A shopping cart system will make it easy for your customers to find and buy your products. This system allows site visitors to browse easily or to search for specific items. Additionally, returning customers can access their order history and even use it to re-order merchandise for faster shopping. Plus, customers receive printable order details and e-mail confirmations.

More importantly, e-commerce allows you to display your products in their best possible light thanks to these features:

• Listing unlimited numbers of products, categories, and sub-categories
• Listing unlimited product features, such as color and size
• Creating dynamic product displays
• Showing product images automatically
• Having an automatic hyperlink to your extended product description page
• Generating automatically your extended product description page
• Posting “out of stock” messages
• Allowing for multiple product ordering with one press of a button
• Displaying customer-based pricing
• Displaying quantity-based pricing
• Displaying prices in two currencies
• Displaying your price and the retail price
• Hiding price information
• Allowing products to be sorted by fields, such as release dates or price
• Specifying taxes for certain products as necessary
• Requiring minimum quantity for order if necessary

Benefits for Merchants

An eE-commerce system also makes receiving orders and payments simple and easy for merchants through the addition of features, such as:

• Allowing merchants to view and process orders online
• Making changes to the virtual store while it is still running
• Providing sales reports to keep merchants up-to-date
• Notifying merchants of orders by email
• Adding an attachment to customer confirmation e-mail
• Providing stock report details
• Generating download links after order is completed
• Allowing merchants to accept payments from a variety of systems
• Accepting any type of credit card or non-credit card payments
• Allowing for manual credit card handling
• Letting merchants email any number of people using unique templates
• Exporting data for account packages
• Sending mail to all or specific customers in your database
• Applying merchant-specified discounts automatically when customers log in
• Applying quantity-based discounts automatically
• Displaying quantity-based pricing
• Providing discount coupons
• Selling gift certificates
• Using SSL encryption if installed on your web site
• Protecting merchant administration through passwords

Merchants can also benefit from the numerous tax and shipping features that are built in to the shopping cart systems including:

• Being able to calculate shipping costs by table lookup, weight, weight range, quantity, price range, fixed sum, none, or a UPS-type system
• Being able to remove shipping completely
• Allowing shipping form to be displayed optionally
• Adding additional shipping methods if necessary
• Listing product-based shipping
• Offering fully configurable pull-down menus for U.S. States
• Offering fully configurable pull-down menus for countries
• Allowing the state prompt to be removed for European counties
• Calculating handling fees separate from shipping costs

Besides all of these features, an e-commerce system work with electronic gateways to make processing payments even easier. Currently, our systems support Verisign, Linkpoint, AuthorizeNet, WorldPay, eWay ESEC, CyberCash, and others. However, you always have the option of not using an electronic gateway. In fact, our system automatically defaults to storing the credit card information in a database.

If you are considering including a shopping cart system on your site, remember that our systems will run on any Microsoft Windows server. Read about our hosting plans to learn more.

If you have questions about an E-commerce system or how it can fit your needs, please contact us.