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Completely Database Driven
- Customers, Products, Categories, Store Settings,
Shipping Options, Payment Methods, and Orders are
all stored in an fast and efficient MySQL database.
Product and Category Features
- Unlimited number of products and categories
- Price/weight altering product options, in the form
of SELECT form inputs, or TEXT / TEXTAREA field types.
This allows you to offer options for a product, and
charge accordingly. You can specify a set of options
for a single product, or fall every product in a particular
category.
- Products can be marked "not for sale",
which keeps them in your database, but does not display
them in your store.
- Upload images for both products and categories via
the cart
Storefront Features
- Best Selling Item - optionally displayed on homepage
- Best Sellers - optionally display top ten items
on homepage
- Display subset of new products on your homepage
- Simple and Advanced Search
- User Login (which can be configured to be required,
optional, or not present)
- Category Preview - view a subset of items in a given
category, while viewing detail of an item in that
category
Inventory Control
- Keep track of your stock
- Fine control over what your customers see when an
item is out of stock:
- Display item as out of stock, and allow customer
to purchase it
- Display item as out of stock, and do not allow
customer to purchase it
- Display item normally, and allow customer to
purchase it
- Do not display item
Email Features
- Email order confirmation to customer
- Email order notification to merchant.
- Email newsletters / notices to all selected customers
from the admin interface
Shipping Features
- UPS OnLine® Tools Built In. Click here for full
details.
- Your customers can track their packages in your
store front
- You can track packages in the administration
interface
- Your customers can get Rates and Services selections
via UPS in your store front
- You can get Rates and Services selections in
the administration interface.
- USPS Web Tools - your customers can get live USPS
rates from USPS.com without leaving your site
- Custom Shipping Couriers and Methods can be added
- Shipping is rule based, which allows you to offer
1 or more shipping methods, based on:
- Weight of order
- Cost of order
- Number of items in order
- Country, State, or City order is shipping to
Sales Tax
- State / Province based tax calculations - specify
which states you charge tax in, and percentages associated
with them
- Specify whether or not to tax products at the category,
or individual product level
Order Management
- Customers can view their order history in detail
- Merchant can specify status of order in admin interface
- Merchant can customize entries for order status
- Order statistics - displays total number and amount
of orders in admin interface
Security Features
- Supports Secure Socket Layer. SSL is a communications
protocol that enables Squirrelcart to send order information
in a secure manner to the payment gateway you are
using.
- Information the cart needs in order to maintain
the flow of the application is temporarily stored
on the web server using sessions, not using cookies.
- Minimum username and password length is customizable
User Friendly, Intuitive Administration Interface
- Our shopping cart back end administration section
has been designed for ease of use. It emulates the
feel of a desktop application, to help ease the merchant
into learning the details of the cart. Navigation
is done via drop down menus that are very similar
to those seen in non web-based applications. Many
of the field names listed on the records in the DB
are links that you can click on to get help for the
particular field you are altering.
Payment Methods
The cart can handle the following types of payment.
- Check
- Money Order
- Credit Card
Payment Gateway/Processor Support
If you are going to take credit cards for payment, you
will need to use a Payment Gateway or Payment Processor.
The shopping cart supports the following:
- Authorize.net
- Bank of America
- iTransact
- PSigate
- TrustCommerce
- USAePay
- WorldPay
- 2Checkout.com
- PayPal
- LinkPoint
Highly Customizable
Here are some of the ways to make the cart fit the look
of your site:
Templates:
Just about every piece of content that the shopping
cart generates for the customer's browser can be easily
configured via template files. You can change your fonts,
background colors, all of the cart images, location
of certain components, etc....
Themes:
The template files mentioned above control the
look of your entire store. All of the template files
the cart uses collectively make up a theme. You can
create your own themes, or use one of the ones provided
with the cart. If you wish, you can give your customers
the ability to change the appearance of your store with
a single click by changing the current theme on your
homepage.
Behavioral settings:
Many aspects of the shopping cart's behavior
can be easily modified in your store settings. Some
of the things you can change are:
- Emails to merchant and customer - turn them on or
off.
- Billing and shipping address fields- Modify what
fields are shown, and what fields are required on
the address information pages.
- Authorized Hosts - Specify which websites can add
an item to your cart. Defaults to just your domain,
but can be altered for special circumstances
- Minimum Username Length
- Minimum Password Length
- Forgotten Password Limit (number of times someone
can try to submit their email in order to obtain a
new password)
- Currency Symbol
- Change field name that products are sorted by, as
well as sort order
- Change number of products that are displayed per
page
- Add to Cart Behavior - allows you to specify what
happens when a customer adds something to their cart.
You can either stay on the product page, or go directly
to checkout. Both options display a notice at the
top of the page as to whether or not the item was
added.
- Force User Creation - allows you to force customers
to create an account before they can finish placing
an order or you can leave it as optional
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