*E-Data Cart Import - Switch to E-Data Cart and enjoy FREE product import. We'll transfer your products from your existing Store over to the E-Data Cart platform at no charge.

*Advanced data import / export capabilities. - Ability to import any spreadsheet or database, including all of your products, customers, etc.

*Free Telephone Tech Support

*Free Design Templates - to help you build your online store.

Online web payment integration is implemented with an online 'Merchant Account'.

A Merchant Account is a third party services that process secure online payments and transfers funds from the buyers credit/bank card to the sellers Internet merchant bank account.

You can then transfer funds from your merchant account to your bank account as you wish.

There are many merchant accounts available to you. Whatever merchant account you choose eData Carts can seamlessly integrate it with your online shop or any kind of online business transaction you require.

After any transaction you will be notified via an email and your online web database would be updated accordingly with the results of the transaction using a 'Callback' feature or IPN (Instant Payment Notification).

Integrated with major shipping companies...

*Batch Order Printing - print packing slips for multiple orders with one click.

*MinOrderWeight and MaxOrderWeight fields - allows you to set shipping price grid based on weight.

*Automatic shipping rate lookup - Live UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL Worldwide. Accurate rates given to customers

*Package tracking - Live UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL Worldwide tracking so that your customer can track their packages at YOUR website.

*Unlimited shipping calculation types - Free, Local Pickup, By Order Price, By Region, By Live Rate Lookup, or your own method.

*Additional shipping weight (Shipping & Handling) - can be automatically added to each live shipping calculation. Plus you can adjust live rates by a percentage markup.

*Digital download for software product sales - Automated product activation key distribution system for selling & distributing unique keys for every order. For example for phone cards, software activation numbers, etc.

*Automatic shipping confirmation by e-mail - Customer receives e-mail when product is shipped.

*Multiple warehouse support - efficiently calculate shipping rates to account for split-shipments due to the fact that you only stock specific products at certain warehouses.

*Quick "Estimated Shipping" calculation - Customer's can quickly calculate shipping based on zip codes on shopping cart page, before the customer has to create an account.

Tools to help sell your products & services...

*Search Engine Optimized (SEO Optimized) - Strategically placed keywords, Meta Tags & text helps you get TOP Rankings for all your products.

*Dynamic Static HTML page creation - STATIC HTML pages with keywords in the URL provide an extra boost in SEO optimization. Plus the ".htm" pages lose NO functionality, and everything remains completely automatic.

*Export feeds to third party shopping marketplaces - including Froogle, Shopping.com, BizRate, Dealtime / Epinions / Shopping.com, Yahoo Shopping, NexTag, PriceGrabber, etc.

*3 Tier Affiliate System - allows you to track all sales and traffic generated by your affiliates. With this powerful system, you can allow people to advertise your business for you, and in turn you can pay them a percentage of all sales generated by them. Supports up to a 3 tier system (3 level system) which encourages affiliates to acquire new affiliates similar to MLM. You set the default payout rates for each level, plus you can change any individual's payout rates.

*Affiliate management system - allows your affiliates to login to their account and view their statistics live and real-time. For example the total clickthroughs that they generated each month, or how much money they've made so far this month, how many people are in each level of their network.

*E-mail marketing/News letter marketing - Easily create E-mail marketing campaigns with the built in Mass E-mailing Software, which allows you to send attractive HTML e-mails to your customers. You can use the pre-designed e-mail templates, or you may create new e-mail templates using your favorite HTML editor. Also handles all bounced email. Plus integrated ROI Tracking to see how many people (a) open your email and just look at it, (b) how many people click on a link in the email and (c) how many people actually buy something because of the e-mail solicitation. A complete analytical insight.

*Phone Order System - allow sales reps to quickly take orders from customers when they call in to place an order.

*Coupon System - Generate Coupons which you can use to advertise special discounts (great for print advertising!)

