What exactly does your shopping cart software do?

Our "Precision Cart" shopping cart software is an online web store builder that makes it easy to display your catalog if items for sale on your web site. You can easily have online storefronts of up to 25,000 items. To view a simple demo click here. To test the administration demo click here. [Password: Default]

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How do I get started?

1. First you will have to get an Precision Web Hosting account which gives you access to our "Precision Cart" shopping cart software.

2. We'll send you the passwords and other information you'll need to access your shopping cart and publish your site to our servers.

3. Add the items you want to sell to the shopping cart from the shop/owner module. As you add them to your inventory, they immediately appear in your shop (normally at yourdomain.com/shop).

4. Using any popular website design software, create the pages that will make up the body of your site; from those pages you will then link to the shopping cart to allow shoppers to purchase from your site. For more information on this, see the section below on integrating the shopping cart with your site.

5. Credit Card Processing: For offline processing you can use any credit card merchant account provider. You would view the orders securely from the shop administration, and then enter them into your credit card terminal.

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How do I integrate the shopping cart with my site?

Integrating the shop with your site is basically a matter of filling out your information from the shopping cart admin page which would be at: www.yourdomain.com/shop/owner/

Just click on each of the buttons and fill in the information required; one of the buttons is the inventory button where you'll need to add each of your items to the shop inventory of items for sale.

Once you have the shop set up, all you need to do is link to the shop from the pages on your site. You can link to either:
1. The shop main entrance at http://www.yourdomain.com/shop/
2. A shop category
3. An individual item within the shop
4. Or, you can use the HTML displayed by the shop to put teh item forms on regular HTML pages that you would create using web design software.

The help information on linking to the shop is at: http://precisionweb.net/shopping_cart_FAQ.htm#Linking

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How do I link from a page on my site to the shopping cart?

You can link into the shopping cart a few different ways:
[Note: make sure to NOT include the cart id "cart=..." in your links]

1. Link to the whole cart by linking to the main shop url.
a.) Use the shopping cart's online admin interface to configure the cart with the categories and item data that you want.
b.) Make a link from your static pages to the shopping cart main entrance.
For example, "Click here to go to our online catalog" with the hyperlink something like http://yourdomain.com/shop/

For example: Click here to view our online catalog.

2. Or, link to a shop category. For ease of use, the exact link HTML is shown by simply clicking on the "Show" button within the inventory section of the shop owner module.

For example, the following link takes you to the demo shop denim category: http://demoshop.precisionweb.net/shop/index.php?cat=9

Click Here For Denim

3. Or, link to a shop item. For ease of use, the exact link HTML is shown by simply clicking on the "Show" button within the inventory section of the shop owner module.

For example, the following link takes displays the Cotton Shirt item [item 16]:
http://demoshop.precisionweb.net/shop/index.php?itemid=16

Click Here For Cotton Shirt

4. Or, insert the "Add To Cart" HTML directly into your regular HTML pages. The exact form HTML is shown by simply clicking on the "Show" button within the inventory section of the shop owner module.

For example, the form below adds the Cotton Shirt item (item 16) to the cart of items you are buying:

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If I have my own real time credit card processing merchant account will it work the PrecisionWeb shopping cart?

A. Currently our shopping cart will work with the online credit card processing systems from:
1. Authorize.net
$149.00 setup
$29.95 a month gateway fee
$0.35 per transaction plus 2.39%
$0.95 per eCheck transaction

2. CardService International [Using their Linkpoint Basic interface only].

3. Verisign's Payflow Link System

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CardService International Linkpoint Basic Interface- How do I set up my shopping cart to work with it?

1.) Simply click on the General Settings button from your shop/owner page, scroll down to the "Checkout Type" section, and select "Use Linkpoint" from the drop down menu.
2.) Leave the "Checkout script" field blank.

3.) In the "Credit Card System Username" field, type in your LinkPoint store number.

The following changes will have to be made from the LinkPoint admin
interface [HLPADMIN] at https://secure.linkpt.net/admin/xxxxxx/hlpadmin
where you would replace the xxxxxx in the url above with your acoutn linkpoint shop number.

