eCart - Create an Online Store
Take your shopping cart to the next level
eCart 4 brings professional features to Dreamweaver shopping cart software.
With real-time shipping quotes from FedEx and UPS and same-site checkout, WA eCart gives you total control over the entire online store shopping experience.
The new Checkout Wizard generates all the pages you'll need for the checkout process - from customer data entry to order receipt. Expanded payment gateways and real-time shipping quote support brings eCart power to more Web professionals and small businesses around the world.
From the sleek, expertly designed shopping cart displays to the universal payment gateway connectivity, WA eCart delivers true online shopping power.
Summary of eCart V4
WA eCart 4 brings a full slate of professional features to the Dreamweaver shopping cart. Give your clients the high-end online storefront with all the advantages they've been demanding. Build as many stores as you want, faster than ever.
FedEx and UPS real-time shipping rates - automatically!
If your client's are shipping goods, chances are they have a FedEx or UPS account. Now, they can get real-time, online shipping quotes for their shoppers - right from within WA eCart.
Checkout any way you want
Whether you want your payment gateway to handle the secure checkout process or keep it all in your own site, WA eCart 4 has you covered.
Checkout Wizard: Technology Magic
Handling checkout used to be the hardest part of building an online store - but no more. eCart 4's Checkout Wizard handles payment gateway connections, shipping, tax, order management, authorized or declined orders and so much more—all from a single, one-time-only wizard.
Enhance your client's administrative life
Customize our included administrative back-end example and give your client the power to manage products, orders and customers all from an integrated user interface.
Professionally-designed carts - even for email!
Our sleek and clean shopping cart displays just got better. Now you can output any of the great-looking shopping cart designs in an email-friendly format - perfect for clear, expert customer receipts.
Ready to Use Examples
WA eCart gives you all the information and examples you need to get going. Fully-functionally sample store with a site map, professionally designed from graphics to CSS, provided, along with a tutorial describing how to build key pages, step-by-step, complete with all the needed files.
Wide-spread server model support
WA eCart works with ASP-VBScript, ASP-JavaScript, ColdFusion, or PHP/MySQL - on either Windows or OS X.
Features
Powerful, flexible shopping cart control
Create shopping carts your way
WA eCart’s interface is easy to use but incredibly powerful. WA eCart allows you to integrate with virtually any other back-end system, which provides the flexibility to support the complete eCommerce experience. Other WA eCart highlights include:
- Supports both dynamic (data-driven) and static product listings
- Easily build custom merchandising rules or use pre-defined rules
- Supports MS Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL data sources
International support
Build online stores for clients around the world. You can easily choose your currency symbol - and placement - from the list of pre-defined symbols ($, €, £, ƒ and ¥) or you can insert your own. WA eCart’s lets you specify other global values like decimal places and weight symbols as well.
Custom shopping cart columns
The Columns configuration tab defines what columns are available for use within your cart. Default columns include ID, Name, Description, Weight, Quantity and Price. Additional columns prove useful in storing data for each item which may be of use within the cart; custom columns can be defined by creating a column name and selecting the appropriate output type.
User-definable calculations
WA eCart can be configured to calculate values based on column contents of your cart or custom calculations written in server-side code. The results of these calculations can then be displayed as custom columns within the shopping cart display. Two commonly used calculations are made available upon insert of the object: Total Weight and Total Price.
Unparalleled checkout options
Leading gateway providers supported
Now with WA eCart, you choose the type of checkout experience you want. To let your payment gateway accept the transaction details on their secure site, select remote checkout. WA eCart supports seven major payment gateways are supported: AuthorizeNet, Express Checkout, LinkPoint, PayFlow, PayPal, 2CheckOut and WorldPay.
Same site checkout options
If you’d prefer to keep the customer on your own secure site, use local checkout. The current version of eCart includes local checkout for four of the largest payment gateway services: Express Checkout, Authorize.Net AIM, LinkPoint API, and VeriSign PayFlow Pro.
Personalized checkout configurations
Use any of our pre-configured checkout schemas to insert your form and all the elements you need for checkout or customize one to fit your needs. You can even build one with point-and-click ease to work with remote checkout gateways not on our list. Build it once and use it over and over again.
Complete form creation
WA eCart’s Insert Checkout Form command inserts the whole form, complete with labels and form fields, ready to be styled. All the hidden form elements necessary for the desired transaction - whether it’s standard credit card authorization or eCheck clearance - aer included automatically.
Real-time FedEx and UPS shipping
Get real-time shipping quotes direct from FedEx or UPS. Your clients will never lose another penny to changing shipping charges. WA eCart provide professional shipping capabilities with real-time rate quotes from FedEx and UPS. You can set up exactly the shipping service you want to offer, complete with all the available options.
Expertly-designed shopping cart displays
Different shopping cart types available
The WA eCart Display Manager combines power and style to bring you extremely useful and attractive shopping cart displays. Your shopping cart contents can be displayed in three different cart types, in a range of styles and colors:
- Updateable cart - Provides the cart contents in a user-friendly design that permits change of quantity, selection of options or easy item removal.
- Read-only cart - Displays the shopping cart contents for confirmation before proceeding to checkout.
- QuickCart - An abbreviated cart display that shows the current cart total and offers View Cart, Clear Cart and Checkout buttons for easy use.
- Email-friendly Cart - Keep your online store customer's happy with easy-to-read and great looking shopping cart displays in their email receipts.
Professionally crafted designs
Select from any of five different professionally designed layouts, with a range of color schemes and button options. Once the cart is generated, you can fine-tune the layout and CSS to your liking.
Show and calculate discounts and charges
WA eCart’s advanced merchandising rules functionality gives you the options to create custom charges or discounts. Display those charges or discounts in the shopping cart individually or collectively - the choice is yours.
All the tutorials and examples you need
Premium support incidents included
With your purchase of WA eCart, you receive 3 Premium Support incidents, a value of $269.97. Premium Support Incidents are handled by senior support personnel quickly and efficiently. Intial responses to a submitted incident are returned within 2-4 business hours.
Complete sample store
Files for the example online store are included with WA eCart; use the starting point files to complete the tutorial or view the finished, working application.
Getting started guide and contextual help
WA eCart is fully supported with a built-in help system and a free online help forum. You’ll also find step-by-step tutorials to guide you on your way.
WA eCart 4 Administrative example
As anyone who has ever set up an online store for a client knows, that's only half the battle. All clients want the convenience of managing their product catalog over the Web - and the included administrative example shows you the way.
System Requirements
Windows
Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003
128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
Dreamweaver MX, Dreamweaver MX 2004, Dreamweaver 8
Works with static and dynamic pages.
Macintosh
500 MHz Power PC G3 processor
Mac OS X 10.1.x, 10.2.x, 10.3.x and 10.4.x
128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
Dreamweaver MX, Dreamweaver MX 2004, Dreamweaver 8
Works with static and dynamic pages
Site Samples
The first shopping cart contest sponsored by WebAssist was a phenomenal success. Entries - and winners - came from all around the world with all types of online stores and demonstrated the pure power and versatility of WA eCommerce Suite and WA eCart. If you’re not already using these products, take a look these winning sites and see what you’re missing.
Documentation/Support
All WebAssist products receives professional, top-of-the-line support from a number of resources. WA eCart includes a full online help system, available directly from within Dreamweaver and WA eCart. In addition, WA eCart includes a sample store integrated with an example administration site in four different server models.
Help Documentation
WA eCommerce Recipes
Premium Support: 3 Premium Support incidents are included
Public Forum
TechNotes