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Unique Setup Features Powerful Content Management Tools
Fully Customizable Design and Layout Products and Inventory Management
  • Clients can Customize:
    • Color of the Template
    • Color of the even and odd rows in the product display
    • Category Description Color
    • Manufacturer Name Color
    • Page Sub Head Color
    • Page Subtitle Color
    • Shopping Cart total color
    • Table Heading Fore color
    • Top Link Back Color
    • Color of Top Menu, Navigation Bar and Sitewide Links
    • Template Width in percentage
  • Easily configure:
    • Number of Products per page
    • Number of Columns in Products List
    • Number of Columns in Category List
    • Width of the resized Product Images
    • Search Options for Price, Sort Code, Alphabetical, Images, SKU
    • Multiple Currency Store for two different currencies
    • Minimum Order amount
    • Credit Card Info in Account Profile
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Efficient Order Processing and Discounts Payment Modes
Shipping and Tax Options Marketing and Promotion Tools
Customer Service and Support Robust Reporting
Reliable Hosting Security Features
  • Redundant OC3 Internet Connections
  • UPS Power Backup
  • Generator Power Backup
  • Firewall Protection
  • Daily and Weekly Tape Backup
  • 99.9% Network Uptime Guarantee
  • Support via E-Mail & Telephone
  • Server Monitoring and Intrusion Detection
  • Unlimited Bandwidth and Data Transfer
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  • Full HTTPS/SSL support
  • Secure HTTPS/SSL administrative access (optional)
  • Password-protected administrative access with the ability to create multiple password protected administrators
  • Permission based access control for multiple logins (Coming Soon!)
Database and Systems E- Mail Features
  • .ASP Language
  • Windows 2000 Server
  • MS SQL 2000 Version
  • MS Access Version (Coming Up!)
  • Free monthly Upgrades
  • Advanced Security Monitoring
  • Customize .ASP Pages
  • 50 MB E-Mail Disk Space per Mailbox
  • Web-Based Access (WebMail)
  • Catch-All Option
  • Aliases Supported
  • Autoresponders Supported
  • Forwarders Supported


Unique Setup Features


  • WYSIWIG tools for content development
    GoECart has rich text editors to help you develop your content easily & quickly. One click helps you upload the desired content under the relevant section.

  • Import existing Database
    GoECart permits you to import your product and customer details in a defined format from a .csv file to the GoECart database.

  • Export database for Analysis and Storage
    You can export your current product details as well as your customer details from the GoECart database to a spreadsheet.

  • Browser Based Control Panel
    With GoECart, you can design, customize and manage the entire storefront through a web based Admin Control Panel without any knowledge of HTML or any other programming language.

  • Sell Unlimited Products
    GoECart supports the addition of an unlimited number of products to its database. Your resources are not limited even when you expand your business from medium-scale to large-scale.

  • Free Web Based Help Document
    GoECart supports you with a free web based help document in order to help you efficiently and effectively develop your storefront with the most easy to use shopping cart software features available on the web.

  • Toll Free Tech Support
    GoECart gives you 24/7-hour technical support through a toll free number. Call 877-243-3612 for information and support.

  • Manage Images through Image Manager
    You can manage the product images of your e-store from the unique Image Manager section, which allows you to easily upload a new image or replace any of the existing images on the storefront.

  • Fixed Width Template Option
    GoECart provides you with the Fixed Width Template Option which allows you to configure your store template for fixed resolutions. You can define the template width in percentage. Coming Soon! Define template width by pixels.

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Powerful Content Management Tools

  • Optimize your store for Search Engines with the Meta Tag Editor
    GoECart gives you the facility to optimize your online storefront for search engines with its Meta Tag Editor. The Meta Tag Editor lets you provide the description of the page title, keywords and page description for the page under consideration. These Meta tags are among the key factors for search engine optimization.

  • Advanced Search Engine Friendly Architecture
    The architecture of GoECart has been designed keeping in mind the search engine indexing and positioning process. We are all aware that the ranking of a web page by a Search Engine depends heavily on keyword rich content apart from title and meta tags on the web pages. GoECart takes care of all such details and provides you with the best solution. We have incorporated the Category Editor with the text box, which helps you add keyword-rich content on the Category Pages, making it more search engine friendly.

  • Create and Manage the External / Internal Links to your site
    With GoECart you can add links to your site which can be associated with internal pages of your website or any other external website. You also have the facility to add link groups on the webstore, which will have all the links in a group displayed together. There is no restriction to the number of link groups that can be added to your online storefront.

