virtualCART offers the following features and more:

Secure ordering
UPS "Quick Cost"/FedEx "Rate Finder"/USPS Cost calculator
REAL-TIME credit card processing
Affliate Program Support
Tracks shipping and handling costs
Calculates sales tax
Upsell a related product
Displays a Summary
Multi-Item Submissions
Express Order single page
Membership discounts or special offer discounts
Force Customer Selections Before Checkout
General Form Processing
Additional Features

• Configure your virtualCART online with your browser and you're ready to go.
  
  
• virtualCART runs on our server which allows you to change hosting companies without any downtime.

• Secure ordering assures customer confidence through Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption of sensitive customer and credit card information. Orders are sent securely to the email address or FAX machine of your choice. Choice of ordering and payment methods for you to offer your customers. Verifies fields in order submissions for completeness.Verifies Credit Card Numbers to assure mathematic validity. Issues unique order numbers for inquiries and tracking.

  Secure back office for order management and retrieval.

  Still need more information? See our FAQ.

• UPS "Quick Cost"/FedEx "Rate Finder"/USPS Cost calculator, understands zones, weight, multiple boxes in an order and various delivery options such as ground, 2nd Day, Overnight, Worldwide, etc. It calculates shipping costs quickly and accurately for all UPS/FedEx shipments originating in the 48 contiguous states to domestic and international destinations. Visit our Demo to see this feature in action. (8 generic methods of shipping are also available)
  
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• Tracks shipping and handling costs with a variety of calculation methods to choose from. Allows customers to select from the various shipping methods you offer and calculates the cost for that method. Supports a mix of shipping exempt and non-shipping exempt items, tracking fees accurately. Handles "intangible" items such as services so they do not inadvertently incur a shipping charge if ordered by themselves.
  
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• REAL-TIME credit card processing: virtualCART offers support for the following REAL-TIME credit card processing gateways.
  
  
  • Virtual Linkpoint API
  • AuthorizeNet
  • VeriSign - PayFloPro
  • Pay Pal
    
  
  
  Still need more information? See our FAQ.
  
  Click here to Setup a New Merchant Account
  
• REAL-TIME check acceptance: virtualCART offers the power of real-time check processing for your web site with PayByCheck.
  

• Affiliate program support.  We currently support AffiliateShop, Commission Junction ,Shareasale & others for commercial affiliate program systems. In fact, most affiliate programs are supported. Setup for some of them are in the cart configuration. The rest we setup for you at no charge; just contact us.

  We also have our own free affiliate system which, although not intended to replace a commercial program it works well for smaller merchants.

  Still need more information? See our FAQ.

• Calculates sales tax for application to "home state" customer orders. Supports multiple home states and variable tax rates. Allows a mix of tax exempt and non-tax exempt items.
  
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• Upsell a related product to compliment the item being purchased.
  
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• General form processing - This is our own script that we developed for your use in processing fill out forms not related to shopping cart function for your site.

  Possible uses are:

  • Customer Feedback Form
  • Request Addition to a mailing list
  • Contest Entry Form
  • Order literature or catalogs
  • Let people submit a listing for your links page.

For a fully commented example Click Here

• Multi-Item Submissions: The best web catalogs today avoid the "order form" syndrome afflicting earlier sites. You've seen those sites; look at items all over the site, write down what you want to buy, and enter it all in an order form with payment information. Yuck! Not very conducive to buying. virtualCART allows ad-hoc addition of items from any page on your site, right when the shopper sees them; no pencil required!

  virtualCART allows customers to put more than one line item into the shopping cart at one time. When a customer will often buy several related items together, we call such items "logical groupings", and they are coded on your site as "multi-item submissions". The html code differs a bit for these, and we suggest that you tackle standard single items first. When you're ready, visit our very simplistic bread store. The page also provides verbage outlining usage for this method. See our demo bread store
  
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• Single Page Express Order . Got a hot product or a single product to sell? Or maybe your friends are helping you sell something on their site? Put up this single page where people can do it all from one page.

  Express Order (single page)

• Membership discounts or special offer discounts:  Offer discounts to existing customers or members. You can either give a percent discount or or a flat dollar amount.

  See the Discounts Example Page for more information.

• Powerful discount system for all your quantity based discounts and sale needs. Multiple breakpoints, selectable by partnumber or range of partnumbers. Discount by percent, flat amount, or just set the price!
  For discounts based on quantity of items purchased, visit our powerful quantity discount system

• Force customer selections before checkout: Frustrated by orders without all the required information? Relax. Now you can ensure that your customers complete the necessary fields. We've set up a Force Selections example page, complete with additional set up instruction.
  

• Displays a summary of the Shopping Cart contents when an item is added to the cart. A total of quantities and prices is kept at all times. Allows customers to change the quantity of items in their cart, or remove them altogether with a "clear shopping cart" button for starting over.
  

• No CGI needed. You don't need to have CGI capability on your server. If you can have images and text, you can use virtualCART. Doesn't rely on Cookies, JAVA, Javascript, or plug-ins that your customer may or may not have, thus maximizing your catalog compatibility.

• Graphic themes. Shopping Cart graphics can be fully customized with your background image, logo, and custom cart graphics. Or select from a variety of attractive graphic themes to match your site.

Additional Features

	Nearly infinite support for height, width, size, color, material, etc., identifies whether the options add or subtract from the total item cost.
	Handles various currencies, units of measure, weights, etc.
	Supports Flash product pages.
	Place one or 1000 items in the cart with a single button.
	Can display thumbnail images or links to full size images of the products shoppers place in their carts.
	Membership support for offering discounts and order tracking.
	Printed catalog support. Customers can order products from your printed catalog even if the item isn't included in your online catalog.
	Easy to configure and setup.
	View Cart and Empty Cart buttons for easy cart manipulation.
	Allows customers to choose their shipping, payment, and ordering method.
	Price is automatically calculated according to the shipment type chosen.
	Secure orders are sent to the e-mail address that you choose.
	Calculates sales tax for the state you are shipping from. Multiple tax states and variable tax rates are also supported.
	Understands "intangible" items such as downloadable software so that no shipping charges are incurred.
	Allows for both taxable and tax-exempt items.
	Assigns unique order numbers to the merchant and shopper, allowing both parties to match numbers during inquiries.
	Allows shoppers to change the quantity of items in their carts or empty their carts.
	Provides a "Continue Shopping" link that allows shoppers to go back to the page they came from after adding an item to the cart.
	Adjustable threshold below which you can charge a small order fee, reminding customers to increase their order amount.
	Verifies fields during checkout for completeness.
	Verifies credit card numbers to assure mathematic validity.