Features List

The features listed below, are to provide you a broad overview of the features your managed
cart will come equipped with and what we activate depends on your choices and selection.

Your Managed Cart is quite Robust and packed with loads of features. Some are activated as part of the Base Set up and others can be activated at any time. As your business grows you can add more
features to your online store, or as you find that you require different functionality for your online store.

Included features are not marked.
Additional Features are noted below and cost $5 per month to activate
unless otherwise indicated.

Product Details

  • Unlimited products.
  • Unlimited categories.
  • Unlimited category levels.
  • Title, Introduction, Description, Longer Description, Highlights and Teaser fields for product details.
  • Unlimited products.
  • Unlimited options and choices (variations) such as; colors, sizes, or add-on options.
  • Product bundling.
  • Link products to 'more details' pages to provide unlimited information.
  • Link product to external information resources.
  • Link product to larger images, sound and video files.
  • Create option templates such as shoe sizes for quick option generation.
  • Cross promotions — promote similar or related products.
  • Automatic generation of picture thumbnail with link to larger image.
  • Add picture frames to product images to improve their looks.
  • Product slideshow available with unlimited images. (Additional Feature)
  • Highlight products in link boxes.

Discount functions

Offering discounts helps you boost your sales. So of course the store contains the largest amount of discount options available. After all, boosting sales is what selling online is all about.

  • Shop wide discounts by percentage — example; reduce all products by 10%.
  • Shop wide discount on customer order total — example; spend $100 or more and get a 10% discount.
  • Product level discount by price — set a fixed discounted price.
  • Product level discount by percentage — reduce product price by a set percentage.
  • Product level discount by quantity — set a lower price for larger quantities.
  • 'Buy some, get some free' — buy 2, get 1 free or buy 3, get 2 free.
  • Buy one, get another product free.
  • Set product discounts on 'product only' or on 'product and options.'
  • Highlight product discounts.
  • Product discount message.
  • Promote next discount level — alerts customers to quantity discounts applying if they order more.
  • Schedule discount events by time and date.
  • Meta tags for each product.

Promotions

When you run an online shop, promoting it and your products is what will get you the sales. By telling people about your shop or customers about related products you build up your sales.

  • Highlighted Discounts.
  • Many discount types.
  • Up-selling (if you buy 3 more, you will get a discount).
  • Link directly to a product or page from other locations such as email or external websites.
  • Timed Discounts (automatically expire or repeat discounts at certain times). (Additional Feature)
  • Newsletter mailing list generation support. (Additional Feature)
  • Email list generation based on customer preference. (Additional Feature)
  • Email list generation based on items purchased by customer. (Additional Feature)
  • Email list generation based on location of customer. (Additional Feature)
  • Link Boxes — link from any product or page to any other products or pages to highlight a relationship or promote specific products.
  • Membership Points rewards. (Additional Feature)
  • Search Engine compatible.

Inventory

  • Stock control on product level.
  • Stock control on 'option and choice' (variants) level.
  • Automatically combine cataloge number of a product with a selected option check stock levels
    (such as a T-Shirt and its colours: T45-green).
  • Manually update stock levels.
  • Real-time display of available stock levels.
  • Exact or 'traffic light stock level' display.
  • Shop wide 'Out of stock' message.
  • Product level 'Out of stock' message — for example; to state a delivery time.
  • Define 'Minimum purchase price total' — how much a customer must spend at least to place an order.
  • Define 'Maximum purchase price total' — the maximum value of an order you accept via the Internet

Making it easy for customers

Convert more website visitors into buying customers by making buying easy for them and giving them a feeling of security.

  • Easy website navigation.
  • Fast adding of items to 'shopping cart' for faster customer feedback.
  • Automatic updating of Order Total based on products in 'shopping cart.'
  • Automatic tax and shipping costs calculations prior to check-out.
  • Secure easy two step order process with patented fraud protection.
  • Recover Password function for members and resellers.
  • Integrated Blog allows keeping customers and resellers up to date. (Additional Feature)
  • Automatic remembering of customer details for easy check-out.
  • Restore shopping cart function for repeat visitors.
  • Integrated search for products and content (Basic search and configurable PHP Power Search).
  • Add to 'favorites list.'
  • 'Email to a friend' function.
  • Related product link support.
  • Calculate shipping and taxes prior to check-out.
  • Automatic 'base price' calculation support.
  • Automatic currency conversions. (Additional Feature)
  • Customizable email order confirmations.
  • Allow customer to disable Order confirmation.
  • Printable order page.
  • Adjust order quantities in 'shopping cart.'
  • Link to products from 'shopping cart.'
  • Customizable order form.
  • Opt-in newsletter support. (Additional Feature)
  • Customizable 'Thank you' page after an order has been placed.

Shipping

The Store can quickly calculate shipping costs for your customers before they check out. This is a legal requirement in many countries. You can use the online calculators provided by companies such as; UPS, USPS, FedEx and others, or set up your own shipping charges quickly and easily.

