eCommerce Shopping Cart Software

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

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.

New Pinnacle Cart Version 3.7.0 features in yellow

Easy Set-Up

  • Easy-to-understand, web-based administration
  • Bulk loading feature that imports products from any database or text file Security
  • FREE professionally designed store templates Security
  • FREE domain transfer assistance
  • Web-based or downloadable help manual with images, video tutorials, knowledge base, discussion boards and more.
  • Single or batch image uploads

Design

  • CSS / XHTML tableless design
  • W3C / XHTML compliant templates
  • Easy to integrate with your existing design
  • Drag-and-drop layout design feature
  • "Design Mode" allows you to create a professional looking storefront without programming experience
  • Edit both CSS and HTML via your browser
  • Upload logo feature
  • Upload home page image
  • Ability to select from over 30 different button styles
  • Create your own buttons and headers and upload them via the control panel
  • Over 100 box headers available
  • Ability to change layout, width and much more with a click of the button
  • Templates are Dreamweaver compatible
  • Our "Catalog View" manager allows you to select a two-column, three-column, thumbnail double, thumbnail single or text view
  • Adjust boxes, add boxes and create advertising areas
  • Ability to add your own custom header and footer to the site
  • Upload YouTube videos, flash presentations and other multimedia files
  • Ability to create an unlimited number of additional pages
  • Supports the ability to add items to the cart from pages outside the cart application

Image Management

  • Supports image magnify, zoom, lightbox and enlarge Security
  • Unlimited number of secondary images
  • Image tags for better Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Upload images via the bulk image loader or FTP
  • Generates thumbnails and catalog page images automatically
  • Ability to resize images on the fly
  • Change image style globally or at the product level
  • Control image placement on product and catalog pages
  • Create photo galleries
  • Display / hide images with a mouse click

Search Engine Optimization

  • Cutting-edge search engine optimization
  • Flat URL generation (www.yoursite.com/product/product-name.htm)Security
  • Ability to create your own URL structure (www.yoursite.com/create-your-own-url.html)
  • Manage all URL's at the category, product and page level. Security
  • If you're moving from a different application, you can change the URL's to match the old URL's.
  • Meta keyword, title and description for each product page
  • Meta keyword, title and description for each category page
  • Meta keyword and description for home page and all pages created via the control panel
  • Upload / create robot.txt file
  • Ability to generate meta tags based on product descriptions
  • Ability to modify HTML or CSS via browser
  • Automatically generated site map
  • Generates XML site map for Google Base
  • Valid WC3 template design
  • Image ALT tags
  • Design generates very lightweight, 100% HTML page without CSS or PHP coding
  • Creates "breadcrumb" navigation
  • Search-engine-friendly architecture
  • Ability to upload customized HTML pages to assist in search engine positioning

Product Merchandising

  • Sell both physical and digital products along with services
  • Application will create "ghost" URL which hides the actual location of the product and is emailed to the customer once the sales is complete
  • Control the number of times a digital product is downloaded
  • Sell any kind of digital products including pdf's, videos, music files, etc.
  • Sell Gift Certificates
  • Create custom fields (allow customer to input text)
  • Create drop down selections, check boxes and more on product pages
  • Provide discounts based on number of items ordered (quantity discounts)
  • Product Reviews
  • "Call for pricing" and "catalog only" mode supported
  • Import products, images, attributes and more
  • Customers who bought "x" also bought these products in the checkout areas.
  • Supports discount / coupon codes globally and at product level
  • Price-based discounting
  • Supports full product descriptions with HTML and product summaries
  • Create attributes (size, color, etc) and manage price, weight, inventory and SKU based on attribute
  • Supports UPC and SKU numbers
  • Create and assign manufacturers
  • 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 third-party affiliate programs including Linkshare, ShareASale, ClixGalore, Commission Junction and more
  • RSS product feeds

Wholesale / Drop Shipping

  • Supports up to three different levels of wholesalers (Customer Groups)
  • Allows you to set wholesale pricing by product or as percentage of retail price
  • Apply different tax rates for wholesalers and/or make their purchases tax free
  • Unlimited drop ship locations
  • Allows you to control how and when the drop shipper is notified of an order
  • Separates drop shipping products from other products in the order.
  • Edit email notifications to drop shippers
  • Ability to assign drop shippers at the product level
  • Supports case pack / inter pack pricing
  • Collects Tax ID, EIN or any custom information you require