1. Set Order Submission Form URL to the correct url from below. You can also add more than one separated by a space:
https://raq19.secure-access.net/shop/checkout_lp.php
https://raq23.secure-access.net/shop/checkout_lp.php
https://raq22.secure-access.net/shop/checkout_lp.php
https://raq25.secure-access.net/shop/checkout_lp.php
https://raq28.secure-access.net/shop/checkout_lp.php
https://raq30.secure-access.net/shop/checkout_lp.php
https://raq31.secure-access.net/shop/checkout_lp.php
https://raq32.secure-access.net/shop/checkout_lp.php

2. Set "Thank You" Page URL to http://www.yourdomain.com/shop/finished.php
[replaced with the appropriate shop URL].

Enable "Check here if this url is a CGI script" and enable "Check if you
wish to automatically display specified URL after the LinkPoint HTML receipt
page"

3. Set "Sorry" Page URL to
http://www.yourdomain.com/shop/finished.php
[replaced with the appropriate shop URL].

Enable "Check here if this url is a CGI script" and enable "Check if you
wish to automatically display specified URL after the LinkPoint HTML receipt
page"

4. Define the following Custom Fields [Names]:

user4
user7
user8
user9
custommsg
shop
cart
deja
password

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How do I set up my shopping cart to work with my Authorizenet credit card processing account?

1.) Click on the General Settings button from your shop/owner page, scroll down to the "Checkout Type" section, and select "Use Authorize.net" from the drop down menu.
2.) Leave the "Checkout script" field blank.

3.) In the "Credit Card System Username" field, type in your Authorize.net username.

4.) Log into your Authorize.net account at: https://secure.authorize.net
Edit the Payment Form / Receipt Settings
a. From the "Settings" area, go to "Payment Form / Receipt Settings" then
"General Payment Form / Receipt Settings".
b. The only important settings are:
Receipt Link Method = POST
E-Mail Customer = NO
The shopping cart will automatically mail a receipt. If you leave the
Authorize.net settings set to "E-Mail Customer = YES", then the customer
will receive 2 email receipts.
c. From the "Manage URLs" area:
Set the "Valid Browser Referrer URL" to the checkout url of your shop. This will be the page where the customer would input their credit card information. You can check the url be attempting to checkout from your shop. The actual raq number will vary according to the server that you are on. Therefore it might be one of the urls below:

https://raq23.secure-access.net/shop/checkout.php
https://raq25.secure-access.net/shop/checkout.php
https://raq27.secure-access.net/shop/checkout.php
https://raq28.secure-access.net/shop/checkout.php
https://raq29.secure-access.net/shop/checkout.php
https://raq30.secure-access.net/shop/checkout.php
https://raq31.secure-access.net/shop/checkout.php
https://raq32.secure-access.net/shop/checkout.php

Make sure you do not include any leading or trailing spaces in the urls.

d. Set the "Valid ADC or Receipt Link URL". to http://www.yourdomain.com/shop/finished.php [make sure to replace yourdomain.com with your actual domain in the url above].

e. All other settings can be left at the default or configured as you like.
If you run into difficulties with this, just email us your Authorizenet
username and password and we will configure it for you. After we are
finished we will let you know so you can change your Authorizenet password.

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How do I set up my shopping cart to work with my Verisign Payflow credit card processing account?

1. Click on the General Settings button from your shop/owner page, scroll down to the "Checkout Type" section, and select "Use Payflow" from the drop down menu.

2. Leave the "Checkout script" field blank.

3. In the "Credit Card System Username" field, type in your Payflow username.

4. In the Verisign Partner ID field, type in the partner ID that your credit card processor has supplied you with: E.g. WFB

5. Log in to your Payflow account.

• a. Click on the "Account Info" link near the upper left of your screen.
• b. The page that it takes you to will have links at the left. Click on each
  one of those links and fill in the information as desired. One of the links
  is titled "Payflow Link Info", click on that link.
• c. On the Payflow Link Info page there are many options that you can set as
  desired. Below are the only ones that need to be set specifically so that
  the shopping cart and Payflow will work together properly.

6. Set the return URL method to "Link"

7. Set the return URL to http://yourdomain.com/ where you would substitute
your actual domain name for yourdomain.com.

8. Enable the Silent Post URL and set it to http://www.yourdomain.com/shop/finished.php where you would substitute
your actual domain name for yourdomain.com.

Click Here for a screen shot of the Payflow page.

9. Make the Name, Address, City, State, Zip, Country, Phone, and Email
fields required by placing a check mark in the boxes next to each.

10. Set the "Transaction Process Type" to "Live".

11. Under the Email Options section, set "Email receipt to customer" to
"No"

12. Set the "AVS" to "Medium" or "Full"

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PayPal: How do I set up my shopping cart to accept payments by PayPal?

1. Sign up for a PayPal business account at http://www.paypal.com
[Your PayPal email address must match your shopping cart's order email address].

