Overview

XWebCheckOut is a XML/SOAP based web service which provides integration and management of the standard e-commerce shopping cart checkout process (Basket -> Shipping -> Billing -> Credit Card -> Receipt) to client applications.

Search for "shopping cart" using your favorite search engine and look at some of the results. Every e-commerce shopping cart solution being offered today relies on templates that website owners have to integrate into their websites. Although every solution promises to be flexible and easy to integrate into any website, you have to ask yourself how much flexibility you really get when integrating templates.

With the XWebCheckOut web service, you no longer have to rely on templates to have the e-commerce shopping cart you always wanted. By simply consuming the web service for your data needs, you now have the freedom to keep the look and feel of your website, customizing each page of the checkout process the way you want, not the way others thought was best suited for you!

The XWebCheckOut web service completely eliminates the need for a data storage solution, reducing hosting fees, eliminating the cost of maintaining a database, while providing all the necessary functionality for a low, flat, monthly fee through a well-established, well-adopted standard of exchanging information - WEB SERVICES.

Some of the features include:

• Hosted & Managed Data Storage - no need to lease/own a data storage solution of any kind; dynamic data without the need for a Database Engineer.
• Language Independent - data retrieval methods return an XML string, data manipulation methods accept an XML string as a parameter; parameters for all the methods are either integer or string.
• Administrative Functionality Provided - as with all web services provided by XWebServices.com, an online administrative tool is provided free of charge with registration. The administrative tool for the XWebCheckOut web service lists all Baskets and Receipts in your account.
• Maximum Flexibility - store only the information your application requires.

The web service URI is http://ws.xwebservices.com/XWebCheckOut/XWebCheckOut.asmx?wsdl

XWebServices.com is a web services portal and applications service provider which provides dynamic data solutions via XML/SOAP based Web Services to businesses committed to a functional web presence, without the capital investment into back-end systems, database administration and application hosting fees.

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