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e-Commerce Storefront
Internet Business or e-Commerce is on rising. People shop on line, sometimes
doing product research, sometimes purchasing products, and sometimes searching
for the company or person with whom they want to do business. If you have one
product or a thousand you need an online store to compete in today's market.
e-Commerce Storefront shopping cart is the perfect solution for creating an
E-Commerce based Web site using FrontPage 98. e-Commerce Storefront is a two tier
e-commerce development tool. The client component is a Microsoft FrontPage
plug-in which gives you new FrontPage menu tools used to create product bots and
confirmation bots that interact with the e-commerce application code. e-Commerce
Storefront application code is a Microsoft Active Server Pages application that
tracks and processes the customer orders. e-Commerce Storefront has built in
support for SSL and Cyber Cash transaction processing to support online credit
card transactions.
In e-Commerce Storefront software that are important to note when selecting an
e-commerce application tool. A vital element in developing e-Commerce Storefront
software is that the transaction data be kept secure and secret. If transaction
data such as product prices, tax calculations, etc are passed through the
application as hidden variables then these values are being exposed for
manipulation to the viewer. Prices and totals can actually be changed in the
hidden form elements and passed back as an order.
e-Commerce Storefront software obtains all transaction data from a backend
products database and all processing is done on the server and is not exposed to
the viewer.
A good e-Commerce Storefront shopping cart may have (or rather should have!) lots
of features:
Product Management : Product Import and Batch Update Utility, Product Page
Templates and Catalog, Unlimited Sub-Categories, Price and weight sensitive
Product Attributes, Customer Defined Attributes.
Promotions and Marketing: Promotional Mail Utility, Publish to Auctions and
Marketplaces, Search Engine Submission, E-Coupons, Product or Storewide Sales,
Extended Affiliate Programs
Suggested Selling.
Merchandising: Sales Report, Order fulfillment, , QuickBooks Integration, Web
Based Merchant Tools, Customer Management.
Shopper Features: Running Cart Total, Customer Address Book, Multiple Ship-to
Addresses, Wish Lists, E-Mail to a Friend, Gift Wrap with Messages, Simple
Search Utility, Gift Certificates.
Transactions and Management: Integrated Shipment Tracking, Real-time Shipping
Rates, Merchant Account / Gateway Integration, Third Tax Tier, Multiple Payment
Options: CC, COD, PO, E-Checks, PayPal.
With new e-Commerce Storefront 6.0 You don't need to build a new Web site to use
Storefront 6.0— almost any existing Web site hosted on an IIS server can be
e-Commerce enabled by deploying Storefront 6.0 without any substantial changes to
the design of the site's pre-existing pages. The standard, open-source
development platform used ensures endless flexibility, and built-in features and
options serve stores with a dozen products, or with tens of thousands.
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