Merchant OrderForm Shopping Cart ver 2.5 is a Web Based Shopping Cart. If you are unfamiliar with Web Based Shopping Carts, then I recommend you read our article on How It Works to get an overview of some of the terms and concepts.

Merchant OrderForm Shopping Cart ver 2.5 is different than most commercial Shopping Carts in the way that it integrates with your Web Site. Most commercial Shopping Carts place your Products to sell in databases, then the Shopping Cart manages the products to sell. MOFcart is almost the opposite, in that it lets your Web Pages send products to it. It is embedded into your Web Site's CGI functionality, and allows your Web Site to wrap around it, taking product input from standard HTML Forms data, and using regular HTML pages to Mirror your site's layout in the Cart Screens. This opens up almost endless possibilities for customizing MOFcart for your site's purpose, layout, look and feel.

There are advantages & disadvantages to both methods. For example, canned Shopping Carts are hard to customize, but usually easy to set up and run. MOFcart, on the other hand, accepts almost all types of Form input data, and can be customized in operation and design, but is more challenging to set up and operate.

Merchant OrderForm Shopping Cart ver 2.5 is a package of clean, open source Perl/CGI scripts that are installed on the Web Server that hosts your Web Site. The package has some robust customizing potential, and a long list of features one would expect to find only in the more expensive commercial packages.

With the Merchant OrderForm Shopping Cart ..

• Web developers have :
  • a powerful tool for adding shopping carts to sites they develop
    
    
• CGI programmers have :
• clean, open source code
• built in customizing potential
• a core shopping cart to integrate with ecommerce projects
  
  
• Online merchants have :
• a very stable on site shopping cart
• no monthly fees or product limits
• a customer friendly process, from buying through checkout
• a seamless look and feel with existing site design and layout
  
  
• CGI students have :
• one of the best hands on CGI learning packages on the net

Merchant OrderForm Shopping Cart ver 2.5 Features:

• Clean, Well organized Open Source Perl for Customizing
• All Looks & Functions are 100% customizable
• Modules & Central Configurations for Customizing features & behavior
• Centralized CSS Formatting for complete manipulation of Layout
• Cart Screens are Template Based output (so cart looks exactly like your site)
• Fully Remote Installation Utility (Win32 needs admin adjustments)
  
  
• Practically Unlimited Options & Products info input to Cart
• Operates with your existing Web Site (using standard FORM input)
• Very Nice Pop-Up Ordering scenarios (Javascript intensive)
• Many payment method scenarios: Cards, Checks, On Account, COD,
  PayPal, Gateways, Deposits, Mailing Payment, Call In Payment
• EEC support, complete SWITCH card, complete V.A.T. support
• Unlimited potential for Discounts, Coupon Discounts, as customized
• ARES v2.5 companion Affiliate Program included in package
• Unlimited potential for Shipping, Insurance, Tax computations, as customized
• Real Time APIs for USPS, UPS (where supported by your server)
• Unlimited Custom Fields for Checkout area, Text, DropBox, RegEx validation
• Alternate currency, alternate date-time, alternate currency, numbering
  
  
• Saves invoices to Web, to mySQL database
• Underpinnings for mySQL data integration (if you have mySQL tools)
• Secure credit card Retrieval utility (where gateway not used)
• Comphrensive documentation for Novices, Pros, Students

Plus tons of little tweaks and features.

The best way to get a feel for some of the things Merchant OrderForm Shopping Cart ver 2.5 can do is to play around the Demo Area on this site. The demos have most of the features enabled. All of the features are 1oo% configurable, so your Web Site uses only what you need in a Shopping Cart.

Merchant OrderForm Shopping Cart ver 2.5 is fully compatible with most commercial hosting services running Linux/Unix-Apache. It will run very nicely in all well-configured Linux/Unix environments. The only place I have seen the package have problems is with primitively configured servers, or servers that have configuration problems. Any professionally run commercial service should run the package just fine.

The package requires that your Web Site hosting space has the ability to Run free-standing Perl/CGI scripts (Standard on today's commercial hosting set ups). If you will collect live credit card information from your web site, then your Web Site space must have SSL (Secure ..) available to it, either with "Shared SSL," or as your own "SSL Certificate."

We have a Brand New and very nice Online Support and Information Center - MerchantPal.NET for Merchant OrderForm Shopping Cart ver 2.5. Please use all the Tools and Resources in that Area to begin looking for Answers to any Questions you may have.