Additional Feature
Descriptions
Recently Added Features
.netCART continues
to be enhanced.
Latest
Update:
Version 2.9.2844
10/15/2007
See what's new in the
documentation for a detailed listing.
NEW: ASP.NET
1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 support! |
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Product
Features:
- ASP.NET shopping cart designed from the
ground up for .NET.
- Unlimited number of items and categories
- Unlimited number of item
specific options e.g. size, color etc.
- Items can belong to more than one category
- Categories can contain both subcategories
and items at the same time
- Categories with a large number of items or
sub-categories can be paged through independently. In fact, for a
given category you can be at any given page of the subcategory listings
and any given page in the items listings.
- Customers can search on a variety of
item or category and return a complete result set which they can page
through.
- Multiple item additions are supported at
the same time
- Modify item options as
they are being added to the cart
- Modify item options
after they have been added to the cart
- Option choices can each have their own
weight and price adjustment.
- Set different shipping addresses on a per
item basis
- Customer details can be acquired in any
order, over any number of pages
- Unique one step ordering allows for a
typical multi-page checkout in a single page
- Both customer login and login free,
transparent account signup are supported
- Flexible cart displays allows you to
choose which columns are included, what order they appear in and what headers are used.
- Cart headers can optionally be set to
images rather than text
- Cart items can be updated through a
variety of options including checkbox where all checked items are removed
when the cart is updated
- Item quantities can also be adjusted
through image buttons (add,subtract,remove) for adding a given quantity,
removing a given quantity, or removing the item all together. The
specific quantities these options increment by can be set to any interval.
- Tool Tips can be defined for all image
buttons, these are displayed when an user pauses over an image button.
- Update buttons can be set on a per cart or
per item basis and can be set to a traditional form button or custom image
and included in any cart column.
- Total control on the cart style - colors,
format, fonts etc can be set for the cart as a whole, for each item,
alternating item, header, and footer.
- Cart grid lines (horizontal or vertical)
can be controlled independently for inclusion, style, color and more.
- The cart can be displayed in two main
modes, edit and display. Edit mode allows for options, and quantity
to be adjusted and provides update options. Display mode is for
summary or invoice pages where the data is read-only.
- Supports "mini" cart displays for side
navigation or permanent display within the store
- Adjustments: pricing can be adjusted based
on quantity or dollar ranges by a fixed amount or percentage for any given
item or the cart as a whole.
- Powerful tax system, supports any number
of custom taxes at any level, US with multiple offices in many states,
Canada with GST / HST / PST, VAT, and special rules are all simply handled.
Bottle deposit, per item anomalies, tax free items etc.
- Encryption and decryption support and
hashing for credit card numbers, passwords and other sensitive
information is seamlessly integrated.
- Automatic thumbnail generation and image
resizing for mini cart image, thumbnails, detail view, and main image from a single original
upload.
- Image generation can be enabled or
disabled on a per image basis and supports advanced features including
auto cropping, borders, padding, proportional scaling and more.
- Browser based multiple file upload support
- Complete email sending facilities
including attachment support, SMTP authentication, email validation and
more.
- Combining the built in email, encryption,
and save cart support .netCART can easily be configured to securely send
complete order information via an encrypted email attachment. An
OrderViewer desktop application is provided which will enable any windows
desktop to decrypt and view back order details in XML or transform the
results into plain text for printing or copy / paste into any other
desktop application. Of course complete web based order
administration is provided as well but for those that wish to have the
simplicity of getting complete orders direct via email .netCART provides
the power and flexibility to meet your specific ecommerce needs.
- Complete tools class expose useful tools
used internally by .netCART including image manipulation, thumbnailing, uploading,
unique ID generation, and more.
- Flexible option edit and display handling allows
for different modes including value only, name and value, editable value,
or name and editable value. Unique in cart editing does not require
your customers to return to item pages to change sizes, colors or other
options.
- .netSHIP add-on support for seamless
multi-carrier real-time rating and tracking. Automatically aggregate
and rate separate packages to different shipping addresses within the same
order in real-time. Supports rate failover and backup for real-time
systems as well as algorithm based solutions with extensive customizable
criteria. For example set free shipping based on a given order
amount, quantity or weight or a special shipping rate, define free
shipping or any special rate on a State / Province or Country basis etc.
- .netCHARGE add-on support offers seamless
real-time payment processing with more than twenty different gateways.
Switch gateways with no major changes, in many cases changing your gateway
choice, login and password is all that is required. Supports
complete integration and authorize / post authorize transaction handing
when items are first authorized and then post authorized when shipped.
NEW: native processor support allows you to bypass gateway fees.
Native PayPal integration and samples provide simple payment processing
for small merchants and a seamless upgrade path to one of 25+ support
payment processors / gateways. New processors / gateways added!
