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Pilot Cart v.7.2

The Pilot Cart is Shopping Cart Software, automated Warehouse, and 1-Click Inventory. It's Control Panel, Gateway, Reporting, Real-time Shipping and Credit Card Processing..
it's everything an eBusiness needs!

Feature for feature, this is the most powerful eBusiness Solution in the world. Guaranteed. Pilot Cart sets the standard by integrating existing systems with the web..

Why waste time with proprietary eCommerce systems? Run your own! Pilot Cart can't be beat. Read on..

  1. Automated Setup
    Once copied to your WebServer (or a Webhost/ISP), the web-based Setup Wizard walks you thru the company configuration screens automatically. No dll's or runtimes required. Modular, nothing to "install", ASP open-source included!

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  2. Shopping Cart & Storefront
    1. Unlimited Products
      Have a huge inventory? No problem!
    2. Unlimited Categories
      Sell all kinds of products? No problem! Give your customers the option of browsing to their product of choice by navigating your categories, just like an index!
      1. Unlimited sub-categories, sub-sub-categories, etc.
      2. Images and icons supported; ie: Put a small cpu icon next to your CPU's category, or a little gift image next to your Gifts category.
      3. Dynamic Categories display; ie: Tell your website to automatically show your categories on the page dynamically, either via a drop-down menu, or as text on the screen. Sub-categories are automatically indented.
    3. Unlimited Modifiers (product properties)
      Add any number of Modifiers to a product, and only enter your products once! Red shirt, blue shirt, v-neck sweater, crew neck sweater..
      1. by Group
        1. Color
        2. Size
        3. Style
        4. Add your own..!
      2. by Quantity; Automatically keeps track of how many items you have in stock (we have 23 red shirts in stock, and 12 medium blue ones).
      3. by Image; Assign one or more images to any product. Picture of a red shirt, a small blue shirt, a large blue shirt, etc.
      4. by Cost; Use different prices, such as a red shirt costs $12.00, but the large green shirt costs $14.00.
      5. by Weight; Accurate real-time shipping can only be calculated correctly if your products have weight, right? ;)
      6. by Barcode; Every product you have can use a barcode if you wish.
      7. by SKU; Every product you sell can have a different SKU/Serial#.
    4. 100% International Support
      In your Pilot Cart Control Panel, set the software to display prices in ANY currency, such as the Dollar, Euro, Pound, Peso, Yen, Rupee, etc, and translate the presentation file to ANY language! Click, Edit, Done. Running your website in multiple languages opens the door to TRUE International eBusiness!
    5. Built-in Newsletter
      Our award winning Newsletter software is now built-in! Having a sale? Keep everyone on your mailing list informed!
    6. Built-in Search Engine
      Our award winning Search Engine software is now built-in! Give your customers the added benefit of finding the product they want without having to navigate or browse your entire catalog!
    7. Automated browse-mode thumbnails
      When customers are browsing your catalog by category, why not show a little thumbnail image of the product for quick visual reference?
    8. Unlimited images per product & Previewing
      Individual modifiers can have their own image, and your customers can Preview that modified product on-the-fly. ie: Preview a red shirt, Preview a green shirt, Preview a LARGE green shirt, Preview the truck without fog lights, or Preview it WITH fog lights. This way, your customers can see EXACTLY what they're buying beforehand.
    9. Multi-tiered Pricing
      1. by Customer; This customer gets the hat for $10, that customer sees the price as $12. Wholesalers support is also included; Discount your entire inventory (one or more items)!
      2. by Modifier; The red shirt is $20, but the blue shirt is $22.
      3. Require a Login! Some websites are subscription only. Some websites require you to have an account first. Some websites want you to login first before you can actually buy anything. You can easily disable this feature as well, if you don't need it.
      4. Full B2C and B2B support; Grant customers full access to your site, hiding prices until a user logs in first, or no site access at all without logging in. Excellent for wholesalers!
    10. Dynamic BuyNow button
      Show it, or not, and allow Modifier selections.
      1. Modifier selection; All Modifiers, such as red, green, v-neck, lace, button-fly, etc will display next to your BuyNow button where your customer can either Preview that product first, or click the BuyNow button.
      2. Back-order/Pre-order; Control whether or not the BuyNow button even shows up, based on your quantity in stock. If an item is out of stock, then you can allow or disallow purchase of that item.
      3. MassOrder Mode; Now your customers can see all of the items in a group at once and order any number of them at a single click. This will show all of the possible combinations that an item may have with modifiers as well.
    11. Freebie Item
      Offer a freebie! ie: "Buy 1 get 1 free!" Or, "Buy 4 of these, and get the 5th free!" Or, "Buy 2 hats, get a shirt free!" See?
    12. Unlimited Coupons
      Got Coupons? Issue one or more, and apply each to one or more products. Each Coupon you create can also have an expiration date set on it so that your customers cannot use it after a designated date, AND you can even set how many of an item are allowed in the purchase, ie: Do not let customers use Coupon xxx past July 3rd, and do not let them apply this coupon to more than 3 hats. Very flexible!
    13. Unlimited "Related Items" and "Impulse Buy" products
      Tempt your customers with any number of other products during Checkout. ie: If your customer is buying a truck online, why not tempt them to also buy a roll-bar and fog lights to go with it? You can also set whether or not these items are displayed as drop-down menu choices, or text with thumbnails. Up-selling and cross-selling; Very cool feature!
