Q: How does the order is processed?

A: You can setup the software to send the order directly to your credit card company or receive by e-mail and process manually.

When you use the default USA Sat SSL CGI form, the order will be send to the email placed on the "General Information" form, and a copy will be send to the customer. USA Sat does not keep any information regarding  any order.

If you decide to use a credit card company or your own CGI,  you will have to make the configuration by using the "Send Form Configuration" form.

Q: After the purchased, are there any more costs involved with the program?

A: No, there is no extra charge.

Q: What are the limitation as far as number of items or categories?

A: The current version v3.2 does not have any limit, however the previous versions have a limitation. The maximum number of category is 11, for each category you can have no more than 33 subcategories, this is applied for each subcategory, they too can have no more that 33 subcategories each.

Q: Can the templates be customized?

A: You can create your on templates by modifying an existing one and saving to the directory "..scs/model". It  is important  that you keep no more than one variable per line. All the variables starts with "VARI=..." or "FILE=...".

Q: There is an extra cost to use the SSL Server to Process the order?

A: No, USA Sat provides free SSL for registered customers. This is a promotional offer with no defined time to end. 

Q: Can it be hosted from either Unix or NT servers.?

A: Yes, but if you decide to do not use the default order processing, you  will have create your own CGI program to process the form.

Q: Can I use my server or web site to process the form?

A: Yes, but you will have to create your own CGI program to process the form.

Q: Does it work with paypal?

A: Yes, there is an explanation on this web page about how to do that.
Click here for details: http://www.scsystem.com/gateway.htm

Q: When a customer places an order, does he receive an order confirmation?

A: If you use USA Sat to process the form, the default CGI will send the order to you and a copy to the customer.

Q: Is there any way to change the default form fields?

A: The default form is generate by USA Sat CGI and can not be changed, but if you use your own CGI, you can make it on any way you want.

Q: Does the Shopping Cart System provide a CGI to be used on my server?

A: A copy of the CGI can be found at "..scs/utilities".
On this directory we have two different CGI. The first one sslorder.cgi is used by the program to receive the information and create a form to your customer, with the customers name, address, etc... and a modified copy of FormMail.cgi from Matt's script, which is a free CGI used to send the order by  email to you and a copy to your customer. Both CGI scripts are configured to be used on a Unix or Linux system or any other server with Pearl. You may change the CGI to meet your needs.