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Cart, checkout and payment: the money screens line by line

Between the cart and "Payment successful!" the archive holds more money labels than any other part of the site. These cards read them in the order the screens show them, then add up what each one costs in a worked example.

Mock-up of the archived order confirmation page, drawn by this site from the stored labels, with the six-step bar across the top.

Inside the shopping cart

The cart showed goods and the first leg of freight only. Every total on it leaves out the trip abroad.

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Seller 》 Warehouse shipping fee

Seen on: Cart label for each seller's delivery charge. The archive uses a double angle mark as the arrow.
Means: The seller's own delivery charge inside China, from their shop to the agent warehouse.
Your move: Expect it per seller, not per item. Buying three things from one shop usually means one of these, not three.

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Subtotal (excluding international shipping)

Seen on: Cart total label.
Means: Goods plus domestic delivery. The international parcel is billed later, as a separate payment.
Your move: Do not compare this number with an all-in price from another shop.

Notice text

International freight charges are not included

Seen on: Cart summary note, stored with a pointer to the freight estimation page.
Means: Same warning in plain words.
Your move: Open the freight estimator with a guessed weight before you pay for goods.

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The final price will be confirmed...

Seen on: Order Summary box in the cart; the line ends "on the next page".
Means: Coupons, value-added services and the handling fee are added after the cart.
Your move: Treat the cart figure as a draft.

Short message

Shopping cart is empty, go to buy now ~

Seen on: Empty cart.
Means: Nothing saved. Items you added while signed out may not have carried over.
Your move: Sign in first, then add items.

Error line

Please select a product

Seen on: Pressing checkout with nothing ticked.
Means: Cart lines have tick boxes; only ticked lines go forward.
Your move: Tick the lines you want to pay for now and leave the rest.

The order confirmation page

Pressing checkout led to "Confirm Order", with a six-step bar across the top: select, pay for products, inspection and warehousing, submit parcels, pay for international shipping, wait for receipt. You are at step one or two here.

Pop-up title

Seen on: Heading on the order confirmation page.
Means: Last look at options, quantities and notes.
Your move: Check each option name against what you chose; "Back to cart and edit" sits right beside it.

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Freight to the Warehouse

Seen on: Order confirmation label.
Means: The domestic delivery charge again, now fixed for this order.
Your move: If it reads zero for a seller who normally charges, ask before paying; staff may add it later as a balance due.

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Value-added Service Fee Involved

Seen on: Order confirmation label for extras.
Means: Optional services carry their own fee. The amounts were not kept in the archive.
Your move: Open the extras and remove the ones you did not mean to add.

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Please select a coupon

Seen on: Coupon picker, stored with "I have a new coupon code".
Means: Coupons from your account, or a code typed in.
Your move: Coupon rules were not archived; check the minimum spend shown on the coupon itself.

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Product Notes

Seen on: Free text box with a reminder to write only when you have special needs.
Means: Notes go to the purchasing staff, not to the seller directly.
Your move: Write one clear request per note, such as "check both shoes are the same size", and nothing chatty.

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Select shipping country

Seen on: Picker on the confirmation page.
Means: The text under it explains why: the platform will judge whether your goods can be shipped according to the country.
Your move: Choose your real destination now; some goods that clear one country are refused for another.

Pop-up title

Seen on: Title of an agreement you tick at checkout; "Safety Statement" sits next to it.
Means: An authorisation for the agent to buy on your behalf. Only the titles were archived, not the terms.
Your move: Without the text there is nothing to quote; keep a screenshot of whatever version you accept.

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Authorize the deduction of the difference

Seen on: Confirmation page option.
Means: Lets staff settle small price gaps out of your balance instead of messaging you each time.
Your move: Tick it only if you keep some balance and trust the seller's price to be stable.

The payment page and its handling fee

The payment page added one or two fees on top and showed a countdown. These are its lines.

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Please select a payment channel

Seen on: Payment page prompt; channels named in the code include card, PayPal, balance and others.
Means: The handling fee is shown on this page. Channel names survived; the rates did not.
Your move: If two channels are offered, compare "Actual Payable" for each before choosing.

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Fixed Handling Fee

Seen on: One of two fee lines on the payment page.
Means: A flat US-dollar amount added per payment, as the formula below shows.
Your move: Fewer, larger payments pay this flat part fewer times.

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Actual Payable

Seen on: Payment page total.
Means: Goods (or parcel) amount plus the flat fee, then divided by one minus the percentage fee. The division makes the percentage bite slightly harder than it looks.
Your move: Use this line, not the cart total, when you check your bank statement.

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Pay with Balance

Seen on: A channel option.
Means: Pays from money already topped up.
Your move: Check whether the handling fee line changes when you pick balance; the archive does not say.

Short message

Please pay before

Seen on: Followed by a time and ", or it will be cancelled."
Means: An unpaid order expires. A "Cancel countdown" label showed the time left.
Your move: If you need to wait for payday, do not start checkout yet.

Pop-up title

Seen on: Pop-up shown while a card or PayPal payment runs on a separate page.
Means: The payment happens on the other page; this window waits.
Your move: Do not close it. Press "Completed payment" only after the other page confirms.

Pop-up title

Seen on: Shown if the money left your account but the order still says unpaid.
Means: Three causes were listed: a slow network notice (allow about an hour), a PayPal review, or an electronic check, which could take three to seven days.
Your move: Do not pay twice. If nothing was taken from your account, the stored advice is simply to pay again.

Short message

Oops, payment failed!

Seen on: Result page after a failed attempt.
Means: The charge did not go through. If you were charged anyway, the page says to contact staff at once.
Your move: Check the bank or PayPal record before retrying.

Error line

Insufficient balance for payment

Seen on: When paying from balance.
Means: The balance is lower than the order total. A link offers to top up first.
Your move: Top up slightly more than the gap; the fee line can move the total.

Money labels in screen order, with a worked sum

Read the money labels as three screens rather than one bill. The cart shows goods and the seller-to-warehouse fee. The confirmation page adds value-added services and takes off coupons. The payment page adds the handling fee, a flat part plus a percentage. The international parcel is a second, separate bill later, on the parcel screens.

A worked example with figures we chose ourselves, because the archive kept the formula but not Pandagoo's own rates: a CNY 129 jacket plus CNY 10 seller delivery, paid as US$19.60 of goods, with a flat fee of US$0.35 and 3.4 per cent. The payable is (19.60 + 0.35) / (1 - 0.034) = US$20.65. The extra US$1.05 is 5.4 per cent of the goods, because the flat part weighs more on a small order.

The money labels grouped by the screen that shows them, with the worked example totalled at the bottom. Rates in the example are ours, not Pandagoo's.