 Photo Cart Features
There are so many features in Photo Cart it will be impossible to list them all
here, so lets just hit some highlights.
One time purchase
No additional fees or commissions and all runs on your website.
Flexible and customizable products and pricing
Standard / a la cart products
8x10, 5x7, etc. You enter in what you offer, the price for those and create options
for them to select. There are no limits to how many products you offer.
[More features: quantity discounts, B&W previews, crop previews, taxable,
additional shipping charges, descriptions]
Image Downloads
Offer download images that are available when purchase is completed for immediate
delivery. Available in 3 sizes: display image (size on screen when image is added
to cart), zoom image (size of the “click to enlarge” image), and a high resolution
image which the size is determined on upload.
Packages - standard and custom
Very flexible package systems to offer packages, collages, albums and more.
[More features: package options, image options, limit the amount of poses that
can be selected, sample images, require all image to be selected or not, allow
additional images, additional shipping charges, taxable, offer percentage discount
to a la cart pricing if purchased]
Gallery items
Offer products like 4x6 of all images in a gallery, CD of all images, etc. These
are not image specific and are added on a per gallery bases.
Price Groups
Price Groups contain a set of products and price that are selected per gallery.
This means you can have a set of pricing for one type of client and another set
of pricing for another.
Public or private galleries
When you create a new gallery you have the option to make it public, where anyone
can see the images, or private where an access code is required to view the gallery
and only those with the access code can see it.
[More gallery features: create sub galleries and sub-sub galleries, image search,
gallery splash page, expiration date, categories, status, remove watermarking,
disable shipping, offer a free download, images per row and how many rows, early
bird special date]
Batch Uploading
Using FTP or Dave’s Uploader (purchased separately at http://www.davesuploader.com and highly recommended) easily upload hundreds of images.
Image security & watermarking
Disable right click and save, no drag and drop, no cache and add a watermark
to the image before it is displayed to the screen to boot. (Note that there is
no way to stop a screen shot though and why you want to watermark).
Discounts, coupons, print credits and more
Offer early bird special to entice the customer to order sooner.
Coupons for a flat rate or percentage discounts.
Print credits to offer just certain items.
Account credits to apply prepaid money.
Registry
Create a baby or bridal registry so your customers family and friends can put
money into their accounts, and in your pockets.
Reports
Sales and activity reports available in the administration area.
 Order Management
When a customer places an order from your Photo Cart, you receive an email with
a link to the order and it is also available in your administration.
[More features: create custom order statuses, manually add payment, shipping,
export image file names that are on the order, view a work list
Customizable
Easily change the colors, fonts, and more right from the administration area
to match the rest of your website and branding. You can also edit nearly 100%
of the text displayed on the customer side of Photo Cart using the text edit mode.
Customer Management
View details of all of your customers and see orders, contact information, last
login and more. You can also export their information for marketing purposes.
[More features: view customer favorites from the admin, view shopping carts,
customer categories, generate and email invoices, view email logs, account credits,
apply custom price group, sort by last activity]
Lots of Settings
The settings section if loaded with options: contact information, minimum order
amount, require or not a customer to be logged in to view images, store status,
select countries you ship to, manage tax options, VAT, edit default emails sent
to customers, gallery options, menu links, upload watermarks, default settings,
change color of administration pages, upload miscellaneous files and much more.
Payment Options and Gateways
The following payment options and gateways are currently integrated in Photo
Cart
PayPal Business Standard
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_wp-standard-overview-outside
The most popular and convenient method to collection payments from your customers.
All that is needed is to have a PayPal business account.
No SSL needed
Pay by Mail
This simply tells your customer that they can pay by mail and you give them your
mailing address and pay to information.
PayPal Website Payments Pro (USA Only)
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_wp-pro-overview-outside
This service is offered by PayPal and is basically a merchant account. This option
allows the customer to either pay with their PayPal account or pay by credit card.
When they pay by credit card, they enter their credit cart information on your
website and don’t see PayPal.
SSL Required
Payment Gateways
The Following are payment gateways that work with an existing merchant account.
If you want to use your merchant account, contact your merchant services and see
if they work with any of the following payment gateways.
Authorize.net (SIM)
http://www.authorize.net
The Simple Integration Method is used and the customer enters in their payment
information on a secure area of the authorize.net website.
No SSL required
EProcessingNetwork.com
http://www.eprocessingnetwork.com
The customer enters in their payment information on a secure area of their website.
No SSL required
USAePay.com
http://www.usaepay.com
Customers enter in their payment details on your website.
SSL required
SecurePay.com
http://www.securepay.com
Customers enter in their payment details on your website.
SSL required
Standard Form to Collection Information
This standard form method basically collects the payment information and send
it to you where you can process it manually.
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