How flexible is Shipping?
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texte = In evaluating a client's commerce needs, (for which I intend to useWebCatalog), the following statement was made by the client:>One more thing that's critical...which is shipping rates. I need a>program which offers rather elaborate shipping info/options so that>customers can confirm shipping rates/methods while on-line--including>foreign customers. We'll have to input shipping weights of all items,>including some that are oversize and some small accessory-type items>which can be shipping several to a container. We'll also have to have>UPS, Fedex, Burlington Air Freight Systems, etc. rate charts avialable.>I'm assuming that most of these on-line ordering programs have this>shipping-rate schedule feature built-in...Correct? Again, this feature>is vital to capturing foreign orders.Can anyone comment on WebCat's ability to handle the above requirements.Before I tell him that I can't do something, I need to be *sure* I can't. Iunderstand that the quoted requirements above are very vague, but anyfeedback at all would be helpful.The site is currently seeing around 750,000 hits/month and climbing at arate of 15% every month. Not huge, but definitely growing! WebCat seemsquite fast and capable of handling this, but does anyone have real-worldexperience with stability/performance at traffic levels of a million+hits/month? (It's on a Mac)Please direct replies also to me at mailto:jbaty@fusionary.com , as I onlysubscribe to the digest. Thanks.=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-====Jack Baty FUSIONARY MEDIA
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In evaluating a client's commerce needs, (for which I intend to useWebCatalog), the following statement was made by the client:>One more thing that's critical...which is shipping rates. I need a>program which offers rather elaborate shipping info/options so that>customers can confirm shipping rates/methods while on-line--including>foreign customers. We'll have to input shipping weights of all items,>including some that are oversize and some small accessory-type items>which can be shipping several to a container. We'll also have to have>UPS, Fedex, Burlington Air Freight Systems, etc. rate charts avialable.>I'm assuming that most of these on-line ordering programs have this>shipping-rate schedule feature built-in...Correct? Again, this feature>is vital to capturing foreign orders.Can anyone comment on WebCat's ability to handle the above requirements.Before I tell him that I can't do something, I need to be *sure* I can't. Iunderstand that the quoted requirements above are very vague, but anyfeedback at all would be helpful.The site is currently seeing around 750,000 hits/month and climbing at arate of 15% every month. Not huge, but definitely growing! WebCat seemsquite fast and capable of handling this, but does anyone have real-worldexperience with stability/performance at traffic levels of a million+hits/month? (It's on a Mac)Please direct replies also to me at mailto:jbaty@fusionary.com , as I onlysubscribe to the digest. Thanks.=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-====Jack Baty FUSIONARY MEDIA This issue of the Brain Couch: Filling Vacuum =====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-=====-====
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