bCentral Commerce mgr - FP plugin or web interface?

[jessup]

I use FP 2000 and Win98SE. I just signed up for bCentral -- some customers
have said that they do not want to shop w/ PayPal, which is what I use now.
My site has a single product and all I want bCentral for is the shopping
cart that they host on their secure server and the reporting system. (I do
not want to capture and send info to them - I want a turnkey system, which
may not be the lowest cost, but makes sense to me now due to time
constraints.) I've applied through them for a merchant account.

Question: Do I customize the cart pages in FP 2000 w/ the FP Commerce Mgr
plugin or do I do the customization via the web at the bCentral interface.
One person at tech support said I should use the web interface and that
using the plugin would be bad because I already have a website and the
plugin would screw up the look. A second tech person said to use the
plugin.

At my site, all I need is a button that brings up the cart with "1" in the
quantity -- and allow the shopper to increase the quant. Then, check out.

Anyone have suggestions about the best approach to get this done? Thanks.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Looks like you should use Site Manager
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297135&Product=fp2002




| I use FP 2000 and Win98SE. I just signed up for bCentral -- some customers
| have said that they do not want to shop w/ PayPal, which is what I use now.
| My site has a single product and all I want bCentral for is the shopping
| cart that they host on their secure server and the reporting system. (I do
| not want to capture and send info to them - I want a turnkey system, which
| may not be the lowest cost, but makes sense to me now due to time
| constraints.) I've applied through them for a merchant account.
|
| Question: Do I customize the cart pages in FP 2000 w/ the FP Commerce Mgr
| plugin or do I do the customization via the web at the bCentral interface.
| One person at tech support said I should use the web interface and that
| using the plugin would be bad because I already have a website and the
| plugin would screw up the look. A second tech person said to use the
| plugin.
|
| At my site, all I need is a button that brings up the cart with "1" in the
| quantity -- and allow the shopper to increase the quant. Then, check out.
|
| Anyone have suggestions about the best approach to get this done? Thanks.

 

[jessup]

Looks like you should use Site Manager
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297135&Product=fp2002

Thanks. That's an interesting lead. Question, though, is whether that is
current. It is dated 8/2001. There have been updates to the FP plugin
since then. And the link in the KB article "For a more inclusive list" of
issues is a bad link.
http://www.bcentral.com/help/SiteManager/FrontPageHelp/. (Since that is a
rather broad pathname versus a distinct article, IMO it would _seem_ that
it would always be good if they were keeping up on FP integration w/
bCentral.)

Anyone actually woking on the bCentral cart using FP -- or tried and
failed? Thanks.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Perhaps it is updated by this addin
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/downloads/addin/searchdetail.asp?a=45




| On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 05:46:25 -0400, "Stefan B Rusynko"
|
| >Looks like you should use Site Manager
| >See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297135&Product=fp2002
|
| Thanks. That's an interesting lead. Question, though, is whether that is
| current. It is dated 8/2001. There have been updates to the FP plugin
| since then. And the link in the KB article "For a more inclusive list" of
| issues is a bad link.
| http://www.bcentral.com/help/SiteManager/FrontPageHelp/. (Since that is a
| rather broad pathname versus a distinct article, IMO it would _seem_ that
| it would always be good if they were keeping up on FP integration w/
| bCentral.)
|
| Anyone actually woking on the bCentral cart using FP -- or tried and
| failed? Thanks.