The CartIt Commerce System

CartIt 8.0 Shopping Cart Software set a powerful standard in e-commerce applications. From shopper accounts to customer service management capabilities, CartIt 8.0 Shopping Cart Software will give any small to medium sized company the ability to sell and serve effectively online. CartIt takes e-commerce to the next level by introducing order and customer management with CommerceBuddy, the included Windows companion product.

General Features:

• Sell unlimited products, one or one million, it’s up to you!
• Because CartIt is installed on your Web site, NOT ours, you have no monthly fees and we do not have access to your customer database! Therefore, we cannot sell your customer list to your larger competitors as do many rental shopping cart services.
• Products can have unlimited options, options with fees, text options, and much more!
• Easily convert an existing site to be CartIt-ready or create a site from the ground up!
• Advanced Developer Friendly; use PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, PERL or any other technology and point it to CartIt.
• CartIt has so many features that you will not use them all, but the important thing is, they will be available to you!

Shopper Friendly
CartIt sends your customer an order confirmation after an order is placed. This confirmation is a fully-customizable ImpactObject™ document (Template)! Each shopper has a unique invoice number and CartIt’s fantastic user interface will make each shopper’s experience on your Web site an easy and enjoyable one.

Shopper Friendly
CartIt sends your customer an order confirmation after an order is placed. This confirmation is a fully-customizable ImpactObject™ document (Template)! Each shopper has a unique invoice number and CartIt’s fantastic user interface will make each shopper’s experience on your Web site an easy and enjoyable one.

This is only the beginning of the customer service and order management features. CartIt CommerceBuddy, a Windows-based CartIt companion product (included with CartIt), takes your online business to the next level!

Taxes and Shipping
CartIt allows you to have unlimited tax options. Select from many different shipping methods, even use weight-based shipping!

CartIt Themes and ImpactObject Files
The files header.html, footer.html, checkoutheader.html, checkoutfooter.html, checkoutsslheader.html, checkoutsslfooter.html and stylesheet.html are all ready for you to edit. These files define the appearance of CartIt.

What You Should Know! Please remember that CartIt does not require a template-based Web site. These templates give you more control over the appearance

Build Your Site Your Way!
CartIt does not require you to design your entire site using templates. CartIt lets you convert an existing site to a CartIt-ready site or design your site from the ground up. The only templates in CartIt are actually another feature! For example, the checkout pages have headers, footers, error templates, etc. So, not only is your site created the way you want it to look, even CartIt itself has the necessary templates to change its appearance so it looks like the rest of your site!

Build Complex Catalogs
CartIt can handle very complex products. This is the power of CartIt and is why we have become so well known as the be-all, end-all solution for Professional Developers and Internet Providers.

• Products with unlimited options
• Options with fees
• Text options with fees
• Unlimited options and text options per item
• Up-sell items

What You Should Know! You will never be limited in what you can sell online. For example, you may have products that have no options or products that have 1 or 2 options, but what happens when your vendor offers a great product that has 3 or even 100 options? Well, CartIt can handle that too!

Simple HTML Forms-Based
Because CartIt uses HTML forms, you can use just about any HTML editor to design your Web site!

Add Multiple Items to the Shopping Cart at Once
CartIt’s product page methodology allows you to sell a single complex item per HTML form or multiple items per page. This is up to you. We challenge you to find another shopping cart that can handle such complex products!

Powerful
CartIt can handle unlimited products per shopping cart and can handle unlimited shoppers at your Web site at any time, limited only by your Web server’s capability to keep up!

Better Selling Methods
CartIt can handle up-sell items. These are related low-ticket items that the shopper might add to their cart with the main product you are selling. For example, if a page is devoted to selling a laser printer, you can also put toner and paper on the same page.

What You Should Know! Because CartIt uses HTML forms, you can design sites in ANY HTML editor. You can also design sites using any technology, such as ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, PERL, etc. CartIt even includes sample PERL scripts!

Quantity Discounts
Buy 5-10 items and receive 10% off, buy 11-20 items and receive 15% off, etc., and CartIt will remember your settings. So, even after the item is added to the shopping cart, the Quantity Discount settings remain for that item!

Connect to Other Technologies
Because CartIt is HTML forms-based, you can plug your existing database system into CartIt with any database technology! If you have knowledge of these technologies, you can make the most of CartIt. When you receive CartIt, you should also look in the /goodies/ folder. We put free stuff in this folder and currently, we have a sample database system that can get you started in the right direction for a database driven Web site.

Display this on Every Page:
You have 4 Items in your Shopping Cart and your current Sub Total is $89.95.

New CartIt “bounce” Feature
Allows you to have CartIt bounce the shopper back to the page they ordered from. This allows the shopper to add an item and stay on the page they order from. This is an optional feature, and you can do this with a hidden form element or you can make this the default behavior of CartIt.

Bounce Anywhere!
Yes, you can have the shopper bounce to any location, not just the page they ordered from! For example:

Buy

And tell me about

Powerful e-commerce: Have one product sell another!

Remote Transaction Processing AND Real-time Transaction Processing
CartIt is compatible with dozens of transaction processing services, or you can use a conventional hand-key terminal.

Customizable Invoices
ImpactObjects allow you to customize your shopper’s confirmation e-mail message and final invoice. ImpactObjects are a simple technology. For example, place

on a page and it will be replaced with your shopper’s name. Many tags can be used, including tags for order numbers, shopping cart items and more! This is truly an exciting feature that lets anyone, at any skill level, create customized confirmations and invoices.

What You Should Know! ImpactObject tags are used in CartIt Templates, NOT on your Web site. ImpactObject tags were designed to allow you or your developer to easily change the appearance of CartIt without having to be an advanced programmer.

Secure Shopping
CartIt is compatible with your Web site’s SSL (Secure Socket Layers) to provide your shopper with a safe online shopping experience.

Advanced Spoof Control
Features help prevent hackers from entering invalid data, something that is very important to your e-commerce site.

Shopper Accounts
Every shopper will be assigned an account on your Web site. However, while the shopper has an account, they will have to enter a credit card number with every order. “Why” you ask? This is something that shoppers are beginning to demand today and you as a merchant can confidently tell your clients that you do not warehouse credit card numbers on the server. This is very important. Many high profile sites are getting hacked and having their customer’s credit card numbers held hostage. — CartIt does NOT warehouse Credit Card Data on the server!

Server Environment Variables
You can now capture environment variables, for example:

Your IP address is 64.208.172.175. This information can be used by fraud enforcement officials to track and identify offenders.

In CartIt Talk, just add this to any ImpactObject Template:
Your IP address is %io_env_REMOTE_ADDR%. This information can be used by fraud enforcement officials to track and identify offenders.

cartitcclib.cgi Library
For the average Internet merchant, this library can be used unedited. It will validate a credit card number as being a valid number and expiration date that is ready for processing. However, advanced users can edit this file via code hotspots to implement and add real-time background credit card processing. This will soon be standardized and you can expect a “Real-Time” background credit card processing module in the near future.

Secure Windows Integration
Credit Card Numbers are downloaded with CommerceBuddy through SSL for the highest level of security and stored on your local computer, NOT on the server where hackers can access the data.