A.  The Web Store is a shopping cart/webstore/catalogue builder  that turns your web site into a web store with full electronic commerce capability.

A.  Add items to the inventory for the extra cost shipping. So, for example,  you might create a category called "Shipping Options" that contained  an item called "2nd Day UPS" which costs  $5, and another item  called "Overnight FedEx" which costs  $11.  Shoppers can then add these items to their carts to have the extra shipping charge added  automatically. 

A. If you are using Web Store without the transaction server and gateway, the following applies. When the orders come into the retailer's mailbox, the retailer views the order and makes a decision whether to process or delete the order. If you are using the transaction server and gateway, the order is passed through the gateway for authorization and the capture and transfer of funds to your merchant account. There is extensive fraud protection built in to the transaction server and gateway.

A.  First you will have to get a webtownusa.com Value or Frontpage Virtual Server or Advantage Hosting account which gives you access to Web Store, a merchant account, and the transaction server and gateway.

A.  the Web Store is a shopping cart/database/catalogue builder  that turns your web site into a web store with full electronic commerce capability.

A.  No, only a 1st Commerce merchant account will work with our Gateway.

A.  Installation of Web Store on our virtual server accounts should not take more than 10 minutes to install and you can do it from your control panel. Advantage hosting accounts must have installation done by server administration as an add-on for a one-time setup charge.

A.  When they go to the check out for the Web Store and you are using the transaction server and gateway, their order will be transferred to the 1st Commerce secure server. Once there, the customer will input their billing information for processing, verification and payment. If you are not using the gateway, you will receive the order. The customer will receive email verification of the order also.

A.  The checkout program emails a copy of the order to the customer as a confirmation that the order was received.

A.  Yes. Your shop can be configured to automatically add sales tax to orders placed from a given state. You can select the state where you wish to charge sales tax, and the enter current tax rate.  You may select no tax by leaving the state blank or by setting the tax rate to zero. You may also specify individual items in your inventory that are not subject to sales tax.

A.  No, the check out requires a checkout code which we do not give out, and the licensed admin copy of PGP5 for linux, which we do not give out for obvious reasons.

A.  More than likely you are a reseller using Front Page on your sites, and Front Page has a .htaccess file in your htdocs directory the prohibits POST's to any scripts in directories underneath htdocs (like ushop).  If you experience this problem please email or call tech. support so that they can install another .htaccess for you (until the new version of the Web Store is available). It is now available.

A. One way to get your customers to a specific item is as follows. For example, if you want to specify "Frontpage professional edition" software, then in the name field, use an HTML NAME tag in the "Item  Name" field. 

                                     example- Inventory Item Name: 
                                     <A NAME="fp">Frontpage professional edition</A>

A.  Go to http://search.nai.com/mediasearch/ do a search for plugin's and download the plugin for your email program.

A.  Contact our Support Team with your account name and your customers' domain name and they will assist you with installation.