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ShopSite gets Gold Award
What makes a great Shopping Cart Solution?
With technology changing at a rapid pace, it is difficult to know which
Shopping Cart software is best and what questions should be asked when
purchasing software. Here is a list of questions that
should be asked when evaluating Shopping Cart software. We
at Shopping Cart Review believe this list is crucial in selecting the
best Shopping Cart software.
- Ease of Use How is the
software to use? Are there many steps in order to accomplish your goal?
Is the process intuitive, even for the novice user?
- Website Wizards Does the Shopping Cart software allow you to
build a professional website? How much customization is
available? Is it difficult to setup?
- Merchant Tools A truly
great Shopping Cart offers a wide variety of tools. How
easy are those merchant tools to use? Do they offer support
for unlimited products? Does the cart offer compatibility
for coupons or discounts? Is there a catalog
manager? Do they have ways of monitoring the inventory?
- Reports Are there Sales
Reports? If so, do they tell you information such as: how
many sales, sales by date and/or time, item details, customer
details? Are there Traffic reports (i.e. how many people
are visiting the site, what time of day is your heaviest traffic, what
are the click-through paths, what are the exit points)? Are
there Product Inventory reports? How easy are the reports
to read? Do they have detailed charts and
graphs? How configurable are they?
- Payments Does the
Shopping Cart except all forms of payment? Credit Cards,
Checks, Phone orders, COD, E-checks? Do they offer
Real-Time Credit Card Processing? Can they help with
obtaining a Merchant Account and Payment Gateway? Do they
offer reccurring billing?
- Shipping How many
shipping options are available? How flexible are
they? Which shipping companies is the software compatible
with? Does it allow for free shipping options?
- Marketing Does the Shopping Cart offer marketing tips? Do they tell you were and how to market?
With the correct Shopping Cart implemented, your website can be one less thing you have to worry about.
Shopping Cart Software Review has awarded ShopSite Pro their top award.
ShopSite Pro Reviewer's Comments
Whether you are a novice at Shopping Carts or a pro looking for great
merchant tools, Shopsite 7 Pro, our "TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award Winner"
is an excellent product for all your E-commerce needs.
Shopsite combines a wealth of useful features and information with
simple navigation for a good price. It is the most complete
start-to-finish shopping cart available on the market.
Feature set:
Not only is shopsite 7 pro easy to use, but is also rich with
features. Html skills are not required to build your
website and it also gives you the ability to completely customize your
site. One time-saving feature that stands out is the power
edit. This allows you to edit multiple products at once by
choosing which options you want to edit for a wide variety of
products. Categories are listed as pages making it easy to
keep track and design your site. ShopSite Pro also includes
real-time credit card authorization, a site search engine, detailed
sales and traffic statistics, great shipping and tax utilities, and
many more features listed on the homepage.
One limitation that ShopSite has is a limited number of design templates to choose from.
Ease of use:
Our number 1 ranked product, ShopSite 7 PRO by ShopSite Inc, is an
outstanding shopping cart. One of ShopSite's greatest
attributes is its ease-of-use. It is by far one of the
easiest shopping cart software solutions to use because of its
browser-based icon interface. Below is a picture of the
icon navigation. It's a point and click-shopping cart
designed for the novice but adds features that even a pro would love.
Ease of installation & setup:
Shopsite 7 provides the easiest setup. ShopSite is
server-based software, which means that merchants don't need to
download or install anything in order to create or manage a ShopSite
store. To use ShopSite, all you need is a web browser.
Help/documentation:
Perhaps the most important attribute of good Shopping Cart software is
the information and help the application provides. The help
in ShopSite is excellent. It has screen references to
answer any question specific to that page. Shopsite has
FAQs, getting started help, search features, how-to sections, and an
index of help options.
True E-Commerce Solution:
Is ShopSite 7 an E-commerce solution? Yes.
Shopsite 7 will host your website. It then gives you the
tools to build your website, and gives you the merchant tools to manage
your website. It supports credit card
processing. It allows flexible shipping options, and it
shows you where you can advertise your products and
website. In addition to all these features, it keeps your
website as secure as possible. Shopsite 7 Pro is our choice
for the best all around shopping cart.
Is Shopsite 7 Pro overkill?
If you don't need all the features of Shopsite 7 Pro, ShopSite also
offers two cheaper scaled-down versions of ShopSite.
ShopSite Starter $29.00 - $49.00
ShopSite Starter is an online store creation system for merchants
either just starting on the Internet or for those that don't have many
products. If you have less than 15 products to sell,
Starter is the way to go. When you have a limited number of
products, you do not need the powerful features of ShopSite
Pro. Some of the features that will not be available are;
inventory tracking, template customization, digital downloads,
up-sells, cross-sell modules, discounts, and coupons. These
features are necessary for stores with many products.
ShopSite Starter is easy on your wallet and has the features you need
to be successful. It includes tools for site creation and
management, sales statistics, and secure credit card processing.
ShopSite Manager $55.00 - $75.00
ShopSite Manager is for the small- to medium-sized business manager who
wants to begin marketing and selling products on the Internet, or who
currently has a website, but wants to take the next step of selling
products online. Manager is an online store creation system
that allows merchants to build and maintain catalogs of products to
sell on the Internet. ShopSite Manager includes tools for
site creation and management, sales and traffic statistics, secure
encrypted transactions, and online order fulfillment. Some
of the features that will not be available are; inventory tracking,
digital downloads, automatic multiple page generation, custom checkout
fields, custom pages, and customer registration.
Summary:
Shopsite 7 Pro is an outstanding product and receives our top ranking
of all the products reviewed. The ability to pay
month-by-month makes it an exceptional buy. It is an
excellent product!
A complete list of features and side-by-side comparisons of Shopping Cart software.
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