Volume 3, Number 7
November 2003    

In This Issue

Holiday Specials!
SalesCart PRO and SalesCart-X Dreamweaver compatible...
SalesCart Standard 3.0 and PRO 5.0 are now released
SalesCart-X now supports WorldPay for International clients
The Shipping Service plugin now includes DHL and International USPS rates
Article: E-commerce, steady as it goes
Article: E-commerce to Grow 29% in Q4
Article: Maximize Holiday Revenues
Hot sites: FrontPage
Hot sites: Dreamweaver
Tips and Tricks

Remodel Your Website for Holiday Sales

“Seventeen percent of small businesses surveyed credit their website for producing between 50- to 100-percent of their annual sales; 7 percent of the small businesses surveyed claim online sales make up 100 percent of their total sales revenues.” – Laura Rush www.ecommerce-guide.com

Don’t let your ecommerce solution go stale. Get your website ready for the Holidays by increasing your site potential - add new technology and features. SalesCart now supports the newest versions of the most popular design tools, both Microsoft FrontPage 2003 and Macromedia’s Studio MX 2004. SalesCart is the shopping cart for every ecommerce scenario.

 


Welcome to the SalesCart Newsletter.  The purpose of this newsletter is to help people get through the trials and tribulations of creating their own ecommerce site. To manage your subscription or to unsubscribe, see the bottom of this newsletter.
 
Specials
Free Software & A Holiday Guarantee

ComCity wants you to be successful and online for the holidays. Trust the ecommerce experts - trust SalesCart. We have two thrilling offers that promise to make your spring into ecommerce a joyful one. These offers expire, so act now.
 

Purchasing SalesCart? Well purchase a plugin at the same time, and get a plugin of equal or lesser value absolutely FREE! Plugins allow you to customize functionality that's important for you without raising the price of the base software for features you don't need.  

Plugins exist to help enhance your online store by managing orders and products through browser interfaces or to add other real-time credit card processing. Note:  All current versions of SalesCart now ship with AuthorizeNet real-time processing and PayPal free.

Click [here] to learn more.


 

In a hurry? Not a problem. ComCity, the makers of SalesCart, is a full service provider providing hosting, web design, and web customization services since 1995.  We can guarantee you will be up before the holidays.  Let us get you online in time to cash in on that holiday shopping frenzy. Turn your ideas  
into money. Purchase SalesCart and an integration package and let us do the work. SalesCart has some excellent packages that guarantee your store will be online for the holidays. Whether you just need partial assistance or full assistance, we have a solution for you.

Click [here] to learn more.

Act now, before these specials expire on December 31st. Contact your Sales Rep toll free at 888-826-6248 or contact us here.  Every second offline is a second of lost money. Don’t hesitate – call today.
 

Product News
 

SalesCart PRO/SQL and SalesCart-X compatible with Macromedia’s Dreamweaver Studio MX 4.0

SalesCart has been an approved Macromedia extension since 2002. Macromedia’s new release offers SalesCart merchants a more professional and organized website development tool.

“We are happy with our relationship with Macromedia as an Associate Partner and we look forward to continued support for the Macromedia Dreamweaver product line with out multi-platform ecommerce solution,” said Michael Barber, President and CEO of ComCity, the makers of SalesCart.

Purchase SalesCart or update your SalesCart software today, www.salescart.com.


SalesCart Standard 3 and PRO 5 are now released

SalesCart 3 and PRO 5 support Microsoft FrontPage 2003. The new releases continue the company’s tradition of SalesCart support for FrontPage since FrontPage version 97. Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 takes advantage of new technologies such as XML, Web services and data-driven websites. SalesCart Standard 3 maintains the same ease of use as earlier editions, but now includes support for a single checkout system architecture shared among its windows products. Both products have also been tested and certified to work on the new Windows 2003 server platform ASP platform.
 

Plugin News
SalesCart-X now supports WorldPay for International clients
 

WorldPay’s credit card bridge is the best solution for the International merchant wanting to process orders in real-time. This bridge will work with both editions of SalesCart for FrontPage and Dreamweaver!  


Click for more information.
 


