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Shopping Cart Program Features

General Features of the Shop Factory Shopping Cart Program software.

General Features:

Point and click access to all functions
Active Help shows how a task is completed
Fast add product button
Fast add Product Link button
Add sub-departments or sub pages with more than 20 depth levels
Rearrange departments
Unlimited departments or Web pages
Enable Favorites to allow customers to create their own department with their favorite products in your shop
Enable Email a friend to allow customers to email a link to a product to a friend
Select format of order emails from HTML, formatted text and text only
Enable a comma delimited order email attachments for import into existing backend systems
Set minimum price a customer must order for
Set maximum price a customer may order for
Add Terms and Conditions applying to buying in your shop, such as return policies
Add a Privacy Statement explaining how you deal with customer details
Enable request to force customer to approve Terms and Conditions before being able to finalize an order
Add a thank you message for customers who send an order
Adjust shopping basket memory to set how long a shopping basket is remembered for return visits by customers
Test shop by sending orders from your local computer before publishing
List of all Products gives access to all products in shop
Recycle bin contains deleted products for restoring
Temporarily disable pages, departments or products
Works with other Development tools such as DreamWeaver or FrontPage
Allows integrating existing web pages

Pages and Departments

Title
Introduction
Description
Temporarily disable a page or department
Prevent page title from being shown
Page Logo image
Link to remote product picture as Logo
Replace picture with your own HTML code or applet
Select a specific page or department design with different product layouts
Customize a selected page or department design by changing colors, textures and fonts
Apply style or style customizations to all sub-pages or sub-departments
Link to page or department with an image button
Add Banner Links to top or bottom of pages or departments
Add HTML code to top or bottom of pages for counters, traffic log systems and more
Ability to add Meta description and keyword tags to each department and page
Highlight products, pages and departments
Link from pages such as the home page to important products
Integrate existing web information pages

Products

Name
Price
Weight
Item Number
Headline
Short Description
Long Description
Product Picture
Additional pictures
List of features
Link to remote product picture
Replace picture with your own HTML code or applet
Disable product temporarily
Unlimited product options and choices with support for:
a: Choices can have their own pricing
b: Choices can have separate order numbers
c: Choices can have their own weight
d: Choices can be required or optional selections
e: Options can be shown with different display options
f: Support for sorting of options
g: Support for sorting of choices
Link Product to another file such as a larger image, website or multi media files such as sound or video
Cross-reference related products to boost sales
Remove add-to-basket buttons to display product only
Move or copy products
Rearrange products
Sort products by name, item number, price, description or order of entry (Product ID)
Set minimum quantity of products a customer must order per product
Set maximum quantity of products a customer may order per product
Highlight products by listing them in a highlight box
Manual stock control

Tax support

Shop automatically calculates tax payments based on your entries
Set up unlimited tax regions for international and interstate customers
Supports unlimited local and international taxes
Add unlimited tax settings on a per product basis
Add product weight for shipping calculations
Base tax for shipping charges on a fixed rate or on product taxes
Set product prices to include or exclude tax
Show prices including and excluding tax in shop
Allow customers to provide tax exemption number

Shipping support

Shops automatically calculate shipping costs based on your entries
Shipping calculations can be based on:
Free Shipping
One shipping price for all customers
One shipping price, which differs depending on the region you ship to
Shipping Costs set per product
Shipping by value of total order
Shipping by weight of total order
Adjust shipping price based on region you ship to
Shipping by Provider - create your own unlimited shipping regions and methods with simple shipping charge table created in spreadsheet or text editor
UPS shipping calculator support (US only)
Select a weight unit for the shop

Backend support

Send orders as delimited files for import into Backend systems
Adjust delimiter of files for backend system import
Manual Stock control

Discount functions

Shop wide:
Provide different discount levels based on value of order
Discount all products in shop with a set per centage
Per product:
Quantity discount - discount levels based on quantities ordered
Discount price - set a special sales price
Show prices before and after discounts
Discount messages to highlight available discounts
Automatically calculate all discounts
Shop discounts in order emails

International features

Build and maintain shops in any languages
38 languages included - powers e-Commerce in more than 60 countries
Easily edit language templates
Real time currency conversion for 150 currencies, updated each business day
Define which currencies your shop supports
Enable or disable currency conversion
Set main and secondary currencies for your shop such as Euro and US$
LanguageLink compatible - allows crating a shop in multiple languages
Address format based on country of shop

