MetaCart e-Commerce Systems

Feature	Application No.
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Uses DSNless connection	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Customizable HTML (no DLLs or compiled code, just scripts)	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Browser-based database administration of products, catalogs, subcatalogs, etc.		x¹	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Browser-based order processing			x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Browser-based product image uploads				x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Automated inventory control, updating			x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Supports product categories	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Supports product subcategories				x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Supports product SKU numbers										x
Product size and color options for stores selling clothing, shoes, etc.										x
Random display on main page of featured product from featured-product list										x
Manual credit card processing		x	x	x	x			x	x	x*
Real-time credit card processing						x	x			*
Automated customer, merchant e-mail notification		x	x	x	x	*	**	x	x	x⁴
Encryption of credit card numbers stored in database			x	x	x		x	x	x	x⁴
Uses Access 2000 database (included)²	x	x	x	x	x	x	x			x⁵
Uses SQL Server database (included)								x	x	x⁵
Uses MySQL® Server database (included)										x⁵
Shipping calculations based on fixed rate or percent of total	x	x	x			x⁶				x⁶
Shipping calculations based on weight, fixed percentage, or fixed rate				x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Automated clean-up of abandoned orders								x	x	x
Supports Value Added Tax (VAT)								x	x	x⁷
Supports in-state sales tax calculations			x	x		x	x	x		x
Full catalog search capabilities	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Credit card number validation			x	x	x	x³	x³	x	x	x*
Supports international shipping				x	x	x³	x³	x	x	x
Improved support for International phone number/address formats										x
Improved interface for browser- based administration pages										x
Includes customer browser check code										x
Increased stylesheet (CSS) support; more modular design features for easier modification and customization										x

FOOTNOTES * Provided by PayPal in PayPal versions; code-based in Standard versions ** Provided by PayFlow Link ¹ Viewing of orders table only ² See "Securing an Access Database" ³ By credit card processing agent ³ By credit card processing agent ⁴ Handled by PayPal in PayPal version, PayFlow Link in PayFlow Link versions ⁵ Database included depends on version purchased ⁶ Optional fixed/percentage rates can be set via PayPal ⁷ UK/International Editions Only

NOTE: NONE OF OUR APPLICATIONS ARE SUPPORTED
ON UNIX/LINUX PLATFORMS!
Though experienced ASP developers can and have adapted our applications to work with Sun One's ASP platform for Apache/Linux/Unix web servers, they have not been thoroughly tested by us on those platforms.