- .netCURRENCY add-on support for integrated
currency exchange, allow customers to browse the store in their own local
currency with rates updated automatically. Currency preference is
obtained automatically when customers login or can be selected for guest
visitors who have not ordered / registered before.
- Flexible cart storage, cookies are not
required to maintain state.
- Cart data is stored in XML and can be
handled in distributed / web farm environments with no special development
required. Data can be passed to systems and servers distributed
throughout the world, over session boundaries and to secure backend
processing systems.
- Unique generic data access implementation
allows for seamless switches between database back ends while maintaining
the most efficient mechanisms specific to the database in question.
You can start your store with MS Access and scale to SQL server as your
needs grow - yet SQL server access still utilizes the native SQL client
facilities of .NET. This allows data access to be optimized for each
RDMS while still providing a simple way to switch between systems.
- Transactional database support for order
saves to the database with automated rollback support.
- Caching offers major performance gains
while ensuring that dynamic content is still fresh throughout the store.
Output caching, fragment caching, application caching, and file based XML
cache dependencies allow you to manage your data through any system you
wish and be sure that changes are reflected as soon as required.
- Powerful ASP.NET web controls provide a
simple intuitive interface for using .netCART GUI elements.
- Unique in memory object orientated cart
provides complete flexibility with unlimited custom fields at each level
- you can add and easily gain access to the data you need for your specific
ecommerce implementation. Best of all there are no limitations on
how or when you collect information from your customers giving you
complete dataflow flexibility and support even 1 page stores including
adding multiple items, billing, shipping, etc.
- Comprehensive item display and management
through a powerful catalog control. Set all formatting attributes as
well as the number of elements to be displayed on a per item and per
category basis. Independently page through category and item result
sets from a given category or search and return to the exact details even
page navigation when book marking. Multi-level hierarchy with
intuitive navigation allows you to jump back to any category level at any
time. Set styles for category listing header, category listing,
alternating category listing, category footer, item header, items listing,
alternating items listing, items footer, and item details. Support
item additions from the category or items details views. Show
options at the category or item details views. Add multiple items
from any page or grouping of items or even a search result! Support
adding an item and automatically populating full item options in the cart for
subsequent adjustment within the cart. Total flexibility with
simple, yet powerful customization through an extensive template system.
- Though first and foremost a developers
component, .netCART also
includes comprehensive administration functionality that can be used on
its own or as a
base for your own custom administration. Edit taxes, locations,
images, buttons, view reports and much more all through a web interface.
- Extensive business graphing and detailed
reporting system is included. Over 80 different reports allow you to
visually see sales and customer data. Totally comprehensive with
stunning visuals that must be seen, this feature remains unmatched in any
ecommerce solution, on any platform.
- High end, turn key soft good delivery
system allows for safe and secure sale of digital goods such as programs,
files, databases, e-books etc. The system supports emailing soft
good packages or providing specialized download links which allow only
those who purchase to download the product. You can even control the
number of times they can download along with a specific time period.
- Inventory control provides methods for
decrementing inventory, you can even pass an entire cart contents to be
decremented from inventory. Supplier and customer management
functionality is also included in the administration system.
- A unique fraud score implementation
analyzes data inputs to determine high risk patterns and calculates a
fraud score for each order. Store administrators can perform
different actions based on fraud score values to help limit fraudulent
orders and the associated cost and headaches.
- Integrated .netCOUNTRY functionality
allows for country drop downs to automatically be selected to the users
country based on their determined location. In addition, this
feature is used in the fraud score system to determine if the indicated
country matches the details provided checking against both browser
settings and the users IP. Furthermore, this feature can be used to
provide default currency selection.
- Integrated .netBUTTON functionality
provides dynamic image button generation with high end visuals - ideal for
language customization.
- A language system is provided to enable
customization of any language return by the system. In addition, a
second language system is provided for you to provide your own codes
should you wish to change script level language components on the fly
between multiple customers.
- Web analytics support is provided to
ensure you get the most benefit from any promotional efforts for your
store. A tracking control ensures that all users are identified and
statistical reporting is provided to show sales by referrer for example.
For the first time know the items, sales, orders and customers brought to
you by various sites and even track individual promotions or ad campaigns.
- A powerful coupon and gift certificate
system is included. Supporting any number of coupons or gift
certificates per cart the system can apply coupons as fixed amounts or
percentages with formula support (dynamic coupons). Coupons may have
a fixed quota (number of times they may be used), effective date range
(fixed period of time when they can be used) and apply only to certain
items or exempt certain items.
- Intelligent catalog data bound menu and
tree view listings for easy navigation of store categories and items.
- The comprehensive feature list for .netCART
continues to grow as the development team is hard at work bringing true
innovation to the ecommerce marketplace. If you have a feature
suggestion or comment please let us know!
See for yourself how .netCART can power your
ecommerce implementation. Download the free trial, developer documentation, or use
the live demo today. |