Product Categorization
- Categories and Departments can be fully nested to any level desired (e.g. sub-categories, sub-departments)
- Supports cross-matrix of products by category and department. E.g. a product can be mapped to the shoe category, in the women's department
- Products can be mapped to more than one category or department
- Supports Wholesale Only Sites (Prices not shown to general site customers)
- Paged browsing for categories and sections: Keeps page size small, and optimizes user experience.
Shipping
- Flexible options for calculating shipping costs:
- By order total
- By order weight
- By order total and zip code zone
- By order weight and zip code zone
- By Fixed Item Shipping Costs (e.g. Shipping Cost By Product)
- By Fixed Percent of Order TotalReal time shipping rates:
- Fedex
- UPS
- DHL
- USPS
- Admin defined shipping methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day, Priority, etc)
- Add Shipping & Handling Extra Fee To Orders
- Support for "No Shipping Required" Products (e.g. services)
- Allow "Free shipping over $X" for site
- Batch Shipping Order Printing/Tracking Integration with UPS WorldShip and FedEx Shipping Mgr.
- Multiple ship-to addresses per order (a customer on one order can ship some items to address A, and other items to address B)
- Mark Customer Levels/Profiles as free shipping (or tax exempt)
Interfaces
- Bulk import from Excel or XML
- Real time interfaces with your other system
- Import product information including pricing
- Import inventory levels from back office systems
- Export orders into from shop cart into back office systems
Search engine features
- EVERY product, category, and department page can have their own custom search engine meta tags (title, keywords, description, no script blocks, etc)...
- Static Product & Category Pages: Designed to allow search engines to fully crawl and index EVERY product & category page in your store. This can have a dramatic increase in site traffic from search engines
- Google Xml Site Maps Supported: a direct Google search engine submission method sanctioned by Google
- Yahoo! Xml Site Maps Supported: a direct Yahoo! search engine submission method sanctioned by Yahoo!
- Fully dynamic page titles, and search engine meta-tags
- Google Analytics (Urchin) Site Metrics & E-Commerce Tracking Compatible
Product capabilities and features
- Support for 3 images sizes: icon, medium, large
- Automatic image watermarking for protection
- Image Galleries Supported
- Restrict product quantities to preset values (e.g. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, ...)
- Enforce product minimum order quantities (i.e. must order at least 10, etc).
- Recurring products can have varying intervals (days, weeks, months, years)
- Support for sizes & colors. All color/size site "prompts" can be customized in admin site, so you could rename those two options to have completely different meaning.
Pricing
- Prices can vary by customer or customer level (group)
- Each variant can have a different price
- Each variant can have a separate SKU modifier, and price, description, etc
- Support for sale prices
- Vary product prices for each customer level (e.g. wholesale/retail)
Up-sell capabilities
- Related products
Configurable products and Kits
- Support for Kits (build to order products).
Notifications
- Order receipts automatically e-mailed to customer
- E-mail notification sent to store Administrator when new order arrives
- "Order Has Shipped" e-mail notifications sent to customers with tracking numbers
Customer levels supported
- Customer levels supported, which you can define (e.g. wholesale, retail, or gold, silver, platinum, etc..)
- Customer levels can have special product pricing, can offer percent discounts, free shipping, tax exception, etc.