  • Real-time shipping cost calculation based on customer’s location prior to check-out.
  • Automatically retrieve shipping charges from; UPS, USPS and DHL.
  • Link to Shipping charges from each product.
  • Free Shipping.
  • Free shipping above a set order value.
  • Free shipping above a set order value per region.
  • One price for all.
  • One price per shipping region.
  • Charge shipping costs per product.
  • Create unlimited shipping methods.
  • Apply different shipping methods to different regions such as; local, domestic and international.
  • Limit Regions you ship products to.
  • Apply different shipping costs to different shipping methods.
  • Create custom shipping regions.
  • Charge shipping costs based on 'shipping provider.'
  • Charge shipping costs based on 'weight.'
  • Charge shipping costs based on 'order total.'
  • Charge shipping costs based on 'quantity ordered.'
  • Charge shipping costs based on 'exact value' or 'by range.'
  • Apply additional handling/freight/packaging costs.
  • Set maximum weight for boxes.
  • Apply handling/freight/packaging charges per box.
  • Set handling/freight/packaging charges on a product level.
  • Real-time shipping charge calculation for customers.
  • Allow customers to select shipping methods.

Tax

  • Real-time tax calculation for customers.
  • Tax calculation based on customer location.
  • Automatically assign taxes to products.
  • Set up different taxes for different products.
  • Set up different taxes for different regions.
  • Apply multiple taxes to products.
  • Support for tax exempted customers.
  • Automatic validity check of European tax exemption numbers.
  • European mixed tax calculation for shipping charges when ordering products with different taxes.
  • Ability to create a services tax applying to shipping and handling charges.
  • Easy update function for products when taxes change.
  • GST/PST/HST tax calculations are available for Canada.
  • Can automatically insert 'tax display' and notices when legally required.

Payment gateways and methods

The more options your customers have to pay, the more you will sell. The Store can accept any payment methods — from Amex to Paypal. Many methods are pre-set and we can, of course, also create custom methods. The Store can be configured to even combine multiple Real-time Payment Processors with your own manual approval methods.

  • Free secure order processing (manual payment approval).
  • Secure 2-Step check-out process.
  • Large number of predefined payment methods.
  • Create your own payment methods.
  • Accept any payment method including; PayPal, iDeal, ELV.
  • Accept payment manually or in real-time.
  • Compatible with many real-time payment processors such as; GlobeCharge, Authorize.Net, WorldPay and others. (Additional Feature)
  • Combine multiple real-time payment processors with manual payment approval methods depending on payment method selected.
  • Supports real-time e-check processing.
  • Accept payments in any currency. (Additional Feature)
  • PayPal support.
  • Automatic currency conversion. (Additional Feature)
  • Display payment gateway inside your website or as separate window.
  • Multilingual ordering process (Additional Feature)

Search engine optimization (SEO)

We will optimize your website for Search Engines.

  • Website map allows search engines to easily index website.
  • Google search map to allow improved indexing by Google.

Server compatibility

If you host with Quantum, then this will not be applicable. If you choose to host away from Quantum, you should know what type of server your store will be compatible on. We can manage your store on any compatible server. This particular store is NOT a self managed solution, it is a Quantum managed store only, whether hosted on a Quantum server or not. 

  • This particular type store will run on any server — regardless of platform.  
  • PHP 4 and 5 support for improved website search functionality
  • Multi-lingual (Requires International Language Link Add) (Additional Feature)

Online order management

The Store is compatible with GlobeCharge (Additional Feature - Set up by Quantum - Managed by YOU), to allow you to manage your orders online and gives you access to many services to help you make selling online more efficient and profitable. Globecharge may have fees associated with the services you select, and those would be charged to you directly by Globecharge.

  • Review orders from anywhere in the world. (Additional Feature)
  • Approve orders from anywhere in the word. (Additional Feature)
  • Apply membership settings. (Additional Feature)
  • Automatically deliver digital goods. (Additional Feature)
  • Allow customers to track orders (Additional Feature)
  • Manage resellers and members. (Additional Feature)
  • Update payment and shipping settings. (Additional Feature)
  • Manually review high risk orders. (Additional Feature)
  • Create e-mail lists to keep in touch with customers. (Additional Feature)

Security

The more secure your customers feel, the more they will buy from you. Research has made this abundantly clear. The Store comes with 'free secure order processing' (not a merchant account - but a secure way to checkout) and is also compatible with GlobeCharge's 'secure feel' order processing, which has the potential to boost your sales by five to ten percent.

  • Secure checkout process. (Additional Feature)
  • Patented product data protection.
  • SiteLoc Password protection — limit access only to password holders. (Additional Feature)
  • Customer data can be encrypted.
  • PGP support for email orders.
  • No server-side storing of payment data for approved orders.
  • Ability to send orders to multiple email addresses

Supported Gateways 

The Managed cart supports a large array of gateways. This cart integrates with many real-time payment service providers so you can accept payments for your orders online, such as GlobeCharge, PayPal and Authorize.Net. You can even combine multiple payment services by using a GlobeCharge account. (Additional Charges from Gateway May Apply Depending on Gateway)