*Gift Certificates - Customers can buy gift certificates from you and use them as payment when they purchase from your store.

*Quantity Discounting - encourages people to buy more! - You can give people a percentage discount, or a specific dollar amount discount for purchasing over a certain quantity.

*Free Shipping - Free shipping on orders over a certain amount. For example: "FREE Shipping on orders over $99!"

*The customer NEVER leaves your website - Everything in this amazing store is built into YOUR website.

*Gift Wrapping - Allow the customer to choose to have the item gift wrapped (you set the rates).

*FREE Gift Note - Allow the customer to type a FREE gift note, which automatically gets printed on the packing slip.

Improved security, best in reliability...

*Integrated IP Blocking Security feature - allows you to block IP's or IP Ranges from accessing your website, or lockdown your admin area to block all IP's except your specific IP Addresses.

*SSL Encryption - The highest Internet standard for website security and e-commerce (Supports any brand SSL Certificate). Encryption of sensitive data such as credit cards and passwords

*Secured, password protected administration area

*Multiple Administrators Login - multiple, customizable levels of access. Hide all credit card numbers and financial data from your employees for example. Or hire a temporary employee to do data entry / add products, but lock them out of everything else... it's important to your business to have this control.

*Administration Area Access History - gives you the ability to see who accessed your admin area, when & what pages they visited. You can see if an employee you trust is really doing what they should be doing within the admin area.

*Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database - best in reliability, stability, and speed (MS Access Database is also supported)

*Shopping cart features "Crash Protection" - so that if a customer has added items to his/her cart, and is not able to complete his/her purchase, due to any reason, the customer's items will still be in the cart on his/her next visit.

*"Members Only" website capabilities - requires all customers to register, and optionally pay a fee, BEFORE being able to view products and shop. You can also run a members only site and ALLOW the customer to browse the site, look at all the products, but HIDE ALL PRICING until they register to become a member.

Customizable, automated product input & management...

*Web-based Administration Area - allows you to configure every aspect of your e-commerce site.

*Unlimited photos per product - AUTOMATIC photo resizing & optimization. Creates all required thumbnails for you, all you have to do is upload your largest photo, and the system takes care of the rest.

*Add manufacture logos (i.e. logos of "SONY", "COMPAQ", "INTEL", etc.)

*Product Options - Specify size, color etc. in (a) dropdown boxes (b) radio buttons (c) checkboxes (d) text boxes for customer input. (All configurable via the admin area) There is no limit to the number of options you may have, or the number of items in each option list. Optionally display "Update Price" button to re-calculate newly configured price.

*Live Stock Status - Customizable to show actual qty in stock or "In Stock","Out of Stock", etc. Includes option to allow or not allow backorders of "Out of Stock" items. Plus intgrated technology for automated inventory control of multiple Product Option combinations (size + color + material, etc.) If a certain color + size combination runs out of stock, it can automatically disappear from the dropdown choices!

Best Features

*Customer Reviews - allows registered customers to rate and post their review of a specific product NOTE: Built-in filter will not allow users to write offensive language, plus it will e-mail you a notice warning you of this event. As with everything else in your store, you can easily manage customer reviews via the administration area.

*Recent History - helps the customer remember which products they recently viewed and might still be interested in purchasing. (very helpful)

*Available accessories for product - shows a list of accessories specifically for that product.

*E-mail product to a friend - Sends an attractive HTML E-Mail of the product, photo, and price to the user's friend.

*Shopping Cart Summary -shown as reference for customer as they continue to browse for more products.

*Website remembers the customer and welcomes them by name each time the visit - adding the amazing convenience that return customers NEVER have to type information twice (except for their password).

*Gift Wrapping - Allow the customer to choose to have the item gift wrapped (you set the rates). Plus allows the customer to type of a gift message for the package, which is automatically printed on the packing slip.

*Wish list - The wish list feature allows the customer to save items to a list in their account that they may wish to purchase later.