e-Commerce Features – Shopping Cart Solutions
There are several must-have features for an e-commerce store to ensure a smooth shopping experience for customers and to help drive sales. These features can vary depending on the specific type of e-commerce business and its target audience. Get a store from NetQwik with packed with e-commerce features.
Our shopping cart solutions include the following e-commerce features:
- Allows customers to shop your store 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
- Easy-to-use navigation system.
- Mobile-friendly design.
- Product Videos.
- Easily keep your products/catalog updated – no coding required to add, delete, or modify products.
- Secure – no one but your administrative personnel can access your customer/catalog data.
- Merchandise Pricing options – single and multiple items can be put on sale. Sale options include percentage-off, fixed amount off, new price, etc. Sales can include or exclude product attributes. You can add or exclude a discount from a special. You can put a whole category or the entire store on sale. Products can be marked as free or Call for Price.
- Products can be marked as Featured for specific highlighting/attention.
- Products can be linked and/or copied to multiple categories.
- Minimum or maximum quantities and units – you can sell one per customer, or require at least four and in multiples of two. You can set requirements on a per-product basis.
- Quantity discounts can be configured per-product for varying pricing levels or quantity levels.
- Product attributes can be added, either as radio buttons, checkboxes, drop-down lists, text boxes, file uploads, file downloads, and more.
- Store layout can be controlled in great detail simply by switching settings in the Admin area.
- Entire categories of products (or individual products) can be enabled/disabled with just a few clicks.
- Sort order of products is easily controlled in the Admin area.
- If you need to take your site offline for a period of maintenance, you can do it easily by posting advance notices, as well as a friendly Down For Maintenance page that’s also search engine friendly. Webmaster and web designer can specify IP addresses to override maintenance and still access the site for testing.
- Nearly every piece of information about your products can be controlled in the Admin area, giving you the ability to fine-tune how your products and services appear to your customers. Features and options can be enabled/disabled quickly and easily.
- Multiple items can be added to the shopping cart by simply entering quantities and clicking Add.
- Showcase – you can set your store up to be simply a product showcase, without pricing at all.
- Search options allow you to search for products based on name, description, metatags, price, and more.
- Meta tags keywords and descriptions can be controlled at the per-product level, all from the administrative interface.
- Automatic detection of search engine spiders.
- Tight security on password handling, login/logout, and more
- Advertising banners – show information about your business colleagues and track banner link activity. Banners can open in new windows so that customers never really leave your site.
- Shipping estimator allows your customer to get an idea of their shipping costs prior to checkout.
- Coupons and gift certificates are easily handled both by customers and administrators.
- Customer group pricing allows groups of users to receive a set discount amount at checkout.
- Newsletter and product notification systems.
- Low order fees can be configured.
- COD fees can be added.
- Shipping, large package handling to give fine-grain control over shipping services.
- Tax rates, tax zones, etc. easily configured in the Admin area.
- PayPal™ IPN and many other popular merchant services supported.
- Customers can write product reviews (approvals can be required by an Administrator).
- Low stock notifications to administrator when inventory is getting low (level can be configured).
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