    14. Fail-safe Cart
      1. User Session Enabled; Javascript not required! If your visitor gets bumped offline, or accidentally closes their browser while they still have items in their cart, the code has already assigned a customer number to them, and the next time that visitor comes to your site, it will pre-fill their cart, so that they can pick up where they left off!
      2. Session-loss Trapping; No more empty carts! Customers' cart contents are:
        1. Encrypted for privacy
        2. Passed via session
        3. Passed via cookies
        4. Passed via hidden form elements
        5. Passed via querystring parameters
        6. Guaranteed security using additional HTTP ServerVariables and geographical data to make SURE your shoppers are secure, never lose what's in their cart, or get their cart confused with another. Now that's fail-safe!
    15. Full SSL Security
      With an SSL Key installed, your Pilot Cart can take full advantage of SSL encryption. No more hacked credit card numbers!
    16. Database Security
      Secure your customers data via a password protected database, NTFS/Active Directory Permissions, segregated database server via NetBEUI protocol, and Admin level access rights. Contact our Support team for additional tips.
    17. Automatic inventory indexing and sorting
      Customers can browse your products by Manufacturer, Sale Items, Item name, or Price, Ascending or Descending!
    18. Simplified Checkout
      Why bother your customers with lengthy Checkout procedures?
      1. Pre-filled Customer Info; If your customer is returning, then the cart will automatically fill out all their Billing & Shipping info for them!
      2. vCard Enabled; If the customers web browser has their personal info and/or Microsoft Wallet info entered, then your Checkout page will use this info to pre-fill all the fields!
      3. DHTML Enabled; If the customers Shipping Info will be the same as their Billing Info, then a box can be checked, and when it is, the Shipping Info section will completely disappear from the screen. Less fields on Checkout result in site "stickiness" and customer retention.
      4. Expanded Alt Text; Easy to read Help buttons/effects walk your customers right thru your Checkout page. No more abandoned carts!
      5. Automatic weight detection; If the cart sees that you are only buying downloadable or printable (digital) goods, then your customers will never be presented with any Shipping info. The shorter your Checkout page is, the better!
      6. User-defined fields; Add your own custom fields to Checkout, Gift Card message fields, special notes, etc. You can create your own field labels, set a maxlength and field type, you name it!
    19. Real-time Shipping
      Your website Checkout page will actually communicate with the shippers' servers over the Internet, in real-time, to bring in accurate rates based on zip codes, geographical location, quantity, shipment size and weights, the works.. Unbelievable flexibility!
      1. United Parcel Service (UPS)
         UPS         Certified Ecommerce Solutions Provider.
        Real-time UPS shipping rates and tracking; No more guessing about how much to charge for shipping! With UPS OnLine® Tools Rates and Service Selection, your customers see real-time UPS rates at Checkout and get to choose which service and price best meet their needs. UPS OnLine® Tools uses cutting edge XML technology to deliver shipping rates lightning fast. All you need to do is register with UPS to use this free service. You can even use your Pilot Cart Control Panel to do it! No hassle, no worries, no Checkout delays, just accurate UPS shipping costs that will make you and your customers happy. And once you've shipped their orders, they'll be able to track them on your website Gateway with UPS Tracking. That's a comprehensive shipping solution!
        1. Next Day Air®
        2. Next Day Air Saver®
        3. Next Day Air Early AM®
        4. 2nd Day Air®
        5. 2nd Day Air AM®
        6. 3-day Select®
        7. Ground®
        8. Worldwide Express PlusSM
        9. Worldwide ExpressSM
        10. Worldwide ExpeditedSM
        11. Worldwide StandardSM
        12. Express Saver®
      2. United States Postal Service (USPS)
        1. Global Express Guaranteed
        2. Global Express Mail (EMS)
        3. Airmail Parcel Post
        4. Economy (Surface) Parcel Post
        5. Priority
        6. Express Shipping
        7. Media Mail
        8. Parcel Post
        9. Bound Printed Matter
        10. Library Mail
      3. FedEx; FedEx can be setup right from within the Pilot Cart Shipping Grid. Set your own rates by weight, quantity being purchased, or total dollar amount. Incredible flexibility!
      4. Australia Post
        1. Standard
        2. Express
        3. Air
        4. Sea
        5. Economy
      5. Canada Post
        1. Regular
        2. Expedited
        3. Xpresspost
        4. Priority Courier
        5. Expedited Evening
        6. Xpresspost Evening
        7. Expedited Saturday
        8. Xpresspost Saturday
        9. Surface Air
        10. Air US
        11. Xpresspost US
        12. Purolator US
        13. Puropak US
        14. Surface International
        15. Air International
        16. Purolator International
        17. Puropak International
      6. Will-Call; Do customers pick-up their goods from you? Offer will-call service!
      7. Digital Download; If you sell digital goods too, then this additional method of shipment is for you!
      8. Location Disable; Have a Country/State/Province/etc you do NOT ship to? Disable it! Customers will not be allowed to have a product shipped there.
      9. Coming Soon; Royal Mail, DHL, Airborne Express, Roadway Express (RPS), Reimer Express, Parcelforce Worldwide, RGW Express, TransAsia, TransAfrica..
    20. Flat-rate Shipping
      Have an item that you want to apply a flat rate too? How about discounted shipping? Features abound here, and can be mixed with real-time shipping too!