Search engine support

Define Meta Tags for the website
Define Keywords for the website
Define Meta Tags per page or department
Define Keywords per page or department
Classify your website
Index page optimized for search engines

Payment methods support

Free support for SSL to allow customers to order securely over the Internet
Multiple servers for free SSL ordering system for redundancy
Support for optional PGP encryption for ultra secure order transactions
Authorize orders yourself or use a real-time payment authorization service
Support for more than 50 different real-time payment authorization service providers in many countries, such as Authorize.Net, LinkPoint (CardService), PayPal, Planet Payment, Verisign, WorldPay and many others
Point and click real time payment activation or manual payment authorization
Secure shopping with SSL and PGP encryption support
Define and set up Real time payment service providers with point and click ease
Select credit cards you accept for manual processing
Provide an optional PGP Key ID to encrypt orders
Accept all Payment methods - from Cash on Delivery to Credit Cards
Combine Real-time payment authorization with manual payment authorization to accept as many payment methods as you want
Allow printing and faxing of orders
Supports payments in 150 currencies
Use our ordering CGI scripts or install them on your server

Publishing features

Preview your fully functional shop on local computer before publishing
Publish only changed departments, pages and images for easy shop maintenance
Easily integrate shops with any existing website - just link to it or include in a frame set
Shops can accept orders immediately after being published - no special server side installation required

On-line Shop Features

Shops run on any server straight after uploading - makes publishing easy
No CGI required - shops work wherever a home page works
Optimized for fast access - don't lose customers before they even get to see your site
Requires minimal server resources - shop will remain faster even if you have many customers
Easy to navigate for customers - makes sure your customers find what they are looking for
"Bread crumbs" on top of each page - your customers always know where they are to make site navigation easy
Search engine for products and pages by name or descriptions - makes shopping for your customers more comfortable
Automatically calculates tax and shipping costs - a legal requirement in many countries and helps prevent returned products
Shopping price total always in view - keeps your customer informed and improves confidence in online shopping
Does not jump to basket when adding product to basket - keeps the shopping flow going to help increase sales
Keeps customer informed of actions - Increases trust in your site
Notification when product has been added to basket - helps customers keep track of their actions
Notice when customer does not select optional product options - boost sales by prompting customers to select the options
Can force customers to select required options before adding a product to basket - helps stop incomplete orders
Automatic calculation of quantity discounts, even if products are added one by one - boosts trust in your online shop and increases sales
Customer can restore shopping basket from previous visit - helps return visitors continue a shopping spree or makes repeat buys easy
Customer can automatically restore their address details from previous order - Speeds up shopping process and makes shopping easier
Shops require no cookies to run - no need to worry about cookies with a ShopFactory shop
Automatic currency conversion of prices in up to 150 currencies (can be disabled) - boost your sales to other countries
Can force customers to approve your Terms of shopping before finalizing a purchase - a legal requirement in some countries
Works in any language - no restrictions, regardless what language you want to create your shop in
Switch between languages while on site (requires LanguageLink extension) - helps boost sales to other countries
Allows modifying quantities in shopping basket including correct quantity discounts calculation - gives customer the freedom to increase an order without having to go through the shop again
Free SSL and PGP encryption - secure order processing makes customers feel comfortable about shopping with you
Free SSL order processing - get your orders delivered free to your mailbox
Free SSL via multiple servers - Provides you with redundancy to ensure you can always accept orders
Clear order forms - prevent customers from leaving when confronted with difficult check out procedures
Immediately prompts for missing fields in order forms - helps customers fill in the form without annoying them
Checks credit card algorithm - stops fake orders by making sure the credit card number is valid
Shows all order costs separated in product costs, tax, shipping and combined costs before order is sent - legal requirement in some countries and boosts customer confidence in your shop
Favorites folder - allows repeat customers to create their own department with their favorite products to boost sales comfort
Email a friend - allows customers to recommend a product to a friend
Monitors product quantities - stops your customer from buying to few or too many items of a products depending on your settings
Manual stock control - informs your customer if a product is out of stock
Monitors sales price total - stops your customer from spending too much or too little in your shop depending on your settings
Compatible with more than 50 real-time payment service providers for automatic payment approval - helps you chose to ensure you get the best deal

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