Solutions

UIT offers 3 types of product catalog cart solutions.

Please review our Things To Consider document when evaluating criteria for your online product shopping cart.

Cart Attributes #1: XML Product Cart #2: Integrated Onsite Payment Cart #3: Full-Scale ERP Integration
Product Catalog Size
  • Ideal for product carts with 1 - 500 products.
  • 500 - 1000
  • 1000 - 50,000 +
  • Payment mechanism
    • The Shopping Cart Experience occurs on your web site while payments and financial information data is collected on the PayPal site.
    • Name, Address, and Credit Card information is collected on the PayPal secure web site using SSL, an encryption protocol used to protect financial information over the internet.
    • All funds transfers occur on the PayPal site using all major credit cards.
    • Uses the PayPal solutions "Web Payment Standard" tool to handle catalog and payment information.
    • Name, Address, and Credit Card Information is exchanged on your site.
    • The customer never leaves your site.
    • Payments are made using major credit cards via an integrated payment gateway tool integrated directly on your web site.
    • Name, Address, and Credit Card Information is exchanged on your site.
    • The customer never leaves your site.
    • Payments are made using major credit cards via an integrated payment gateway tool integrated directly on your web site.
    Security and Liability
    • No credit card liability since all information is collected on PayPal's secure SSL encrypted web site.
    • Security depends on PayPal's security.
    • No collection of any credit card data occurs by your web site.
    • Potential credit cart liability exists since personal data is collected on your site.
    • An SSL certificate is required on your site to protect and encrypt financial payment transactions.
    • Your are required to integrate software code with a payment gateway tool for proper funds transfer over the internet.
    • Potential credit cart liability exists since personal data is collected on your site.
    • An SSL certificate is required on your site to protect and encrypt financial payment transactions.
    • Your are required to integrate software code with a payment gateway tool for proper funds transfer over the internet.
    Product Catalog Price File
    • File based using XML markup.
    • XML Price File or
    • Database (SQL Server)
    • Database only (SQL Server)
    Banking Information
    • Personal or Business Bank Account
    • Busines Account with PayPal
    • Personal or Business Bank Account
    and
    • Busines Account with PayPal or
    • Merchant Account
    • Business Bank Account
    • Merchant Account
    Platform
    • ASP.NET
    • Internet Information Server (IIS)
    • ASP.NET
    • Internet Information Server (IIS)
    • ASP.NET
    • Internet Information Server (IIS)
    • In-house third party or customized systems
    Product Catalog Maintenance
    • Upload files to web site via FTP
    • Administration tools to manage products via databases
    • Admin tools for product catalog maintenance, third party integration, etc
    Effort & Skill
    • Minimal skill required
    • Site can be up and running in a few hours if your product catalog is small. Large catalogs require more effort.
    • No technical support necessary from UIT unless requested.
    • The larger your catalog, the more effort required to manage your shopping cart solution.
    • Product catalog management on a continual basis.
    • May involve database management, import and export of data, ensuring data feeds from external vendors have the correct format.
    • Full time software developer to maintain integration between in-house and online product catalog systems.

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