      1. by Order Cost; Free, or $xx shipping charge for orders over $xx.
      2. by Order Weight; Free, or $xx shipping charge for orders over xx Lbs/Kgs.
      3. by Order Quantity; Free, or $xx shipping charge for ordering xx or more of product xx.
      4. Percentage (%) of Total; Calculate shipping as a percentage; Percentage will be determined by how many items, total weight, or total cost of the order being placed.
      5. Absolute Total; Calculate shipping as an absolute amount; This fixed amount will be determined by how many items, total weight, or total cost of the order being placed.
      6. Custom; Build your own shipping grid! Create a custom service name, apply fixed or percentage costs to it.. It's that easy!
      7. Domestic & International Support; There are 5 service levels for each, just enter your own descriptions and amounts in the Custom Shipping Services Editor.
    21. Free Shipping
      Encourage your customers past the Checkout page. If you enable the Free Shipping option, then all Ground shipments will be free. Other real-time and/or flat-rate options are still available though, for your really anxious customers. :)
    22. Real-time Tax Calculation
      By State, by Province, by Country, you name it. The Taxes Editor in the Control Panel allows you to collect, or not collect tax, based on location, AND set the rate (percent %) for each. Current rates and defaults are pre-filled for you. Postal Nexus, UK VAT tax, and worldwide tax calculation supported!
    23. Real-time Handling Calculation
      Need a separate Handling Charge? Just enter the amount of Handling to apply for the product.
    24. Real-time Payment Processing
      Accept and authorize credit cards, offline manual payments, the works!
      1. Credit Cards
        1. Visa (CVV2 also supported!)
        2. MasterCard/Eurocard (CVC2 also supported!)
        3. Discover/Novus (CID also supported!)
        4. American Express (CID also supported!)
        5. JCB
        6. Diners Club
        7. Carte Blanche
        8. Delta
        9. Switch
        10. Solo
        11. ATM & Direct Debit
        12. enRoute
        13. Add your own..!
      2. Banking Gateways
        This is what connects your bank merchant account to your website in real-time.
        1. Verisign Payflow Pro
        2. Verisign Payflow Link
        3. Verisign FraudScreen
          1. Address Verification Service (AVS); Validates the customer name, billing address, phone, email, credit card info, and much more. FraudScreen is based on industry-leading eFalcon fraud scoring technology from eHNC, considered the most powerful and intelligent fraud detection and risk management service available.
          2. Profiling and Neural Network technology; Fraud perpetrators can be identified before they reach your website! This software actually learns and adapts to your visitors behavior.
        4. Cybercash
        5. Cybercash FraudPatrol
        6. Authorize.net & AIM
        7. PlanetPayment
        8. E-Commerce Exchange (ECX)
        9. SkipJack
        10. IO·NGATE
        11. Merchant Partners
        12. SurePay
        13. PayPal
        14. LinkPoint
        15. Cardservice International
        16. PSiGate
        17. YourPay
        18. Concord EFSnet
        19. eWAY
        20. Paymentech/Orbital
        21. Net1 (EFT Secure)
        22. ECHO (Electronic Clearing House)
        23. Qchex (eCheck Electronic Checks service)
        24. Coming soon: ClearCommerce, SureFire Commerce, WorldPay, SecurePay, NPC VirtualPAY, iTransact, MoneyZap, Arvic Secure, IntelliPay, c2it..
        25. Add your own..!
      3. Manual (and off-line) Payments
        1. PayPal
        2. Money Order
        3. Cashier's Check
        4. Company/Personal Check
        5. Purchase Order (PO)
        6. Cash on Delivery (COD)
        7. Wire Transfer
        8. Bank Deposit
        9. Add your own..!
    25. Invoicing/Receipt
      Now that your customer has made it through Checkout, they will reach a very nice looking Receipt (invoice) page that can be printed and saved. Remember, at any time though, your customers can still access their receipts from the included Pilot Cart Gateway interface.
      1. Successful Payment; Shipments are automatically queued up for the day for processing, and digital goods are immediately accessible/downloadable.
      2. Un-successful Payment; If, for some reason, your customers credit card was not accepted (and they chose to continue anyway (not go back and try again)), or they chose a manual form of payment, they can still complete their order if they choose, but their Receipt will show as "Awaiting Payment". After the customers payment has cleared, then you can mark the order as "Completed".
    26. Order Processing
      What exactly happens now that an order has been placed?
      1. Automated emails - ASPMail, ASPEmail, and CDONTS now supported! NEW, JMail Support!
        Upon completion of an order, the following emails are automatically sent (these can also be disabled):
        1. Sales Manager Alert; Order details can be automatically emailed to your sales manager, warehouse, etc notifying them of the order.
        2. Customer Thank You; Your customer is thanked for their order, and hyperlinks are provided for access to your Gateway, order details, order tracking, etc.
        3. Actual Manufacturer Alert; Sometimes you may wish for your vendor or a third party to get notification of the order as well. This can also be disabled. This feature is also handy for notifying yourself of an order on your cellular phone or pager!
      2. Automatic database entry; All acquired customer and order information is logged to your database for immediate customer Gateway access, and internal use in your Control Panel.
      3. Control Panel Orders Editor; View an order, edit an order, mark it as shipped, mark it as awaiting payment, assign a new tracking number to an individual item within an order, you name it. Customers are automatically emailed too, as soon as their order, or an item within their order is marked as shipped, or you change its status. Your customers are always informed!

