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How to set up your own eShop:
About
1800freeshop:
1800freeshop is the first free eShop with which you can offer the same products to internet users and WAP-users (WAP= Wireless Application Protocol). This means that the eShop is accessible over the regular internet with a PC and also over any mobile phone with internet access! Other features of 1800freeshop:
The
1800freeshop is one of the easiest eShops to set up. Despite this, please make
sure and take 5 minutes to read through the instructions. If
you would like to see how your eShop could look like, you can check out a DEMO
at www.1800freeshop.com
Step
1: Go to the start menu, then to programs and open up 1800freeshop. Once opened
up, you can see the 9 different windows: Welcome, Style, Shop, Products, Server,
Storage, Upload, Marketing and Info.
The first thing you have to do is to set the style of your eShop. The pictures in the Style window show how your customer will see your eShop. There are 4 choices in color. Choose the one which will fit your page most. More free stylesheets/layouts will soon be available at You can also create and use customized layouts. (For more information please consult Keep in mind that you can always check out our DEMO eSHOP also at
Shop:
In
this window you have to enter the following: Name:
The name of your eShop (For example: Charlie’s Gardening Supplies) Fee
Shipping & Handling: Enter the fee for shipping & handling No
fees for orders > : Enter the sum of money from which on you will ship the
products for free URL
back to your homepage: Enter the URL to which the customer will go when he/she
quits your eShop. Administrator
password: Enter password with which you will have access to restricted areas in
your eShop. Products
is a table in which you enter all the products you want to sell through your
eShop. The number of items in your 1800freeshop are unlimited. Below you can see
the different buttons: Add, Edit, Delete, Move up, Move down. Add:
Press the Add button if you would like to add another item. Once the next window
opens, you can enter the number of the product/order:
Product:
this is where you enter the product name. Price:
This is for the price of the product. Picture:(URL)
field you have to enter the web address of the picture which describes your
product. (Example:
http://www.myfreeeshop.com/images/gardeninghose.jpg) Description:
Enter a short but clear description for your product. Now
you can press OK is you would like the this product to be added and cancel if
you would like to cancel the addition
or start over. Edit:
With this button in the Products window of the main menu, you can edit any
existing product. All you have to do is to select that item and press edit. Delete:
Select any item you wish to delete and then press Delete. Be careful, the item
you delete will be gone permanently. There is no possibility of recovering this
information. Move
up: Move the selected product up. Move
down: Move the selected product down.
For
beginners, this window might seem like the most complicated, but the programmers
of 1800freeshop have made this much easier than it looks. Before
you take a look at this window, we strongly suggest that you read our paragraph
on CGI-Servers. Once you have set up a CGI-site, you can set up the server
details in this window. If
you are registered with a free CGI-Server, you DO NOT need to change the entries
in the first two lines. (The fields in which you don’t have to change anything
are “Path CGI directory”, “Perl full path” and “Mailer full-path”. The
next field is “Domain (without www.). Here you enter the exact address of your
page without www. For example: If your page is
http://www.mycgiserver.com/~1800freeshop then you
should enter mycgiserver.com/~1800freeshop . In
the field “FTP upload server
name” you enter the following if
you have a page with www.mcgiserver.com. Enter ftp.mycgiserver.com In
the field “FTP upload directory (full path) all you have to enter (if you are
with mycgiserver.com) is a / and nothing more. If
you do have a CGI account with anybody else than mycgiserver.com then enter your
root FTP address. For more help on that please contact your CGI-server. The last line of field is FTP Account and FTP password: If you are using myCGIserver, you will receive your password by e-mail. The check box “not saved” means that the password will NOT be saved on your PC. The
“Storage” window is the place where you can check, save and reload your data. The last button will restore the default values in your 1800freeshop.
The “Check” button helps you to make sure that you have not forgotten
to enter any crucial or important data.
A CGI-Server is a server which enables CGI-scripts. Most eShops, like the 1800freeshop need such a script to run. We highly recommend that you set up a FREE account with www.mycgiserver.com for the use of your 1800freeshop. It will take you approximately 5-10 minutes to set up your own account with www.mycgiserver.com . For more information about CGI-Servers and Internet Service Providers for eCommerce, please consult
Last,
but not least please note the following: The
1800freeshop is the first FREE eShop world-wide which can be used by internet
users over the PC and WAP-users over an internet-capable mobile. If you would like to test your WAP eShop you can use the ccWAP browser free of charge at Imagine every customer of your store to be able to check out your WAP eShop right from your homepage without a WAP–compatible device! If you take advantage of the free integration of the ccWAP browser, you can make this happen.The browser can also be personalized and intergrated on your homepage. This means you can set your WAP eShop as the starting page on the ccWAP browser AND integrate your own ad banner with it. The customer will then visit your page and can test your WAP eShop over your personalized ccWAP browser. In addition the customer can also visit any other WAP pages right on your homepage. If you would like to create other WAP pages you can use the ccWAP Page Editor at www.ccwap.com
. All these services are FREE. CAUTION:
The WAP eShop should be tested in any case with a regular WAP-compatible device,
such as a WAP mobile. The ccWAP browser might display the content slightly
different from regular WAP devices. Keep
in mind, experts predict over one BILLION WAP-mobile users by 2002 ! Let your
eShop be one of the few which can be accessed over the internet and over the
Wireless Web (a.k.a WAP) ! More about the 1800freeshop can be found at:
After you have successfully set up your 1800freeshop, you can also use the FREE marketing tools of This includes free registering with search engines, optimizing meta-tags, how to create a great content and much more.
Thank
you for using 1800freeshop, The 1800freeshop Team. If
you have any questions and/or suggestions regarding the 1800freeshop, please
write to questions@1800freeshop.com
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DO
YOU WANT TO SEE HOW ALL OF THIS LOOKS IN REAL LIFE ? CHECK
OUT OUR DEMO eSHOP: Internet: http://www.mycgiserver.com/~adnan/ishop.pl?page=list
Wireless Web: http://www.mycgiserver.com/~adnan/iwap.pl?page=list
Other
products which could make your business much more effective: mOffice:
Use the wireless web as your personal office. Access your data from everywhere
in the world. Our
FREE mOffice has the following features:
Access all your data with WAP and never forget appointments. More information at
Q: Is there no possibility to have different shipping costs for each product ? A: As of right now, this feature is not integrated in the 1800freeshop yet.
Q: Is there a limited number of products I can offer over my 1800freeshop ? A: No, the number of products which you can offer is not limited. You can offer hundreds of products, if you like.
Q: How can my customer order more than one product ? A: Once your customer has put a product in the Mobile eShop, he/she can press the"back-button" to get back to the product list.
Q: Is there a possibilty for my customer to enter credit card information ? A: No, there is no possibility for your customer to enter credit card information. The reason for this is that there is no world-wide security standard for mobile phones yet. It would be too dangerous to transfer data this sensitive over a mobile phone.
Q: Why can't I correctly view my 1800freeshop with another WAP-browser (for example: WAPJAG, WAPMAN etc.). A: Most other browsers,besides the ccWAP Browser, do not support the technical features of the 1800freeshop because they are not programmed for the use on Mobile eShop systems. Mobile phones, however, mostly use the Micro-browser of Phone.com or Nokia. Both of these Micro-browsers will support the Mobile eShop.
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