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Shopping cart features in the latest version of ProductCart
Our shopping cart software contains hundreds of advanced ecommerce features. We invite you to compare our ecommerce software to other shopping carts, regardless of the price. You will quickly realize that ProductCart provides a number of unique ecommerce features that are simply not available in other shopping carts.
For an in-depth look at the hundreds of ecommerce features provided by ProductCart, you can download the ProductCart User Guide, a 320+ page manual that will give you a good idea about the numerous features in our cart.
Shopping
Cart Setup
- Nothing to install on the Web server. All you need to do is transfer a directory containing all ProductCart files to your server via FTP.
- Unlike most other shopping carts, ProductCart includes an intuitive, Wizard-style setup utility that will guide you step by step through the process of getting our ecommerce system up and running on your Web site. Among other things, the Wizard performs a number of checks on your Web server (e.g. is the database connection string valid? Have folder permissions been setup correctly?).
- Inexpensive setup service. If you would rather have us install and activate the shopping cart for you, simply select that option when you purchase ProductCart. It's only $50. You send us information about your Web hosting account and we get everything ready for you. Then all you have to do is log into the ProductCart Control Panel and start using your online store.
- Seamlessly integrate your ProductCart online store with your existing Web site design. All store pages are based on two files that you can create in less than 5 minutes.
- Perform a complete store setup in just a few hours.
- Easily configure all store settings using your browser.
- Manage every aspect of your store using ProductCart's password protected, intuitive Control Panel.
- Support for multiple database connections (DSN and DSN-less).
- Support for multiple e-mail components (CDONTS, CDOSYS, JMail, Persist ASP Mail, ServerObjects ASP, Mail Bamboo SMTP).
- Developer's corner to assist ASP developers in customizing their ProductCart-powered online store.
- Full ~280 page User Guide.
General store settings
- Turn your entire ecommerce store on/off with one click. Show a custom message when store is turned off.
- Upload company logo for use with store invoices.
- Turn your ecommerce store into a product catalog (no purchasing) with one click.
- Only allow wholesale customers to purchase (retail customers can only browse the catalog).
- Set general order properties:
- Minimum order amount for retail customers
- Minimum order amount for wholesale customers
- Maximum number of products for each order
- Maximum number of units for each product within an order
- Change the starting order number (so the first customers don't feel uncomfortable)
- Set currency and date format:
- Currency Sign (e.g. $, EUR, etc.)
- Decimal Format: 1,234,567.89 or 1.234.567,89
- Date Format: MM/DD/YY or DD/MM/YY
- Specify whether to use pounds and ounces or Kilograms and grams.
- Specify here whether or not your store uses SSL. Customers are directed to the secure pages for payment processing after they verify their order during the check out process.
- Inventory settings:
- Set whether to show inventory data (units in stock) on the product details page
- Set whether customer can purchase out of stock items or not
- Enable/disable a customizable "out of stock" message
- Set whether to disregard general inventory settings on a product by product basis (e.g. 8 out of 100 products can be purchased even if they are out of stock, the others cannot).
- Enable/disable "wish list" (allows customers to store in a virtual "wish list" items that they might want to purchase at a later time)
- Enable/disable "Tell a Friend" feature. When the Reward Points system is activated, customers can earn discounts and free products by referring other customers.
- Set store home page (use default page, or define your own)
- Upload custom store buttons & icons. Automatically restore default store buttons & icons.
- Allow customers to sign up for your store newsletter
- Enable/disable referrer drop-down menu and add custom menu items (e.g. Where did you find us?). Make it a required selection or not.
- Edit records shown in the "State" and "Country" drop-down menus throughout the store.
- Add custom checkout fields to collect special customer information (e.g. What is your tax ID? What is your account number? Etc.).
- Setup additional Control Panel users with limited access to the administration console.
- Change the administrator's user name and password.
- Generate HTML links to place in any Web page that you want to link to the store (link to the catalog, a product, search, etc.).
Display settings
- Fully customizable graphical interface, store buttons and store icons. It's easy to create a professionally looking ecommerce store that merges seamlessly with the rest of your Web site.
- Easily change font type, size and colors store wide
- Choose from a variety of product display settings:
- Display items horizontally, with images
- Display items vertically, with or without images
- Display items vertically, without images, under a large category image with or without the ability to add multiple products to the shopping cart from one page.
- Set the number of products per row and rows per page.
- Set a default ordering criteria (part number, name, high price, low price).
- Set the exact order in which products should be displayed in any category.
- Let customers easily reorder products by part number, name, high price, or low price.
- Decide whether to show category images or not.
- Set the number of categories per row and rows per page.
- Set the order in which categories should be displayed.
- Show category descriptions that support HTML tags. A different category description can be shown depending on whether a category is displaying a list of subcategories or a list of products.
- Show short product descriptions when customers are browsing the store, then longer descriptions on the product details page. Separate short and long description on the product details page.
