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ClickCartPro Features Menu
(Click on each Feature to Expand List)
Store Categories, Products and Product Options
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Supports an unlimited number of categories.
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Create an unlimited number of levels of categories.
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Supports different display types for products within categories.
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Product pricing types: Regular Price, Sale Price, Fully Option Based, Recurring, Volume Based and Not Priced.
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Recurring billing support allows you to specify monthly charges for products and product options in addition to or in place of one-time charges.
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Volume based pricing allows you to create different price breaks for quantities ordered.
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Each product can be set up under a declining balance inventory system and have maximum purchase quantities assigned.
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Out of stock messages are presented to customers if the inventory level is zero.
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State/Province and Country level tax exemptions.
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Enter search keywords for the store's search function.
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Choose to use different displays for each product and up to three different size images.
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Ability to include product-specific text in email confirmations.
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Two different descriptions for different displays.
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Support for best seller, new item, specials, all products, products index and splash page displays.
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Product-level shipping method choices including real-time rates, default product based pricing and custom shipping scripts.
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Support for digital goods - including full download capabilities.
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Ability to relate products to one another to cross sell them.
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Each product can be related to numerous categories.
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Product options can be of various types including text areas and textboxes (which allow customer input) and selection lists, radio buttons and checkboxes (which allow customer choices).
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Product option selection items can have positive/negative price and weight changes on the item cost and support recurring billing as well as inventory.
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Each product option can be related to numerous products.
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Front-end search against keywords, description, product name and product number fields as well as use of price ranges.
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Payment Processing and Checkout
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Support for contact customer and offline credit card and switch/solo processing. |
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Support for check and purchase order payments. |
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Support for realtime processing with nearly thirty gateway services: Authorize.Net
(SIM & AIM); Verisign (Payflow Link); 2CheckOut (Authnet Interface); PayPal; WorldPay
(DirectPay); Linkpoint (Linkpoint HTML & API); Wells Fargo (BoA & Authnet Interfaces);
iTransact; Bank Of America; viaKLIX; PaySystems; ECHOnline; EFSNET;
InternetSecure; PlugNPay; SkipJack; PSiGate; Netbilling; BluePay;
FirstPay; Planet Payment (Weblink); RT Ware (Weblink); GoRealTime.Com. |
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Support for PayPal IPN. |
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You can run multiple payment methods at once. |
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Fully customize the order form - including creation of extra fields presented for customer completion at checkout. |
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Additional checkout options include discount code entry and tax ID number entry for exemptions. |
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Support for a minimum total needed to checkout. |
Shipping Method Support
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The program supports shipping choices on the product level - meaning one product could be downloaded whereas another could be shipped
real-time where a third may be custom based. |
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Support for real-time rates is available for: UPS OnLine® Tools, FedEx DirectConnect, USPS Web Tools and
Intershipper. |
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Support for embedded tracking information on orders is available for: UPS OnLine® Tools, FedEx DirectConnect and
USPS. |
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Default product-based shipping methods allow you to specify a per-item charge at the product level. |
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Custom shipping methods allow you to use custom shipping scripts to specify custom calculations of charges at the product level. |
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Manage your connection status with UPS OnLine® Tools, FedEx DirectConnect, USPS Web Tools and Intershipper realtime using the web-based management interface. |
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Support for additional per-shipment handling charges. |
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For real-time methods: The ability to ship items in single boxes, group with other items or to ship in separate boxes. |
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Full drop-shipper support including the ability to specify different shipment origins for
real-time shipped items. |
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Drop-shipper support includes sending order confirmations for items ordered to shippers. |
Discounts, Sales and
Taxes
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Support for the entry of
discount codes at checkout. |
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Discount codes are set up using the web-based management interface. |
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Discount codes can be set to expire one use or be of the non-expiring type. |
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Discount codes can include/exclude certain items at the administrator's
disgression. |
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Discounts can be done as a currency amount or percentage of the items ordered. |
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Unused portions of currency amount discounts are saved for future use. |
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Custom sale logic allows the administrator to use custom scripts to calculate sales at checkout. |
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Taxes can be calculated for both State/Provinces and Countries. |
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Items can be marked individually as tax exempt. |
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Multiple taxation localities are supported. |
Order Management, Reporting and Accounting Exports
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Order management functions include a fully searchable database table, the ability to enter shipping tracking numbers for ordered items and the ability to include comments. |
