Secure Checkout - Detailed Feature Descriptions

A Complete E-Commerce Checkout System

Secure Checkout is a complete e-commerce system that works with all Couto Solutions' Building Blocks that require secure payment processing. With Secure Checkout you’ll have the ability to process secure payment transactions, collect user data, create custom user agreements, and schedule automated purchase-specific email notices to be sent on or after purchase. Your customers will be able to view and print their own invoices and you’ll get payment transaction reporting with export capabilities. In addition, there is also an administrative credit card processing terminal that is useful for generic transactions outside of the products or services offered on your website.

Secure Checkout is a highly interoperable solution that works seamlessly with any combination of Couto Solutions' Building Blocks or Add-Ons to create a world class user experience from shopping cart to receipt. Your customers will appreciate the intuitive design, and you’ll appreciate the time and money you’ll save on support and maintenance.

Provides Payment Processing for all Building Blocks that Require Secure Transactions

Secure Checkout is a highly interoperable e-commerce solution that works seamlessly with any combination of Couto Solutions' Building Blocks or Add-Ons. We knew that e-commerce would be a key component to many of our products, and that led us to develop one highly configurable system that will work with all of our current and future offerings. This unified system provides consistency for both administrators and users alike, and is a major benefit when it comes to managing and expanding your community. Lastly, Secure Checkout is a single unified checkout system that allows you to process anything through it including your custom products or services.

Purchase Once and Use It With All Building Blocks That Require Secure Checkout

You only need to purchase one Secure Checkout per community and you’ll be able to use it with all of the Couto Solutions’ Building Blocks or the custom plug-ins you build yourself. Designed as a generic checkout system, Secure Checkout can have huge cost benefits as it can be used to process anything that implements its simple shopping cart item interface. Secure Checkout is built to interoperate in a non-conflicting way with anything that uses it. Therefore, you can rest assured that any combination of our Building Blocks, Add-Ons, or your own custom plug-ins will work flawlessly within your community as it evolves and grows.

World Class User Experience from Shopping Cart to Receipt

Secure Checkout provides a world class user experience from shopping cart to receipt. Users will appreciate the intuitive design, quick performance, and flawless execution. You’ll appreciate the time and money you’ll save on support and maintenance. Secure Checkout offers complex functionality that is simple to use.

Create Custom Contracts and Require Agreement Prior to Checkout.

One of the unique features of Secure Checkout is that it provides a way to create and manage an unlimited number of custom contracts or user agreements that can be associated with individual items. Contracts can be purchase-specific or for general use, and can include an unlimited number of terms. During the checkout process, the customer will be able to view the contract(s) associated with their purchase(s) at checkout, and will be required to agree to the terms of the contract(s) prior to purchase. If the customer chooses not to agree, they will not be able to complete their purchase. This system works wonderfully for selling services where each service might have different terms that you would like to customer to agree to.

Force Contract Update

The contract management system within Secure Checkout has an extremely powerful contract renewal process. For example, any time you edit an existing contract or user agreement, you’ll have the option to force a contract update for users who are operating under the previous version of the contract. When you force a contract update, users will be prompted to agree to the terms of the new contract the next time they visit the community. This is an easy way to keep the members of your community under your latest terms.

Schedule Unique Purchase-Specific Emails to be sent automatically on or after purchase

Secure Checkout gives you the ability to create and manage an unlimited number of custom email notices that can be automatically sent to users at a specified time. For example, suppose you are selling a renewable membership service that last 365 days. 30 days before the membership expires, you might want to kick off a renewal email. Secure Checkout’s email scheduling system will automatically handle this for you.

Secure Checkout’s email scheduling system lets you create and manage an unlimited number of email notices and email notice schedules. The email notice schedules will allow you to specify which email notices will be sent to users and when those email notices will be sent. Email notices can be used to advertise additional products or upgrades, present special promotions, provide information, and request feedback. Email notices and email notice schedules provide an effective system for consistent communication that is simple to implement and maintain.  The best part about email notices and email notice schedules is that they can be configured once and then used often!

Payment Transaction Reporting with Export Capabilities

With Secure Checkout, you’ll also receive payment transaction reporting with export capabilities. You can create detailed payment transaction reports for a specified date range or provide additional parameters to filter results. You’ll also have the ability to export report data to a CSV file so it can then be matched up to your merchant accounts reports or imported into your accounting system.

Administrative Credit Card Processing Terminal for Generic Transactions

In addition to a front-end shopping cart system, with Secure Checkout you’ll also have access to an administrative credit card processing terminal that can be used for miscellaneous credit card transactions. This is great for taking donations, running miscellaneous transaction at tradeshows, and for charging for things you do not want to offer on your website. Our generic transaction form is yet another tool provided with Secure Checkout to ensure that all of the e-commerce needs of your community are met.