Email settings
- Change e-mail component at any time. ProductCart supports: CDONTS, CDOSYS, JMail, Persist ASP Mail, ServerObjects ASP, Mail Bamboo SMTP. Enter the SMTP server address. The shopping cart setup Wizard will automatically detect which e-components are available on the Web server hosting your ecommerce store.
- Specify the store administrator's e-mail address and 'From' e-mail address
- Specify whether you wish to receive an e-mail whenever a new customer registers with the store
- Edit 'Order Received' e-mail
- Edit 'Order Confirmation' e-mail
- Edit 'Order Shipped' e-mail
- Edit 'Order Cancelled' e-mail
- Easily use any of the following variables in the e-mail messages automatically sent by ProductCart:Your Company Name, Company's URL, Today's Date, Customer's Full Name, Order ID, Order Date.
- Add additional information to the confirmation email sent when a Downloadable Product is purchased (e.g. product specific installation instructions for different software applications).
- Send HTML or Text messages to targeted, opted-in customer lists through the Newsletter Wizard. Test a message before sending it. Save previously sent messages and customer lists.
Product catalog features
- MS Access or SQL database (no extra charge for SQL version).
- Add unlimited products & product categories to your store catalog.
- Import a CSV or MS Excel file to quickly populate the product database. A Wizard-style import utility guides you step by step through the field mapping process. Update a large number of products at once by appending or updating data to the database using the import feature.
- Import updated product information by appending data to the existing store database. The Import Wizard allows you not only to import new product database, but also update existing records (e.g. import new pricing information for 400 products already in the database).
- Build a category tree and assign products to multiple categories while importing product information.
- Easily undo the last product import/update.
- Let Product Wizard help you add new products step by step.
- Specify up to 3 images per product (thumbnail, standard, detailed).
- Automatically link the standard image to the detailed image, which pops up in a new browser window on the product details page, automatically resized to the image's height and width.
- Upload product images to your Web server right from ProductCart.
- Automatically resize uploaded images to quickly create the three product images mentioned above from one source image file (requires AspJPEG by Persists on the server).
- Specify retail and wholesale price. Easily set the wholesale price for all or groups of products as a percentage of the retail price using the new Global Changes feature.
- Automatically show savings compared to list price (list price is shown stricken through).
- Enhance your product description with HTML tags using the built-in HTML editor.
- Easily assign a product to multiple categories and edit existing assignments.
- Make a product tax-exempt.
- Assign free shipping to a product. Select whether or not to show a free shipping message.
- Set products as 'not for sale' and enter a custom message to display (e.g. 'coming soon').
- Inactivate products without having to delete them.
- Clone existing products to quickly add similar products.
- Create and easily manage a multi-tier category structure.
- Add up to 2 images per category (thumbnail, large).
- Add category descriptions with HTML tags using the built-in HTML editor.
- Show a different category description depending on whether the category is displaying subcategories or products within the category.
- Set the order in which categories are displayed in the store.
- Easily add product options (e.g. size, color, etc.)
- Assign positive and negative prices (e.g. add $30 or subtract $18) to product options.
- Create separate option pricing for retail and wholesale buyers.
- Make an option required (e.g. customer must choose a "size").
- Keep and manage product inventory. ProductCart automatically updates inventory levels when an order is processed, and reinstates previous inventory levels when the same order is cancelled or returned.
- Set specific products to ignore general inventory settings (e.g. a specific product can be ordered even if out of stock, the others can't).
- Prevent customers from ordering more than the stock level for a product.
- Cross-sell products on product details page and/or shopping cart page.
- Easily setup cross-selling relationships among products.
- Turn cross-selling on/off store wide with one click.
- Custom input fields to allow customers to enter information as they order an item (e.g. initials to be embroidered on a polo shirt, or message for a greeting card). Enter up to 3 custom input fields per product. Make a custom input field required or not.
- Create custom search fields that automatically add filters to the search page (e.g. the product field "Year" in a wine store). Enter up to 3 custom search fields per product.
- Quickly update product attributes on multiple products at once using the powerful Global Changes feature.
- Easily locate a product for editing, even if your store has hundreds of products.
- Associate a product with a brand and let your customers browse the store by brand. Easily choose whether to show brand information and brand logos on the store.
- Securely sell downloadable products. Hide the download URL, make the URL expire, deliver license information with the download link (e.g. a serial number required for installation). Easily integrate a custom license generator with the system.
Specials and discounts
- Easily set a product as a "Special" or "Featured" item
- Specials automatically appear on a "Specials" page
- Featured items automatically appear on the store's home page
- Assign $ or % quantity discounts to any product. Choose whether the discount should apply to product options too or not (assuming the option changes the product's unit price).
- Set different discount values for retail and wholesale customers.
- Create unlimited discounts by code (coupons)
- Apply multiple restrictions to discounts by code
- expiration date
- $ or % discount
- one time only
- quantity restrictions (e.g. applies when you buy more than..)