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Customers have the ability to track their orders real-time using the front-end. |
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Administrator based reports include: Administrator Access Log, Page View Reports and Daily, Month and Yearly Activity Reports. |
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Accounting exports are available for both Quickbooks & Peachtree. |
Customer Care and Retention
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The program uses both cookies and URL management to ensure customer shopping carts are retained throughout the shopping experience. |
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Customer account functions allow customers to set up accounts, edit them and retrieve lost passwords. |
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Customers with accounts can save wish-lists and address books as well as have full management of their accounts. |
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Both the front-end and management interface have contact modules that allow for email based communication between customers and administrators. |
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The program is delivered with a full-blown mail list program that allows the administrator to send text-only and/or XHTML-based email messages to subscribers. |
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The mail list function allows customers to subscribe/unsubscribe via simple account links. |
Wholesale and Affiliate Systems
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The program comes with built-in affiliate and wholesale systems. |
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At the administrator's discretion, maximum payouts per order based on a currency amount or percentage can be set. |
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The management interface has functions to activate affiliates and wholesalers and assign commission levels. |
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Affiliate front-end functions include account upgrade requests, lost password retrieval, linking information and order & sales reports. |
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Set affiliate commissions and wholesale prices on either the product level or globally per-affiliate or per-wholesaler. |
Dynamic Forms and Remote APIs
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The software comes with a dynamic form function that allows for the setup of web-based forms using a simple management interface. |
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Choose what types of form fields to present, the questions asked and the email address to which results from each form are sent. |
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The shopping cart function has a remote API that allows for shopping cart additions to originate from outside HTML pages. |
Management Interface & Platform Features Menu
Installation and Support
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No programming required. |
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Installs on virtually all webservers. |
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Runs in it's own directory - you can run multiple installs on the same domain (a license purchase for each install is
required). |
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Does not require a dedicated server - built for virtual hosts. |
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Installs via FTP or SSH - your choice. |
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No local platform specific installation package. |
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Runs 100% on your webserver. |
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Once installed, all configuration is done via the web-based management interface. |
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Free support via our online forum. |
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Free updates & low-cost upgrades. |
Platform and Database
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Editable source codebase. |
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Runs on any webserver with PHP. |
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Full SSL/HTTPS support. |
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Operating systems supported include all Unix/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. |
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Relational databases supported include MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Microsoft SQL Server. |
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All database tables are querried and updated using SQL. |
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Modify tables and execute SQL statements in real time using the web-based administrator. |
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Easily import/export data to/from CSV files and relational databases. |
Web-Based Management Interface
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All configuration is web-based. |
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Password-protected administrative access. |
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Manage your site from anywhere - all you need is an Internet connection. |
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Set up multiple users and user groups with different levels of access. |
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Make changes to your site in real time. |
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Easy to follow menu system. |
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Embedded context-sensitive help. |
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Offers functions for virtually every management task. |
Layout and Site Design
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The site layout is skin based, which allows you to use FrontPage or Dreamweaver created HTML in your layout. |
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You can match the layout to the look and feel of the rest of your site. |
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The management interface has a full content management system built-in. |
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Embedded support for full-blown PHP allow you to include program variables and even code routines in your XHTML. |
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100% of the front-end layout is configurable in nearly 200 different layout elements. |
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Create displays on-the-fly. |
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Change the text of all system messages. |
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Change the different email templates (text and XHTML) used by the program. |
File Management Functions
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Full file management functions are available within the web-based management
interface. |
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The management interface has functions to upload and manage image and media files. |
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The management interface has functions to upload and manage downloadable files. |
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All files uploaded via the program can be viewed/deleted via the web-based management interface. |
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| Note: Cart hosting
fees from $19.95 to $29.95 is not the same as the initial ecommerce cart
software expense. |
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