First Look: Parts & Accessories Online Store

We plan to post more about the new Online Store we've adding to our Website Pro Plan but since know a lot of our customers have been asking (OK begging) us for a storefront solution for a while now we thought we'd get the word out quickly on the blog and then fill in the details a little later with a proper webpage, video demo and spec sheet.

First things first, this is available today.  It's released and already a number of dealers have signed up to start using it.  It comes with our Pro Plan and while there is a small setup fee to configure everything and work to connect it to your mechant account, etc there is no additional monthly fee to add storefront on the Pro Plan. 

Also very important is that it's super simple for your customers to use and easy for you to maintain.  You can import products from a spreadsheet quickly to get started and get as large and complex as you want from there. 

Lastly, and most importantly...it's not a "bolt on" or "off to the side" solution.  This module sits right inside your website and integrates seamlessly with membership, community, marketing and CRM. 

Offering our customers a single seemlessly integrated online marketing system continues to be our focus and this module help dealers not only sell parts and accessories online and gain a real SEO benefit in their trade area for parts and accessories but it also helps them ensure that someone buying a small item online today get's marketed to tomorrow for long terms business value.

More to come...for now check out the ridiculous feature list and don't forget the sceenshots at the bottom of the page.

Product Detail (screenshot)

Admin Control Panel (screenshot)

Complete Feature List

Categories and Sub Categories:

• Unlimited Categories/Departments/Manufacturers Supported
• Categories and Departments can be fully nested to any level desired (e.g. sub-categories, sub-sub-categories, etc)
• Products can be mapped to more than one category or sub category
• Paged browsing for categories keeps page size small and optimizes user experience.
• Separate Categories Module can be customized and placed in any pane
• Sort and filter Categories, Sub Categories, Sub Sub Categories, etc
• Manage Categories - Add/Update/Delete categories and sub categories

Products

• Unlimited Products
• Unlimited custom product fields
• Automatic thumbnail generation and resizing
• Unlimited product photos
• Zoom product photos
• Lighbox photo gallery
• Paged browsing for products keeps page size small and optimizes user experience.
• Filter Products
• Sort Products By
  • Price low to high
  • Price high to low
  • Brand and product name A-Z
  • Brand and product name Z-A
  • Sku A-Z
  • Sku Z-A
  • New Arrivals
  • Featured products
  • Pre defined sort order
• Separate product listing and product detail pages
• 1, 2, 3 and 4 column product layouts in catalog
• Customer reviews and product reviews
• Advanced related product functionality can be used for up selling and cross selling
• Layout of pages customizable using standard skins/containers and css
• Second price field can be used as sale price or member price
• Bundled/Kit products
• Sell downloadable or physical goods
• Catalog Only Sites (i.e. Turn Add to Cart buttons off).  Module settings to show/hide prices, quantity, sku and add to cart buttons
• User entered amounts
• Filter products by category by passing category id in URL
• Inventory Control - Option to display "Quantity on Hand" for products and prevent the user from checking out if item is out of stock.
• "Sold Out" message for out of stock items
• Minimum Order Quantities
• Free products - Option to bypass payment page for products you have configured with a cost of zero dollars.
• Manage Product Catalog - Add/Update/Delete products
• Rich text editor for product description include HTML formatting giving you complete control over product description layouts
• Separate manufacturer/vendor fields
• Ability to search products by any field.  Wild card searches supported
• Multiple Catalogs within the same portal
• Ability to add multiple product catalogs on separate pages
• Search Engine Optimized (SEO) product catalog
• Product import/export

Product Variants

• Unlimited product variants
• Custom product variants using dropdowns, radiobuttons, checkboxes and textboxes
• Each variant option can be associated with an image.  Image dynamically changes when user selects product variant.
• Each variant can have a different price
• Product variants with price and weight adjustments
• SKU's and Quantity on Hand can be defined on unlimted variant combinations
• Each variant can require user selection or input
• Conditional variants dynamically add/remove variants based on user selection

Product Matrix 

• Product Matrix by Category
• Product Variant Matrix 

Dowloadable Products and Soft Goods 

• Sell downloadable or soft goods
• Download URL fully secure and hidden from user
• Anti piracy features for electronic products
• Velocity Checks - number of times and/or number of days to allow file to be downloaded by a recipient
• PDF Watermarking/Stamping - Stamp every page with pre defined fields from the order.  Stamps are secure and cannot be removed. 
• Smith Cart Gatekeeper Manual

