Do I need Shopping Carts or eCommerce
on my Website?
If you offer, or want to offer different types
of products on your Website and your products will be shipped, you
probably need a shopping cart on your Website.
Online sales are expected to hit $144 billion in the U.S. and £78bn in
the UK by 2010. You do not want to miss out on that market because you
don't have this easy to add feature.
- Our recommendation - What NOT To Do
- You can purchase shopping cart software and add it to your
site. This requires setup on your Website and it can be difficult.
Then you will need to add other features like a payment gateway and
possibly a Secure Server for your credit card transactions. In the
past, setting up a shopping cart was a major task and usually was
outsourced to Web Developers. This stops a lot of smaller businesses
from having an online store. Don't be one of them. You can easily
create your own online store!
In The Past Shopping Carts Were Hard To Set Up - But
With Quick Carts Everything Has Changed
Let me skip all the old technical stuff and introduce you to
Talk Of The Town Hosting's Quick Shopping Cart. With Quick Shopping
Cart, you can create and publish a stand alone Internet store or add one
to your existing Website in a matter of minutes. Plus, if you have a
Website created with our WebSite Tonight Website Builder our Quick
Shopping Carts are designed to plug right in! You can even set up a stand
alone store using only Quick Shopping Cart and a Domain Name to access it.
- Setup and building your store - Easy and Quick
Setting up the Quick Shopping Cart can be done quickly. There are two
modes - Wizard and Advanced - for building your Shopping Cart. The Wizard
mode is used for a quick and easy first attempt. The Wizard mode is a
simple seven step process (storefront info, product catalog,
theme, taxes, shipping, payment, preview/publish) that when
completed, creates a basic e-commerce shopping cart ready to
take orders. Simple, well laid out screens, with an easily
accessible help menu button, makes our Wizard the easiest to use
shopping cart program in the industry.
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The Wizard mode is designed to set up your cart.
Then jump into the "Advanced" interface mode that allows you to edit, control and monitor almost all aspects of
your Quick Shopping Cart site. The Advanced interface adds extra catalog
features (product, category, attributes, options, links, import products,
inventory, low inventory) as well as interfaces for orders, members,
reports, and branding.
The Branding interface is really all about the rest of your site, allowing
you to set storefront information like a welcome message, "about us"
message, "contact us" link, e-mail notices, terms and conditions.
Two ways to set up your store
- Stand Alone Store
- Register a Domain Name for your store
- Set Up Your Quick Shopping Cart Store Click
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- Link Your Online Store To Your Domain Name (We show you how)
Existing Website
- Order monitoring
- Monitor your orders in terms of open/closed orders, as well as
order and confirmation emails, is also included. Reporting is also a
strong feature of the Quick Shopping Cart with multiple levels of
detail (Gross Total Sales, Net Total Sales, Sales by Month, Sales by
Day, Sales Per Product, Sales by Source Codes, Sales by State) to
help track your shopping cart's success.
If you're an eBay seller as well, then you'll find the eBay listing
tool to be helpful getting your items listed.
Quick Cart Payments
PayPal is the small businesses best friend. You can set up an account to
accept credit cards and other payments on line. They process the
transaction for you and deposit the money in your account. PayPal is a
standard feature of most modern shopping carts and is part of
our Quick Shopping Cart as well.
If PayPal does not fit your payment process, or you already have a
Marketing Account to accept credit cards, we have other payment options in
Quick Shopping Carts. Talk Of The Town Hosting also includes Authorize.net and
IMS Payment Gateway that are likely better options for those with merchant
accounts. We also offer merchant accounts as an extra feature.
Quick Shopping Cart also offers the option of POS (point of sale) credit
card processing that allows you to process the payment using a POS
terminal that you may have in your actual store, while
the e-commerce storefront validates a credit card number online.
In short - If you are just starting your online store or you do not
have a Merchant Account that will accept credit cards over the Internet, I
would use PayPal. It is fast, affordable and easy to set up.
- eBay®
- Quick Shopping Cart is a certified eBay® listing tool and
gives you an easy and direct way to start selling on eBay today. In
just a few clicks, you can list any item from your product catalog to
an eBay auction. All you need is a standard eBay account; Quick
Shopping Cart handles the details.
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Look At All You Get With Quick
Shopping Carts - Plus great help documents and our 24/7 Phone
Support
Seamless synchronization of data between your online
store & QuickBooks*
Full reconciliation of online sales (with a QuickBooks Merchant
Services account)
Easy-to-use Wizard to build your store
Instant site preview
Certified eBay® listing & Google™ Product Search
Accept credit cards, PayPal® and more
Multiple shipping options including real-time processing with UPS®
and USPS®
Order & Inventory management
Shipping & Tax calculators
Shopper registration & login
Product promotion options
Advanced product search
Customer and Merchant order notification email
Comprehensive Sales, Order & Tax reports
24/7 Phone Support
Bill and ship to customers in U.S., Canada, Mexico, and 74
additional countries
Pricing structure is free from 'monthly fee + percentage of
transaction fee.' You simply pay the fee listed next to the plan
you select... that's it.
General Features List
Built-in Web site hosting
Excel® import/export
QuickBooks Integration†
Certified eBay® listing tool
Basic and advanced product searches
Support for physical products, digital downloads and product
bundles
Auto-link generation with source code tracking
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