eCommerce Shopping Cart Features
There are a lot of PHP shopping cart software on the market today, so what makes Pinnacle shopping cart different?
Quite simply, Pinnacle Shopping Cart Software was built by Marketers, for Marketers
Our eCommerce solution helps you drive traffic to your store, merchandise your products, manage your customers and orders plus so much more. This complete solution provides you everything you need to successfully create and manage an on-line storefront.
Our management team has over 30 years of combined sales and marketing experience. We are not techies, by nature. Our background in advertising, marketing and web design has given us a unique perspective on the design of this platform. We've created shopping cart software that is easy to use and extremely effective at selling your products.
The following special offers are included with every cart purchase
- Free Google Adwords Credit (Up to a $75 value)
- Free 14-day PCI Compliance through Control Scan
- Free Live Chat Software
- Free 60-day Trial "Sales in a Click" automated newsletter tool.
- Free Design Template
- Free 2048-Bit Shared Secure Certificate ( SSL ) - Hosted Orders Only
- Free 14-day Trial of Webgility Order Management Software
- Free Order Fullfillment Trial through ShipWire
Google AdWords ads promote your business alongside relevant search results right when potential customers are searching for what you offer. Because you are a valued Pinnacle Cart customer we want to give you up to $75 in AdWords* credit to help you start your first search marketing campaign.
Pinnacle Cart has partnered with ControlScan, a globally Approved Scanning Vendor certified through the Payment Card Industry, to offer ecommerce security and marketing services, at discounted rates. Whether you are trying to increase online sales or meet Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements, ControlScan has the optimal solution. Their products are designed to ease the pain traditionally associated with compliance and security mandates, while providing a return on your investment.
To help you kick start your compliance efforts, Pinnacle Cart is sponsoring a 14-day free trial of ControlScan’s internet security and marketing solutions, a PCI Compliance scanning service. It will give you an opportunity to identify initial vulnerabilities and determine the right compliance and ecommerce security plan for your business moving forward.
Visitors, who can “chat”, purchase at much higher rates than those who don’t. Sales suffer when consumers have doubts or lack the information they need to complete a purchase. Our live chat software will allow potential customers to interact with you directly allowing you to assist them with any questions they may have. While most companies charge for this service, we provide it to you FREE OF CHARGE through our partner ChatStat.
You know email is a cost-effective way to grow your web business and stay in touch with your customers. But do you have time to track campaigns, code HTML, and create highly targeted content that truly engages your customers and brings them back to your store again and again, month after month. With Sales in a Click you instantly have a fully automated monthly e-communications solution that connects your best product content with engaging and relevant magazine-style editorial content. Your customers receive an email from you every month to keep them engaged, remind them of what you offer and bring them back to buy.
Creating a store that fits with your business, your product line, and your personality is one of the keys to online business. Now you can have exactly the store you're looking for using one of our professionally designed templates.
As a hosted client we will provide you a shared 2048-bit next generation security certificate for you to use on your store free of charge. Using this certificate provide your customers piece of mind insuring their transactions are safely and securely.
eCommerce Connector by Webgility is a simple yet powerful software that helps you keep all your QuickBooks inventory, customers and orders in synch with your Online Store. eCC saves you hours of time every day by automatically downloading orders from your online store. You can post orders into QuickBooks with a single mouse-click! Better yet, use eCC to synchronize your online store inventory with QuickBooks. eCC also helps you generate shipping labels with USPS, UPS WorldShip or Endicia Dazzle.
Shipwire is an order fulfillment service that allows you to store merchandise in massive warehouses in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Shipwire is perfect for merchants that are ready to automate order processing and grow international and U.S. sales. Shipwire is easily connected to Pinnacle Cart using the Shipwire add-on and completely automates your order fulfillment process. As customers order from your online store, Shipwire will pack and ship and ship the order for you.
Easy Set-Up
- Easy-to-understand, web-based administration
- WYSIWYG editors help you create professional looking product pages with no programming experience
- Bulk Loading Feature that imports products from any database or text file
- Ability to export order / products / customers with the ability to select which fields are exported
- Single or batch image uploads
- Create unlimited email Aliases and Auto Responders
- Assistance with migration from other platforms including Miva, Zen Cart, OS Commerce, Yahoo and More
- Domain Transfer Assistance
- Web-based or downloadable help manual with images and examples, video tutorials, knowledge base, discussion boards and more.
