Our new enhanced Shopping Cart incorporates every feature your new storefront needs to make your customer's shopping experience as pleasurable as possible.

Based on the PHP/myMSQL X-Cart software package, the Enhanced Shopping Cart delivers all of the features found in the Basic Cart plus multi-language support, currency conversion, customer accounts, product reviews and bestseller lists!

Enhanced Cart Features:

Setup and Support:

· No programming required to maintain
· Easy to use browser based admin interface
· Import your existing database
· Bulk upload products and pictures
· Out-of-the-box storefront system
· Multi-language support
· Configurable currency symbol and weight/dimension measurement units
· Built-in self-upgrade engine

Design and Layout:

· 100% template-based system
· Fully customizable design & layout
· Choose from several pre-designed template schemes and color sets
· Intuitive navigation
· Support for thumbnails
· Categories thumbnail images
· Unlimited number of product images
· Side-bar "mini-cart" viewable at all pages
· Integrated store search
· Build-in template editor: preview, edit and restore templates
· CSS-compatible design
· Debug console: displays a tree of templates for all pages

Customer Care:

· All orders stored in SQL database
· Customers can search & browse personal order history
· Real time order tracking
· Customer chooses between account registration and express checkout
· Password reminder for customers
· Customizable e-mail notifications/invoices
· Automated repeat customer tracking
· Wish list
· Built-in newsletter subsystem
· Multiple customer types w/unique pricing for every customer type
· Password protected access to special pricing
· Optional affiliate program

Product Catalog:

· Unlimited number of products
· Unlimited number of categories
· Unlimited category nesting
· Members-only categories
· "Featured Products" box
· Automated display of bestsellers
· Related products, up selling and cross selling
· Add multimedia clips to your products
· 1-click enable/disable switch for products and categories
· Support for up to two different currencies
· Automatic currency conversion
· Search by title, description and category
· Product Details
· Unlimited product options/variants/properties w/optional price modifiers
· Unlimited custom input fields for products
· Add custom information field for products
· Customer-defined prices (optional)
· HTML-enriched product descriptions (optional)
· Unlimited number of product images
· Multiple pricing for quantities (unlimited price breaks)
· Multi-homed products (list a product in up to 4 categories)

Merchandising and Inventory:

· Discount coupon codes and gift certificates
· On-screen mini-cart with brief cart info
· Full inventory control
· "Out of Stock" Messages
· Quantity discounts
· Retail and wholesale price
· Limit minimal order amount
· Sellers/providers can edit only products belonging to them

Shipping and Tax:

· Real-time USPS, FedEx and UPS shipping calculation
· Unlimited number of custom-defined shipping methods
· Weight, order total and per-item based shipping
· Flat rate shipping
· Mark your products as "free shipping" products
· Issue promotional "free shipping" coupons to your customers
· Add handling/freight charges
· Handle international, domestic and local shipping
· Restrict shipping by location
· Allow your customers to choose shipping methods
· Full support for downloadable goods (e-goods)
· Customizable sales tax calculation
· Product-specific taxes (optional)
· Organize your tax & shipping settings in zones by location
· Different sellers/providers can have different shipping/tax settings

Payment Gateways & Methods:

· Accept payments in any currency
· Real-time credit card processing:
- PayPal
- Authorize.NET
- AccessPoint
- IntelliPay
- iTransact
- LinkPoint
- MerchantManager
- Plug'n'Pay
- ProcessUSA
- VeriSign - WorldPay
- 2CheckOut
- iPaymentInc
- SkipJack
- GestPay (Italy)
- PayByCheck
- SECPay
- PaySystems
- SaferPay
- GoChargeIt
· Manual (offline) credit card processing
· Accept PayPal payments
· Accept checks, purchase orders and phone orders

Sales Analysis & Tracking:

· Comprehensive statistics:
- Number of orders
- Number of customers
- Product views
- Category views
- Products removed from cart by customers
- Sales by product / best sellers
- Total sales
· Searchable order data
· Order data is easy to print
· Printable shipping labels
· Search engine & incoming traffic tracker
· The cart keeps referrer data for all customers
· Shipment/fulfillment interface
· Export sales & customer data for use in a spreadsheet

Database and Platform Compatibility:

· Open source PHP code
· Support for UNIX/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X servers
· Powered by MySQL database
· 100% customizable template-based look & feel
· Multi-language: your e-store can work with unlimited number of languages
· Payment processing modules for all major gateways
· Full HTTPS/SSL support
· You can easily add new features and/or disable existing ones

Search Engine Friendly:

· Pages can be indexed by all major search engines
· Define custom META tags for every category
· Customer referrer info is stored in database

Repeat Customer Accommodation:

· All customer data is stored in database
· Greet repeat visitors
· Registered customers can be offered discounts
· Registered customers do not have to enter their data again
· Registered customers can edit their profile
· Registered customers can access history of their orders
· Built-in newsletter engine
· Real-time order tracking for registered customers
· Moderated product reviews and ratings

Web-based control panel:

· Password-protected administrative access
· All changes are real-time
· Control the cart from anywhere in the world using your web browser
· Unlimited number of admin accounts
· Unlimited number of isolated provider/seller accounts
· Admin account separated from provider/seller accounts
· Support for restricted "shipping/fulfillment" admin accounts

Security:

· Full HTTPS/SSL support
· Secure HTTPS/SSL administrative access (optional)
· Password-protected administrative access
· Encrypted customer data
· PGP-encrypted e-mail notifications (optional)
· Real-time security notifications of all failed login attempts
· Backup sub-system

Affiliate system (available for additional fee):

· Commissions database
· Unlimited number of affiliates
· Individual (per-affiliate) commission settings
· Export affiliate data for use in a spreadsheet
· Search affiliate database
· Import affiliate payment info from plain-text file
· View/Upload/Delete banners