If you thought the Simple Cart was cool, check this out:
With this package you can now sell your inventory to the entire world
and do it with style :)
This page will tell you how easy it is to setup.
| Step 1: | Create the main page for your shopping site. |
| Step 2: | Make a database of all your products, include pricing and a unique product id for each item. You can have as many fields in the database as you like. The price and the product id are the only required fields. If you are already selling products, you probably already have some sort of database like this. Also, add a category field, so that item will get grouped will all the other items in that category. |
| Step 3: |
Adjust the default category display template file
to suit the look of your site and the fields in
your database.
You can then make seperate template files for
each individual category, if you wish to have
a different look for that page.
No more creating links to every single item like the Simple Cart: <a href="/cgi-bin/shopit.pl?PRODID=12354"> You create one link in these new template files like so: <a href="/cgi-bin/shopit.pl?PRODID=*(PRODID)"> Then from your main category listings page call the cart like this: <a href="/cgi-bin/shopit.pl?CATEGORY=INSERT_YOUR_CAT_HERE"> Then the shopping cart will show all the pages dynamically from the database! If you adjust an item in the database, that will appear on the site automatically. |
| Step 4: |
Shopping Cart Total Page User Info/Order Page Final Return Page Customer Email Template |
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Here is a sample of the emails you would recieve. You may also need to setup the shipping prices and the taxes files, depending on your needs. You might also want to add the extra options (like size,color). You can add those easily by merely cutting and pasting the html from the demo cart. | |