Secure Order Provider
- A Secure Order Provider is a 3rd party company that allows a merchant to securely accept payment over the internet. Secure order providers include (but are not limited to) many of the internet's most popular payment gateways.
SET (secure electronic transaction)
- A system for encrypting e-commerce transactions, such as online credit card
purchases. Developed by Visa, MasterCard, Microsoft, and several major banks,
SET combines 1,024-bit encryption with digital certificates to ensure security.
SET is still in development.
Settlement
- A process of completing fund transfers so that all parties in a transaction are
paid for their goods or services.
Secure Server
- A Web server or other computer connected to the Internet that is capable of
establishing encrypted communication with clients, generally using SSL or SET.
Setup Fees
- Fees charged for establishing a merchant account, including application fees,
software licensing fees, and equipment purchases.
Shareware
Shareware is software that is distributed free on a trial basis with the understanding that the user may need or want to pay for it later. Some software developers offer a shareware version of their program with a built-in expiration date (after 30 days, the user can no longer get access to the program). RealCart™ is this type of shareware. Other shareware (sometimes called liteware) is offered with certain capabilities disabled as an enticement to buy the complete version of the program.
shipmenu.snp
– shipmenu.snp is the snippit file in the common folder that controls how the shipping pull-down menu displays on the pay.html page.
Shop button
- This is the button in RealCart that displays the store wizard. The Shop button can be found on RealCart’s large toolbar and it looks like it has a tiny shop building on it. It is the second button from the left.
Shopping Cart Program
- A software package that runs as part of a Web site to collect and record purchasing
decisions by a visitor. Shopping cart programs are stored on Web servers. RealCart™
has redefined what a shopping cart program should be.
Smart Card
- A plastic card containing a computer chip that can store electronic “money.”
Unlike a credit card, a smart card can only spend out the dollar amount its
owner has already put into the card account. It's similar in function to a
prepaid calling card but is available for all purchases.
Snippit
- A RealCart snippit is a text file containing a small amount of HTML or JavaScript code. Snippits allow RealCart to be very modular and easy to customize.
Source Code
- The actual HTML tags and JavaScript code that make up the pages you view in your browser while visiting web sites. Modifying the source code and re-saving a file will change how it displays once the new version of the file is viewed again in a browser window.
Spam
- Unsolicited e-mail. There are two common usages: 1) mass e-mailings by commercial
sites to recipients who have not requested any contact, and 2) e-mail sent to
intentionally annoy or harass the recipient, including crashing his or her
computer by overloading its e-mail capacity.
Spider
- A software application that automatically finds and retrieves information from the Web.
Also called a “robot” or “crawler.”
Square Tag
- A Square Tag is a special RealCart tag that allows RealCart to utilize a system of product, department and other HTML based templates to create your on-line storefront. Whereas regular HTML tags are encompassed by angle brackets < and > RealCart tags are enclosed by square brackets [ and ]. These square tags can become corrupted by Microsoft Word and other WYSIWYG editors so take caution when using such editors.
SSL (secure socket layer)
- A system for encrypting data sent over the Internet, including e-commerce
transactions and passwords. With SSL, client and server computers exchange
public keys, allowing them to encode and decode their communication.
Store Wizard
- The Store wizard in RealCart is the wizard based interface that appears when you click the Shop button in the RealCart large toolbar. This is the area of RealCart that allows you to specify your company information including address and contact info, email addresses, telephone numbers, etc. This is also the place to choose whether to display cart graphics or leave them out as well as which theme, what language, how many decimal points and other store configuration items.
Swipe Discount Rate
- The discount rate charged by a merchant account provider for transactions in which
a credit card is available for inspection by the merchant. Swipe discount rates
are generally lower than MOTO discount rates because the merchant can match
signatures and perform other checks for fraud or misuse.
Syntax
- Syntax is the grammar, structure, or order of the elements in a language statement. (Semantics is the meaning of these elements.) Syntax applies to computer languages as well as to natural languages. Usually, we think of syntax as “word order.” However, syntax is also achieved in some languages such as Latin by inflectional case endings. In computer languages, syntax can be extremely rigid as in the case of most assembler languages or less rigid in languages that make use of “keyword” parameters that can be stated in any order. Syntax of RealCart square tags can have moderately different effects in parsing just by changing one or more single characters within the tag.