Customer 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 allowing later purchase
  • Automated emails when customer creates order and order is shipped
  • One-Page Checkout - fastest checkout available in the industry
  • Ability to create custom fields during registration / checkout for collecting Tax ID numbers, referral or any other additional customer information
  • Guest Checkout - allows customers to checkout without creating an account
  • Supports backorders
  • Full customer reporting
  • Hide product pricing to all but registered customers
  • FREE live chat
  • Ability to create Customer Groups and modify pricing by group globally and at the product level.
  • Assign customers to different Group levels
  • Search by last name, username, phone number, email or company

Inventory Tracking

  • Product-level inventory tracking
  • Attribute-level inventory tracking Security
  • Set "low stock" notifications by product
  • If inventory goes to zero, you have the ability to remove product from catalog or show "out of stock" message
  • Control when inventory is removed (at purchase or order complete )
  • Completely automated inventory control
  • Two-way sync with desktop order management products like Webgility, Store Manager and more.

Payment / Shipping Options

  • Ability to accept credit cards on-line
  • Take orders by phone, fax, mail or without credit cards (off-line payments)
  • Ability to make payment page secure or entire checkout process
  • Payment Gateways Include
    • Authorize.net
    • PayPal
    • PayPal Pro
    • Payflow Pro
    • Payflow Link
    • PayPal Express Checkout
    • Fast Transact
    • NetBilling
    • ProtX
    • Intuit
    • DataCash
    • Echo Inc
    • Worldpay
    • First Data Global Gateway (formerly Linkpoint)
    • NTPNow
    • Shift4
    • PSiGate
    • ViaKLIX
    • Transaction Central
    • YourPay.com
    • Moneris
    • WorldPay
    • USAepay
    • Pay Junction
    • eProcessing Network
    • Money Bookers
    • Amazon Payments
    • QuickBooks™ Merchant Services
    • Google™ Checkout
    • 2Checkout
    • HSBC
    • iTransact.com
  • Click here for all supported gateways
  • Support 3-D Secure, Verified by Visa (VbV) and MasterCard SecureCode (MCSC) via CardinalCommerce Security
  • Supports eChecks (Authorize.net)
  • 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
  • Sell in multiple currencies
  • Real-time shipping quotes from USPS, UPS, FED-EX and Canada Post
  • Mark-up or discount rates from real-time shippers
  • Prints USPS shipping labels
  • Set custom handling fees
  • Create custom shipping methods
  • Create custom 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
  • International shipping supported
  • Quick "estimated shipping" calculation - Customer can quickly estimate shipping based on zip code before checking out.
  • Provides customer with the option of selecting from multiple methods from multiple shipping providers

Taxes

  • Advanced or simple tax features
  • Configure state-based tax
  • Configure country-based tax
  • Provides you the ability to sell internationally and apply international tax rates
  • Supports advanced tax structures including VAT, Canada, USA, product and/or category tax and more
  • Ability to include tax with price (VAT)
  • Set-up an unlimited number of tax structures and rules
  • Query sales tax by date
  • Assign tax rates to individual products

Product & Category Management

  • Unlimited number of products and categories
  • Unlimited sub-categories
  • Layered navigation allows customers to sort products based on price, manufacturer, category or product feature
  • Ability to control product and category order
  • Add text or images to category pages
  • Export products to Google Base
  • Ability to duplicate products
  • Show retail, wholesale and sale prices based on the product
  • Supports both detailed and summary descriptions by product
  • Add "On-Sale" image to the product
  • Ability to control products appearing on the home page
  • Create "New Items" page
  • Select from a number of different product / catalog page layouts with the ability to change layout
  • Supports tax exempt products
  • Product cost
  • Ability to allow only logged in customers to view pricing
  • Use HTML in product descriptions
  • Products can reside in multiple categories
  • Ability to change product / category order
  • Enable / Disable products
  • Supports manufacturers
  • Upload a manufacturer's logo which can displayed on the product page
  • Manage sale pricing
  • Supports minimum / maximum quantity in order by product
  • Create multiple pricing levels
  • Supports downloadable (digital) products
  • Manage products in bulk using Microsoft Excel® / CSV
  • Import / export products using CSV format
  • Ability to control "add to cart" process

Order Management

  • Ability to "status" orders
  • Add / edit / delete orders
  • Displays both order and payment status to assist with order processing
  • Bulk edit orders
  • Notifies customer when order is shipped
  • Integrates with Stone Edge Order Manager, Atandra T-Hub and Webgility eCommerce Connector to assist with order processing
  • Add shipping tracking numbers to orders
  • View abandonded orders
  • Ability to add notes to an order
  • Print packing slips and invoices
  • Set starting order number
  • Abililty to bulk status orders
  • Backorder / pre-order feature

