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A unique, zero-risk opportunity has arisen for vendors to sell their goods online to the South African market, with integrated credit card payment and courier delivery. There is no setup cost and you can be given a unique login and begin listing your products almost immediately. Charges are based by commission on sales.

The Online Shop is accessed through the new site www.canoesa.co.za. The site is targeted at the South African canoeing market, including the thousands who race in big events like the Duzi and Fish River Marathon. Any vendors who sell through the shop will be able to tap into this market immediately, since the online entries pass through the site. The possible range of products suitable for this market is huge, including health products, camping equipment, sporting goods, books, media, event bookings, clothing, vehicle supplies and much more.

Should you wish to arrange online sales for anything from event bookings to tractor mowers, and you need a way to sell these online, you may find the new online shop will serve your needs perfectly.

For more information or to get the ball rolling, contact Chris Hide at 083 636 0872.

After 5 months of development, www.canoesa.co.za is now live and ready for the canoeing world. In fact, the site is an upgrade of the previous KNCU site, with much of the same functionality. The existing KNCU site can still be accessed at www.kncu.co.za.

The big new feature is the Online Shop, which allows paddlers to pay for multiple race bookings at a time and track their purchases. In addition, race organisers can easily arrange for the sale of additional items for a race (branded t-shirts, overnight camp stays, meals) and flexibly assign free products to be handed out at the race (with the ability for a paddler to choose options like shorts size as they book online).
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At the point of implementing a shopping cart, it becomes clear that writing your own is a lot of labour. From designing the front end, getting the tree heirarchy to work, integrating delivery, discount bundles, payment processing, order notification and managing speed of access, let alone the whole administrative backend, it makes sense to integrate a third party package.

We had a big problem though: our cart was no ordinary one. It had to integrate into an existing ASP.Net application and support a range of products that required extra logic.  We would also be using a local courier company (using web services) and payment handler.
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