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  3. Web-based Control Panel
    This is the internal Admin Console, that you can use to configure/manage your entire site.
    1. Anytime, anywhere, secured access to your site
      As long as you have access to the Internet, you have access to your Control Panel.
    2. 1-Click Inventory
      The Inventory Control Center (ICC) is your one-screen, one-click product editor. Edit such things as:
      1. SKU/Serial#
      2. Barcode; If your company uses bar code scanners and printers, then you will love this feature! Easily integrate your Pilot Cart database with equipment such as Symbol, Metrologic, Opticon, Psion, Magtek, SOHO, Lexmark, Eltron, and others. As long as the software included with your scanner can integrate with a Microsoft-based database (such as Access or SQL Server), you're all set!
      3. Item Location; Building#, Row, Shelf, Bin#, etc.
      4. Manufacturer selections; Website displayed Manufacturer, and Actual Manufacturer. Also works for Vendor selection if you are a Value Added Reseller (VAR), or for "branding" your products.
      5. Item/Product Name
      6. Product Description; HTML tags OK!
      7. Category selection; Select one or more categories to put a product into.
      8. Thumbnail, and Large Image selections; Web-based file upload also supported.. FTP not needed.
        1. Image Preview included! Automatically preview images before assigning them to products. Also shows what images are assigned to which products already.
      9. Downloadable Item/File selection; Sell digital/soft goods too!
      10. Weight; Lbs and Kgs are supported!
      11. Package Dimensions; Length, Width, and Height fields. Not required.
      12. Quantity In Stock (QIS); Editable, and also from Modifiers Editor. example: We have 3 red hats, and 4 blue hats in stock. The hat item itself, could be 1 inventory item, but with numerous Modifiers applied to it. Why enter the same item more than once? You can hide your QIS entirely if you wish.
      13. Ship Time selection; "Ships in 24-48 Hours", or "Currently on Back-Order", or "Ready for Download", "Shipped", etc. Create your own, or hide it completely!
      14. Allow Back-Order; Should we allow ordering of this product if its QIS reaches zero(0)?
      15. Flat-rate Shipping charge; You can apply a totally separate shipping charge just for 1 product if you like.
      16. Handling charge; You can apply a totally separate handling charge just for 1 product if you like.
      17. Taxable Handling; Apply tax to the Handling charge?
      18. Cost, and Retail Cost; Cost is what the customer will buy it for, but for marketing purposes you may want to also show a Retail Cost. (not required)
      19. Taxable Item; Should tax apply to this product, or not?
      20. Unit of Measurement; [Per] Item, Carton, Box, Pallet, Zip file, Case, Bottle, Oz, Quart, etc.
      21. Sale Item & Discounting; Is the item on sale? If so, by what percent(%)?
      22. Quantity Discount; Buy 4, get the 5th for free. Buy 1 get 1 free! etc.
      23. Show It, Enable/Disable; Enter the products into your inventory/database, but show, or not show, the item on your website.
      24. Related Items selection; Tempt your customers with one or more "Impulse Buy" products. Upselling!
      25. Item selection; ie: "Get a free xxx when you buy this item".. etc.
      26. Internal Notes; Make internal notes on the product. Only seen internally, not on your website.
    3. Pages Editor
      The Pages Editor is what your website template (see IV below) uses, when dynamically generating your website "pages". All page content, layout, colors, meta tags, images etc are all controlled from this Pages Editor. There is never a need for you to upload/download static html files via ftp again! Everything is controlled from your Control Panel.
      1. Page Name; What's the name for this page? ie: About, Contact, History, etc. These page names (example: pg=products), are what the Pilot Cart uses to generate pages and create menu items for display through your Template (see below).
      2. META Author; Who is the creator/editor for this website page?
      3. META Description; What is a good description of this page? ie: This is our "About Us" page, it tells company history, etc.
      4. META Keywords; Besides Description, Keywords are good "Search Engine food". Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, AOL, MSN, InfoSeek, etc use this info to correctly index your website.
      5. Page Colors; Select a color theme for your page text, hyperlinks, table colors, page background color, etc.
      6. Page Title; This is the text that will show up in the title bar of the window.
      7. Page Header; This text will show as a bold header on your page. Where, depends on your template.
      8. Page Content; This is the text and images that will make up the majority of your web page.
      9. Menu Item; If you would like to make the page you are creating a menu item on your template, then just type a title for the menu item and check whether or not you want this page to appear as a menu item in your main and/or footer menus, generated dynamically by your template.
      10. Show in Search results; You can make it so that this new page you have created/edited shows, or does not show in search results.
    4. Mass Update Tool
      View/Update the quantities and prices for every single item in your inventory from ONE screen. Even items with modifiers!
    5. Orders Editor
