WebGenie Software - Electronic Commerce - Shopping Cart - Online Form - CGI - Perl

Online Help and Manual - Build Catalog

This module builds catalog pages (HTML files) in various formats. You will need the product input files in a text file as in the example file, products.txt, included with the program.

The first two radio buttons determine whether the CGI is to be run from your server or from WebGenie's server.

Please note: Only the registered version will create a CGI for your server, and the use of CGI off our server incurs a subscription fee after the initial 3 months after registration.

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Format for Products.txt:

The products input file can be maintained as a Microsoft Excel sheet containing the following columns. Before using with Shopping Cart Professional such a file must be exported as Tab-delimited text file. An example file is included with program. You can also download one from here.

Cat. No

Price

Title

Weight

Image URL

HREF URL

Description

Choices

Only the first three columns are mandatory.

CatNo	Unique ID for each product. This must be a single word (no spaces) of alpha-numeric characters.
Price	Unit price. This must be a number with no currency symbol and no comma or spaces. e.g. 20.95 not $20.95 or 20,95
Title	One line title. Spaces allowed.
Weight	Weight in pounds. Required if using UPS delivery calculation
Image URL	The URL of an image file to be shown next to the title. This can be a full or relative URL
HREF URL	The URL of a page to be linked to the image. This can be a full or relative URL.
Description	Product description. This can be multi-line and contain HTML tags.
Choices	Selectable properties. Specify each property as e.g Size;Medium Large Xlarge XXLarge. If more than one property, separate them with the vertical bar ( "\|" ) e.g. Size;Medium Large Xlarge XXLarge\|Color;Red Green Blue With the 'Single Page Catalog' option you can have differential pricing for each property. For example, Size;medium=100 large=125 xlarge=150