eCart e-Commerce Software Feature Summary

New in ver 2.52
UPS - Ability to select Business or Residential rates.
Allow store admin to enter MSXML components to use for XML.
Ability to specify a fee for each payment method.
Shipping will now try to obtain rates from all active methods before giving an error.
Show options as radio buttons, text fields, or a drop-down list.
Added support for downloads via the FSO as opposed to HTTP.
Time offset to be used if your server is in a different time zone.
Added a sort order field to the product table.
Random products on home page.
Added Wish List/Gift Registry. (Pro Version)
Added Multiple currency's. (Pro Version)
Added Advanced Affiliate Tracking (Pro Version)
Ability to group customers together for: (Pro Version)
1. Discounts
2. Group mailings
Administration
- Add custom payment gateways without modifying eCart main application source code.
- Dynamic titles for better search engine placement/ranking.
- Pull information from the mailing list and customer list for newsletters.
- Online Help/FAQ system (Pro Version)
- Export to Froogle. (Google has recently introduced their "Froogle" online shopping search engine. Unlike their well-known search service, Froogle attempts to provide a searchable index of online merchandise catalogs.)
- Several built-in utilities to test and troubleshoot your installation.
- On-Screen help is available for most functions.
- Easily manage Products, Categories, Options, Customers, Shipping, Locations, Orders and much more.
- Upload Product Images and automatically generate thumbnail images at the same time from your browser to your web server.
- Shipping rates are calculated by order weight and/or price. The amount charged for shipping can be calculated via fixed price or percentage. Ability to assign Free Shipping to an individual product.
- Support for UPS, USPS and Canada Post via live online shipping rates.
- Configure sales tax per state or country (billing or shipping address).
- Activate/Deactivate individual customer accounts.
- Manage your orders from an intuitive screen. Order and stock levels can be adjusted when the order ships.
- Add private comments to each order, or comments that the customer can also see.
- Statistical Charting tool.
- Restrict digital downloads to a specified number of downloads, or a pre-determined number of hours.
- Integrated payment gateway allows you to authorize and collect Credit Card payments from your order management screen.
- Ability to override any customer selected payment method with a Credit Card payment. This is useful if the customer changes their mind about how they want to pay for an order after the order has already been placed.
- Emails sent to customer via the store can be customized to suit your requirements. Dynamic replacement of text can also be performed.
- Send HTML Newsletters to customers directly from your store.
Catalog & Products
- Review shipping prices from the cart screen, and or the product screen.
- Show pricing discounts on the product list page.
- Feature products on the cart screen for impulse sales
- Display up to 3 related products on the product view page.
- Unlimited number of Products, Categories and Options.
- Item discounts based on quantity ordered.
- Order discounts with single or multi use discount codes.
- Products can be linked to multiple categories, and multiple option groups.
- Product categories can be "nested" within each other.
- You can display the entire category tree, or only from a certain point in the tree.
- Link images or other HTML to the category display.
- Group products so that they are displayed together on the product detail page.
- Option Groups can be individually set to Optional or Required. This way you can make sure that the Customer selects all the correct options.
- Options can be given a weight, which will be factored into the shipping cost calculations along with the actual Product weight.
- Support for "text" options which allows a customer to enter text when they order a product.
- Digital Downloads are fully supported. All downloads are done through a script that checks the order status before permitting the download.
- Store can be run in "Catalog Only" mode. This way, the store acts just like an online catalog, without any links to a shopping cart.
- Dynamically create product listings on your "Home Page" by setting product(s) to "Featured".
- Cross Selling is supported via a related keys mechanism. This method is much less work than physically linking dozens of Products manually.
- Tax-free products and options.
- Support for product Ratings & Reviews per product.
Customer Convenience
- Customer can view and modify their personal info by logging on to their account. Account can be created before or during the checkout process.
- Full order history and detail is available to the customer.
- Customer receives a confirmation eMail when they place the order, and when their order's status changes.
- All software downloads are available via the customer's online account. No more hassles with eMailed software links gone missing.
- Customer can re-attempt payment at a later date. Sometimes the Payment Gateway's servers are down. With eCart, the Customer can come back and pay later.
- Password Reminder feature for Customers.
- "Email A Friend" functionality allows customer to send a Product link via email.
- Support for tax-free customers.
- Convenient Order Print function from the customer's account area.
- Advanced search function.
- "Contact Us" script to send queries via email directly from your store.
- "Save Cart" functionality.
Payment Gateways
- Built-in support for offline payments (such as Mail-In, Fax-In, Phone-In and COD), Offline Credit Card processing, PayPal , 2CheckOut.Com and Authorize.Net .
- Support for PayPal IPN and 2CheckOut.Com Auto-Update.
- Built-in support for Authorize.Net credit card payment authorizations from the Administration area.
- Support for custom payment gateways via user exits. Additional modules for several gateways are available at no charge including Nochex, Echo, PaySystems, LinkPoint, PSIGate, etc.
- Up to 9 Credit Card types (eg. Visa, Mastercard, etc.).
- Payment Gateways are configured in one central location, not in individual scripts located all over your server.
Security
- Support for SSL, including most "shared" SSL certificates.
- Encryption of Passwords and Credit Card numbers in the database.
- Robust user input validations throughout the store to trap possible SQL string hacks.
- Critical information (such as the RC4 key) is maintained separate from the database.
- Assign an additional login to the admin for staff that cannot modify the store's base configuration settings.
Technical
- ASP/VBScript based software provided with full source code, no hidden encrypted routines.
- No additional components needed for core functions.
- Runs on IIS 4.0/5.0/6.0 and PWS with Database support for MS Access 97/2000, SQL Server 7.0/2000.
- Built-in support for 5 of the most popular eMail components in addition to Microsoft's SMTP components.
- Database based cart, from start to finish.
- Several built-in utilities to test and troubleshoot your installation and track down web server configuration errors.
- Skinnable design allows for enormous flexibility in changing the look and feel of your store, without affecting future upgrades.
- Separate customizable language file for the store front end permits you to present your store to your customers in the language of your choice.
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