      Search by any number of fields for one or more orders, then click on the one you want from the following results screen, to access it. Now, from the Order Editor screen, update the order status, select the shipper and service used, enter/edit a tracking number, run a credit card, you name it. This Editor is easily accessible from many other Control Panel Editors, Reports, etc.
    6. Reports
      Getting demographics and reporting are imperative to your eBusiness success. Cater your business around what your customers actually want!
      1. Orders by Manufacturer; View all orders, sorted and page-able by Manufacturer. For instance, if you sell Microsoft products, this will show you all of the Microsoft products you have sold. If you brand your merchandise, this also is a handy feature.
      2. Orders by Customer; View all orders placed by a given customer.
      3. Today's Unfulfilled Orders; View all of the day's orders that have not yet been fulfilled or shipped.
      4. Past Unfulfilled Orders; View all orders that have not yet been fulfilled older than today.
      5. Orders by Coupon; View all orders placed by coupon(s) used.
      6. Taxes Charged/Collected; See how much in taxes you have collected thus far. Most Tax Accountants will need this info. Shows year to date, and past year.
      7. Shipping Charged/Collected; See exactly how much has been charged to customers for shipping, what was paid, etc. Shows year to date, and past year.
      8. Top 10 Best Selling Products; Which products are selling the best?
      9. Top 10 Worst Selling Products; Which products are not selling so well?
      10. Most Popular Payment Types; Which payment types get used most often?
      11. Products on Backorder; Show a list of all of the products still on order.
      12. Products with Low Quantities; When your inventory starts to run low, this report will show you which products are running low, which will run out first, etc.
      13. Show Invalid Orders; Show a list of all of the orders that did not clear for some reason or other, ie: Card/AVS declined, order was canceled, product returned, etc.
      14. Many more on the way..!
    7. Shipping Editor
      This is where you configure which Shippers/Carriers you support, custom shipping (by cost, by weight, by quantity), units of measure (lbs/in, kgs/cm), and your domestic and International shipping grid options.
    8. Categories Editor
      Gift Ideas, Software, Toys, name your own..!
    9. Modifiers Editor
      Color, Size, Style, Format, Red, Green, Blue, etc.
    10. Units Editor
      Bottle, Box, Carton, Case, Gallon, Hour, Item, Oz, Pallet, etc.
    11. Manufacturer Editor
      Who's products are you selling? You can "brand" products your own here as well.
    12. Credit Cards Editor
      Which/what forms of payment do you accept? In this editor, you can use one of the many different credit cards and real-time payment processing options that are included, or, you can even add your own. International cards also accepted here!
    13. Coupon Editor
      Create coupons for customer incentives! See above..
    14. Taxes Editor
      By State, by Province, by Country, you name it. The Taxes Editor in the Control Panel allows you to collect, or not collect tax, based on location, AND set the rate (percent %) for each. Current rates and defaults are pre-filled for you. Postal Nexus, UK VAT tax, and worldwide tax calculation supported!
    15. Global Settings Editor
      This is the biggest editor of them all. Control every facet of your site from this screen. What you support, and not support. All of your website color themes and other settings all come from this editor. See the support article to the right for more in-depth info on this screen.
    16. User Manager
      Edit users eAccounts, view account history, manage your customers here.
    17. Permissions Manager
      Control who, gets access to what.
    18. Pricing Charts Editor
      Multi-tiered pricing! Assign different levels of pricing for different users/groups. You can even require them to login first!
    19. Newsletter Editor
      Edit or delete existing emails (someone may want you to unsubscribe them manually), plus a single-screen interface for composing and sending out your newsletter. Text-only and HTML emails are both supported. Send your newsletter to literally thousands of people at once! Emails sent out can also provide a link at the bottom (if you enable this feature) allowing recipients to automatically unsubscribe themselves. A totally automated process!
    20. Batch Tools
      Almost as cool as the Mass Update Tool, the Batch Tools eliminate hours of repetitive data-entry work!
      1. Assign Modifiers; Assign some/all of your products to modifiers all at once. Update thousands of products with one click!
      2. Assign Categories; Assign some/all of your products to categories all at once. Update thousands of products with one click!
      3. Assign Related Items; Also known as "impulse buy" items, assign one or many related items to products all at once.
      4. Assign Manufacturers; Just imported your old inventory and forgot the Manufacturer field? No problem!
      5. Assign Ship Times; Select one or more ship times for your products all from one screen too!
      6. Assign Units; Units can all be assigned in a batch too! Each, Carton, Pallet, Item, Disk, Box, etc.
      7. Batch Descriptions; Assign a description to any batch of products
    21. EDI Tool (import existing inventory)
      Have an existing inventory or database of products you want to import to the Pilot Cart database? Now it's automated! Use this included EDI Wizard to save you hours of data entry!

