Our "Precision Cart" Free Shopping Cart 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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1. First you will have to get an Precision Web Hosting account which gives you access to our "Precision Cart" Free Shopping Cart.

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 Free Shopping Cart from the shop/owner module. As you add them to your inventory, they immediately appear in your shop (normally at your-actual-domain.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 our free 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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1. Go to the shop owner's panel (please see your Web Site Settings email for the specific URL)

2. Log in and click on the General Settings button.

3. Click here to see the descriptions of the specific sections.

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Click here of specific instructions on adding items to the shopping cart.

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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.your-actual-domain.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.your-actual-domain.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 the 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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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://your-actual-domain.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 Jacket item :
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.

The steps are:

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

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You may have an Affiliate account through a company like Commision Junction you wish to automatically notify when a customer places an order on your account.  You will need to log into your Shop Owner's Panel and go into the General Settings.  In the Shop Aesthetics section of the General Settings page is a text box with the title Confirmation Page HTML for Affiliate Tracking.  You will need to enter the tracking URL provided by Affiliate provider in the field and replace their example Constants with the following:

Shop Constants:
##subtotal##
##shipping##
##tax##
##total##
##orderid##

For instance, Your affiliate provider will likely give you something like the following HTML tag for the shop:

<img src="https://www.qksrv.net/u?AMOUNT=TOTAL&CID=7771212&OID=ORDERID&TYPE=5432&CURRENCY=USD&METHOD=IMG" height="1" width="1">

You will need to change the generic variables they provided with the Shop Constants we provided, so the above URL would be changed to:

<img src="https://www.qksrv.net/u?AMOUNT=##total##&CID=856975&OID=##orderid##&TYPE=4827&CURRENCY=USD&METHOD=IMG" height="1" width="1">

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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. You would set this up from the shop/owner "Edit Locations" page.

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1. Create a page that has the appearance you desire.  Place some text at the part of the page where you want to divide it; e.g. "divide here"

2. Switch to HTML/Code view in your web site creation software, and do a search for the "divide here" text.

3. Select and then copy the HTML from the top part of the page (that would be above the "divide here" text if you are following our example).

4. Paste the HTML that you have copied into a text editor like WordPad. You will need to look through the HTML and replace all relative links, image sources, CSS locations, and JavaScript locations   with fully specified locations.

E.g. 

<img src="e-commerce_web_hosting.gif">
would be changed to
 <img src="http://www.precisionweb.net/e-commerce_web_hosting.gif" >

<a href="sampleimport.txt">Click here</a>
would be changed to
<a href="http://www.precisionweb.net/sampleimport.txt">Click here</a>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="webstyle.css" type="text/css">
would be changed to
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.precisionweb.net/webstyle.css" type="text/css">

Most of this can be done with automated search and replace functions within your text editor.

5.. Go to  your shop/owner General Settings page, click the Shop Aesthetics link. Then scroll down to the "Custom HTML Header" text field and paste in the HTML that you have copied and modified. Scroll down to the bottom of the shop/owner General Settings page and click Submit to save your changes.

6.. Repeat the steps above for the page footer.

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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, or export some sample items from your shopping cart and use that as a template.

3. The first record in the import file must be the field names header. The first record in the import file is discarded on import.

4. Save the file as a tab delimited text file. For Mac users: The record ending delimiter must be a carriage-return line-feed (CRLF) otherwise the record will not be terminated correctly.

Click here for an example file.

5. If you would like any items to be placed in subcategories, create those subcategories from your shop/owner Inventory Settings area before proceeding with the item import.

6. Log into the shop/owner control panel of your shop, and click on the import inventory button. Browse to the file on your local hard drive, upload, preview, and import it. Some browsers will try to send the file as an HTML type file; this will cause an error. If you get the "wrong file type" error, then FTP the file (in ASCII mode) to your site and specify the url to import it from.

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1. Log into your shop administration at http://your-actual-domain.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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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.

• ALSO, you must create your Items in QuickBooks prior to importing.  You can do this by going to the 'List' menu, clicking on 'Item List'.  This will bring up a complete list of items. 

• To create a new item, click on the 'Item' button at the bottom of the screen and click 'new' on the menu.

• Enter the appropriate information for your item, the only field you must enter that coincides with the Shopping Cart is the Item Name/ Number.  The Item Name/ Number must be the same thing you enter into the item SKU field in the shopping cart.

• Once you have set up your items, when you import the correct accounts will be debited and credited.

To save your customers’ information

• Log into your shop owner’s panel (located at <http://www.your-actual-domain.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 files 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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Any affiliate software that uses a tracking image on the confirmation page will work.  Some examples of  affiliate systems that will work are www.cj.com (runs from their server) and http://www.yoursoft-tm.com/yourcom.htm which would run from your site.

You would take their supplied HTML and paste it into the field named "HTML For Affiliate Tracking" on your shop/owner General Settings page. 

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