2. Log into your shop administration at http://yourdomain.com/shop/owner/

3. Click on the General Settings button from your shop/owner page, scroll down to the "Checkout Type" section, and select "Use PayPal" from the drop down menu.

4. Leave the "Checkout script" field blank.

5. In the "Credit Card System Username" field, type in your PayPal email address.

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Where do I get my merchant account for offline processing?

If you have a regular storefront for your business then you probably already have a credit card terminal and merchant account. You can use your existing merchant account and enter in the credit card information offline.
You can get a virtual terminal from: Authorize.net:

To learn more about the Authorize.net Integrated Payment Service and to apply for an account, Click Here<

$149.00 setup
$29.95 a month gateway fee
$0.35 per transaction plus 2.39%
$0.95 per eCheck transaction

For offline processing, you of course may use any credit card / merchant account provider you like.

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When my customers go to the checkout what happens to their order from there?

If you have set the shopping cart checkout to use a real time credit card processing provider, then when your customer goes to the check out their order will be transferred to the processors secure server. The customer will input their billing information for processing, verification and payment. It will automatically be deposited into your bank account. Both you and the customer will automatically receive a confirmation of the order.
If you are not using a real time credit card processing provider, you will receive a notification that an order has been placed; then you will log into your shop/owner module and click on the "View Pending Orders" button to securely view the order information using SSL security. The customer will receive email verification of the order also.

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Does the Precision Cart allow for sales tax?

Yes. Your shop can be configured to automatically add sales tax to orders placed from any specific state. Individual states can have different sales tax percentages.

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How do I add a custom header and footer to my shopping cart?

1. Create a page that has the appearance you desire.

2. Copy the HTML from the top part of the page.

3. Log into your shop/owner page and paste the HTML that you have copied into the "Custom HTML Header" field.

4. Repeat the steps above for the page footer.

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How do I import data into my shopping cart?

The easiest way to do create an importable file is to:

1. Open up Microsoft Excel [or any other popular database or spreadsheet software].

2. Create a file containing your items. The field order for each item/line is:
SKU Category Description Image Name Price Custom Quantity Shipping Weight Options

3. Save the file as a tab delimited text file.
Click here for an example file.

4. Log into the shop/owner module of your shop, and click on the import inventory button. Browse to the file on your local hard drive, upload, preview, and import it.

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How do I create a drop down list for an item?

1. Log into your shop administration at http://yourdomain.com/shop/owner/

2. Click the Setup Inventory button and then click the 'edit' button to the right of the item you wish to edit.

3. In the "shop inventory editor" scroll down to the 'Create Drop Down' section of the page. Under the Create Drop Down Lists description section enter the name you wish the drop down to
be known by and click 'add'. E.g. Color (This name will be displayed to the left of the actual list of drop down choices.)

4. Now, scroll down to the 'Options for the drop down lists' section. In the description field enter the first choice you want to have in the drop down list then fill in the fields to the right of the description, including the "level" field, you will need to choose the name of the drop down you created in step 3. Click on the 'Add' button to the right. Add all the options you want for this dropdown.

5. If you have more than 1 drop down, repeat steps 3 and 4.

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How do I Import customer data into QuickBooks?

The new Precision Cart allows you to download your customers’ order information and import it directly into QuickBooks!

Information to know before you get started.

• The import feature utilizes 4 custom fields in your QuickBooks Customer Job List.

• The 4 customer fields are Domain Name, Credit Card Number, Credit Card Expiration Date, and Name on Credit Card.

• To set these up, simply go to your Customer: Job List

• Double Click on a customer name

• Click on the ‘Additional Info’ tab

• On the bottom right, click on the ‘Define Fields’ button

• In the new window that pops up, enter the Four labels as company, Credit Card, Exp. Date, name and select the ‘Customer:Job’ box beside those 4 Labels. Please see our image at http://www.precisionweb.net/qkbkdefinefield.png

To save your customers’ information

• Log into your shop owner’s panel (located at <http://www.yourdomain.com/shop/owner>)

• Click on the ‘View Pending Orders’ button

• In the new window that opens, click on the ‘Export All Orders’ button at the top right of the screen.

• Click ‘Save Customer Records’ button and save the file to a known location and name it custrec for example.

To import a file into QuickBooks

• Open QuickBooks

• Click on the ‘File’ drop down menu

• Select ‘Utilities’ from the list and choose ‘Import’

• The import window will allow you to browse your hard drive for the appropriate document, custrec.txt in the example (IF YOU DON’T SEE YOUR TEXT FILE: make sure you have the Files of type: set to ‘All files’).

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