About MetaCart e-Shop V-8 for MySQL®
Overview
Hardware/Software Requirements
Credit Card Processing
Installation/Setup
Support/Add-ins
Browser-based Administration
The MetaCart Demos
Overview
The MetaCart e-Shop V-8 for MySQL
eCommerce Shopping Cart System for Small Businesses and Developers
contains many new features, including much requested support for product
size and color options. As with our other e-Commerce software
applications, MetaCart e-Shop V-8 for MySQL's HTML code remains
fully customizable for easy integration into your web site. To customize
and integrate the application into your own site, you will need to know
basic HTML and have some familiarity with Active Server Pages, VBScript
and MySQL databases.
With MetaCart e-Shop V-8, your
electronic storefront will have the same capabilities and functionality as
our other paid shopping cart applications, including:
- Catalogs and products are fully
searchable from every page by category, product name, product
description, or price level.
- Database administration and order
processing is accomplished through an integrated browser-based
interface.
- Processed transactions can be archived
through the same administrative interface.
- Automatic application-based customer,
shipping, and warehouse e-mail notification using Microsoft's CDONTS.
Can be configured to work with Microsoft's CDOSYS and third-party
ASP-based e-mail components, such as JMail, ASPMail or ASPeMail.
- Credit card number validation using the
Luhn Modulus 10 method.
- Encryption of credit card numbers
stored in database.
Plus, MetaCart e-Shop V-8 for MySQL
provides updated coding and application support for:
- international transactions, including
better support for international addresses and telephone formats,
- in-state sales tax calculations,
- inventory reporting and updating,
- calculation of shipping charges based
on weight,
- unlimited categories and
subcategories,
- color, size and style options,
- random display of featured products on
main entry page,
- and improved browser-based
administration.
Like its predecessors, MetaCart
e-Shop V-8 for MySQL was designed for manual credit card processing,
but can be adapted by experienced web developers to work with various
real-time credit card processing gateways. See "Credit
Card Processing" below for more information regarding accepting
credit card payments.
MetaCart e-Shop V-8 for MySQL is
a server/client shopping system based on Microsoft Active Server Pages
(ASP) technology hooked to MySQL database.
After installation and setup, the system
readies your site for eCommerce. Customers can peruse your catalog of
products and add the items they wish to purchase to their "shopping
basket."
The customer then enters shipping and
payment details and submits his/her order, which is then processed and
posted to the MySQL™ database.
Hardware/Software
Requirements
To use MetaCart e-Shop V-8 for MySQL,
your eCommerce site will need to be hosted on a web server that supports
Active Server Pages -- such as Microsoft NT Server with at least Internet
Information Server (IIS) 4.0 or Windows 2000, XP or 2003 Server with at
least IIS 5.0. The application uses a DSNless connection for its
connection to the database.
You will also need a good website design
and HTML editing program (such as FrontPage 2000 or Visual InterDev 6.0),
and the open source MySQL™ database, which you can download free from MySQL
AB's website. MetaCart e-Shop V-8 for MySQL was developed
using FrontPage 2002, Visual Studio 6.0, MySQL Version 4.0.20a-nt, and DB
Manager Professional Freeware Edition (available from DB
Tools Software) on a Windows 2000 Professional operating system with
IIS 5.1. Demos of MetaCart e-Shop V-8 are hosted on a Windows 2000
Server.
For MetaCart e-Shop V-8 for MySQL
to work properly on your local Windows NT, Windows 2000, XP or 2003
(Professional, Server or Advanced Server Operating systems only) or a
Windows 95/98 machine, you will need to have at least Microsoft Personal
Web Server 4.0 with Windows NT Option Pack 4 installed. You can download
the option pack from Microsoft's web site.
The only requirement for your customers
is that their machine accept cookies since the application uses browser
session cookies for some features. The cookies expire when the user
session expires. No cookies are permanently stored on the customer's
computer.
Credit Card
Processing
The application assumes you will do
manual credit card processing. To use MetaCart e-Shop V-8 for MySQL
for credit card processing, you will need an online merchant account with
a bank, an account with an internet credit card processing agent, and a
security certificate for access to your server's secure socket layer (SSL)
for secure transactions. Thawte
and VeriSign are
the two largest issuers of SSL server certificates. Most of these
services can be provided by the internet service provider (ISP) hosting
your eCommerce web site. One of the largest eCommerce hosting companies
is Interland, who
hosts this site.
For a complete rundown of accepting
credit cards online, see the following article, "What
You Will Need - Plain and Simple."
Additional
Installation/Setup Instructions
Additional installation and setup
instructions, as well as the End-User License Agreement, are included in
the README.txt file and , in the MetaCart e-Shop V-8 for MySQL
application download package. Use of MetaCart e-Shop V-8 for MySQL
is governed by the terms of this Agreement.
NOTE: The README.txt file
includes resources for finding answers to the most frequently encountered
problems with installation of ASP-based applications. These involve the
correct directory location of the global.asa file, the proper setting of
permissions on a network or hosting server, connecting to the database
and setting up a DSNless connection to the database. Please read this
file carefully.
Support/Add-Ins
MetaLinks.com provides limited
installation and setup support for MetaCart e-Shop V-8 for MySQL
via e-mail only. Should you discover any bugs in the application, please
notify us so we can post any fixes to our master download file and
provide information on this site to other users.
Assistance with other types of services,
such as programming and design, adding additional functionality, or
hooking up third-party ASP components to MetaCart e-Shop V-8 for MySQL
are available at reasonable rates at metalinks.com.
For developers and other do-it-yourselfers, the code alone is worth the
purchase price.
Browser-based
Administration
The application includes a set of
browser-based administration pages. For security purposes, the pages are
not included in the MetaCart e-Shop V-8 demo online, but are
included in the download package.
The MetaCart Demos
You are encouraged to try out all the
features of our live demos prior to purchasing any of the MetaCart
applications to determine if they meet your needs since we do not offer
refunds.
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