Recurring Billing

• Recurring billing with Authorize.Net, PayPal Website Payments Standard, PayPal Website Payments Pro, First Data, MyGate, NMI, BluePay and eWay payment gateways
• Configure one time payments or recurring billing by product
• Daily, weekly, every 2 weeks, monthly, every 2 months, quarterly, semi-annual and yearly recurring billing supported

Shipping and Handling

• Real Time Shipping Rates
  • UPS
  • USPS
  • FedEx
  • Canada Post
  • Cart calculates real time shipping rates using "from" and "to" zip codes and product weight
• Zone Shipping
• Calculate Shipping By Order Total
• Calculate Shipping By Order Weight
• Calculate Shipping By Order Quantity
• Calculate Shipping By Zip Code
• Calculate Shipping By Fixed Item Shipping Costs (e.g. Shipping Cost By Product)
• Specify All Orders As Free Shipping
• Allow "Free shipping over $X" for site
• Custom defined shipping methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day, Priority, etc
• Configure shipping methods/costs at the order level or product level
• Tax Shipping/No Tax on Shipping
• Restrict shipping by state
• Shipping Tracking #'s e-mailed to Customers
• Option to have shipping and handling costs combined to a single line item or displayed as separate line item costs
• Separate domestic and international handling charge configurable in module settings
• Option to charge a flat handling charge or no handling charge
• International ship to addresses
• Handling by Product
• Calculate real time international shipping costs
• UPS Worldship integration
• Print shipping labels and postage using Endicia and UPS Worldship

Tax

• Real time tax calculation - Cart computes exact tax rate based on tax table lookup
• Apply Tax by State(s)
• Apply Tax by Country, reqion and province
• Charge a flat rate tax
• Charge no tax
• Tax can be applied to shipping costs
• Individual Products can be marked Taxable or tax-exempt
• VAT/GST Tax

Payment Methods

• Real time credit card processing (Visa, MasterCard, Amex, Discover, JCB)
• Both domestic and foreign credit cards
• Real time ACH eCheck processing with account number and routing number verification
• Purchase Order (PO)
• Check with account number and routing number entry
• Check without account number and routing number entry
• Internet Banking
• Cash on Delivery (COD)
• Cash
• Telephone
• Authorize Only or Authorize with automatic settlement (capture)

Payment Gateways

• Authorize.Net
• PayPal Website Payments Standard
• PayPal Website Payments Pro
• PayPal Payflow Pro
• Sage Payment Solutions (SagePay)
• DPS PaymentExpress 
• Elavon Internet Secure
• Elavon Virtual Merchant
• BluePay
• eWay (Australia)
• Innovative (QuickBooks)
• QuickBooks Merchant Services (QBMS)
• First Data Resources (FDR) - First Data Global Gateway Connect, Web Service
• LinkPoint - First Data Global Gateway
• CardFlex 
• TransFirst
• MyGate (South Africa) - mygate.co.za
• MyGate Enterprise with 3D-Secure
• Merchant e-Solutions 
• NMI- Network Merchants Inc.
• Custom Web Service - Plugin your own gateway. 
• Checkout option - Pay with credit card or Paypal
• Checkout option - Pay with credit card or Bill me Later
• Manual Processing (No Gateway) – If you choose this option the module stores the customer, order and credit card information in the database and you can process the credit card transaction at a later time manually through your credit card terminal or virtual terminal.

Cart/Checkout

• Streamlined user friendly checkout
• Option to prompt user to login at the beginning of checkout
• Mini Cart Module
• Separate "Ship To" and "Bill To" names and addresses
• Customer can define multiple shipping addresses and select during checkout
• International address support
• Module retrieves logged in users profile information to enable “Fast Checkout“
• Automated email order confirmations (to your customer) and new order email notifications (to store administrator)
• Ability to cc: an order with order details to third party fulfillment house for drop shipping.
• Require user to create website login or allow anonymous checkout for all orders or by product.
• Company name and title support for B to B transactions.
• Supports request a quote/request for quote checkout.
• User defined textboxes, dropdowns and date support
• Partial quantities
• Auth only transactions with settlement request initiated by store administrator
• Authorize and settle credit cards automatically
• Email confirmation invoice template driven
• Bill Me Later feature allows the user to pay now or pay later
• Bundled products - Ability to create master and child skus.
• Assign one or more website roles to user based on product purchased.  Role expiration support
• Special instructions multiline textbox on confirmation page
• Custom configurable redirect URL and image button on order confirmation screen. Useful for redirecting back to referring affiliate website or page on your site after order completes.
• Add products directly to your cart by passing productid in the url or querystring.
• SSL Support
• OnCheckoutComplete event - Ability to call a custom stored procedure after successful payment has been made on your store

