DartCart - Turning Customers into Power Shoppers (22028 bytes)










The DartCart™ database is simple and easy to use. For daily operation the vendor need click the "Downloads and Uploads" button and select the number of copies of the current orders to print. It is fully compatible with Access® 2007 and Windows Vista®

Designed by a database programmer with 15+ years experience, the Microsoft® Access® database provides convenient interfaces for vendors to conduct secure e-commerce. Up to
999 categories with  suggested maximum 50 items per category are possible. The database has been tested to 100,000 orders of 15 items on a Pentium4® CPU at 1.7GHz with 512MB  with out noticeable slowing.
DartCart - Turning Customers into Power Shoppers (31820 bytes)
DATABASE

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The database opens with a splash requiring a case sensitive user login for customer data security.
Immediately following, the Main Form opens with buttons:
Main Form
  • Vendor Information form enters basic vendor information for the invoices, server settings, store settings, Metatag keywords and gateway settings for PayPal™, Trust Commerce™, or NetBilling™
  • Add Currency form enters the base currency and other currency estimates.
  • Add Location form enters up to two tax codes and three shipping charges for each location. The Assist buttons makes easy cut and paste work of postal tables for break even and never lose money shipping cost estimates.
  • Add Category form specifies category names, category descriptions and category images. Two options per category, such as size and color choices, can also be specified.
  • Add Product form specifies the Product Identifier, Category, Product Descriptive Name, Product Description appearing to right of the of Detailed Image, Shipping Weight Factor for odd shapes ..., Tax Factor for non-taxable items and the  Product Tag Image for new or discounted items.... The Show Options Button allow customizing category options for each product. The Add Product form remembers the previous option choices for handling categories with repeating option choices. Additionally, the item's Class and Account can be entered for importation into QuickBooks®
  • Currency Table, Location Table, Category Table and Product Table facilitate cutting and pasting data directly into the database from a spreadsheet, Table values can be edited directly .
  • Placement Manager allows full control over category and product placement in the store for optimizing sales and moving inventory.
  • Customer Search form displays matching customer records for First Name, Last Name, Location, City and  Telephone Number partial match.
  • Edit Customer form displays customer records with a Show Orders button displaying all orders for the customer.
  • Order Search form displays matching order records based on up to 15 search criteria. Upon opening the Custom Order Date is set to the current day.
  • Edit Order form displays individual order records downloaded from the server. Accuracy of order calculations are verified against current values in the data base. Order quantities can be edited and adjusted. For credit card information, an option is given to delete it the from the data base for security purposes when payment is received. An option is also given to control the printing of the credit card information on the invoices.
  • Report Choices form allows preview and printing of reports based on date for: Sales by Category; Sales by Product; Sales by Customer; Taxes by Location; Postage by Location; Order Completion by Location; Back Order Items by Location, and Customers by Location. Customers by Location is exportable to Excel and includes future contact. Additionally, Export Mailing Labels to MS Word® for today's orders or for today and previous days.
  • Downloads and Uploads button downloads the new orders from the server and allows selection of the number of copies to print. Next during store generation, Metatags are automatically generated using the: Store Title, Store Description, Store Keywords on the Vendor Information form; and Category Description, Product Identifier, Product Descriptive Name, Product Options, and the Product Detailed Description for the individual product pages. A keyword search file is also automatically generated. A search engine friendly store index is also automatically generated with an alphabetical category list and alphabetical product pages . The store upload is a compressed zip file using secure SSH protocol but is stepwise, allowing upload of individual components manually. Since the server data are text based, they can be edited directly to change item price ...  and the database needs only updated to match the edits on the server.
  • Update Website Pricing form allows import of pricing data from other systems and updating of website pricing without upload of the entire store.
  • Obtain License form allows e-mailing the "Site Code" for registration. Once received the a "Site Keys" will be generated and e-mailed back for registration.