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What features does UltraCart have?
UltraCart has a complete set of features that provides the greatest
bang for your shopping cart buck. Use this list when comparing UltraCart
to any other shopping cart and you'll quickly see why UltraCart is the
system for you!
Setup and Support |
- Easy to setup and use
- Integates seamlessly with existing web sites. No CGI or scripts to install,
SSL certificates to purchase, or advanced knowledge of web site design is required
- Integrates well with Microsoft Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and any other
popular web site design software
- Works with any web server including Apache, Netscape Enterprise, Lotus Domino,
Microsoft IIS, and Tomcat
- No SSL support requred on merchants server (a savings of several hundred
dollars a year)
- Web based administration
- Customizable to allow a seamless transition of look and feel between website and shopping cart
- Dedicated pre-sales team to help with site conversion, store customization, and other cart
related issues
- Free pre-signup and post-signup email and phonesupport
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Shopping |
- Embeddable search system to allow customers to locate products quickly in large stores
- Cart holds item description, part number, quantity, price, and custom options
- Accepts both billing and shipping addresses
- Gift message and wrapping paper
configuration
- Configurable customer contact information
- First line validation measures to assist in validating credit card numbers
- Calculates proper tax rates based upon customer's state and county. Supports multiple states simultaneously for multi-state companies
- Incredibly fast real-time shipping cost calculation for Austrailian Post, Canada Post,
DHL, FedEx, USPS
and Watkins with individually configurable markups. UltraCart
enables you to take advantages of special USPS pricing
on music, books, and magazine products
- Support for Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover card number validation
- Support for customer profiles makes it easy for repeat customers to place orders
- Allow customers to automatically reorder products based upon their
own schedule
- Auto order allows customers to select when the merchant can automatically
ship them additional products. Great for merchants
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Order Processing |
- Quickbooks Integration (FREE)
- Customizable e-mail messages sent to the customer upon product shipment including tracking link
- Multiple email notification when orders are received and when payments have been processed. Allows for separate accounting and shipping departments in larger companies
- Platform independent professional packing slip printing. Customizable to allow printing on your company's letter head, etc
- Return policy automatically shown to customer on invoice and printed packing slip
- Allows batch printing of packing slips to save time
- Edit orders to correct the most common errors that customers make
- Export order / shipment information to 3rd party applications such as credit card processing or shipping software
- Export your order information in the universal format, XML, for easy import or integration with other systems such as accounting packages
- Robust support for third-party fulfillment providers, utilizing industry
standards such as HTTP, SMTP, XML and PDF
- Route all your orders from sales channels through UltraCart. Support
for
Amazon Seller Central
InpulseResponse
LiveOps
EDI (Electronic Document Interchange) Partners
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Shipping |
- Support for third party fulfillment houses:
3PL WorldWide
A2B Fulfillment
ARC-SD
AtLast Fulfillment
BookSurge LLC
Cine Magnetics
Dart Warehouse Corporation
Datapak Services
EchoData Group
Efulfillment Service
FEX
Fosdick Fulfillment
FulEx
Fulfillment Concepts
Interact Services
Marlin Logistics
MDS Fulfillment
Moulton Logistics
National Fulfillment Incorporated
Novapointe
OrderMotion
OrderSuite
PBB Global Logistics
Pick Pack Logistics
Precise Media
SCC
SCR Companies
Ship4U
Silicon Valley Direct
Specialty Fulfillment Center
Sprocket Express
The Order Fulfillment Group
UMS Promo
United Fulfillment Solutions
VCM
Webgistix
WeFulfillIt
Your fulfillment house not listed? Contact support@ultracart.com
- Configurable shipping methods including built-in USPS, Fedex, Airborne
Express, and Canada Post. Charge users based
upon cost, weight, real-time estimate, or by the item.
Configurable handling charges for international countries
- Support for Fedex Freight
- Geo-location technology to determine where your customer is located for incredibly accurate shipping estimates
- Integrated support for APO / FPO addresses
- Automatic shipping estimation directly on cart view screen
- Automatically calculate insurance costs on shipments
- Standardize addresses (USPS shipments only)
- Verify city, state, and postal code combination for US customers (including
APO/FPO addresses)
- Export/Import to/from UPS OnLine Worldship, FedEx ShipManager, and
Endicia Dazzle software
- Print DHL/Airborne Labels directly from UltraCart
- Restrict shipping methods to specific regions or address types
- Specify which shipping methods are valid for free shipping offers
on specific items
- Sophisticated packing calculation to handle multi-box shipments
- Provide free shipping for orders over a certain dollar amount automatically.
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Reporting |
- Automated statistics on a configurable basis including break out of sales tax collected for easy boo keeping
- Real-time statistics including credit card sales, check sales, projected sales, quantity sold, etc
- Review searches that users have submitted to enhance product offerings
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Items |
- Allows logical grouping of products, including sub-groups, for easy management
- Supports taxable and non-taxable products/services
- Configurable volume discounts for each item
- Configurable item options such as size, color, length, etc
- Variable billing support for product customizations, such as personalized messages, custom colors, etc
- Tools to batch import and update items
- Inventory controls to prevent ordering of items once they're out of stock
- Configure different pricing tiers for different segments of customers.
Great for merchants that sell wholesale and retail
- Restrict shipping methods that are available for a specific item
- Specific measurements and weights in English or Metric
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Advanced Marketing |
- Create coupon codes for a variety of discounts, including % off, free shipping, and more
- Related items allow you to suggestive sell merchandise on your shopping cart view screen
- Dynamic pricing allows you to change your item pricing and automatically update price images on your website
- Advertising source tracking helps you determine which marketing efforts are working best
- Extract customer information based on previous purchase criteria
- Automatic item submission to Google's online store search engine Froogle
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Powerful E-mail Marketing |
- Powerful custom E-Mail Marketing engine allows you to create marketing campaigns targeted to unique customer segments
- Easy to use wizard allows for quick creation of rich HTML marketing e-mail messages
- Custom coupon codes allow you to give each customer a unique, single use coupon, thereby preventing coupon abuse & fraud
- Advanced reporting, including e-mails viewed, links clicked, purchases made, and user opt-out requests
- Automatic reply, bounce-back, and opt-out management
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Secure Digital Delivery |
- Sell and deliver digital content easily and securely
- Automatic digital content mirroring insures always-available delivery of your digital content
- Secure and easy to use delivery systems allow your customer quick & easy access to their digital content purchases
- Digital delivery services support all digital content, as well as such advanced download features such as HTTP resume, server cache management, and bookmarkable URLs
- Customers can download all their digital content as a ZIP file or have small purchases emailed to them
- Provide an option to download an item instead of purchasing the physical
version. Great for musicians selling CDs and MP3 files
- Support for registration keys (including keys generated on remote
servers by 3rd party program)
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Dynamic Catalog
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- Ability to host catalog as if it were part of the merchants domain
instead of the ultracart domain.
- Render entire sites with tens of thousands of pages with just a few
templates.
- Appears completely static to search engines like Google, MSN, etc.
- Friendly URLs that do not contain parameters or query strings.
- Flexible template design using easy to learn scripting language. Merchants
are not forced to modify canned templates
- Support for advanced user interface elements like bread crumb trails,
etc.
- Automated image thumbnail creation
- Dynamic related item information on product pages
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API |
- Secure real-time interaction with UltraCart via HTTPS and XML
- Automate many aspects of the UltraCart system and integrate with other
in-house software packages.
- Many APIs available! Contact UltraCart support for details
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