Ecommerce Websites
Easy Set-Up
- 8-Step Quick Start Guide
- Easy-to-understand, web-based administration
- Bulk loading feature that imports products from any database or text file
- FREE professionally designed store templates
- FREE domain transfer assistance
- Web-based or downloadable help manual with images, video tutorials, knowledge base, discussion boards and more
- Single or batch image uploads
Design
- Switch between Horizontal and Vertical navigation
- CSS/XHTML tableless design
- W3C/XHTML compliant templates
- Easy to integrate with your existing design
- Drag-and-drop layout design feature
- "Design Mode" allows you to create a professional looking storefront without programming experience
- Edit both CSS and HTML via your browser
- Upload logo feature
- Upload home page image
- Ability to select from over 30 different button styles
- Create your own buttons and headers and upload them via the control panel
- Over 100 box headers available
- Ability to change layout, width and much more with a click of the button
- Templates are Dreamweaver compatible
- Our "Catalogue View" manager allows you to select a two-column, three-column, thumbnail double, thumbnail single or text view
- Adjust boxes, add boxes and create advertising areas
- Ability to add your own custom header and footer to the site
- Upload YouTube videos, flash presentations and other multimedia files
- Ability to create an unlimited number of additional pages
- Supports the ability to add items to the cart from pages outside the cart application
Image Management
- Supports image magnify, zoom, lightbox and enlarge
- Unlimited number of secondary images
- Image tags for better Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Upload images via the bulk image loader or FTP
- Generates thumbnails and catalogue page images automatically
- Ability to resize images on the fly
- Change image style globally or at the product level
- Control image placement on product and catalogue pages
- Create photo galleries
- Display/hide images with a mouse click
Search Engine Optimisation
- Cutting-edge search engine optimisation
- Flat URL generation (www.yoursite.com/product/product-name.htm)
- Ability to create your own URL structure (www.yoursite.com/create-your-own-url.html)
- Manage all URLs at the category, product and page level
- If you're moving from a different application, you can change the URLs to match the old URLs
- Meta keyword, title and description for each product page
- Meta keyword, title and description for each category page
- Meta keyword and description for home page and all pages created via the control panel
- Upload / create robots.txt file
- Ability to generate meta tags based on product descriptions
- Ability to modify HTML or CSS via browser
- Automatically generated site map
- Generates XML site map for Google Base
- Valid WC3 template design
- Image ALT tags
- Design generates very lightweight, 100% HTML page without CSS or PHP coding
- Creates "breadcrumb" navigation
- Search-engine-friendly architecture
- Ability to upload customised HTML pages to assist in search engine positioning
Product Merchandising
- Sell both physical and digital products along with services
- Application will create "ghost" URL which hides the actual location of the product and is emailed to the customer once the sales is complete
- Control the number of times a digital product is downloaded
- Sell any kind of digital products including PDFs, videos, music files, etc.
- Sell Gift Certificates
- Create custom fields (allow customer to input text)
- Create drop down selections, check boxes and more on product pages
- Provide discounts based on number of items ordered (quantity discounts)
- Product Reviews
- "Call for pricing" and "catalogue only" mode supported
- Import products, images, attributes and more
- Customers who bought "x" also bought these products in the checkout areas
- Supports discount / coupon codes globally and at product level
- Price-based discounting
- Supports full product descriptions with HTML and product summaries
- Create attributes (size, colour, etc) and manage price, weight, inventory and SKU based on attribute
- Supports UPC and SKU numbers
- Create and assign manufacturers
- Ability to control the product image size on both product and catalogue pages
- Recommended products
- "Tell a Friend" feature
- Create "Buy 'x', Get 'y' Free" discounts
- Best Sellers area
- Advanced product search capabilities
- Supports gift messaging
- Export products to Google Base, BizRate.com, ShopZilla.com and more
- Compatible with iDevAffiliate and other third-party affiliate programs including Linkshare, ShareASale, ClixGalore, Commission Junction and more
- RSS product feeds
Wholesale / Drop Shipping
- Supports up to three different levels of wholesalers (Customer Groups)
- Allows you to set wholesale pricing by product or as a percentage of retail price
- Apply different tax rates for wholesalers and/or make their purchases tax free
- Unlimited drop ship locations
- Allows you to control how and when the drop shipper is notified of an order
- Separates drop shipping products from other products in the order
- Edit email notifications to drop shippers
- Ability to assign drop shippers at the product level
- Supports case pack / inter pack pricing
- Collects Tax ID, EIN or any custom information you require
Customer Management
- "My Account" area allows customer to view previous orders, status and shipping tracking information
- Customer address book
- Allows customers to create Wish Lists
- Send product newsletters to your customers
- Send product update notifications to your customers
- Saved Cart feature allows customers to save multiple carts allowing later purchase
- Automated emails when customer creates order and order is shipped
- One-Page Checkout - fastest checkout available in the industry
- Ability to create custom fields during registration / checkout for collecting Tax ID numbers, referral or any other additional customer information
- Guest Checkout - allows customers to checkout without creating an account
- Supports backorders
- Full customer reporting
- Hide product pricing to all but registered customers
- FREE live chat
- Ability to create Customer Groups and modify pricing by group globally and at the product level
