Basic Ecommerce package using

OSCommerce

Advanced Ecommerce Package using

X-cart

Customer Care

• All orders stored in MySQL database

• Customers can search & browse personal order history

• Integrated configurable store product search

• Real time order tracking

• Customer can choose between account registration and express checkout

• Fast Lane Checkout module for quick and intuitive checkout

• The possibility to disable checkout without registering

• Password reminder for customers

• Customizable e-mail notifications/invoices
  

• Wish list
  

• "Send to friend" section
  

• Ability to save the customer's cart
  

• Newsletter management for multiple lists, edit/import/export of subscribers, news archive for customers
  

• Printable versions of pages
  

• Multiple customer types w/unique pricing for every customer type
  

• Memberships and special pricing
  

• "Clear cart" button
  

• Edit product options in cart/wishlist/Gift registry wishlist
  

• Printable invoices
  

• Second address line for user profiles
  

• Ability to change the order of products on the customer side
  

Product Catalog

• Unlimited number of products
  

• Unlimited number of categories
  

• Unlimited category nesting
  

• Products can be assigned to unlimited number of categories
  

• Ability to modify multiple products simultaneously
  

• Members-only categories
  

• "Featured Products" box
  

• Automated display of bestsellers
  

• Related products, up selling and cross selling
  

• 1-click enable/disable switch for products and categories
  

• Support for up to two different currencies in the products catalog
  

• Automatical currency conversion
  

• Configurable search by title, description, category, SKU, price and weight
  

Product Details

• Unlimited product options/variants/properties w/optional price modifiers
  

• Unlimited custom input fields for products
  

• Customer-defined prices
  

• HTML-enriched product descriptions
  

• Unlimited number of product images
  

• Storing images in DB or on a file system
  

• List a product in several categories

• Manufacturers module

• Ability to display product detailed images in popup windows

Merchandising and Inventory

• Discount coupon codes and gift certificates

• Full inventory control

• "Out of Stock" Messages

• Quantity discounts

• Retail and wholesale price
  

• Limit minimal order amount

Shipping and Tax

• Real-time USPS, FedEx and UPS shipping calculation from one location

• Unlimited number of custom-defined delivery methods

• Flate rate, weight, order total and per-item based shipping

• Different weight limits for different delivery methods

• Markups for realtime shipping

• Mark your products as "free shipping" products

• Promotional "free shipping" coupons to your customers

• Add handling/freight charges

• Handle international, domestic and local shipping

• Ability to clone a zone and all zone information

• Restrict shipping by location

• Allow your customers to choose delivery methods

• Support for downloadable goods (e-goods)

• Customizable tax calculation

• Product-specific taxes

• Taxes & shipping fees depending on client's location

• GST/PST (canadian tax system)

• DHL (Airborne) ShipIt API support

• Australia Post's Delivery Rate Calculator support

• Shipping Label Generator for USPS and UPS

• Australia Post order tracking

Sales Analysis & Tracking - Comprehensive statistics

• Number of orders

• Number of customers

• Product views

• Category views

• Products removed from cart by customers

• Sales by product / best sellers

• Total sales

• Client environment settings

• Statistics on search patterns customers use when searching products

Payment Gateways & Methods

• Accept payments in any currency

• Allow payment via several online payment modules

• Payment systems (including PayPal payments)

• Pages can be indexed by all major search engines

• Define custom META tags for every category

• Customer referrer info is stored in database

• Product catalog can be generated as static HTML pages for better SE indexing and ranking

• Search engine optimization options group

Database and Platform Compatibility

• Open source PHP code

• Support for UNIX/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X servers

• Powered by MySQL database

• Multi-language: your e-store can work with unlimited number of languages

• Multi-lingual products

• Multi-lingual categories

• Multi-lingual product options

• Payment processing modules for all major gateways

• Flexible implementation: you can easily add new features and/or disable existing ones

Repeat Customer Accommodation

• All customer's data is stored in database

• Greet regular visitors

• Registered customers can be offered discounts

• Registered customers do not have to enter their data again

• Registered customers can edit their profile

• Registered customers can access history of their orders

• Built-in newsletter engine

• Real-time order tracking for registered customers

• Moderated product reviews and ratings

• Return Merchandise Authorization add-on to return customers' payments.

Web-based control panel

• Password-protected administrative access

• All changes are real-time

• Control the cart from anywhere in the world using your web browser

• Unlimited number of admin accounts

• Support for restricted "shipping/fulfillment" admin accounts

• User-defined date/time format

• Ability for administrator to act on behalf of other users (e.g. to place phone orders for customers and use X-Cart as web based point of sale system)

Security

• Full HTTPS/SSL support

• Secure HTTPS/SSL administrative access

• Password-protected administrative access

• Strong Blowfish encryption for sensitive customer data

• PGP-encrypted e-mail notifications

• Real-time security notifications of all failed login attempts

• Anti-Fraud module validates customer's address during checkout

• Stop list module allows disabling shop usage from specific IP

• System fingerprints: ability to compare the status of the store files before and after modification and to discover which files have been deleted, added or modified

• Backup sub-system

• Protect registration pages and e-mail forms with a random-number image