VS Cart Pro, e-commerce solution from VerticalSoft provides your business with everything you need to set up a complete business website to sell your services/products online.
VS Cart Pro provides a range of flexible options for small and medium sized businesses to develop and manage sophisticated, high volume e-commerce sites. All VS Cart Pro Business applications build on the comprehensive features linked to your Exchequer Software solution, with additional advanced functionality in the areas of marketing and customer management. The back-office integration is designed to provide enhanced value and service for customers and greater efficiency for your business.
VS Cart Pro comes as a packaged solution with services added to provide you with the exact solution your business requires. We recognise that all businesses have different requirements and VS Cart Pro is designed to give you competitive flexibility, not standardised structure like some of it’s competitor product offerings.
This document is designed to give you an introductory understanding
of VS Cart Pro capabilities. Ideally a face to face meeting should follow
to discuss your specific business requirements to ensure you choose
the right solution in order for your business to receive the huge benefits
of on-line trading.
VS Cart Pro Features
VS Cart Pro with Exchequer allows you to replicate your Exchequer Stock and Order processing processes on the internet.
Allowing on-line functionality looking at all pre-set discounting structures, i.e. customer quantity break, product group and special offers.
Allowing your existing and established customers to trade with you B2B (Business to Business) and/or allow consumers to visit your website and make one off purchases B2C (Business to Consumer).
VS Cart Pro can be demonstrated to you in a real web environment, please take the time to see this with VerticalSoft along with the information provided below.
Exchequer Stock Discount Structure
As you can see from these sample screens for both Exchequer and the VS Cart Pro demonstration website, the full quantity discount structure is displayed, the website show’s the discounted values but can be configured to just show the percentages as seen within Exchequer.
B2B with VS Cart Pro
The Business to Business solution with VS Cart Pro enables your customers to register for their own account on your website; they are given their own log-in where they can view their own prices / discounts, this is like your customers seeing your Exchequer system on-line, as an end user would see in Exchequer within your work place, remembering that you have full control over what your customers are able to view.
B2B Features
- Orders placed on your website are received dynamically into Exchequer, real time / immediate updates with no need to re-key. Orders are placed onto the Exchequer daybook, awaiting review and process / fulfilment.
- Stock levels, you have the ability to decide what you want your customers to see about your real-time stock, stock description, prices and possibly availability. Not all users of VS Cart Pro want to display availability of stock, but the decision on whether to is available.
- The frequency of synchronisations between VS Cart Pro and Exchequer are decided by you depending on your preferences and IT Infrastructure; this offers a live stock solution.
- Order Confirmation; depending on your relationship with your customer, VS Cart Pro will design order confirmations relaying back the details of their order placed, plus any further information related and required for your specific customers.
B2B Benefits
- More efficient service to your customers for processing orders; orders received and confirmed at any time 24/7.
- Competitive against your competition, trading on-line is now an expectation for some customers especially in the retail environment.
- Fully integrated with your back office Exchequer solution, thus no costly integration work required.
- Flexibility of what information is made available on your web-site.
- Ease of use and maintenance, giving you the ability to self-manage your fully integrated VSWeb Web solution if you prefer.
Exchequer Stock Tree
The built in stock tree within Exchequer is directly replicated on your website, of course you can decide what stock groups or products are displayed by selecting the appropriate option directly within Exchequer.
B2C with VS Cart Pro
The Business to Consumer solution with VS Cart Pro offers a retail web solution, where new and previous known customers can register and purchase from you real time.
B2C Features
- New customers detail can be stored for marketing purposes giving you a CRM marketing database.
- On-line payments; integrated to a number of key on-line payment systems, examples being Paypal, Protx, SECPay and WorldPay.
- B2C orders are acknowledged with email confirmation to your customer and to your sales / order processing department and can be stored in Exchequer as an outstanding order, or fully processed as an order/invoice with receipt, depending on your preferences on receiving and acknowledgement of payment.
B2C Benefits
- Bringing new customers to your business through the power of the Internet.
- Maintaining consumer data in order for you to market these customers of future offerings your business may be able to offer them for repeat business. This is known as CRM data capture through the website.
- Live update into Exchequer as orders received.
- Automated Order and Payment acknowledgement by email.
- Flexible payment options with well known parties, hugely reducing your credit control function.
Stock / Products
These sample screens taken from our Exchequer demonstration company show how information is displayed on the website. The stock item below has had its web indicator set to ‘no’, this item will not be displayed on the website. You can decide which products or groups will be made available on your website.
Customers
These sample screens taken from our Exchequer demonstration company show how information is displayed on the website, the above customer has its On Web set to ‘Yes’ to show it’s available on the website including their website login password.
Bringing it all together with VS Cart Pro
Your website and Exchequer are seamlessly integrated together by VS Cart Pro unique Synchronisation service which is installed and configured to run from your server or workstation, the only stipulation is that you have a permanent internet connection for the synchronisation to run. This service sits in the task bar and maintains the state between the remote website and Exchequer.
Synchronisation Service
Sync service sleeping in the windows taskbar waiting until the next update.
Synchronisation Interval
The synchronisation service can be configured to run on specific days and times allowing you to suspend syncing until an Exchequer backup has been completed.
Exchequer Defaults
Default company, location, cost centre and department setup within the master sync settings
VS Cart Pro Built In Image Processor
The VS Cart Pro synchronisation service now includes an image processor, each time the synchronisation service runs the image processor scans a designated directory locally, or on a network share for images. If images are found then the script processes the images and automatically uploads to the website.
Image Processor
Image processing scripts.
Processing Script Settings
As you can see from the above scripts the system will automatically scan a local folder i.e. C:\Webimages, then processes each image it finds 3 times. First it will resize the image to a maximum height/width of 300 pixels and upload as a JPG file to a large image folder on the website. Secondly it will re-process the image for a 150 pixel max height/width image and upload to a medium folder, then finally re-process one more time and upload as a thumb GIF file then the image will be removed locally.
There is no limit to the number of image processing scripts/sequences.