The PateOnline system is a highly-secure, real-time e-commerce system for selecting and securing your Vendor Spaces for the Pate Swap Meet. Available to you 24x7x52.
Also, PateOnline is an addition to our tradition of high-quality Vendor services. You can still call our Registrar to make your purchases or even submit our traditional paper form. We will support you equally well through all methods. Remember, PateOnline still has people behind it. PateOnline is available all of the time, enhanced by a live real-time map of all available spaces, but it is merely to facilitate Pate people supporting you as always.
Have a look and try it out by selecting some spaces and adding them to a Shopping Cart.
Select and Configure Any Available Space
The whole process is shown below in pictures BUT please actually exercise the system. I would like to have the traffic as a final test.
You can select and configure ANY "open" space not currently sold to a real live Vendor.
Also, if you do start and then abandon a Cart, you will see our automatic business rules kick in to release spaces back to the "Open" pool for both the Selection Hold and the Checkout Hold. The Checkout Hold places any spaces in an abandoned Cart back into the "Open" pool after 20 minutes.
The whole step-by-step procedure is shown below in pictures so you know what to expect.
This process shows all open spaces in real-time that are available for purchase. All available spaces are shown in green. The Selector Page starts in the "whole venue" view to get the lay of the land. The map can be steplessly zoomed in/out and panned left/right and up/down. Any available space can be clicked to select or clicked again to de-select (it is an on/off toggle.).
As you select and configure spaces, a running sales total is presented in the lower left-hand corner of the page. Also, a roll-out-roll-in window is available at any time to provide details on each space you have selected.
After the final selection and configuration of your spaces, clicking one button adds your entire selection to a Shopping Cart for review.
You can select any of the optional up-sales for your space order for such things as Car Corral Spaces or Private Portable Toilets. Simply drop down the Item Menu and add items to your order with the "Add" button. You can also change the quantity of the optional items and even delete them from your order if you change your mind.
When ready, click the button for "Checkout" and provide your Billing Information, your Pate Times information for both the printed version as well as the new online version and your payment method. When finished, click "Purchase Now" and your credit card will be securely processed, an authorization code provided and a detailed receipt will be immediately presented to the screen for you to print from your browser. Also, the same detailed receipt will be e-mailed within seconds to your registered e-mail address for your records. As part of the process, new accounts for each Vendor will be created and the Pate Times Online listings will be generated and access to the Member Portal will the granted. It all happens in a fraction of a second.
All orders are fully backed up and time-stamped. We use both SQL-commit and redundant SSD drives for all transactions. Further, each night, 100% of all transactional data, pages and programs are backed up to highly-durable cloud storage.
All data is available in real-time for reporting. Our system features an extensive and powerful reporting capability to create any desired report by us adding a few lines of PHP code to interrogate the database in real-time.
Also, data can be exported in CSV format for use in Excel and/or third-party analytics systems.
The e-commerce processes automatically execute all housekeeping functions like creating Vendor Accounts, adding Vendors to mailing lists and staging all orders for no-hassle instant-view renewals for the 2022 Pate Swap Meet.