- Assign customers to different Group levels
- Search by last name, username, phone number, email or company
Inventory Tracking
- Product-level inventory tracking
- Attribute-level inventory tracking
- Set "low stock" notifications by product
- If inventory goes to zero, you have the ability to remove product from catalogue or show "out of stock" message
- Control when inventory is removed (at purchase or order complete )
- Completely automated inventory control
- Two-way sync with desktop order management products like Webgility, Store Manager and more
Payment / Shipping Options
- Ability to accept credit cards on-line
- Take orders by phone, fax, mail or without credit cards (off-line payments)
- Ability to make payment page secure or entire checkout process
- Payment Gateways Include
- Authorize.net
- PayPal
- PayPal Pro
- Payflow Pro
- Payflow Link
- PayPal Express Checkout
- Fast Transact
- NetBilling
- ProtX
- Intuit
- DataCash
- Echo Inc
- Worldpay
- First Data Global Gateway (formerly Linkpoint)
- NTPNow
- Shift4
- PSiGate
- ViaKLIX
- Transaction Central
- YourPay.com
- Moneris
- WorldPay
- USAepay
- Pay Junction
- eProcessing Network
- Money Bookers
- Amazon Payments
- QuickBooks™ Merchant Services
- Google™ Checkout
- 2Checkout
- HSBC
- iTransact.com
- Click here for all supported gateways
- Support 3-D Secure, Verified by Visa (VbV) and MasterCard SecureCode (MCSC) via CardinalCommerce
- Supports eChecks (Authorize.net)
- Ability to store credit card information for off-line processing
- Ability to accept payments via telephone, mail, fax
- Ability to set unlimited custom payment methods
- Export data to QuickBooks™, Peachtree™ or other accounting programs
- Sell in multiple currencies
- Real-time shipping quotes from USPS, UPS, FED-EX and Canada Post
- Mark-up or discount rates from real-time shippers
- Prints USPS shipping labels
- Set custom handling fees
- Create custom shipping methods
- Create custom shipping costs by weight, quantity, region and more
- Offer free shipping
- Offer product specific shipping pricing
- Ability to restrict shipping based on country or county
- Manage shipping rates based on country and shipping method
- International shipping supported
- Quick "estimated shipping" calculation - Customer can quickly estimate shipping based on address before checking out
- Provides customer with the option of selecting from multiple methods from multiple shipping providers
Taxes
- Advanced or simple tax features
- Configure country-based tax
- Configure region-based tax
- Provides you the ability to sell internationally and apply international tax rates
- Supports advanced tax structures including VAT, Canada, USA, product and/or category tax and more
- Ability to include tax with price (VAT)
- Set-up an unlimited number of tax structures and rules
- Query sales tax by date
- Assign tax rates to individual products
Product & Category Management
- Unlimited number of products and categories
- Unlimited sub-categories
- Layered navigation allows customers to sort products based on price, manufacturer, category or product feature
- Ability to control product and category order
- Add text or images to category pages
- Export products to Google Base
- Ability to duplicate products
- Show retail, wholesale and sale prices based on the product
- Supports both detailed and summary descriptions by product
- Add "On-Sale" image to the product
- Ability to control products appearing on the home page
- Create "New Items" page
- Select from a number of different product/catalogue page layouts with the ability to change layout
- Supports tax exempt products
- Product cost
- Ability to allow only logged in customers to view pricing
- Use HTML in product descriptions
- Products can reside in multiple categories
- Ability to change product/category order
- Enable / Disable products
- Supports manufacturers
- Upload a manufacturer's logo which can displayed on the product page
- Manage sale pricing
- Supports minimum/maximum quantity in order by product
- Create multiple pricing levels
- Supports downloadable (digital) products
- Manage products in bulk using Microsoft Excel®/CSV
- Import/export products using CSV format
- Ability to control "add to cart" process
Order Management
- Ability to "status" orders
- Add / edit / delete orders
- Displays both order and payment status to assist with order processing
- Bulk edit orders
- Notifies customer when order is shipped
- Integrates with Stone Edge Order Manager, Atandra T-Hub and Webgility eCommerce Connector to assist with order processing
- Add shipping tracking numbers to orders
- View abandoned orders
- Ability to add notes to an order
- Print packing slips and invoices
- Set starting order number
- Ability to bulk status orders
- Backorder / pre-order feature
Content Management
- Add additional pages directly from the control panel ( Contact Us, About Us, Return Policies, etc)
- Easy to use WYSIWYG editor allows you to completely manage the appearance of your pages
- All additional pages are SEO-friendly
- "Closed Store" feature
- Testimonials
- "New Items" feature
- Easily add areas for promotions, banners or even Google Ads
- Ability to edit all emails sent out by the cart
Security
- Hosted cart is PCI compliant
- PA DSS certified
- Allows for database and application to be separated
- Allows you to designate an IP address allowing access to the admin area
- Locks out administrators after too many failed attempts
- Ability to unlock administrators accounts through the control panel
- Tracks and logs all actions within the control panel area by user
- Uses compliant OPEN SSL encryption to store credit cards (if activated)
- Lock out visitors after too many failed transactions
- Secure control panel access
- Full support of SSL protocols
Checkout / Registration
- Select between One-Page Checkout and traditional checkout
- Ability to complete orders without registering (Guest Checkout)
- Allow customers to decide if they want to create an account
- Set minimum number of items or amount
- Set order numbers
- Mandate users to agree to Terms and Conditions
- Ability to enable Suggested Products feature on cart page
- Create custom fields throughout the entire checkout process (ex. How did you hear about us?)
