Click the links above for help on the respective topic.

For a new installation perform the following:

1. Read and follow the Setup Instructions that came with your product located at: C:\Ecomm\Pro\setup.htm
2. READ ALL OF THE TOPICS ABOVE BEFORE BEGINNING
3. Create Categories to organize your Store Front.
4. Add Products to the database.
5. Put links throughout your web site to the scart/shop.asp page.

    

   Use the FULL URL e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com/scart/shop.asp when creating links to any shopping page.

    

   *Note - DO NOT LEAVE OUT THE www. This DOES make a difference. It's needs to be the same as you used in your Company Information setup in the Database Control Panel.

    

   e.g. DO not use internal links to your shopping pages. 

   e.g. do not use <A Href="scart/shop.asp">Shop</a> *Note - You can use this method in your forms. Just not from your pages to the shopping pages that you create.

    

   Use below instead:

   e.g. use this <A Href="http://www.yourdomain.com/scart/shop.asp">Shop</a>

    

   *Note - If a user comes to your site using only http://yourdomain.com with out the www, and adds an item to the cart but doesn't purchase it, then comes back the next day to purchase and uses http://www.yourdomain.com, their item would not be found in the shopping cart. If you use the method mentioned above you can prevent this from happening. You would control the links used to reach the shopping area thus a user would always have their cart items. Other than that, it really doesn't matter it you use the FULL URL or NOT and just use internal links. It is up to you.

   *Note - Click the links above for full details on creating categories and adding products to your database.

Ecomm Professional Shopping Cart - Overview

Ecomm Professional is a database driven shopping cart system. All of your product's information, customer accounts and orders placed are kept in a database. Using a database has huge benefits as apposed to not using a database and creating "static" web pages for your products. If you're selling 1000 items are you going to create 1000 web pages to display and sell your products? You could however, those items would likely be outdate by the time you get your 1000 pages complete. What happens when prices change or shipping rates change? You would have to go to all those pages and update your shipping or items prices. How about your customer's accounts? Do you want some other shopping cart host to hold your customers information or worse yet not keep any record of customers? Some hosted shopping carts collect YOUR customers accounts. Then they sell the email and street addresses of your customers. 

Ecomm Professional resolves all these issues and may many more.

Ecomm Professional gives you the ability to have a "Professional" E-Commerce Web Site!

Once installed on your web server you simply add your company information, create your Product Categories and add your products to the database with an easy to use web page FORM.

As you create top level categories links to those categories automatically appear on your Store Front shopping pages. As you add products to those categories the products information, images and an Add To Cart button appear automatically on your shopping cart pages.

Customers select the products, that they wish to purchase, by clicking the Add to Cart button. When a customer has all of the product they wish to purchase, in the shopping cart, they simply click Check Out.

If this is a new customer they must create a customer account. If they are a returning customer they can simply login, which will pull their Account Information from the database.

The customer then enters their Credit Card information and optional shipping address, if any, and then places the order. 

If you have purchased the Real-Time-Component the customer's Credit Card information is verified and if correct is charged for the amount of the purchase. This money is then deposited into your bank account automatically by the Credit Card Processing Gateway - Authorize.Net (if you didn't purchase the component you will have to manually charge their Credit Card using a terminal or other means)

The customer and the shopping cart owner are both emailed a copy of the order.

The order is placed in the database for future lookups.

You login to the Database Control Panel to Fill the orders that your customers have placed. Order that are marked as shipped no longer show under Place Orders however, you as the cart owner and the customer both can lookup the order at anytime.

Customer can login to the customer's area and see if and when their order was shipped.