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Cart Attributes
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#1: XML Product Cart
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#2: Integrated Onsite Payment Cart
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#3: Full-Scale ERP Integration
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Product Catalog Size
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- Ideal for product carts with 1 - 500 products.
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500 - 1000
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1000 - 50,000 +
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Payment mechanism
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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Security and Liability
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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Product Catalog Price File
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- File based using XML markup.
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- XML Price File or
- Database (SQL Server)
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- Database only (SQL Server)
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Banking Information
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- Personal or Business Bank Account
- Busines Account with PayPal
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- Personal or Business Bank Account
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- Busines Account with PayPal or
- Merchant Account
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- Business Bank Account
- Merchant Account
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Platform
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- ASP.NET
- Internet Information Server (IIS)
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- ASP.NET
- Internet Information Server (IIS)
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- ASP.NET
- Internet Information Server (IIS)
- In-house third party or customized systems
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Product Catalog Maintenance
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- Upload files to web site via FTP
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- Administration tools to manage products via databases
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- Admin tools for product catalog maintenance, third party integration, etc
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Effort & Skill
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Full time software developer to maintain integration between in-house and online product catalog systems.
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