Content Management

  • Add additional pages directly from the control panel ( Contact Us, About Us, Return Policies, etc)
  • Easy to use WYSIWYG editor allows you to completely manage the appearance of your pages
  • All additional pages are SEO-friendly
  • "Closed Store" feature
  • Knowledge Base feature - create your own knowledge base or allow your customer to ask questions
  • Testimonials
  • "New Items" feature
  • Easily add areas for promotions, banners or even Google Ads.
  • Ability to edit all emails sent out by the cart

Security

  • Hosted cart is PCI compliant
  • PA DSS certified
  • Allows for database and application to be separated
  • Allows you to designate an IP address allowing access to the admin area
  • Locks out administrators after too many failed attempts
  • Ability to unlock adminstrators accounts through the control panel
  • Tracks and logs all actions within the control panel area by user
  • Uses compliant OPEN SSL encryption to store credit cards (if activated)
  • Lock out visitors after too many failed transactions
  • Secure control panel access
  • Full support of SSL protocals

Checkout / Registration

  • Select between One-Page Checkout and traditional checkout
  • Ability to complete orders without registering (Guest Checkout)
  • Allow customers to decide if they want to create an account
  • Set minimum number of items or amount
  • Set order numbers
  • Mandate users to agree to Terms and Conditions
  • Ability to enable Suggested Products feature on cart page
  • Create custom fields throughout the entire checkout process (ex. How did you hear about us?)
  • Ability to control which fields are required / optional

Reporting / Business Analytics

  • Seamlessly integrates with Google Analytics and Google Adwords tracking tools
  • Chart visitors / hosts / revenue by month
  • 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
  • Site profit

Administration

  • Create unlimited administrator accounts
  • Restrict access to particular features by administrator
  • Control which e-mails are received by administrators
  • Locks out administrators on too many failed attempts
  • Change password reminder
  • File Manager allows you to edit templates from the control panel

Currency / Language

  • Complete multi-currency support
  • Control currency symbol, decimal placement and presentation
  • Control weight (American or metric)
  • Control measurements (inches, feet, centimeters)
  • Set-up custom exchange rates
  • Allows customers to view in their currency, but transact in yours.
  • Ability to add / edit / delete language templates
  • Ability to add / edit / delete countries, states, providences or regions

Marketing and Promotions

  • Ability to create date-driven promotional (discount) codes
  • Global or product level promotional codes
  • Recommended Products
  • Create Product Families
  • Bulk discounts by product
  • Free shipping based on amount purchased
  • Customers who bought "x" also bought "y"
  • Buy x, get y free
  • Newsletter tool
  • Product Updates email
  • Manages bounced emails
  • RSS product feeds
  • Export products to .csv file for exporting to other sites
  • Product API
  • Gift certificates
  • New Items page
  • Hot Deal feature
  • Brand (manufacturer) landing pages
  • Top selling products
  • FREE Live Chat software
  • Seamless integration with iDevAffiliate or any other affiliate software
  • Create discounts based on amount purchased
  • Product Reviews
  • Export email list to other programs
  • Global sale prices (example - 10% off entire store)

Import / Export

  • Import products using our flexible bulk product loader
  • Manage import rules
  • Overwrite existing data
  • Add new / keep existing data
  • Clear existing / add new
  • Update existing products only
  • Bulk load images through the control panel or via FTP
  • Export orders / products / users
  • Select the fields you want to export
  • Back-up / restore cart from the control panel (hosted carts only)
  • Database management tool allows you to clear log files and more
  • Exported data is "normalized" for importing into other applications including QuickBooks, Peachtree, MYOB, etc
  • Seamless integration with Store Manager, Stone Edge Order Manager and Webgility eCommerce Connector
  • Base API allows you to export orders / customers / products in XML format

Product Attributes

  • Gives you the ability to sell items like computers, shirts or other items that contain options
  • Create unlimited product attributes (options)
  • Add or subtract pricing based on attribute selection
  • Add or subtract pricing weight based on attribute selection
  • Instantly adjusts price based on selection
  • Control inventory by attributes
  • Track administrator-defined combinations
  • Sell only administrator-defined combinations
  • Ability to disable specific product attribute combinations
  • Create a unique SKU based on attribute combination
  • Create global attributes that can be assigned to products or categories
  • Display attributes on cart page, invoice and on order
  • Receive "low stock" warnings based on attribute combinations
  • Ability to remove attributes instantly
  • Create drop-down, radio buttons, text or text fields for attributes
  • Assign priority to attributes




 
 

