Ecommerce Features
Robust Administration
- Easily keep your product/catalog updated -- no HTML coding required to add, delete, or modify products.
- Entire categories of products (or individual products) can be enabled/disabled with just a few clicks
- Nearly every piece of information about your products can be controlled in the Admin areas, giving you the ability to fine-tune how your products and services appear to your customers. Features and options can be enabled/disabled quickly and easily.
- Low-Stock notifications to administrator when inventory is getting low (level can be configured)
- Content management tool, easily add new content pages
Categories & Product Management
- Downloadable virtual products
- Multiple items can be added to the shopping cart by simply entering quantities and click Add
- Search options allow you to search for products based on name, description, metatags, price, and more!
- Products can reside in multiple categories
- Entire categories of products (or individual products) can be enabled/disabled with just a few clicks
- Scalable from small shops to larger shops with hundreds of thousands of products
- Attributes also support Text Pricing, such as price-per-word or price-per-letter for personalizing
- Attributes can show image/color swatches
- Sort order of products is easily controlled in the admin area
- The Product Type feature allows you to customize information fields and display format for different products differently. Products for sale vs Documents for viewing, vs Music Downloads, and the list goes on.
- Unlimited category depth
- One-Time Fees can be added to products via attributes
- Merchandise Pricing options -- Single and Multiple items can be put on Sale. Sale options include Percentage-off, Fixed Amount off, New Price, etc. Sales can include or exclude product attributes. You can add or exclude a discount from a Special. You can put a whole category or the entire store on sale!
- Products can be marked as Free, or "Call for Price"
- Products can be marked as "Featured" for specific highlighting/attention.
- Products can be linked and/or copied to multiple categories
- Minimum or Maximum Quantities and Units - You can sell 1 per customer, or require at least 4 and in multiples of 2. You can set requirements on a per-product basis
- Quantity Discounts can be configured per-product for varying pricing levels or quantity levels.
- Product Attributes can be added, either as Radio buttons, Checkboxes, Drop-down lists, Text Boxes, File Uploads, File Downloads, and more. Attribute Options can upcharge the price of an item, and an item can have its price completely controlled by attributes. Attributes can be configured as "read only" so as to provide a Features List.
- Low-Order Fees can be configured
Search Engine Optimization
- Meta Tags keywords and descriptions can be controlled at the per-product level, all from the administrative interface
- Automatic detection of search engine spiders
- Intelligent generation of metatags content for search engines
Images
- Popups are available if desired for viewing of larger images.
- You can add multiple images to your products, in small/medium/large format.
Global Ecommerce Ready
- Multiple Language Support
- Multiple Currency Support
- Multiple tax support
- Multiple shipping methods
- Multiple currency support
- Multiple payment methods
Shipping
- Shipping Options -- multiple carriers are supported, including Hold for Pickup, Free Delivery in an area, and most major couriers and postal services
- Shipping Estimator allows your customer to get an idea of their shipping costs prior to checkout
- COD Fees can be added
- Shipping Tare, Large-Package handling to give fine-grain control over shipping services
- Tax rates, tax zones, etc easily configured in the admin area
Set Flexible Pricing
- Showcase - You can set your store up to be simply a product showcase, without pricing at all.
- Coupons and Gift Certificates are easily handled both by customers and administrators
- Customer "Group Pricing" allows groups of users to receive a set discount amount at checkout
- One-Time Fees can be added to products via attributes
- Merchandise Pricing options -- Single and Multiple items can be put on Sale. Sale options include Percentage-off, Fixed Amount off, New Price, etc. Sales can include or exclude product attributes. You can add or exclude a discount from a Special. You can put a whole category or the entire store on sale!
- Products can be marked as Free, or "Call for Price"
- Products can be marked as "Featured" for specific highlighting/attention.
- Minimum or Maximum Quantities and Units - You can sell 1 per customer, or require at least 4 and in multiples of 2. You can set requirements on a per-product basis.
- Quantity Discounts can be configured per-product for varying pricing levels or quantity levels.
Marketing Tools
- You can send administrative emails on most customer shopping activities to various administrators as desired. Email addresses are protected from abuse, as they are not displayed on-screen. The Contact Us page can be configured to support multiple destinations, such as Sales, Technical Support, Webmaster, and so on.
- HTML-style email supported
- Email archiving supported for audit trail
- Administrative activity logging enabled for audit trail -- especially beneficial with recent Merchant Agreement requirements concerning tracking of activity related to accessing customer information.
- Advertising Banners -- show information about your business colleagues and track banner link activity. Banners open in new windows so that customers never really leave your site.
- Newsletter system and Product Notification system
- Customers can write product reviews (approvals can be required by an Administrator)
Security & Privacy
- Secure -- no one but your administrative personnel can access your customer/catalog data
- A verification for Agreement to the Terms of Service has been added for compliance with new laws regarding privacy and disclosure.
- CVV2 card verification number support is available for compliance with most Merchant Agreements. This feature is enabled/disabled in the Admin
- Tight security on password handling, login/logout, and more.
- Customer Access Control -- You can set up your shop to only allow customers access to pricing or pricing but not buying until after being authorized by an administrator. You can restrict them from browsing at all too, if desired.
