Mercantec SoftCartTM Turn-Key Retail Store Prices |
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Examples of pricing can be seen for Web Cycles Bookstore, Web Gift Shop Unlimited, and the On-Line Military Collectibles Shop.
This price sheet is attached to the Web Page Design and Maintenance Agreement and becomes a part of that agreement.
| Shopping Cart Software | ||
| Mercantec SoftCartTM 3.0
shopping cart software (Software is subject to 7.25% tax for Calif. Residents.) Includes Page GeneratorTM, indexing and search software, data collector (forms-to-email) software, and customer receipt module. Single-store license. |
1,500.00 | |
| Installation, Configuration, and
Advertising Install shopping cart software on client's Web server and configure shipping, tax, etc. to client's specifications. Customize flow of shopping system to customer specifications. Set up customer receipt module. We also advertise the Web site to 15 or more of the most important Web search engines and directories, such as Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos, WebCrawler, HotBot, Excite, and others. Does not include search engine set-up. |
400.00 | |
| Web Pages | ||
| Regular Web Pages Requires a minimum of two Web pages: "shophome" page and one other, such as "About the Company". The best Web pages are 3 to 6 "screens" maximum, but may include up to 1,200 words for this price. Photos and client-supplied graphics are extra. Pages include system graphics: masthead, top-of-page graphic, lines, bullets, background, and image map at bottom of each page linking to various sections of the Web store. |
$130 ea | |
| Feedback Form (optional) Allows structured e-mail feedback by use of an HTML form on its own Web page. You do not need this for ordering, since this is supplied by the shopping cart system. |
$150 ea on its own Web page $50 each additional form (in additional to any page costs) |
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| Products (database set-up) If you have your products already entered in a database or spreadsheet in good form, you'll see that this can be very cost effective. If you don't have a database already set up, we can do that for you so you'll be able to update your store in the future. |
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| Convert existing database (tab- or comma-delimited, or ODBC compatible) into suitable format for SoftCartTM. Since this may vary a great deal from one business to another we can't quote an exact price. One business will have their data in excellent order, another's will be sloppy and need lots of work. We bill according to our hourly rate. We can supply you with the database along with entry/update forms, report forms, etc. for Microsoft Access® if you desire, which will allow you to do future updates. | Hourly rate | |
| Design Page GeneratorTM template and generate set of product pages. You may have several templates if you like, such as one for every product class. These Web pages will be found using the site search engine rather than by links from the home page. | $150 per template $1.00 per product |
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| One-Product per line displayed on pages with similar products, generated from MS Access® database. Minimum: 200 products. (Customer will need some HTML and database expertise to update pages prepared in this manner.) | $25 per page $1.00 per product |
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| Install and configure index and search engine software to allow search of product pages. Required for stores with more than about 25 products. | $100 | |
| Set up dynamic HTML product data substitutions from on-line SoftCart *.pdb database. (optional) | $50 first field $25 each additional field |
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| Set up third-party on-line database (such as Access®, Sybase®, Oracle®, FoxPro®, SQL, etc.) to operate SoftCart instead of its native *.pdb database. This extremely powerful option allows you to update SoftCartTM directly from a desktop database. (Optional) | Hourly rate | |
| Convert text (or electronic data from a wordprocessor) into database format. We can supply you with the database along with entry/update forms, report forms, etc. for Microsoft Access® if you desire, which will allow you to do future updates. | Hourly rate | |
| Hand-Designed Product Pages You may prefer several related products arranged on a Web page rather than single-product Web pages. In this case we charge on the basis of the approximate number of words about each product. While these pages are more difficult for the novice to update, they can be a very attractive way to display your products. |
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| Product Page. A page on which to display products. | $25.00 ea | |
| Subproduct. Name, SKU, Price only. Single line for each product. No description or photo. | $6 ea | |
| Subproduct with options (such as color, size, etc.) | $8 ea | |
| Basic Description. Name, SKU, Price, up to 50 word description | $8 ea | |
| Basic Description with options (such as color, size, etc.) | $10 ea | |
| Small Description. Name, SKU, Price, Options. 51 to 150 word description. | $30 ea | |
| Medium Description. Name, SKU, Price, Options. 150 to 300 word description. Figure on two to four of these per Web page. | $75 ea | |
| Full Description. Name, SKU, Price, Options. 301 to 1,200 word description. Usually this is a single product, custom-designed on its own product page. | $125 ea | |
| Photos Photos of products are very important to induce the shopper to actually purchase the product. Unless you specify otherwise, we size them to about 2" x 2.5" each so they don't take too long to download. Prices include sizing, applying a thin 1-pixel black border. Specialized cropping, filling, etc. is billed on an hourly basis. Note that photos for database generated pages are slightly less than for custom designed pages, since less handling is involved. |
For Custom- Designed Pages | For Data- base Pages |
| Scanned from glossy photo print | $15 ea | $12 ea |
| Scanned from transparency | $25 ea | $22 ea |
| Supplied on diskette in digitized form (gif, jpg, tiff, etc.) | $10 ea | $9 ea |
| Supplied on diskette in final form (gif or jpg formats only). Database price available only if filename is included in the client-supplied database. | $5 ea | $2 ea |
| Duplicate (used in a second or third location, applicable to hand-designed product pages) | $5 ea | |
| Secure Order Retrieval System (required) | ||
| Retrieve orders via PGPTM encrypted e-mail. Includes one copy of desktop software and installation on server. Some servers require installation of a separate copy. | $175 | |
| Retrieve orders with secure Web browser from password-protected directory. Includes license to software which allows viewing and deletion of all orders in the order directory. | $175 | |
| Integrated Credit Card Authorization and Accounting Software Input | ||
| Credit Card Authorization set-up (optional). SoftCartTM includes an add-on module for ICVerify ($299). CyberCash capability comes with SoftCart 3.0. | Hourly rate plus expenses (if any) | |
| Accounting Software Integration (optional). SoftCartTM ships a free module which puts order into a formatted transaction log (*.iff) which can be imported directly into Intuit's QuickBooks accounting package. Setting up custom templates for other accounting software will take more time. | Hourly rate plus expenses (if any) | |
| Digital Certificate processing (optional). Some servers allow you to use their Digital Certificate. However, when a separate one is needed, normally the storeowner works with Versign and the Web server to obtain a Digital Certificate for the SSL Secure server. When you ask us to take on this task for you we charge our hourly rate. | Hourly rate plus expenses | |
Note: Our prices do not include Web hosting and domain name fees.