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  4. Website Template
    This dynamic ASP file will act as the framework for your entire website, and can be completely controlled from your Control Panel after it has been created.
    1. 300+ Example Templates
      Example Templates are included with purchase, to let you choose a starter design for your website if needed. Customize it to your liking, add your own logo and text, etc.
      1. Copy/paste; Find a pre-designed template you like, and copy/paste the HTML body code from that file into the included Pilot Cart blank template file.
      2. Copy/paste; Add any additional dynamic ASP code you want from our extensive Snippets pages. The more ASP code snippets you copy in, the more of your template you will be able to control and edit directly from your Control Panel. Need help? Just ask! :)
      3. Done; That's it! Your Pilot Cart site is ready to go!
    2. Integrate an existing site
      If you already have a website, and just wish to expand it with Pilot Cart features, this option is for you. Only two steps are required to complete this process:
      1. Copy/paste; Take your existing homepage, and copy/paste the HTML body code from that file into the included Pilot Cart blank template file.
      2. Copy/paste; Add any additional dynamic ASP code you want from our extensive Snippets pages. The more ASP code snippets you copy in, the more of your template you will be able to control and edit directly from your Control Panel. Need help? Just ask! :)
      3. Done; That's it! Your Pilot Cart site is ready to go!
    3. Have a site template designed for you
      Don't like the basic templates? Have us bid you a custom design! We will..
      1. Discuss & Design; Discuss with us your needs for the site, your target audience, preferred color scheme, etc, so that we can design it just the way you want it. Logo design and original artwork included!
      2. Test & Agree; Go over the new design together with us, edit if need be, then agree on its completion. Got questions? Just ask! :)
      3. Done; That's it! Your Pilot Cart site is ready to go!
    4. Create your own
      If you are a Developer, why not create your own Pilot Cart template? All WYSIWYG editors such as InterDev, FrontPage, DreamWeaver, etc are supported. HTML, DHTML, Javascript, Java, Macromedia Flash, XML, ASP, and other content are also supported! We have many different Functions that Developers can download for free now too, and copy them into your Pilot Cart template. Functions such as ShowRandomProducts(), ShowRandomSaleItems(), ShowBestSellers(), etc can be used.

