS and "local pickup" a manual setup. They all work fine, however, whenever I have the local pickup enabled, (unless the shipping override is sent to none) there is no option to "ship to another address". "I will pickup my order from the farm when I get an email that is ready." text is where the shipping address should be. I would like it to be there ONLY when local pickup is selected.

7 - NEW - How do I change the text in things like "Guest" in the login field, change the words "finish" to "submit order" in the checkout, Make “Shipping Methods:” and “Payment METHods:” larger, bolder red or Make "You chose the shipping method: Local Pickup Bolder? Where are these files, I see some of them but cannot find the text to edit.

I have resolved most of the issues on the previous question over the weekend.

I now have a slight problem with my main category page:
beeswaxcandleshop.com/index.php?option=c...t=listing&Itemid=288

Most of the items are being showed by "Associated products listing for category listing menu 263".
but some others (honey, misc & soap) do not seem to have this module attached to it and do not show the products at all. (There are products in the category but now showing) (I think they used to be visible but I deleted all the categories not being used)

How do I attach the module to these categories? I have tried making a new category and they still do not show. I am getting very confused and need some direction.

Thanks - Bill

The only way I can get it work work correctly is to attache module 263 to my main category - then I get all the items in the main category and below it 263 is visible. Should I have just one module like I have now or one for the main and another for all the subcategories?
(Main category= beeswaxcandleshop.com/index.php?option=c...t=listing&Itemid=288 )

(previous post is now resolved)

I now have found a Problem with manual shipping setup.

I have a “Free Shipping over $150” HikaShop manual shipping plugin that is not working properly.

When someone uses a credit card a smaller than $150 order goes in fine. If their order is over $150 and they select this shipping method, (using a credit card), the screen goes back to the previous one and now the authorize area is not visible.

How do I fix this

When the customer purchases more than $150 (and the manual shipping is now in effect), the credit card order will not go through. The page just reverts back to the the original shipping page. And now the authorize is not available.

The problem is the order will not go through because of the manual shipping plugin.

I found the problem - Free shipping was not selected in the authorize module - all ok now
Thanks

Thanks for your feedback .