A good shopping cart is the centerpiece of any online e-commerce website.  You'll therefore want your shopping cart to be as easy as possible for you to update and maintain, and as simple as possible for your customers to use.  The shopping cart we offer is a robust, elegant, feature-filled program.  It's so easy to use, you'll actually look forward to working with it!

Here are some of the features that make our shopping cart such a great program!

Design & Layout

• Easy navigation!
• Automatically generate thumbnail-images from larger images!
• Fully-functional built-in search-engine allows your customers to quickly find exactly what they're looking for!
• You will receive an email notification anytime an order is placed, or when a customer signs up for an account!
• Your customers will automatically receive an email receipt for any order placed!
• From anywhere in the shopping-cart, you can supply a link to any URL, including the category list, product list, and product detail page!
• You may insert HTML into the description and teaser fields for each product!

• Set a Username and Password for multiple administrator logins!
• Update, maintain, and control the shopping-cart from any internet-enabled computer in the world using a web-browser!
• Easily add, edit, and delete products, categories, customer-accounts, and customer orders!
• Powerful inventory controls!
• Easily mark sale-prices!
• Add options (such as color, size, etc) for products!
• Specify weights for your products, to allow for automated shipping-calculation!
• Upload photos for products!
• View an entire order history, including pending, approved, shipped and declined orders!
• Powerful Customer List database!  Search the Customer List by name, order number, address, city, state, zip, or phone number!  Easily view, edit, and update the Customer List!
• Export customer and order information to Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, or Quickbooks using a CSV file!
• Products can be marked as "not available," which keeps them in your database but prevents them from being displayed to customers browsing your online store.

• Gross Sales Report by any specified timeframe
• Sales Tax Report by any specified timeframe
• Total number of orders by each customer
• Year-to-date total number of sales
• Year-to-date Sales Report
• Number of products
• Number of categories
• Number of customers
• Number of orders
• Number of pending orders
• Number of approved orders
• Number of declined orders
• Number of all orders
• Average order amount
• Searchable order data

• Live order tracking!
• Each customer creates an account with his/her own Username/Password login!
• Each customer can view the status of his/her own pending orders!
• Each customer can search and view his/her own previous orders!
• Each customer receives a unique order number with every order submitted.
• Each customer automatically receives an email receipt for any order they place!
• All orders are stored in a secure MySQL database.
• Credit card numbers are encrypted in the MySQL database for added security.
• Customers can receive a password-reminder, in the event that they forget their password!
• Registered customers do not have to enter their data again when placing a new order.
• Registered customers can edit their own profile.
• Registered customers can change their own password.
• Registered customers can log-out for added security.
• When placing an order, a customer can elect to use his/her billing address as the shipping address.

• Accept MasterCard, Visa, Discover and American Express credit cards in real-time!
• Authorize.net is the processing gateway, featuring AIM programming API.
• Customers can place their orders securely.  Verisign Payflow Link enables secure 128-bit SSL-encrypted transmission of all credit-card order-data from the customer's computer to your server.
• Instant Payment Notification using PayPal or any other desired IPN merchant.
• You can choose to process credit cards manually (offline), if desired.

• Tax, Shipping, Subtotals, and Totals can be automatically calculated for each customer during the placement of an order.
• Automatically generate and print packing-slips and invoices.
• Shipping can be figured automatically, based on the quantity of items purchased, or based on the combined weight and dimensions of each item purchased using rates defined by UPS, USPS, or FedEx.

• Full HTTPS/SSL support!
• Secure HTTPS/SSL administrative access!
• Password-protected administrative access.
• Credit-card numbers are encrypted in the MySQL database.
• Administrators and customers can log-out of the shopping cart.