Save time by creating a global attribute (product options) and assigning it to a specific product or category.
Pinnacle Cart uses the image name to match the image to the product ID. Once the match is made, it will create the main image and thumbnail based on your settings.
This feature allows you to edit/moderate/delete submitted reviews.
Our product API is very useful for developers that may want to query products out of the database.
Auto-generates an updated product list based on date to send out to your clients.
This feature can also be used for Product Groups.
This feature allows you to create recommended Product Groups and assign them to products.
Allows you to stay in compliance with PCI regulations.
Twelve administrative features that can be accessed or blocked by administrator.
Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Our deep intergration allows you to measure the success of your display, search, Ad Words, new media and offline advertising efforts.
Create text boxes, check boxes, drop-down selections and more to collect additional information about your customer.
This feature prevents BOTs from using your store to validate fraudulent credit cards saving you money and potential chargebacks.
Prevent potential hackers from using automated scripts to figure out your passwords.
If you are accepting credit cards on your site you must be on a PA-DSS certificated application by July 2010 or risk additional merchant fees or cancellation of your merchant account. Pinnacle Cart is one of the only e-commerce applications to have become certified. For more information, click here.
While Pinnacle Cart is fully compliant, your shopping cart is just one of the links in the PCI compliance chain and you will need to complete all necessary steps to achieve PCI compliance.
Allow your customers to submit testimonials ( fully moderated with edit / delete functions ) or submit your own.
This feature will allow you to create your own questions and answers and allow you to moderate questions asked by customers. You decide if they should be published or not.
reCaptcha is integrated into this feature. The reCaptcha system prevents bots from spamming your forms by requiring the user to enter in text to submit the form.
Set the starting order number and the cart will that as the starting point. Great for stores just starting out.
When item is added to the cart, you can decide to keep them on the product page or direct them to the cart page.
The cart creates "ghost" URL's for each purchase to protect the actual location of the product. Manage the number of times the item is downloaded.
Very useful feature that provides insight into the profitability of a product.
Very helpful at income tax time.
CardinalCommerce Corporation is the global leader in enabling authenticated payments, secure transactions and alternative payment brands for both eCommerce and mobile commerce.
This feature allows you to track inventory at the attribute level where only defined combinations are tracked, or track inventory at attribute level and sell only defined combinations. This gives you greater control over how your products are sold and tracked.
This features not only helps your customers, but assists in Search Engine Optimization.
Not only can you designate the stucture of the URL (Category/Product.html) but you can change the URL at the page level. This includes both category and product URL's. This feature gives you complete control over all URL's in the application.
No more long and confusing database URL's that search engines can't index. Pinnacle Cart flat URL tool helps search engines locate your site and better understand your products.
Image Zoom is a JavaScript tool that allows your customers to view your product images in incredible detail. The user does not need to click anything - they just move their mouse over the image to see every detail of your product.
We are constantly updating our offering of free templates. You can access them instantly though the control panel area of the application.
We'll migrate up to 2,000 products along with 1,000 customers and orders FREE of charge. Migration currently offered from the following platforms: Magento, osCommerce, CRE Loaded, Zen Cart, X-Cart, CubeCart, CS-Cart, VirtueMart, PrestaShop, Interspire, Squirrelcart, Shop-Script, osCMax, xt:Commerce.
Import products, images, attributes and more.
Gift Certificates
Customer can purchase Gift Certificate, personalize and e-mail them to family or friends. The cart will keep track of the balance and allow your customer to use the certificate as many times as they wish until their balance reaches zero.
Discount / Coupon Codes
Pinnacle Cart will allow you to create a unique promotional code for distribution to your customers for discounts at checkout.
Features include
Image Magnify and Image Zoom

Image Zoom is a JavaScript tool that allows your customers to view your product images in incredible detail. The user does not need to click anything - they just move their mouse over the image to see every detail of your product.

Image Magnify is an elegant way to zoom into your images with a magnifying-glass. The user does not need to click anything - they just move their mouse over the photo to see every detail in your product.

Digital Downloads or eProducts
Sell any kind of digital products including pdf's, videos, music files, etc.
Features include
Create editable custom fields by product (Product Attributes)
Pinnacle Cart allows you to collect information from your customers by product. This feature is perfect for items that require personalization like t-shirts or embroidery. Additionally, the cart gives you the ability to assign these attributes a unique product ID or SKU number.

This feature gives you the ability to create

You have no limit to the number of attributes you can add to a product. Additionally, you can adjust the price and shipping weight of item based on the attributes selected.
Regarding PCI Compliance
While Pinnacle Cart is fully compliant, your shopping cart is just one of the links in the PCI compliance chain and you will need to complete all necessary steps to achieve PCI compliance.