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Capture - Converting the authorization amount into a billable transaction record within a batch. Transactions cannot be captured unless previously authorized, and authorizations cannot be captured until the goods or services have been shipped or transmitted to the consumer.


• Cardholder - Any person who opens a credit card account and makes purchases using a credit card.
  
  
• Card Issuer - Financial institution (or its agent) which issues the financial transaction card to the cardholder. The card issuer remains unchanged throughout a transaction.
  
  
• Cart Graphics - Cart Graphics refer to the “wire basket” GIF files that surround the shopping cart applet itself. These graphics can be turned on or off through the Store Wizard. More information on cart graphics can be found at the bottom of this page in the RealCart User Manual.
  
  
• cart.html - This is the page in RealCart that contains the shopping cart applet itself. The shopping cart applet is identifiable by its Remove Item and Checkout Button. The cart.html template is the file to modify if you are tying to change the size, shape or color of the shopping cart itself. (Click here to see a parsed cart.html file.)
  
  
• Cart Folder - The folder where RealCart stores the finished pages that make up your storefront. In a default installation the Cart folder is located at C:\Program Files\ RealCart.com\ RealCart\Stores\My Store\cart. This folder is uploaded to your web server when you publish your store. You should never edit the pages in this folder. Only edit your template files.
  
  
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - A method used to attach styles such as specific fonts, colors, and spacing to HTML documents. Because they "cascade," some elements take precedence over others.
  
  
• catalog.html - This is the template file in RealCart that creates the page that appears after RealCart is finished loading. Typically the catalog.html page will be a list of departments. This list is achieved with RealCart Repeat Tags. Changing this template will affect how your finished catalog.html will appear.
  
  
• Categories – See departments.
  
  
• CFR (cost and freight) - Indicates that a quoted price includes the cost of the goods and transportation charges but not of insurance.
  
  
• CGI (Common Gateway Interface) - CGI is a specification for transferring information between a web server and a CGI program. A CGI program is any program designed to accept and return data that conforms to the CGI specification. The program could be written in any programming language, including C, Perl, Java, or Visual Basic.
  
  
• Chargeback - A fee charged by a merchant services provider against a merchant account for transactions that are successfully challenged by a credit card holder. After a charge is disputed and adjudicated in the cardholder’s favor, the transaction total and chargeback fee are deducted from the merchant account. CIF (cost, insurance, and freight): A term indicating that a quoted price includes the cost of the goods, insurance, and transportation charges.
  
  
• Checkout Stand – the shipping and payment-processing component of WebCommerce. A shopper goes to the Checkout Stand once he has decided to purchase the products he has placed in his Shopping Cart. At the Checkout Stand he will fill in his bill-to and ship-to information, along with his chosen method of payment.
  
  
• Checkout Wizard - The Checkout wizard in RealCart is the wizard based interface that appears when you click the Cash Register button in the RealCart large toolbar. This is the area of RealCart that allows you to specify how you are going to process order information including Server and Payment Gateway, Sales Tax, Shipping Charges, etc.
  
  
• Choices – Choices in RealCart refers to optional product attributes like different colors, different sizes, different fragrances, etc. Product options are grouped together in pull down menus. The different items available in the pull-down menus are the choices. RealCart provides for the ability to have unlimited choices and unlimited product options. See also options.
  
  
• choices.snp – choices.snp is the snippit file in the common folder that controls the look and functionality of the product choices pull-down menus.
  
  
• Client - A computer that requests and receives data over a network, including the Internet. The most common types of client on the Internet are computers running browsers or e-mail programs.
  
  
• Clone - Cloning a template, snippit or other file in RealCart is nothing more than simply making a copy of the original file in the common folder and placing the copy in your current theme folder. This is done to assure 2 things; 1.) That the customized file is not overwritten when upgrading to newer versions of RealCart. 2.) That the original file in the common folder remains untouched and available for cloning again in the future. To stop using a cloned file simply rename it or delete it from your current theme folder.
  
  
• Comments - Comments in HTML and JavaScript code allow extra notation to be placed along side the code that is being explained without the browser displaying it (in the case of HTML comments) as well as without the browser executing lines of JavaScript code (in the case of JavaScript comments.) HTML comments are enclosed between <!-- and -->. Anything after the <!-- sequence will be ignored by the browser until the --> sequence of characters is encountered. You can comment anything by simply enclosing your comments or remarks (or temporarily unused code) in the comment tags <!-- and -->

  <font color=black>This is visible</font>
<!-- This will be hidden. -->
<font color=green>This is visible</font>

  JavaScript code can be commented two different ways. Line by line commenting is achieved by placing double slashes at the very beginning of the comment like this:

  <script>

    This line will execute
    // This line will be ignored.
    This line will execute

</script>

  Entire sections of JavaScript code can be commented by enclosing the lines in /* and */

  <script>

    This line will execute
    /*
    All of these lines will be ignored.
    All of these lines will be ignored.
    All of these lines will be ignored.
    */
    This line will execute

</script>

  
  
  

• Commerce Server - A Web server that contains the software necessary for processing customer orders via the Web, including shopping cart programs, dynamic inventory databases, and online payment systems. Commerce servers are usually also secure servers.
  
  
• Common Folder - The common folder refers to the sub folder under the template folder called common. This folder contains all of the shared templates and snippits that are common to all themes.
  
  
• Cookies - Small files that are automatically downloaded from a Web server to the computer of someone browsing a Web site. Information stored in cookies can then be accessed any time that computer returns to the site. Cookies allow Web sites to "personalize" their appearance by identifying visitors, storing passwords, tracking preferences, and other possibilities.
  
  
• Credit - Commonly referred to as a "Refund," this is a transaction that transfers money from the merchant to the cardholder’s account
  
  
• Credit Card - A bank card establishing the privilege of the person to whom it is issued to present it as payment to a merchant; the card bearer must reimburse the credit card company the amount of the sale. Credit card transactions are usually not profitable for amounts of less than $5 (U.S.); micropayment schemes are designed for much smaller increments of payment.
  
  
• Credit Card Processor - See payment gateway.
  
  
• Credit Deposit - The value of a merchant's credit card purchases that are credited to its bank account after the acquirer buys the merchant's sales slips. The deposit is credited. It is not funded until the acquirer gets the monetary value from the issuer during settlement.
  
  
• Crawler - A software application that automatically finds and retrieves information from the Web. Also called a "spider" or "robot."
  
  
• Crypto box – a commonly used term that refers to a piece of hardware which contains one or more encryption software applications.
  
  
• CSI (Cardservice International) – a corporation that processes credit card transactions.
  
  
• Current Theme Folder – The current theme folder in RealCart refers to the folder on your PC that contains the theme you are currently using for your store. To open the current theme folder click the View Cart button then click on the Template Folder Link. Once open this folder will reveal a few files, mostly HTML templates. These are the “Master Documents” that will create your store pages every time the pages are rebuilt.
  
  
• CyberCash – CyberCash® is a corporation that offers a secure gateway through which credit card information is passed to the private network used by all the financial institutions for authorization and capture of credit card funds.