Processing an Order Form
Mechanically, an e-mail-based system would simply require someone to perform the duties of a shipping clerk. These duties would include the following:
1. Checking the e-mail Inbox or the Web server order file for orders.
2. Printing e-mail order messages or the contents of an order file to use as pick lists. (continue reading…)
9. Add the order form to the Web site.
Save the Web page to your Web server (click the File menu and click Save), and then add hyperlinks to your existing Web pages so that customers can reach the order form.
Filling out the Order Form
When a customer decides to order an item, he or she clicks the order form hyperlink that leads to the Web order form page. To order an item, (continue reading…)
NOTE:
Your credit card processing agreement may specify how you must process credit card orders. You might, for example, be required to transmit credit card information using encryption. In this case, you can’t use e-mail messages to send order information. (continue reading…)
6. As necessary, edit any of the other button or box descriptions so they better fit your Web store activities.
NOTE:
Much of the text already on the Web order form may not need to be edited, but note that at the very bottom of the Web order form, FrontPage includes some boilerplate text that’s supposed to name the author of the form and the organization publishing the form. You will need to edit this information. (continue reading…)
2. Specify the categories of information you want to collect with the form.
The Form Page Wizard opens dialog boxes, which ask what kind of information you want to collect using the form. Indicate that you want to collect a category of information such as account information or ordering information using the dialog box. (continue reading…)
If you don’t require a shopping cart feature, an interactive Web store doesn’t have to be complicated. All you need to do is create a Web form that collects order information from customers and then have the Web store send this information to a person who will fill and process the orders. (continue reading…)
