Any e-commerce website requires a store
manager to look after the website. Using a web based service such as
Web Cart offers a quick and simple way
to
add
e-commerce
facilities
to
any website without the cost of expensive programming. No additional
hosting is required.
The following details a number of the
key benefits in more detail.
Simple Integration
Both the standard and enterprise versions of Web Cart are simple to
integrate to your existing website solution. With the standard edition
you simply add some HTML code that we provide in to your web pages
for each product. When the user clicks the “Add to Basket” the product
is added to the shopping cart. The enterprise edition of our service
offers a more sophisticated option. Using the product data entered
into the service you can choose a template design and our system
will generate a series of product catalogue pages and then transfer
them to your hosting solution. These pages can also be visually customised
to match your website.
Visual Customisation
One of the main benefits of this web service is the fact that all the
shopping cart and product catalogue pages can be visually customised.
Using HTML header and footers the pages can be integrated in to the
design of your website. This means that users can move from your
website to our shopping cart service without noticing. In addition
to the header and footer options the shopping cart and the forms
within the purchase process can be customised using Cascading Style
Sheets.
Product Database
Within our service you enter all the products you have for sale. This
data is then used within the shopping cart. The data can also be
used to generate product catalogue pages for your website with our
enterprise edition. Our enterprise edition also allows you to set
user selectable product attributes. This information is then passed
through with the order.
Product Catalogue Template Content Management
System
With our enterprise edition you can get our Content Management System
to generate product catalogue pages for your website. These can be either
one of the
template set of product catalogues we have produced or we can customise
a set for you at additional charge.
VAT Calculation
The Web Cart service allows you to choose whether the system calculates
VAT/Sales Tax or not on your products. If VAT/Sales Tax is calculated
then you can choose which countries VAT is charged form and which
are not.
Delivery Calculation
There are a number of different ways that delivery can be charge. You
could charge by product, order value or more. Our service allows
you to set various delivery rules. You can also set various delivery
bands and group countries in to different zones. Delivery is then
calculated based on the country that the users selects when entering
their customer information. This means that the correct delivery rate
is always charged based on the country zone and the appropriate delivery
band for the products chosen.
Secure Data Collection
Using our Web Cart service all personal information is collected using
our 128-bit SSL Certificate from our website. This means that the
collection of names and addresses is secure and you do not need to
go to the expense of a SSL certificate for your website.
Online Payment
Payment for goods is carried out via a third party payment gateway
provider. At present we are able to integrate with Secure Trading,
WorldPay or ProTx. Additional providers will be added in due course.
Unlike other service providers our service does not allow credit
card details to be collected and e-mailed back to you. This is due
to the fact that e-mail is insecure for card details. The other benefit
of getting cards processed online is that you don't have to spend
time processing the cards and most payment gateways have fraud protection
features.
Order Notification
When an order is placed users are notified of the details of their
order. These emails can be customised to suit your needs.
Back-End Management System
The back-end management system contains details of all new and out
standing order as well as having a searchable archive of previous
orders. You can also maintain your product database, VAT and delivery
details within this system.
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