E-Commerce

Exsite Webware has a powerful, full-featured, PCI-compliant e-commerce framework which is available to our supported customers. This framework is build around a financial subsystem that tracks customer accounts, invoices, payments, and tax/shipping rules. It uses a universal shopping cart that can handle any kind of purchase, and any number of purchases at once.

There are numerous plug-ins that can generate sales, including:

Product Catalog: sell from a wide inventory of categorized items
BuyButton: sell a single item, or small collection of items
Donation: solicit donations for a fundraising drive
Event Registrations: sell tickets to events and conferences
Membership: sell memberships to your organization

There is a very simple API to allow other plug-ins to easily add sales to the user's shopping cart, with only a single line of code.

You also get a variety of plug-ins to manage your online sales process:

Pay: manage individual sales and payments
Financial Reports: view reports and sales trends over time; review accounts receivable and payable
Point of Sale: an online cash register to run manual sales
Billing Adjustments: tools to configure your tax and shipping rules
Order Fulfillment: an app to track and fulfill your orders that require shipping, and keep track of back-orders

This e-commerce framework integrates with a variety of online payment services, and is easily extended to include others. Currently supported payment gateways include:

Authorize.net
Beanstream
E-xact
FirstData
Moneris
Paypal

Special online sales features include:

pay now (regular online credit card purchase)
pay later (invoice issued to account holder for off-line payment)
pay in installments (automatic credit card payment plan)
pay deposit (initial credit card payment is taken; remainder paid off-line)
view my account; make an account payment toward my outstanding balance
coupon codes and special discounts
conditional specials (make one type of purchase, and get a deal on another type of purchase)
member-only pricing
customizable receipts
purchase activation follows after payment is received, whether payment is immediate (online credit card) or delayed (invoice)
automatically build contact lists of your customers for marketing purposes
detailed audit history, including incomplete and failed purchases, bad payments, refunds, and suspicious payments rejected for security reasons
e-commerce killswitch - turns off online sales, without disabling anything else on your website

Contact Exware for assistance in turning your website into a revenue generator for your business or association.

Screenshots

Here is an example of the Shopping Cart, with which the customer manages their own purchases:

Here is the administrator's control panel to manage purchases, payments, and accounts: