If
you have a catalog that you wish to put "online" and you want to sell
items from it over the Web, the best way to accomplish this is with a
shopping cart system. This is what is commonly referred to as
"E-commerce". Ad Wizards can have our programmers setup
a shopping cart and have you up and running in a reasonable time frame.
The way
a shopping cart system works is it will display what you have to sell,
either with or without a picture in a catalog format. (we have found
that a good picture really helps sell the product though, regardless
of what it is!) When a customer wishes to "purchase" an item, they enter
the quantity and then click on an "ADD" button next to it. The
item's information is then automatically placed into a "shopping cart"
(item SKU number, price, quantity and short description normally). Whenever
the customer wishes, he or she may view the contents of the "cart",
change the number of items wanted, delete items, recalculate the amount
(because usually the price for a single item is shown automatically)
and continue shopping if they wish. When the customer is finished shopping
and is satisfied with the contents of the shopping cart, they click
a button to "Check Out". The information is then placed into a SECURE
(SSL) order form where the client can not only review what they are
buying one last time, but enter their personal, shipping and credit
card information. This information is then encrypted
at this point to assure security and peace of mind. The customer gets
an emailed copy of all the information on the order with the exception
of the credit card number (for security purposes), you are sent ALL
the information so you can process the credit card charge and fill the
order. Our shopping carts can be integrated with various "gateways"
on the Internet for "real-time" authorizations for an additional
charge. (the amount varies due to the level of complexity from one gateway
company to another).
Our shopping
carts will allow you to maintain them via a web interface for most functions
such as price changes, description changes, additions, etc.