eCommerce Recipes

Your guide to advance features for your online store

eCommerce Recipes show you, step-by-step, how to extend the power of eCart and eCommerce Suite. With clear instructions, code snippets, sample starting points, completed files, you'll learn quickly how to apply merchandising rules, offer options and much more.

Benefits of eCommerce Recipes:

Enhance your existing store
Want to sell to other areas, but don't know how to include sales tax? Need to provide a range of shipping choices around the country, but don't know where to start? You'll find answers to all these questions and much more in the eCommerce Recipes.

Broaden your eCommerce skill set
Once you've mastered the techniques covered in the eCommerce Recipes, you'll be able to build more extensive online stores and offer your clients a greater range of services.

Designed for both static-based and database-driven stores
Whether you're building basic stores and entering product information by hand or designing online storefronts with a complete data source back-end, the eCommerce Recipes has you covered - for both static-based and database-driven stores.

Learn by Doing
Like all WebAssist Recipes, the eCommerce recipes provide both concrete examples for tackling specific tasks and full explanations of each step, so you can expand your own knowledgebase. A printable PDF ensures you'll always have the information available.

Features of eCommerce Recipes:

Wide-spread Server Model Support - eCommerce Recipes includes support for ASP-VBScript, ASP-JavaScript, ColdFusion, or PHP.

Full range of recipes

With almost 200 pages of in-depth, step-by-step instruction, the eCommerce Recipes provides a comprehensive manual for taking your online store to the next level. The recipes included in the eCommerce Recipes are:

     Simple Sales Tax

     Advanced Shipping and Sales Tax Charges

     Member Discounts

     Quantity Discounts

     Static-based Shopping Options

     Database-driven Shopping Options

     Implementing Remote Checkout

Ready to Build

eCommerce Recipes gives you all the tools and examples you need to get going. Each recipes includes starting point files, templates, snippets, graphics and data sources for database-driven catalog; the completed recipes are also included to help you learn.

Setting up Shipping and Sales Tax

Simple Sales Tax

Need a quick way to charge sales tax? The Simple Sales Tax recipe shows you how to calculate and include apply a charge - or not - based on your customer's location.

Advanced Shipping and Sales Tax Charges

Online stores often need to include shipping and sales tax charges to their shopping cart. This recipe illustrates how you can pull charges from a data source according to the billing and shipping locations and the type of shipping (standard, over-night, etc.) requested by the customer.

 

Handling Discounts

Member Discounts

Learn how to apply per product discounts for authorized members and build customer loyalty. You'll also see how you to calculate and display total savings as a further shopping incentive.

Quantity Discounts

Enable your shoppers save more when they by spend more with quantity discounts. This recipe demonstrates techniques for increasing the discount for higher quantities.

 

Incorporating eCommerce Options for Customers

Static-based Shopping Options

Offer your potential customers more options and make more sales. The Static-based Shopping Options recipe demonstrates how you can easily include simple options on your product pages and in your shopping cart.

Database-driven Shopping Options

When it comes time to offer your customers a full slate of choices, there's a eCommerce Recipe to show you how. In this recipe, you'll learn how to provide options that vary both by category and by product.

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

 

Software

eCart 3.x or higher

 

Support

All WebAssist products receive professional, top-of-the-line support from a number of resources. PayPal eCommerce Toolkit includes a full online help system, available directly from within Dreamweaver and the extension.

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