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Cart66 Lite 1.0
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Cart66 Lite Overview
Cart66 Lite is a free WordPress shopping cart plugin that will easily convert any
WordPress site, regardless of what theme you are using, into a fully functioning, search
engine friendly e-commerce website.
Cart66 Lite is packed with functionality providing powerful e-commerce features while
still maintaining the flexibility of design and presentation inherent with WordPress.
Cart66 Lite is built around the idea that WordPress already has great content
management functionality and anything that is not already part of WordPress such as
image galleries, slide shows, and embedding videos can easily be added with high
quality plugins that are already available. The Cart66 Lite WordPress shopping cart
plugin brings e-commerce functionality into WordPress. Cart66 Lite does not force you
into any sort of product display layout. You simply place "Add To Cart" buttons on any
page or post wherever you want them. Cart66 Lite handles keeping track of product
prices, promotions, shipping rates, and order management and leaves you free to
design your online store however you like.
Managing Products
Of course the main purpose of having an e-commerce website is to sell products.
Cart66 Lite let's you sell physical products, such as headphones, that require shipping,
digital products, like your own MP3s or PDF files, delivered as downloads, or services,
like WordPress template customization, that don't require any delivery at all.
Digital Products
If you are selling a digital product you will either upload the digital file through the Cart66
Lite admin panel or FTP the file to your server. You will specify the folder on your server
that you want to use for storing your digital products in the Settings panel of Cart66 Lite.
If you choose to FTP the file into your products folder, then you just specify the name of
the file, not the entire path to the file, in the "File name" field. You then may also specify
a limit to the number of times the product may be downloaded by your buyer.
Digital Products Folder
We suggest that you use a folder on your server that is not directly accessible by a web
browser as the folder where you store your digital products. For example, suppose the
root directory of your website is located at /home/mysite/public_html we would suggest
storing your products in a folder such as /home/mysite/products so that people cannot
link directly to your digital product file. This give Cart66 Lite complete control over the
delivery of your product, preventing people from being able to download the product
without paying or download the product more times than you allow.
Product Variations
Cart66 Lite let's you specify product variations. So if you are selling t-shirts you
customers can select what size and color they would like using drop down menus on
your website. You can even specify product options that change the price of the product.
For example, if you are selling t-shirts, you may want to charge and extra $2.00 of the
XXL size. Or perhaps, you are selling headphones and you want to reduce the normal
price of a set of headphones by $10.00 because you have an open box or refurbished
set of headphones. You can specify up to two groups of product options with as many
options in each group as you like.
Custom Fields
Cart66 Lite allows you to collect information from your user to customize the product
they are buying by letting you include a free form text field associated with your product.
Suppose you are selling a product that can be engraved upon and you want to let your
customer specify what they want engraved. You can include either a single line or a
multi-line free form text field along with an explanation of what you want your customer
to type into the field.
Promotions
You can run either dollar off or percentage off promotions with Cart66 Lite. Simply enter
in a promotion code, specify either a dollar off amount or a percentage off amount and,
if you like, set a minimum order amount that must be reached before the promotion can
be applied. The promotion applies to the entire cart amount, not including shipping.
Promotion codes, also known as coupon codes are entered by your customer in the
shopping cart. For example, you can have a coupon code that gives your customers
$10 off any order greater than $50. You may have as many promotion codes as you
like.
Shipping
Cart66 Lite let's you specify as many shipping methods as you like. You can set default
shipping rates for each of the shipping methods you create. You can specify specific
shipping prices for each product. Shipping prices may also be specified based on the
total value of the shopping cart..
Shipping Methods And Default Shipping Rates
Cart66 Lite let's you set up as many different shipping methods as you like. For each
shipping method, you specify a default rate and a default bundle rate. The default rate is
what you charge to ship the first item your customer buys. The default bundle rate is
what you charge to ship each additional product. Because you can bundle two products
together into the same box, you can save on shipping costs.
Suppose you sell headphones, and you ship them via FedEx Ground. You may specify
the default rate as $8.00 and the default bundle rate as $4.00. So if you customer buys
1 set of headphones it costs $8.00 to ship them. If they buy two sets of headphones,
you can ship both headphones in the same box so it only costs $12.00 to ship the two
sets of headphones ($8.00 for the first set + $4.00 for the second set)
Shipping Prices For Each Product
If all your products are roughly the same size and weight you may be satisfied charging
the same shipping prices for all the products in your store. For example, if all you sell is
t-shirts, since all your t-shirts are basically the same size and weight, you probably don't
need to bother setting specific shipping prices for each individual t-shirt. If, on the other
hand, you sell t-shirts, guitars, and amplifiers you probably should set up shipping prices
for each of the different products. Amplifiers are much bigger and heavier than t-shirts
and cost much more to ship. Cart66 Lite let's you define a shipping rate and a shipping
bundle rate for each product in your store. Just like with the default rates, the shipping
rate is the rate you charge for the first item and the shipping bundle rate is the rate you
charge for each additional item.