The Shipping Service plugin now includes DHL and International USPS rates
 

Extend your shipping options by offering DHL and USPS International rates. DHL is the global market leader of the international air express industry, operating in over 220 countries and territories. Use the tried and true United States Postal System to send packages to virtually every country worldwide.  
*The updated Shipping Service plugin now has new rate tables with the latest rate postings. In addition, you will receive automatic server-based rate increases for a full year.  Also, you can now selectively remove different shipping types in UPS. As such, you can use a combination of next day, 2nd day, 3rd day, and ground. 

Click for more information. 
 
E-commerce Articles
 

E-commerce, steady as it goes
Fueled by a steady stream of new online shoppers and new product category sales, U.S. E-commerce will grow at a 19 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years. Most significant, online retail will reach nearly $230 billion and account for 10 percent of total U.S. retail sales by 2008. – Forrester Research, Carrie Johnson, August 13, 2003

More information can be found online at http://news.com.com/2030-1069-5063287.html

 


E-commerce to Grow 29% in Q4
EMarketer projects that fourth-quarter consumer spending online this year will rise 29 percent to $17.8 billion, its highest growth rate since the 2000 holiday season, when it increased 71.5 percent over that period in 1999. Fourth-quarter consumer spending climbed 16.7 percent in 2001 and 27.6 percent in 2002 – DM News, Melissa Campanelli, October 10, 2003

This is a private article.  But more information for registered users may be obtained at: http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=25237

 


Maximize Holiday Revenues
The nationwide study of small businesses with websites revealed important trends in E-commerce, most notably the integral role an online presence serves. Of the small businesses surveyed, 78 percent indicated their company benefits from having a website. Specifically, 28 percent said they rely heavily on their website to make sales goals, while 33 percent said their website is their most powerful marketing tool. – Ecommerce-guide.com, Laura Rush, October 2, 2003

More information can be found online  [Here]

 

 
Hotsites
 

Microsoft FrontPage



GE Transportation Systems

www.gerailfans.com
Ranking:

Our review: This site utilizes the delayed check out feature. You can add products and then check out when you are ready. They have customized the check out pages to carry their website theme into this area. They use the gift message field to gather information from the client regarding embroidery - A great example of SalesCart-X. They took SalesCart-X and truly made it their own.

Testimonial:  We chose SaleCart-X because it fit into our corporate goals of fielding a PHP/MySQL-based E-commerce solution, and didn't "break the bank" when we bought it. We've been able to make a lot of customized changes to the PHP scripts with no problems, which allow us to provide a good online shopping experience for our site visitors. An added bonus: We can use the SalesCart-X code in multiple sites we're developing! I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a fast, easy-to-implement E-commerce solution."


Daniel A. Ford
Webmaster
Paragon Print Systems

Software Cost:
SalesCart-X for Microsoft FrontPage $399.99
Total: $399.99

To view previous winners go to
http://www.expression-ecommerce.com /hotsites/

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and get in front of nearly 30,000 subscribed viewers


Macromedia Dreamweaver



Baby Bistro Brands
www.babybistrobrands.com
Ranking:


Our review: This site design is one of the best we have viewed so far. It projects the market they are in with the soft colors and graphics and they extended this look and feel throughout the check out pages. The online catalog is easy to find and the buttons were changed to add to the smoothness of the site. This is an excellent example of a static catalog.

Testimonial: We are a new business and new to online commerce. Sales Cart has been easy to use and understand for our customers and for us! We love the immediate notification of purchase. We would recommend using Sales Cart to any web business.

 Read More

Software Cost:
SalesCart-PRO for Macromedia Dreamweaver $399.99
Total: $399.99

To view previous winners go to
http://www.dreamweaver-ecommerce.com/hotsites/

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Tips and Tricks
 

Title: Order Management Plugin: Display only last four digits of credit card number in invoices and packing slips.
Design Tool: Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver
Version: plugin
SalesCart Knowledge Level (Scale 1-10): 3


If you want to only provide the last four digits of the credit card number in the invoices or packing slips generated by the Order Management plugin, there is now a knowledge base article for you. Why would you want to do this? Perhaps you have a fulfillment house that ships your products. In this case, you would not want to send the payment details, just the order details. Or, if you want to send a packing slip and don’t want to display the credit card details, you can now modify the slip to only include the last four digits. To do this, read the article at http://support.salescart.com/kb/KB-details.asp?key=5359
 

 
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