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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
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
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
Payment Methods

Shipping

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
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
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
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
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)
Dynamic Catalog

  • 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
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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