Coupons and Discounts

• Order Based Coupons (apply to entire order)
• Ordel level discounts by amount/percentage by website role(s) 
• Product Specific Coupons (apply to only specified product)
• Coupon discounts by amount or percent
• Quantity discounts by product (tiered pricing)
• Quantity discounts by category
• Coupon expiry - enter a date or number of days to expire coupons.
• Coupons can offer shipping discounts
• Coupons can offer free shipping
• Coupons can have expiration date
• Coupon limits can be set per product
• Require a coupon to purchase a product
• Coupons can be excluded from products
• Discounts can be applied up to a certain order/product quantity or no limit
• Member discounts by website role
• Tiered Member Pricing by role - great for distributor or wholesale pricing

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 

• Custom configurable URLs
• Search engine optimized product catalog enables you to create title tag, meta description and meta keywords by product
• Alt tags for images
• Google Analytics Supported

Product Reviews and Ratings

• Customers can review rate products (if enabled)
• Administrator can moderate product review comments - add/update/delete comments

Save Cart/Wish List Features

• Customer can save their cart or add to Wish List (Persists over Customer Visits also)
• Customer can move saved cart to regular cart for checkout
• Customer can save multiple carts 
• Customer can add, update and delete saved carts
• Print quote - generates a custom html invoice which the user can print
• Automated email reminder notifying users with aging saved carts to buy. The email reminder frequency or number of days since the cart was saved is configurable by store admin.
• Share Saved Cart/Wish List - Invite users to login/create an account. Email others your saved cart.

Multiple store support

• Create an unlimited number of stores on your Web site to offer different product selections, presentations, payment methods, shipping rates, and tax rates. This is useful for such purposes as building a members-only store or creating a discount store for clearance items.

Affiliate Tracking Support

• Custom Affiliate Tracker module included with cart
• Affiliate Tracker saves affiliate id in order table on successful purchase.
• Affiliates can link to any page on your site and the affiliate tracker module will track affiliate id to purchase.
• Pay out commissions and bonuses to your affiliates in a multi level marketing (MLM) model.

Marketing

• Opt In checkbox presented to user during checkout that enables you to build white list of email address that you can use for email marketing and email blasting. Opt In field stored to database with the customer email address.
• User Defined Dropdownbox- Show/hide custom configurable dropdownbox displayed to the user during checkout.Useful for collecting marketing data like "How did you hear about us"
• Cart stores IP Address of user who successfully purchases. This feature enables you to comply with CANSPAM requirements for your email marketing.

My Accounts Module

• My Accounts module included with the cart allows users to login and check their order status, order history and download soft goods.
• Users can check their payment history
• Printable invoice

Store and Order Administration

• Clear, simple admin control panel for maintaining your shop
• Add/update/delete categories and products
• Activate/deactivate products
• Add/update/delete customers,orders, ship tracking and payment history
• Printable invoice report can be used as a packing slip
• Multiple order statuses to manage your orders (Processing, Awaiting Payment, Awaiting Stock, Packing, Dispatched and Canceled)
• Custom order statuses available
• Automated email sent to customer when the status of their order is changed.
• Inventory - Quantity on hand field lets you manage product inventory and know when inventory is low and you need to reorder.
• Search for customers,orders and payment history using any search criteria
• Sort customers, orders and payment history by any field in ascending or descending order
• Import categories and products from xls file
• QuickBooks export of customer list to csv
• QuickBooks export of orders to QuickBooks IIF
• QuickBooks real time customer and order import availible
• Integration with UPS Worldship with trracking # import 
• Settlement button on manage order detail page that allows you to manually settle (capture) auth-only credit card transactions (Supported with Authorize.Net only)

 Management Reports

• Top Products
• Top Customers 
• Daily Sales Report
• Monthly Sales Report
• Quarterly Sales Report 
• Order History Report
• Order Detail Report
• Customer Detail Report
• Payment History Report
• Sort and filter on any field
• Drill down to order detail

PCI Compliant 

• Full compliance with PCI PA-DSS standards
• Option to not save credit card numbers in database