Wouldn't it be great if it
was easy to add 'buy one now' buttons to the product pages
of your web site?
Imagine if you could just copy and paste
a little code into a web page and, hey presto, you have a
'view shopping cart' button, or a 'proceed to checkout' button.
Imagine if the order processing could all be taken care of
for you, including secure payment by credit card or payment
by check. Well with web-store-buddy this is how easy e-commerce
can be!
Until now you had two options if you want to enable your web
site for e-commerce: either install some complicated and expensive
software on your web site server or switch your shoppers over
to a remotely-hosted web site store at the e-commerce section
of your web site. With this second approach, it is easy to
confuse your visitors (who may feel they have left your web
site), and it is difficult for you, the web designer, to keep
control of your web sites theme, style and navigation.
Your product information is just the kind of thing that
web spiders and robots would love to get their teeth into
when they crawl your site. However with most e-commerce
solutions this keyword-rich content gets locked up in a
database. The product pages with the information are 'virtual
pages' - they don't really exist but get published on the
fly, and when they do get published it may well be in a
form that is not “standard” HTML. This makes it
difficult for even the smartest robots to collect and index
the relevant information.
For very large product catalogues there may be no practical
alternative to the database “virtual pages” approach.
But for smaller product ranges (anything from a handful
of products to several hundred products), wouldn't it be
better if you could publish all the keyword-rich product
content using standard, 100% compatible, orthodox HTML web
pages to your own web site? Not only would that put you,
the web page designer, in full control, but also it would
make it easy for robots and crawlers to index all of your
site's content. Now with web-store-buddy it's easy to follow
this approach.
E-commerce is growing at a tremendous rate. But for many
shoppers the process of buying on the Internet can be a
nightmare. If the ordering process does not translate into
a simple step-by-step approach for the shopper, he or she
will go away! Even the shopping cart systems of big budget
global corporations can suffer from poor usability. Well
here's an opportunity to outwit, outmanoeuvre and outperform
the competition with web-store-buddy's straightforward,
easy to use shopping cart solution.
web-store-buddy will not trip your shoppers up just because
they are using an old computer or a strange browser. web-store-buddy
is 100% browser compliant and does not assume any plug-ins
(such as Java) are installed. This means that your e-commerce
web site won't let you down just at the point when you are
trying to “close that sale”!
Features
Easy to deploy, requires only the most basic web design
ability
No scripts or software to install
Copy and paste code using our standard 'add to basket',
'view basket' buttons - or use buttons of your own design
Customizable order confirmation sent in stylish HTML email
(automatically sends text only version to AOL users)
Shoppers can pay by credit card using web-store-buddy's
built-in secure credit card payment gateway (requires a
merchant account). Support for AW security codes.
Support for real-time credit card authorization if you
have a WorldPay "WorldDirect" account or a Verisign
"Payflow Link" account.
Shoppers can pay by check