- weight restrictions
- order amount restrictions
- New: Reward Points system now included. What used to be a $245 add-on to ProductCart is now part of the standard version. Contact us to learn more about this great Internet marketing tool, which can help you significantly increase customer loyalty on your store.
Shipping options
ProductCart features a completely
redesigned shipping component. Our ecommerce software is one of the
few shopping carts that integrate the UPS OnlineŽ Tools (UPS Tracking,
UPS Rates & Service Selection). ProductCart was officially approved
by UPS in May of 2003. The system includes a Wizard-style setup utility
that makes configuring shipping options quick and easy.
Our storefront software also offers the ability for customers to preview shipping charges from the shopping cart page, before starting the checkout process.
Payment options
Add real-time and non
real time (e.g. Net 30) payment options
- Easily integrate with all major payment gateways for
real-time credit card processing. ProductCart currently supports the
following payment gateways:
- 2Checkout
- Authorize.net (both SIM & AIM)
- Bank of America eStore Solutions
- iTransact
- LinkPoint Basic
- Moneris' eSelect Plus
- PayPal
- PsiGate
- VeriSign PayFlow Pro
- VeriSign PayFlow Link
- WorldPay
- Process credit card offline (e.g. you already have a POS system and want to collect the credit card information securely to process it through your existing system).
- Support for PayPal's new Instant Order Verification feature
- Securely process credit card transactions using an SSL certificate
- Add custom payment options (e.g. Net 30, Net 90, etc.)
- Specify which options are only for wholesale customers
- Automatically calculate taxes based on product, location, or a tax rate database
Affiliate program management
- Set up new affiliates, assign a different commission to each affiliate, track sales.
- Easily generate HTML links to give to your affiliate Web sites.
- Generate sales reports by affiliate to calculate due commissions.
Order management & reporting
- Search for orders by date, product, customer,etc.
- Edit pending orders: change quantity, remove/add products to the order, recalculate shipping, taxes and discounts, etc.
- Easily update order status (pending, processed, shipped, cancelled, returned).
- Batch process multiple orders at once.
- Settle credit card transactions while batch processing orders (only available with supported payment gateways).
- Sort orders by their status for efficient order management.
- Quickly contact customers right from ProductCart's control panel.
- Automatically send e-mail messages when an order is placed, processed, shipped and cancelled.
- Automatically update customer's order status page in the customer service area. When an order is shipped and a UPS tracking number is provided, customers can track their shipment right from within ProductCart.
- Professionally process returns by allowing customers to request an RMA, then approving or denying it. Keep customers updated throughout the return process.
- Automatically exclude returned and cancelled orders from sales reports and inventory data.
- Generate a variety of sales reports using multiple filters.
- Easily export sales data in CSV or Excel format.
Storefront Features
What will your store visitors' experience be like? ProductCart allows you to build a truly professional storefront. Here are a few of the features that you can make available to your store customers:
- Featured products, on a store home page that is dynamically generated by the shopping cart (of course, this is just the default home page, but the store administrator can use fully customized home pages).
- Store specials, graphically organized according to the store's general display settings
- Shop by brand. Link to other products of the same brand from the product details page.
- Browse by category
- Search catalog using multiple filters at the same time (category, keywords, brand, price, etc.)
- Select products related to the one your are viewing
- Add products to a wish list
- Save a quote on a custom order (ProductCart Build To Order only)
- Tell a friend about a product
- Register with the store so you can quickly log into your account on future visits
- Request a lost password
- Automatically save alternative shipping addresses
- Enter special order instructions
- Earn points for every purchase (Reward Points module, when turned on)
- Use points to obtain a discount on a new purchase (Reward Points module, when turned on)
- View printer-friendly order receipt at the end of the checkout process
- Know where you are in the checkout process by looking at the progress bar
- Receive e-mail updates when the order is received, processed, shipped, cancelled or returned.
- Log into a customer service area where you can update your account information
- View previous orders, check the status of a current order, track a shipped order
- View Wish List items and add them to the shopping cart
- View accrued points, and points used so far (Reward Points module, when turned on)
- View previous orders, check the status of a current order, track a shipped order (UPS)
- View, print, edit, submit a saved quote (ProductCart Build To Order only)
Full ASP Source Code
- When you purchase a ProductCart license you receive the full ASP source code with it. ProductCart contains hundreds of well-commented active server pages.
- If you are proficient with ASP, you will be able to make modifications to the shopping cart so that it exactly fits your needs of those of your clients.
- If you do not have ASP programmers on staff, you can ask us to help you with the customizations.
- The immense popularity of ASP as a programming language gives you the piece of mind of knowing that you will always be able to find resources to help you customize your ecommerce store, when and if any customizations are necessary.
User Guide
Our ecommerce software contains hundreds and hundreds of sophisticated features. For an in-depth look at all of them, we encourage you to download the ProductCart User Guide, a ~280 page manual that will give you a good idea about the tremendous amount of work that we have put into ProductCart. It will also help you better compare ProductCart to other shopping carts.
