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Storefront Shopping Cart
An online Storefront Shopping Cart is similar to real shopping carts. Storefront
Shopping Cart can be independent pieces of software so companies can customize
them to meet their needs or they can be one of the components in a full-service
Storefront Shopping Cart ecommerce package.
Storefront Shopping Cart software is when you saw an item that interested you as
you browsed through a site, you could place it in a shopping cart which would
remember what you had seen, and even kept a running total for you, and probably
calculated simple taxes and shipping.
Storefront Shopping Cart also gives the site designer complete control over the
presentation of the product content. Most Storefront Shopping Cart using
e-commerce tools impose a cookie-cutter type display of your product. Since
presentation is one of the most critical elements of success in catalog sales it
is important that you, as the designer, have the freedom to employ effective
graphic design to your product presentation in Storefront Shopping Cart.
Storefront Shopping Cart gives you that control and also provides you with a
powerful suggestive selling capability where each product that you offer can be
linked to other, complimentary products that will be effectively "suggested" to
the shopper when an item is ordered.
Storefront Shopping Cart supports of different payment processing services. For
example: Storefront 5.0 supports a variety of different payment processing
services. You have to go their links to view detailed instructions for the
configuration of each service. Additional payment processing services will be
integrated in the future.
LinkPoint API, PSiGate SurePay, AuthorizeNet, AuthorizeNet (AIM), Cybercash.
SecurePay, QuickCommerce, QuickCommerce (AIM), PayPal, Verisign PayFlow Pro 2.0,
Verisign PayFlow Pro 3.0, Planet Payment, Planet Payment (AIM), WorldPay,
SecureSource, SecureSource (AIM).
Most Storefront Shopping Cart includes two components: the storefront, which is
what your customers will see (the catalog, the search pages, the checkout pages,
etc.), and the administration area, which is what you will use to manage the
store. Although you find both components in virtually all ecommerce applications
available on the market, the features that each of them offers vary
substantially.
Some of the most important Storefront Shopping Cart features are:
• Storefront Shopping Cart store catalog that is easy to browse and that
presents product information is a way that is both useful and graphically
pleasing.
• A Storefront Shopping Cart customer service area where existing customers can
change their account information, view previous orders, etc. There should also
be a way for customers to retrieve a lost password.
• Storefront Shopping Cart Special pages where customers can easily find
products that are on sale, featured products, products that belong to the same
brand, etc. Sophisticated shopping cart systems like Product Cart include
hundreds of other storefront features.
• A way to easily set general Storefront Shopping Cart store settings such as
the way products should be displayed (e.g. how many products will be shown on
each catalog page), the currency and date format to be used, etc.
• A module to create and manage product categories, and order the way in which
they are displayed on the storefront. A module to create and manage products,
and assign them to categories.
• To improve productivity, there should be tools that allow you to change
settings across multiple products at once (e.g. change the price for all
products in the "tennis shoes" category).
• A way to assign options to products (e.g. color and size), with the ability to
set price changes that are dependent on the selected option. Storefront Shopping
Cart improve productivity, there should be tools that allow you to assign the
same options to multiple products at once.
• Flexible ways to set multiple shipping and payment options (e.g. real time
credit card processing, COD, and NET 30, but the last one only for wholesale
customers). A module to manage orders effectively (pending, processed, shipped,
returned, etc
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