Checkout options are used for enabling and disabling the one-page checkout.
Follow below steps for checkout in your Magento store.
• Login to your Magento Admin Panel.
• Click on System menu and click on the Configuration option.
• Once you click on configuration click on checkout option from Sales section from left menu.
• Click on checkout option which includes settings for one page checkout with enable disable option. You can also enable disable guest checkout and last option from which you can enable or disable terms and conditions.
There are three types of shopping cart options:
• Quote Lifetime (days) which determines lifetime of products in cart, after a customer puts items in the cart
• After Adding a Product Redirect to Shopping Cart determines whether customers should be redirected to the shopping cart page after the product is placed in the cart.
• Grouped Product Image and Configurable Product Image options determine whether the parent image of product should be displayed on the cart and whether configurable product added to the cart should be displayed on the shopping cart or not.
• My cart link tab is specifying whether the number of quantities in the cart should be shown or whether the number of different products should be shown using the display cart summary.
There are two types of options in shopping cart sidebar:
• The Display Shopping Cart Sidebar option can hide or show the cart sidebar on the frontend.
• Maximum Display Recently Added Item(s) option specifies recently added items to be listed in the cart.
There are some options in payment failed email tab:
• Payment Failed Email Reciever option stores e-mail address to which payment failed e-mail should be sent.
• Payment Failed Email Sender option specify from which e-mail address payment failed e-mail should be sent.
• Payment Failed Template option specifies which template should be used to display message.
• Send Payment Failed Email Copy To option allows to send copies of e-mails to additional e-mail addresses and last option.
• Send Payment Failed Email Copy Method selects either separate e-mails or blind carbon copies methods to send payment failed e-mails.
Once you have done all the settings, click on Save Config button to save your settings.