Gift Vouchers

• Purchase gift vouchers through the cart. Your favourite grandson, nephew or sibling then receives an automated email indicating the gift voucher value, the store address and the instructions for redeeming it.
• Use gift vouchers towards purchase of items. eCart tracks all voucher use, and allows partial use of the voucher, saving the remaining credit for the next visit. Once the order total exceeds the remaining voucher value, the customer is required to pay for the difference.

Cart Checkout

• Very simple check out process ensures that buyer to browser ratio is maximised.
• Add to Cart and Buy Now options for every product.
• Users wanting one product can bypass viewing the contents of their cart and checkout immediately.
• Add, edit and remove items from your cart - Users have full control over what is in their cart.
• Separate contact and shipping information, allowing delivery at a different point to the purchaser. If user contact and shipping details are the same, one click fills in all the shipping details
• User definable payment methods. Accept credit card, cheque/money orders/COD and phone payments, plus whatever other payment methods you define
• Store full or partial credit card number after processing orders through an eCommerce gateway
• Customisable receipt text based on payment method
• Add and remove accepted credit cards, and their associated logos, direct from the store admin section.
• Credit card LUHN verification routine included, ensuring that any credit card recorded meets the minimum test for validity
• Minimum order limits - set your store to have a minimum order amount
• Maximum order limits - set your store to prevent orders over a set limit
• Return customer facility - customers returning to your store can bring up their details during checkout by entering their email address and a password entered in a previous visit. This automatically fills in all their details. The customer then has the ability to change any of these details and select an option to update their changes for their customer profile
• Customers can receive receipt via email
• Customers can receive email notification when a product ships
• Printable receipt for customer
• Client side then server side checkout validation This improves the performance for customer, and reduces load on server
• Checkout support for debit/switch cards
• Checkout requests special instructions field

Shipping & Handling

• Multiple user defined shipping zones/prices
• Supports flat rate shipping prices
• Add a user defined generic fee to each order processed
• Apply tax to shipping methods
• Flat rate shipping
• Order total based shipping
• Australia Post rate calculation
• Tax may/may not apply to shipping methods
• Add generic shipping & handling fees to orders

Taxation

• Apply user defined tax rules by State or Country for anywhere in the world.
• Add, edit and remove Taxation settings from the cart administration section,
• Allows products, shipping, or fees to be specified as ex-tax/inc-tax.

Categories

• Unlimited number of categories/sub categories. Define as many categories as you wish
• Optionally display category descriptions At the top of each category index page, display a category image and description
• Categories menu expands to show selected categories child sub categories
• Set a discount for the entire category for the general public or any membership type that is defined - A powerful feature that allows you to change many prices at once, or allows you to run two sets of prices eg. public and reseller
• Hide the category from general public or any membership type that is defined - Allows you to run multiple prices for different categories of customers
• Don't allow orders from general public or any membership type that is defined - Allows you to offer exclusive products to a specific category of customer
• Upload category images, create folders, remove files/folders remotely
• Powerful Admin features allow the store owner to manage categories easily

Products

• Enter an unlimited number of products
• Products can be made visible or invisible to customers. Work on adding several new products, then publish them with 1 click.
• Product descriptions can be any length
• Thumbnails and multiple large images of products
• Product may be added to an unlimited number of categories and sub categories
• Stock level management for products
• Select whether tax applies to the product
• Option to hide products when stock level reaches a preset level
• Disable ordering when stock level reaches preset level
• Administration emails when stock levels reach a preset level
• Prices may be entered into the cart as Exclusive Or Inclusive tax prices.
• Electronic downloadable products (Customer orders, logs in after payment and downloads product) URL of downloadable software is not seen by customer making it impossible to do unauthorised downloads.
• Products only visible orderable to selected members
• Upload product images, create folders, remove files/folders remotely via web browser
• Product Options (Value Lists) have Price changes at product level rather than product option level eg. Color:Red,Green,Blue can be attached to any product as the price changes are per product.
• Warranty field
• Setup suppliers and assign a supplier to products

Orders

• Real time or delayed order processing Process orders against your card gateway as they are taken in real time, or afterwards in the Administration system. Order processing allows sending 1 or more orders to the payment gateway in real time with just 1 click. Orders are then marked as approved or declined automatically depending on the transaction result.
• Search orders
• Ship orders with customer notification
• View full order details
• View declined orders to allow staff to contact customer to arrange alternative payment.
• Edit orders prior to processing/shipping.
• Export orders for use in a Spreadsheet/accounting program

Reports

• eCart Professional support numerous web reports to see how your store is performing:
  • Products statistics (View count, number placed in cart, number sold, sold value)
  • Low stock products
  • Number of visitors, searches, abandoned carts, orders
  • Customer sales reports
  • Customer history reports
  • Popular search terms

Customer Details/Membership Levels

• Varying membership based discounts - (Global category, sub category and product discounts available) A powerful feature that allows you to change many prices at once, or allows you to run multiple sets of prices eg. public and reseller
• Customer log in and view order history, subscribe to newsletter, edit contact details - Allows customers to manage their own account, encouraging repeat visits and sales

Administration

• Partial shipping of products within an order. Inc partial shipment notification email to customer
• Newsletter sending to defined member bases or all customers
• HTML Email compatibility for order receipts
• Left navigation menu may be hidden, remains hidden till expanded tab icon is clicked
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