Free Shopping Cart with Trialpay Integration
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andrew daum on Oct 26, 2007 in Getting Started, Product Reviews
First I need to give a kudos to Bill Myers for mentioning Mercantec on his membership site.
I had never used Mercantec’s shopping cart in the past as I’ve never needed to use a third party service - always do "one off" single product sites. Mercantec allows you to use their service even if you are selling one product or fifty.
I will not get to much into it here as I cover most of what I would say about Mercantec’s free shopping cart in the video.
One thing I did not really cover thoroughly or in enough detail was using Trialpay with Mercantec. I started to get into it some - but the video started running long - I started to mumble so I rushed it up a bit.
Think about this for a minute though (you will see what I mean after watching the video).
Let’s say you are running an Adwords campaign or paying to advertise somewhere to generate some leads. With all the PLR or Resale products out there you could buy - set it up where you are using Mercantec as your shopping cart selling one of the PLR products - integrate Trialpay as an option - buyer now gets the product for free - you still get paid your money from Trialpay, plus you get a new lead. Sounds like a good model to me.
In the CPA world, they refer to this as being incentivized.
I have not worked out the numbers… but if you had a pretty good converting product - you could really clean up using this model. You are giving the person a choice - pay or free and who doesn’t want something for free? In the video below - I gave the person the option to pay $15 for the product or take the Trialpay route and receive it for free.
I’ve only had the site up for a two days. Actually, I’ve had it set up with the Trialpay option for two days. The actual site has been up for a week or so. I will see how it converts after switching over to Trialpay for a few weeks and report back.
You never know - it may not work with this product - but the model is sound. It would probably do better with a non "Internet Marketing" type of product - say an ebook on curing acne, teaching your dog or cat how to fly - stuff like that. Just something where you are not selling a product to the Internet Marketing group.
Even if you do not use the Trialpay option (but I would test it with something), the Mercantec shopping cart works great - better than a lot of paid services.
Oh yea… as you can tell - I do not have a radio voice. I stumble - mumble - yack and hack like a hick most of the time. It is pretty obvious I’m not a professional broadcaster. So please excuse all that. But I hope you find the info useful.
Let me know what you think - leave a comment below and lets share some ideas - especially on using Trialpay.










On Oct 27, 2007,
Sarah (Check me out!) said:
I see you are selling that one product but can you sell more like where you can add a product then return shopping for more?
On Oct 29, 2007,
Bill Tait (Check me out!) said:
Sarah, yes, you can set-up a complete shopping cart, where the customer adds an item and then returns to shop for more.
On Oct 29, 2007,
Andrew (Check me out!) said:
Thanks Bill… I’ve been running a bit behind.
Besides… who would know better than you how it works.
Andrew