Shopping Cart Features
Owners can administer their store quickly and easily from the Web Based dministration!
- Merchant Features
- NEW! QuickBooks compatible. More...
- NEW! PayPal Website Payments Pro compatible.
- Search engine safe and search engine friendly. Control your search engine page names and meta information quickly and easily through our web based administration.
- Support for deferred payments. If merchant has items which must be priced after the order is placed, order may be edited and customer notified, at which point customer may pay final total. This is also applied to Drop Ship orders where shipping cannot be calculated in real time.
- Multiple pricing levels. Set as many pricing schemes as you like and assign any customer to any price level.
- Browser based product and order administration
- Ability for administrator to place orders for any customer in the database.
- Comprehensive Order Reporting.
- Database includes all countries of the world and states/territories (over 3,900) within each country, along with the currency name and currency code. Choose to allow orders to any or all of these countries (or home country only).
- Issue Store Credits (Great Customer Service Feature!)
- "Unlimited" configuration options on a per item basis.
- Price items based on size, style or both.
- Adjustable shipping weight for each size and/or style of an item
- Products may be broken down by main category/sub category and manufacturer, artist, etc.
- Prices may be based on quantities purchased. Allows for, and verifies, minimum and maximum quantities.
- "Multi-Item" setup option to allow customers to purchase any or all of a group of products from a single page.
- Encourages cross buying by relating discounted items to the main item (related discounted items cannot be purchased without purchasing the main item)
- Flexible Shipping Configuration
- * "Live" UPS Online® XML Shipping & Tracking Tools.
- * "Live" U.S. Postal Service XML Web Tools, including shipments to APO/FPO addresses.
- * Set your own rates based on weight.
- * Set rates "per order".
- * Set rates based on order total.
- * Allow "Drop Ship" orders in which shipping is not calculated at checkout. This is convenient if you have items shipping from different fulfillment houses making rate calculation impossible. For obvious reasons, this should not be used in conjunction with real time processing.
- Specify the maximum package weight. For example, if you set the maximum package weight to 25 lbs, and a customer orders six 5 lb. items (30 lbs. total), two 15 pound packages will be calculated by UPS, U.S. Postal Service, or using your own calculations.
- Set any item to be calculated individually by adding dimensions on that item. Dimensions will be transmitted to UPS or U.S. Postal Service, returning the shipping rate for an oversize package if applicable.
- Two additional "Freight" shipping variables are available. One for domestic, one for international. Any item that is too large to ship using your standard carrier, or is restricted by the carrier, may be given a unique "Freight" shipping rate.
- Choose whether to allow your customers to choose a different shipping method for each individual package, or choose a single shipping method for the entire order.
- Set your own "per item" rates, either individually or across the board.
- Handling charges may be applied to entire order or to each package in shipment. An additional handling charge may be set on any country.
- Allow shipping To billing address only or to any address.
- Notify customers of order shipment, including tracking number with link to shipper's website (or to your own branded UPS tracking page if using UPS Online XML Tools) if desired.
- Electronic Delivery. Items available immediate for downlaod on order approval if using real-time processing. Otherwise, you must manually approve the order to allow items to be downloaded.
Any combination of the first 6 items (marked with *) may be used for any country, for Alaska and Hawaii and for APO/FPO (except UPS which does not ship to APO/FPO addresses. For example, you may use UPS Online® Tools to calculate shipping within the contiguous US, use U.S. Postal Service Web Tools to calculate shipping to APO/FPO addresses (and add a $10.00 handling charge for the additional paperwork), set your own rates for orders to Alaska and Hawaii, set a flat "per order" rate for shipments to Canada and Mexico and calculate shipping based on order total to all other countries. No other shopping cart in the industry has this shipping flexibility!
- Storefront Features
- "Save" and e-mail your shopping cart to friends and family to view in "Read Only" mode.
- Quick 2 step customer checkout. (The files under your secure URL must be able to access the database)
- Advanced search capabilities. Boolean ("And" or "Or") searches by Manufacturer, Product ID, Product Name or Product Description by price range if desired.
- Customers may view order status and summary of past orders.
- Works if cookies are disabled. MOST SHOPPING CARTS DO NOT!
- Electronic Gift Certificates
- Traditional Gift Certificates
- Global currencies specified by the merchant may be changed by the customer "on-the-fly". Exchange rates must currently be kept up-to-date manually by the merchant.
- Multi-Level Banner Driven Affiliate Program
- Up to 10 levels deep.
- Increase Top level and/or Sub level payouts on a per affiliate basis.
- Monthly and Year End reports in email and/or delimited format.
- "Live" Inventory Control
- Once a customer places a controlled item into their cart, the corresponding quantity immediately becomes unavailable to other shoppers.
- Item is automatically placed back into inventory if the shopper's session times out or if the customer removes the item from their cart.
- Item is removed on a permanent basis at checkout.
- Inventory control may be disabled.
- Global Tax Options
- Automated US State, County and City tax calculation based on the customer's shipping (or billing) zip code at checkout. Compatible with the file format provided by Tax Data Systems, Inc.. You will be provided with a promotional code good for 10% off at Tax Data Systems.
- Canadian PST/GST taxes calculated properly.
- Worldwide: Set single tax rates on any single countrybased on line item or total invoice including shipping.
- Items are set as taxable or non-taxable based on category.
- Discount Features
- Customer Specific Discounts
- Store-wide Discounts
- Promotional Discounts
- Bankable "Web Bucks". Issue X number of Web Bucks for every X number of dollars spent, encouraging return shopping. Web Bucks may be cashed in with any future purchase or allowed to accumulate. Web Bucks may be changed to reflect your products. For example, if you sell pet supplies, you could change the name to "Doggie Dollars."
- Real-time credit card processors supported:
These are the most widely used payment gateways. If your current credit card processor is not listed, please contact us for a quote.
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