Overview of Shopsmith Cart's Features
Every feature we create in Shopsmith Cart is designed to increase the amount of organic traffic to your store, increase sales, and increase the average order amount by customer.
Below is an overview of some of the powerful features. To view all 450+ features, click here.
Easy to Use Design Features
Having a professionally designed storefront has been proven to increase conversion and is a direct reflection of your business. With this in mind we’ve created our design tools to be both intutive and easy to use. These simple yet powerful design tools give you complete creative control over your store without any programing knowledge. But if you are a programmer/designer we’ve got you covered. You’ll have complete access to our HTML/CSS templates through our file manager tool or FTP. You can also use HTML editor tools like Dreamweaver, Visual Studio or Front Page on any of the customer facing pages. Additionally, you can directly access any part of the code at any time while in design mode. And don’t worry about updates; we’ve designed our application to update without changing the look of your site.
Certified “Best Search Engine Optimized Ecommerce Application” by the world’s most respected SEO firm
We have worked extensively with one of the world’s most respected search engine optimization firms to ensure Shopsmith Cart is properly designed for optimum ranking on the most poplar search sites, including Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN, AOL, Mamma.com, and more. We employ a variety of features including:
- SEO friendly URL’s
- Custom URL’s (for sites that are already indexed)
- SEO friendly hyperlinks
- Compliant header tags
- Complete meta tag control
- Product-based keywords
- Strict CSS/XHTML/tableless coding
- WC3 compliant pages
- Robots.txt file
- And more!
Shopsmith Cart is designed to generate free, targeted organic traffic for your website. In fact, it’s the most optimized ecommerce application in the market.
Powerful Marketing Tools
We design every tool in the application to increase organic traffic to your site, increase sales, and increase the average order amount. The tools include:
- Creating quantity discounts, or buy X, get Y FREE promotions
- Offer free shipping on orders overt any dollar amount
- Create discounted pricing groups or promotional codes
- Sell gift certificates
- Create product families and recommend products based on items in a cart
- Seamlessly integrate with affiliate systems
- Create professional newsletters and product updates
- Upload unlimited secondary images
- Using our advanced image manipulation tools
As you can see, every angle you can imagine to promote your products can be found in Shopsmith Cart. And if we’re missing something simply let us know and our product management teams will work diligently to make it a reality.
Product Syndication
Want to reach millions potential customers? Using our Shopsmith Cart eCommerce Plus, you can add any product in your store to your Facebook page and have customers add products to their wall dramatically increasing product visibility which results in more sales. Additionally you can use our product feeds to post all or selected products to eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, Google Product Search, PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, NextTag, Goshopping and others.
PA-DSS Certified/PCI Compliant
Shopsmith Cart is one of the only eCommerce applications designed to be PA-DSS compliant. The PCI Security Council along with all major credit card companies has dictated that if your storefront is collecting credit card payments, you must be on a PA-DSS compliant payment application by July 2010. Those who aren’t risk additional fees or cancellation of your merchant account. For more information about PA-DSS and PCI compliance, please click here.
Advanced Image Tools
Research has consistently shown that customers respond favorably to large and detailed product images. Shopsmith Cart has implemented many new Web 2.0 technologies that give you the ability to dynamically display and resize product images. Besides making your store look fantastic, these tools provide your customers the information they need to move from browser to buyer. All of our image manipulation tools are fast-loading, cross-browser compatible, and XHTML/CSS compliant.
FREE Live Chat
Visitors who can “chat” tend to purchase at much higher rates than those who can’t. Sales suffer when consumers have doubts or lack the information they need to complete a purchase. Our live chat software will allow potential customers to interact with you directly; allowing you to assist them with any questions they may have. While most companies charge for this service, we provide it to you FREE OF CHARGE through our partner, ChatStat.
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Advanced Analytics
Shopsmith Cart tracks every aspect of your cart and presents this information in easy to understand charts and advanced graphical analysis. Shopsmith Cart is fully integrated with Google Analytics and Google Adwords, and gives you a complete analysis of every action performed on your site. Use conversion tracking to see which sites provide visitors that are converted into sales. You may also use it in conjunction with Google Adwords to understand which advertising programs are working best for your store and which programs may require adjustments.
Advanced Product Management
Shopsmith Cart allows you to:
- Add products to the home page
- Manage sales pricing
- Control product placement on category pages
- Sell downloadable (e-products)
- Create unlimited product options (that control price and shipping weight)
- Create bulk product options
- Import and export bulk data and images
- Manage inventory (real-time with low inventory notifications) at both the product and option level
- Add product reviews
- Add wholesale discounting
- Add product videos
- Case pack/Inter Pack
- Add HTML descriptions and product summaries
- Feed product information to top competitive shopping sites
- Plus much more…
Advanced Shipping Management
Shopsmith Cart supports real-time shipping quotes from all major providers including USPS, UPS, Fed Ex, and Canada Post. Mark up real-time rates and add handling fees, ship internationally and allow customers to track shipments. Additionally, you can set up rates by regions, states, or countries and create custom rates by weight, quantity, price, and price plus weight. And you can rate shipments before customer checkout using our “Estimated Tool.”
Powerful Order Management
Since every business is different, Shopsmith Cart is designed to be flexible enough to work with businesses of all types. Regardless of the number of transactions, Shopsmith Cart can help you effectively manage your order and make sure your customers are satisfied. Features include:
- Unique order and payment status
- Customizable automated email notifications on order and registration
- Drop-shipping support
- Automated credit card processing and storage
- Shipping tracking numbers
- Flexible customer account area
- Create forms to collect additional information in both the registration and checkout areas
Fully integrated with the leading order management, fulfillment, and drop shipping companies.
Including:
- Webgility eCommerce Connector.
- T-Hub by Atandra Systems.
- StoneEdge Order Manager.
- Store Manager by MagneticOne.com.
- Add up to 1.2 million additional products seamlessly through DOBA.
- Outsource order fulfillment through ShipWire.
- Create and automate your newsletters through Sales in a Click.
- Use affiliate marketing to create an online sales force through IDevAffiliate.
Click here to view all of Shopsmith Cart’s powerful features