A. Digital coupons are another form of payment and can be supported through SoftCart's Payment Interface. The response is fairly simple. Therefore, it is straightforward for SoftCart to support other payment systems such as digital cash, coupons, airline miles, bonus points, etc. A. SoftCart has a third party application called PriceBreak that supports volume based discounting. Additionally, SoftCart supports the ability for merchants to add discounts at the product level on either a percentage or fixed dollar amount through its Store Manager interface.
All discounts are time bound and can be configured with a start and end date and time.
A. SoftCart can provide a proofing report that will allow the merchant to easily check if the SKU, description, picture and pricing is correct for all products. This is easily implemented with either an Active Server Page or Cold Fusion page. If neither ASPs nor Cold Fusion can be used, a simple application can be developed within Store Manager to provide this report. No additional work is required if HTML pages are adequate for this requirement. The feature allows a user to log on to the system and have their address and payment information from a previous session used for the current transaction.