Basic 1ShoppingCart Question
Hi there:
For the past year I've been helping client-friends with basic Wordpress sites and with their newsletters in aWeber, CC, etc. and am by no means a web expert, but understand enough to do the basics.
One of these people is extremely hard to deal with and wants every kind of bell & whistle she sees or fantasizes about, but really does not need. She built her website in Yahoo Small Business (sigh) which has its own restrictions & limitations. She has a Constant Contact account as well as aWeber.
She now wants me to "give her" 1ShoppingCart.
I have never used this before but I always assumed it was what it was called - a shopping cart system that allows you to step up from PayPal and have full on cart features with direct credit card use thru something like authorize.net, etc.
But in looking at their website I find it really confusing, as it seems to be an "all-in-one" package that includes building a website, email marketing etc.
There is nothing on their site I see about just having a cart or integrating it into your own existing website.
To be honest, I am not clear why someone would pay $99/mo to just have a shopping cart if you aren't taking advantage of all their features (a hosted website, email, etc).
I just do not want to spend weeks having to learn their system, having to recreate newsletter templates that match her site, with an impatient client who refuses to leave Yahoo, who has little-to-no customers to start with (but believes that having 1ShoppingCart will magically generate them), and who blows her stack at the idea of Opt-In emails, which 1SC requires if this makes zero sense.
Can anyone here explain to me exactly what 1SC offers if you don't need their website service? Are you just using their "cart" and linking it to your webpage? How is this better than just using PayPal? Don't you have to set up an auth.net type account, your bank, etc.?
If there's some explanatory link I missed, please let me know.... I'm just trying to figure out what this is gonna gain her except another monthly bill and another headache for me (LOL!)
Thanks!!!
For the past year I've been helping client-friends with basic Wordpress sites and with their newsletters in aWeber, CC, etc. and am by no means a web expert, but understand enough to do the basics.
One of these people is extremely hard to deal with and wants every kind of bell & whistle she sees or fantasizes about, but really does not need. She built her website in Yahoo Small Business (sigh) which has its own restrictions & limitations. She has a Constant Contact account as well as aWeber.
She now wants me to "give her" 1ShoppingCart.
I have never used this before but I always assumed it was what it was called - a shopping cart system that allows you to step up from PayPal and have full on cart features with direct credit card use thru something like authorize.net, etc.
But in looking at their website I find it really confusing, as it seems to be an "all-in-one" package that includes building a website, email marketing etc.
There is nothing on their site I see about just having a cart or integrating it into your own existing website.
To be honest, I am not clear why someone would pay $99/mo to just have a shopping cart if you aren't taking advantage of all their features (a hosted website, email, etc).
I just do not want to spend weeks having to learn their system, having to recreate newsletter templates that match her site, with an impatient client who refuses to leave Yahoo, who has little-to-no customers to start with (but believes that having 1ShoppingCart will magically generate them), and who blows her stack at the idea of Opt-In emails, which 1SC requires if this makes zero sense.
Can anyone here explain to me exactly what 1SC offers if you don't need their website service? Are you just using their "cart" and linking it to your webpage? How is this better than just using PayPal? Don't you have to set up an auth.net type account, your bank, etc.?
If there's some explanatory link I missed, please let me know.... I'm just trying to figure out what this is gonna gain her except another monthly bill and another headache for me (LOL!)
Thanks!!!
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