CubeCart Tutorials

Short, practical tutorials for CubeCart store owners. These cover initial setup, the configuration of individual parts of the system, and the day to day running of an online shop.

They are written for store owners rather than developers, so they assume you are comfortable in the CubeCart admin but not that you want to edit template files.

Installation and initial setup

• Configuration of the CubeCart slideshow

CubeCart guides on our blog

Longer articles on CubeCart features, configuration and releases are published on our blog. The most useful for store owners are gathered here by subject.

Running a store day to day

• CubeCart Sales Reports: The Seven Reports and How to Use Them
• CubeCart Customer Groups: Running Trade and Retail from One Store
• Managing CubeCart Extensions: Marketplace, Visibility and Maintenance
• 404 Errors and Custom Error Pages for Your Shop
• CubeCart Scheduled Tasks and the CLI Cron Runner

Shipping, tax and payments

• CubeCart Box Packing: Accurate Shipping Rates from Real Parcel Sizes
• CubeCart All In One Shipping: Rates That Match What Delivery Actually Costs
• CubeCart Tax and Rounding: What Changed and What to Check
• CubeCart PayPal Commerce Platform: Full Setup, and the Phone Number Issue Revisited
• CubeCart Enhanced Admin Order Entry: Taking Orders Without the Guesswork

Security

• Two-Factor Authentication in CubeCart: Why You Should Turn It On Today
• Argon2id Password Hashing in CubeCart: What It Means for Your Store
• CubeCart Hooks: The Editor, Extension Ownership and Template Security
• The CubeCart REST API: What It Does and How to Use It Safely

Marketing and search

• CubeCart Abandoned Cart Recovery: Setting It Up Properly
• Google Tag Manager for CubeCart: One Container Instead of Ten Snippets
• CubeCart and Elasticsearch: Better Relevance, and the Failure to Watch For

Release notes

• CubeCart 6.7.0: Sales Reports, Email Overhaul and Audit Logging
• CubeCart 6.6.3: Argon2id Passwords, a Better Dashboard and Smarter Search
• CubeCart 6.6.0: Ninety Changes in One Release

More to come

We are adding to this section over time. Topics already planned include product options and variants, setting up shipping zones and rates, configuring tax correctly for the countries you sell into, getting order confirmation emails to actually arrive, and preparing a store for a core upgrade.

If there is something you would find useful that is not here, tell us. Support questions we are asked more than once tend to become tutorials.

Elsewhere on the site

Our blog carries longer articles on CubeCart features and releases, our CubeCart plugins pages document what each of our own plugins does, and the CubeCart skins page covers the skins we build and maintain.

Full CubeCart support is included with our CubeCart hosting, so a question that is not answered by a tutorial can simply be raised as a ticket.