Understanding Shopping Carts
- Customers view your online catalogue
- Customers add items to a panier
- Customer proceeds to check out
- System calculates freight et sales tax et discounts if any and determines a final price
- Customer may enter vouchers or promo codes to reduce the final price
- Customer enters their delivery details and any customised checkout questions
- Customer selects method of payment, then pays through a payment gateway (le cas échéant)
- Merchant receives an order notification et payment receipt by email
- Merchant sends the goods with a shipping docket
- Merchant can view sales reports
How to create a new shopping cart (summary for merchants)
- Ajouter un shopping cart page to your website.
- If you have more than 20 products, you should create some categories.
- Ajoutez tous vos products to the catalogue, with descriptions, photos and prices.
- Define shipping and freight calculations.
- Define currencies and sales tax rates.
- Define payment options for the customer, eg credit card, payment plans, online banking or pick up.
Payment Options - You provide the options for how your customers pay online.
- Credit Card - Un compatible payment gateway is required for credit card payments. Alternatively, we provide an industry standard secure form if you are able to process credit cards offline.
- Online Banking - Links to banks with your account number and a reference ID enable the customer to pay using online banking payments.
- Paypal / Paymate - These type of prepaid accounts can also be used by your customers to pay you.
- Vouchers - You can issue fixed value vouchers with expiry dates that can be used to discount a purchase or pay it completely.
- Enquiry/Invoice - The customer is posting the order as an enquiry only, and will probably require further communication before the sale is completed.
- Customer Code - If you are in business to business sales, your customers may have an account code they can use.
- You can show or hide any of these payment methods.
Catalogue / Shopping Cart Layout Customisations
- “Custom gallery” layout versus "list layout with summary text and price", plus many more layouts to choose from.
- Tous les produits peuvent comporter une photo, un titre, une description, un code, un lien, un double prix, une double devise, des options d'achat et des classifications.
- Plus each product can have upto 3 additional text fields, like Brand, Model, Supplier Code.
- Products can have colour swatches or dropdown, size dropdown and a third custom style/option dropdown. These options affect pricing/stock.
- Products can have unlimited additional customisation options, checkboxes, text inputs, etc that don't affect price/stock.
- Products can have small gallery view (multiple product shots)
- Categories can be by photo or have associated text and product index introductions.
- Each product can exist in several categories.
- Categories are multi-leveled, so you can organise your products for optimum navigation ability.
- Long lists of products are broken into pages with direct page number acess and next/previous page links.
- Product search by keywords, codes and category.
- Price has multiple formats, simple sales tax inclusive price, excl/incl price, domestic/export prices, RRP discounted.
- Quantity in stock can be displayed in multiple formats or none, or be used to automatically hide products.
- Products can be prioritised or hidden or made unavailable for purchase.
- Products in each section can be ordered by most cheapest/expensive price, title, code, random, historical, chronological order.
- Popular or similar products can be suggested during shopping process.
- Options to re-label or add graphical elements to the shopping process.
Trade Pricing / Group Member Pricing
- Trade pricing can be hidden behind a customer login
- Each product can have up to eight associated trade prices, in addition to a retail price.
- Les clients autorisés peuvent être affectés à un groupe tarifaire.
- Les clients autorisés voient automatiquement leur prix réduit lorsqu'ils se connectent.
- You only need to manage one catalogue.
Bulk Purchasing
- Options for discounted pricing for Bulk Purchasing of products
Stock Levels
- Our catalogue manager can maintain your stock levels, displaying out of stock messages once sold out.
- Maintain supplier information and codes against your inventory
- Display graphs indicating approximate stock levels, without indicating actual numbers of stock you maintain.
- Customisable reorder level points for inclusion of stock items in the out of stock reports.
Checkout Customisations / Gift Cards
- Customised instructional text can be inserted in several places in the checkout process and thank you screens
- You can insert unlimited additional fields into the checkout process.. eg Gift cards, special delivery address, gift recipient name, etc
- Des champs supplémentaires seront automatiquement ajoutés au champ « Notes de commande », enregistrés dans la base de données et affichés sur tous les exemplaires réimprimés de la commande.
- Orders or Tax invoices can be generated at the checkout.
- You choose which payment options the customer can select.
- Optional voucher redemption can happen at the checkout process.. Vouchers cope with part cash payment and multiple voucher entry
- Sales tax is calculated automatically if you have entered tax rates, and is displayed clearly in the orders/invoices.
Freight and Shipping Calculation Options
- Unlimited freight destination options (eg Across town, inter-island, by country, choice of courier)
- Different fees per product type per unit
- Frais de base par commande
- Minimum fee per order
- Maximum fee per order
- Fee per unit
- Fee by weight (weight must be entered for all relevant product items)
- Fee by percentage of order value
Partners, Plugins and API Integrations
- Xero
- MYOB
- Unleashed
- Lightspeed
- TidyStock
- Dear Inventory
- Go Sweet Spot
- Starshipit
- Aramex
- NZ Couriers
- Zappy (ParcelPort)
Click here to view the full list of available integrations.
What is a Payment Gateway?
Our shopping cart integrates with several payment gatewaysUne passerelle de paiement est nécessaire pour prélever les fonds sur la carte bancaire du client et les déposer sur votre compte bancaire. Une passerelle de paiement est généralement une banque ou une entreprise spécialisée dans les solutions de passerelle de paiement. Website World, comme tous les hébergeurs web, n'est pas une banque et ne propose pas ces services financiers. Cependant, nous sommes compatibles avec les passerelles de paiement les plus populaires. Poursuivez votre lecture pour en savoir plus sur les catalogues, les paniers d'achat et… payment gateways.
How a customer uses the shopping cart
- Depending on your shopping cart, the customer may click a product classification link first.
- The customer may search or browse your products
- Click on a product title for more information
- Click on the "buy" button to add this product to your shopping cart
- Change the quantity and press "click update".
- Continue shopping or...
- Enter a destination shipping address
- Tax and shipping charges are automatically calculated
- Enter remaining order details and payment method
- Une commande sera envoyée par courriel au commerçant.
- If the customer chose "credit card", then a secure form will appear to collect credit card details.
- If the merchant is a World Pay customer, then the payment will be cleared immediately and both the merchant and customer will also receive a receipt email.
- If other payment gateways/methods are used, then the merchant needs to manually check for receipt of payment before shipping goods.
How the customer pays for their order
We provide several order and payment methods, and ensure you get details of the order and customer, irrespective of a successful payment. Click here to review payment gateways in more details
How much does the Shopping Cart Software cost?
You pay us nothing extra for our shopping cart software, its free!!! Shopping carts are included for free in most of our hosting plans. There are no special costs from our perspective for providing you with a shopping cart. There is no setup fee and there is no additional hosting fee. Please note however that the hosting plan is dependent on how many products you have. If you require training, then additional fees apply for that. If you choose to use our plugins to integrate with external software, there may be a fee for this. Please login to the CMS to view these fees in your CCY.
We do NOT charge any transaction fees when a customer makes a purchase from your website. However, your chosen banque et/ou payment gateway may charge you a setup fee and/or monthly/annual fee and/or transaction fee et/ou remittance fee. Expect to pay about $200 to setup in your first year, then ongoing fees of 5% of transaction value and about $40 per month. These fees will be payable to your bank and/or payment gateway.
Note: You cannot use our shopping cart software on your own server. It is not for sale. You can continue to host your website elsewhere and link to our shopping cart, but sorry, there is no financial saving to do so.
