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About MetaCart2, PayPal Edition
Overview
Hardware/Software Requirements
Installation/Setup
Support/Add-ins
Browser-based Administration
The MetaCart Demos
Overview
The MetaCart2
eCommerce Shopping Cart System for Small Businesses and Developers,
PayPal Edition, contains many, but not all, of the features
implemented in the release of our standard edition of MetaCart2
. Some features were modified
to accommodate integration with the PayPal payment gateway.
As with our other
e-Commerce software applications, MetaCart2'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 MS Access databases.
With MetaCart2,
your electronic storefront will have the
following capabilities:
- 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.
- Integration with PayPal's Payment gateway.
- Plus,
in-state sales tax calculations, semi-automated inventory reporting and
updating, calculation of shipping charges based on weight,
and support for thousands of categories
and subcategories.
You will need to have a PayPal business account in order to use this application. You may sign up and apply for an account by clicking the PayPal logo below.
MetaCart2 is a server/client
shopping system based on Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
technology hooked to a Microsoft Access (*.mdb)
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 posted to your database and processed through PayPal.
Hardware/Software Requirements
To use MetaCart2, 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 Server with IIS 5.0. The application uses a DSN-less
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 Microsoft Access or Visual Basic 6.0
(Visual Basic's Data Manager uses the same database engines as Access) to
create your own database. MetaCart2 was developed using FrontPage
2000, Visual Basic 6.0, and Visual InterDev 6.0 on a Windows 98 platform
using Visual Studio 6.0 with Personal Web Server and Windows NT Option
Pack 4. The MetaCart2 demo is hosted on a Windows 2000 NT
Server.
For MetaCart2 to work properly on
your local Windows NT or Windows 95/98 machine, you will need to have 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.
Additional Installation/Setup Instructions
Additional installation and setup instructions, as
well as the End-User License Agreement, are
included in the README.txt file in the MetaCart2
eCommerce application download package. Use of MetaCart2
is governed by the terms of this Agreement.
Support/Add-Ins
MetaLinks.com provides limited installation and setup support for MetaCart2
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 MetaCart2, 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 demo, 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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