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  5. Web-based Gateway
    This is your external customer access point. Customers login, and use this to..:
    1. Track an Order
      Real-time order and item tracking included.
    2. Check Order Status
      Accessing an order placed will also reveal its status, such as "Awaiting Payment", "Shipped", etc.
    3. Check Order History
      At any time, your customers may view their past orders from your Gateway.
    4. Edit their eAccount
      Customers may edit any of their info at any time.
    5. Download Items
      If your customers purchased digital goods from you, they may download them, and re-download them at any time.

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  6. System Requirements
    What exactly will we need besides this software to get up and running?
    1. Web Hosting
      We all need Web Hosting at an ISP if we have a website. This is where the Pilot Cart files for your website will actually reside.
      1. Host with Scarab Media

      2. Host it yourself; Server Requirements
        1. Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or higher
        2. Microsoft Database Support
          1. Microsoft Access 2000 database included.
          2. Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, 7.0, and 2000 scripts included (if needed).
        3. ODBC System DSN, User DSN, and OLEDB connections supported, giving you greater flexibility when it comes to hosting. The Setup Wizard will take care of this part for you too.
        4. MDAC 2.6 and MSXML4 (free/recommended from microsoft.com)
        5. Coming Soon: Linux, Unix, and WAP (PDA and wireless devices) support!
      3. Web Browser
        All web browsers such as Internet Explorer are supported!

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  7. Specifications
    As you can see, not much is required to run a Pilot Cart. It comes with everything you need. You run the show
    1. ASP source code included.
    2. Example data and samples included.
    3. Totally customizable. Developers will love the new included "custom_pages.asp" tool.. integrate your own application add-ons!
    4. Able to run with any dedicated SSL encryption.
    5. No knowledge of programming necessary. Ready to run, right out of the box!
    6. A Step-by-Step Setup Wizard, complete with Help Notes, FAQ, and a new "How do I..?" section.
    7. Extensive online documentation through our searchable Knowledge Base. Individual Knowledge Base articles are linked-to throughout the Pilot Cart application as well, so if you ever have a question on a specific feature, you can just click the Help [?] button right next to that item for an in-depth explanation of its usage, complete with screen captures and animated walk-through's.
    8. Pilot Cart is a stand-alone application, and will run as-is.
      Nothing else needed!

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  8. Support & Updates
    So if we buy from you, what do we get?
    1. Everything you see above +
    2. Step-by-Step Setup Wizard
      Installation of your Pilot Cart software takes only a few minutes, literally. Click Next, Next, Next, Finish. It's that easy!
    3. Priority Support
      Forum Based & email Tech Support is available free of charge! Developer Support can now be purchased if needed, please contact us for more info on Developer's rates.

      4. Click here to Buy Now

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