- Fully customizable storefront
Product Merchandising
- Supports Gift Certificates
- Provide discounts based on number of items ordered (quantity discounts)
- Product up sell opportunities
- "Customers who bought "x" also bought these products" in the checkout areas.
- Supports discount / coupon codes
- Price-based discounting
- Supports full product descriptions with HTML and product summaries
- Allows for unlimited secondary images
- Ability to control the product image size on both product and catalog pages
- Recommended products
- "Tell a friend" feature
- Create "Buy x Get y Free" discounts
- "Best Sellers" area
- Advanced product search capabilities
- Supports Gift Messaging
- Export products to Google Base, BizRate.com, ShopZilla.com and more
- Compatible with iDevAffiliate and other 3rd Party Affiliate Programs Including Linkshare, ShareaSale, ClikGlore, Commission Junction and more
Customer Relation Management
- "My Account" area allows customer to view previous orders, status and shipping tracking information
- Customer address book
- Allows customers to create wish lists
- Send product newsletters to your customers
- Send product update notifications to your customers
- Saved Cart feature allows customers to save multiple carts so they can purchase items later
- Automated e-mails when customer creates order and order is shipped
- One-Page Checkout feature - Fastest checkout available on any cart
- Ability to create custom fields during registration / checkout for collecting tax ID numbers, referral or any other additional customer information
- Allows customers to checkout without creating an account
- Supports backorders
- Full customer reporting
- Hide product pricing to all but registered customers
- FREE live chat
Search Engine Friendly
- True flat URL generation
(http://www.yoursite.com/
products/product_name.html) - Most search engine friendly cart available today
- Complete Meta Tag (title, keyword and description) support for all pages including home, product and catalog pages
- Automated title, keyword and description tag generator with the ability to override for all product pages
- Google™ Site Map support
- Robots.txt files supported
- Auto generates site maps
- Creates "Breadcrumb" navigation
- Search-engine-friendly architecture
- Ability to upload customized HTML pages to assist in search engine positioning
Unlimited Payment Options
- Fully PCI Compliant(Pinnacle Cart will become PA-DSS Compliant October 2009)
- Gateways include:
- Authorize.net
- Worldpay
- Linkpoint
- YourPay.com
- Echo Inc
- Google™ Checkout
- 2Checkout
- HSBC
- iTransact.com
- Accept Paypal, Paypal Payments Pro, Paypal Express and more
- Click here for all supported gateways
- Supports eChecks
- Ability to store credit card information for off-line processing
- Ability to accept payments via telephone, mail, fax
- Ability to set unlimited custom payment methods
- Export data to QuickBooks™, Peachtree™ or other accounting programs
Shipping and Tax
- Real-time shipping quotes from UPS, USPS, Canada Post and FED-EX.
- Mark-up or discount rates from supported carriers
- Prints USPS shipping labels
- Set custom handling fees
- Create custom shipping methods
- Calculate shipping costs by weight, quantity, region and more
- Offer free shipping
- Offer product specific shipping pricing
- Ability to restrict shipping based on country or state / providence
- Manage shipping rates based on country and shipping method
- Shipping tracking from UPS, USPS, Canada Post and Fed-Ex
- International shipping supported
- Quick "Estimated Shipping" calculation - Customer can quickly estimate shipping based on zip code before checking out.
- Ability to set tax by state and / or country
- Supports advanced tax structures including VAT, Canada, USA, product and/or category tax and more.