- Ability to control which fields are required / optional
Reporting / Business Analytics
- Seamlessly integrates with Google Analytics and Google Adwords tracking tools
- Chart visitors / hosts / revenue by month
- Creates the following reports based on date
- Top viewed products
- Top viewed categories
- Top orders by product
- Top referring sites
- Top sales by customer
- Consolidated orders by date
- Individual orders by date
- Promo codes
- Payment types
- Taxes collected
- Site profit
Administration
- Create unlimited administrator accounts
- Restrict access to particular features by administrator
- Control which e-mails are received by administrators
- Locks out administrators on too many failed attempts
- Change password reminder
- File Manager allows you to edit templates from the control panel
Currency / Language
- Complete multi-currency support
- Control currency symbol, decimal placement and presentation
- Control weight (American or metric)
- Control measurements (inches, feet, centimetres)
- Set-up custom exchange rates
- Allows customers to view in their currency, but transact in yours
- Ability to add/edit/delete language templates
- Ability to add/edit/delete countries, counties, provinces, states or regions
Marketing and Promotions
- Sell your products on Facebook for FREE using eCommerce Plus
- Drift Marketing
- Integration with MailChimp
- "Products you may like" tool
- Ability to create date-driven promotional (discount) codes
- Global or product level promotional codes
- Recommended Products
- Create Product Families
- Bulk discounts by product
- Free shipping based on amount purchased
- Customers who bought "x" also bought "y"
- Buy x, get y free
- Newsletter tool
- Product Updates email
- Manages bounced emails
- RSS product feeds
- Export products to .csv file for exporting to other sites
- Product API
- Gift certificates
- New Items page
- Hot Deal feature
- Brand (manufacturer) landing pages
- Top selling products
- FREE Live Chat software
- Seamless integration with iDevAffiliate or any other affiliate software
- Create discounts based on amount purchased
- Product Reviews
- Export email list to other programs
- Global sale prices (example - 10% off entire store)
Import / Export
- Export products to eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, Google Product Search, PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, NextTag, Goshopping and others
- Import both products and categories using our flexible bulk product loader
- Manage import rules
- Overwrite existing data
- Add new/keep existing data
- Clear existing/add new
- Update existing products only
- Bulk load images through the control panel or via FTP
- Export orders/products / users
- Select the fields you want to export
- Back-up/restore cart from the control panel (hosted carts only)
- Database management tool allows you to clear log files and more
- Exported data is "normalised" for importing into other applications including QuickBooks, Peachtree, MYOB, etc
- Seamless integration with Store Manager, Stone Edge Order Manager and Webgility eCommerce Connector
- Base API allows you to export orders/customers/products in XML format
Product Attributes
- Gives you the ability to sell items like computers, shirts or other items that contain options
- Create unlimited product attributes (options)
- Add or subtract pricing based on attribute selection
- Add or subtract pricing weight based on attribute selection
- Instantly adjusts price based on selection
- Control inventory by attributes
- Track administrator-defined combinations
- Sell only administrator-defined combinations
- Ability to disable specific product attribute combinations
- Create a unique SKU based on attribute combination
- Create global attributes that can be assigned to products or categories
- Display attributes on cart page, invoice and on order
- Receive "low stock" warnings based on attribute combinations
- Ability to remove attributes instantly
- Create drop-down, radio buttons, text or text fields for attributes
- Assign priority to attributes