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What does it do?
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- Caddy is a shopping cart for TYPO3

- You can use Caddy for buying items, for reserving tickets or for ordering documents among others

- Caddy has features like

	- managing of customer accounts

		- creation of an account while ordering

		- archives of orders

  - PDF attachments like

    - delivery order, invoice, power of revocation and terms and conditions.

  - minimum and maximum limitations

    - for each item and for all items

  - delivery costs depending on

    - quantity, size, weight

  - variants

  - a mini cart

- Responsive

  - Caddy is responsive

  - Caddy provides ready-to-use templates for both responsive frameworks: bootstrap and foundation.

- E-payment

  - Caddy has both payment interfaces: the default- and the e-payment-interface.

- Caddy archieves each order in a database audit proof.

- Caddy is using powermail for

  - creating order forms and confirmation forms

  - sending e-mails to the customer and the vendor

- Caddy evaluates the self-configuration and the needed Powermail properties.

- You can configure the colours of Caddy and Powermail by a user interface.

  - Caddy has ready-to-use templates for the colours

    - blue, green, orange, red.

  - Caddy is delivered with a lot of icons.

- You can install Caddy with some mouse clicks:

  - The Organiser Installer installs a ready-to-use website with two caddies: one for reserving
    tickets, the other for ordering documents.

  - The Quick Shop Installer installs a ready-to-use online shop with TYPO3 sample items.

- Caddy has a powerful debugging:

  - The DRS – the Development Reporting System – prompts the whole work flow to the backend.

  - Another modul prompts TypoScript properties to the frontend.


What does Caddy not do?
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Caddy doesn't support features like

- cross selling and

- vouchers