- Provides customer with the option of selecting from multiple methods from multiple shipping providers
Updates and Backups
- Cart notifies you when updates are available and allows you to update your store in a couple of clicks
- Back-up cart files directly from the administrator area
- Restore any file with one click
Order Management
- Ability to "status" orders
- Add / edit / delete orders
- Create custom status to help with your internal order management
- Displays both order and payment status to assist with order processing
- Bulk edit orders
- Notifies customer when order is shipped
- Create professionally printed invoices
- Integrates with Stone Edge Order Manager, Atandra T-Hub and Webgility eCommerce Connector to assist with order processing
Administration
- Create unlimited administrator accounts
- Restrict access to particular features by administrator
- Control which e-mails are received by administrators
Completely Customizable
- Professional and Sleek design
- Select one of our color templates or create your own
- Pick from one of our professionally designed templates
- Select from multiple product page templates to better present your products
- Our "Catalog View" manager allows you to select a two-column, three-column, thumbnail double, thumbnail single or text view
- Choose from over 200 different button and header combinations (or upload your own)
- Adjust boxes, add boxes, create advertising areas, highlight products, change fonts, add logos, manage links, create new pages all with one click
- Easily make text changes anywhere on your site
- Want more control over your design? Our File Manager give you access to all files in the application
- Ability to add your own custom header and footer to the site
- Upload YouTube videos, flash presentations and other multimedia files
- Create unlimited pages for your cart from within the administrator area
- Supports the ability to add items to the cart from pages outside the cart application
- Multi language and multi currency support with "One Click" updates on currency rates
Product & Category Management
- Unlimited number of products and categories
- Unlimited subcategories
- Support Image Magnify and Image Zoom
- Layered navigation allows customers to sort products based on price, manufacturer or category
- Ability to control product and category order
- Export products to Google Base
- Ability to duplicate products
- Show retail, wholesale and sale prices depending on the product
- Supports both detailed and summary descriptions by product
- META keyword and description for each product and category
- Add “sale” image to the product
- Ability to control which products appear on the home page
- Select from a number of different product / catalog page layouts.
- Supports tax exempt products
- Ability to allow only logged in customers to view pricing
- Inventory tracking by product and attribute
- Receive inventory alerts if quantity drops below pre-determined levels
- Supports attributes (color, size, etc) by product, or create a Global Attribute and simply assign the attribute to a product.
- Change price or shipping weight based on attributes
- Create editable custom fields by product. This feature is perfect for products that require personalization.
- Use HTML in product descriptions
- Products can reside in multiple categories
- Ability to change product / category order
- Enable / Disable products
- Supports manufactures
- Upload a manufactures logo which can displayed on the product page
- Manage sales pricing
- Supports Minimum/Maximum quantity in order by product
- Create multiple pricing levels
- Complete control over image and thumbnail sizes
- Supports downloadable (Digital) products
- Manage products in bulk using MS Excel / CSV
- Import / export products using CSV format
Technical
- Application built using PHP / MySQL
- Runs on UNIX, Linux, Windows or FreeBSD
- Source Code available upon request
- Completely customizable - Use our developer network to customize the cart to your needs
- Server Requirements (Licensed Clients)
- PHP 4.3.x -PHP 5.1
- mySQL 3.2 and above
- 100 MB of free disk space (less if using ZEND encoded version)
- GD Library Support (version 2 recommended)
- cURL Library Support
- ZLib Support
- Ioncube or Zend encoded
Reporting
- Dynamic graphs for reports
- Creates the following reports based on date
- Top viewed products
- Top viewed categories
- Top orders by product
- Top referring sites
- Top sales by customer
- Consolidated orders by date
- Individual orders by date
- Promo codes
- Payment types
- Taxes collected
- FREE Urchin Analytics on all Professional hosted accounts. Click here for details.
- Seamlessly integrates with Google Analytics and Google Adwords tracking tools
Hosting & Security
- Full support of HTTPS/SSL protocols
- Password protected administrative area
- Locks account after set number of failed credit card attempts
- Ability to control administrative access and set access levels
- Your site is hosted on fully PCI Compliant environment
- Tier-1 ecommerce hosting through Rackspace, the world's leading data center with 100% guaranteed network connectivity, redundant OC-3 connections, power backups, daily backups and spam free email accounts.
Wholesalers
- Supports up to 3 different levels of wholesale pricing (can also be used for customer level pricing)
- Allows you to set wholesale pricing by product or as percentage of retail
- Supports case pack / inter pack pricing
- Collects Tax ID, EIN, Reseller ID or any other information you require
Superior Support
- 24/7 world-class e-mail and phone support
- Easy-to-understand, on-line and downloadable user manuals
- Video Tutorials
- Cart and marketing training services available
- Informative articles and datasheets
- Access to our knowledge base and discussion board
