An overview of CD-Rom Publication
EROL can be published to CD-ROM in addition to being published to the web. This can provide your customers with the ability to browse your store offline - meaning quicker and cheaper access to your products.

Other benefits include:
- Include large multi-media files such as sound and video to your which would be unsuitable for the web.
- Publish your store to CD-ROM business cards or custom-shaped CD-ROMs
- Faster browsing for customers
- Connection to the Internet only to send orders

Publishing your store onto a CD-Rom

To publish your store to CD-ROM:
1. Make a copy of all web based files (i.e. *.html, *.gif and *.jpg files) in the root of EROL as well as a copy of the 'images' folder.
2. Burn the copied data onto CD
3. Run erol.html to launch your store

Alert your customers to price changes
EROL's Order Verification script will cross check any orders made from a CD-ROM store, and alert the customer - when they submit their order - that the prices of the goods purchased have changed. The script will display the new prices.

If the customer agrees with the new prices, they can continue with the purchase. If they disagree they can go back to the store and change their order.

In order for the Order Verification to operate, you must:
a) Have an online version of your store where price changes can be uploaded to
b) Input the path to your CGI-bin in Host Details

It is not recommended to publish your store to CD-Rom if the above to criteria are not met.