  • Unlimited Custom Pages
    Using GoECart, you can create your own custom pages that will maintain a consistent look and feel with the rest of your storefront. There is no limit to the number of pages that you can create for your online storefront. You can also add search keywords for the page and set link groups for the page.

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Fully Customizable Design and Layout

    GoECart allows full customization of the design and layout of your storefront. With GoECart, you can customize the colors and fonts of any given templates. You can also configure your product display options on your webstore.

    GoECart thus allows you to design the navigation of your online storefront. You can place your various offerings at desired places in a given format. These can be altered easily as and when required. With GoECart, you are in total control of the design and layout of your web store.

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Products and Inventory Management

  • Import Facility to update Product and Inventory Information from existing database
    The facility to import your product details from your existing database into the GoECart database helps you update and manage the products and inventory information on your estore to serve your customers with the latest inventory status.

  • Related Products and Cross Selling
    GoECart allows you to relate the products available within your product catalogue on the basis of similar features. These relationships can be utilized to cross sell the products. As an example, if a customer is visiting the page of a particular product which is being supplied by more than one manufacturer, on that page you can recommend your customer to also have a look at a similar product of another manufacturer or a similar product having additional features.

  • One click featured products
    GoECart gives you the facility to display your highest selling products either on the home page or on priority basis under the category list related to the product.

  • One click Ordering of Featured Products
    This feature facilitates the purchase of featured products with a single click, without taking the customer to the product details page.

  • Set Product and Group Specific Surcharge Rates
    As an administrator on GoECart, you also have the option to set specific surcharge rates to specific products or product groups. This reduces the burden of reviewing the product and group details every time you decide to alter any information on them. Product-specific taxes and selling prices can also be set as per requirements.

  • Global Product Options for Each Product
    The Global Product Options of GoECart enable you to customize product variants like color, size and shape. This facility is available for each product on your web store.

  • Set Variant wise optional surcharges
    You may be offering your customers various products with different variants like color, size or any other product related variant. GoECart allows you to set relevant product surcharges based on each individual variant.

  • Set Product specific taxes
    GoECart permits you to set specific tax rates for your individual products. With this feature, you have the option to serve your customers with tax-free products.

  • Set Product specific selling prices
    GoECart allows you to set selling prices for individual products. This allows you to sell such specific products at higher or lower rates than the prices for that product category.

  • Supports three sizes of Product Image
    GoECart supports three different sizes of product images - thumbnail, medium and large - for every product that you wish to put on your online store. This allows you to display your products in appropriate size wherever required.

  • Allows short and long description for each product
    With GoECart, you have the facility to describe products in your desired format. You can give a short and a long description for your product in an HTML or plain text format. Images can also be included as a part of this product description.

  • Display Manufacturer Name and Logo for Each Product Brand
    Your online store could be selling different products from various manufacturers. With GoECart, you have the option to display or hide product-specific manufacturer's name and logo for each product.

  • Automatically updates quantity units on each sale
    GoECart automatically updates the inventory of available products in stock on every sale that takes place on your online storefront. This eliminates the work of manually updating the inventory as and when required. If any of your orders is cancelled or returned, then the quantity in stock can be updated with a single click.

  • Partial Shipments Allowed
    With GoECart, the status of the orders which are partially shipped can be set accordingly in order to help you manage the order processing and help your customer know the current status of the order.

  • Inventory Display options
    GoECart allows you to set your Product inventory display options based on Quantity or on the basis of availability (Yes/No). You also have the option to hide the inventory details from your customers, allowing them to put up orders even when it is not in stock.

  • Can Hide Products when not in stock
    GoECart is a shopping cart software that gives you the option to hide your products from being viewed online when they are not in stock. This reduces the burden of manually removing or hiding the product from your catalog every time it runs out of stock.

  • Manual update for product inventory is available
    With GoECart you can update your inventory manually. Whenever the new stock arrives for the existing range of products, you can just update the quantity at a click to enhance your stock.

  • Allow Customers with Single or Multiple Use of Discount Coupons
    As a storekeeper, you can set the discount coupon options to single or multiple use for every Registered Customer Profile. This will help you run different promotional schemes during festive and other occasions.

  • Variant Based Stock Maintenance
    With GoECart, you can maintain the inventory of your products based on individual product variants available for a particular product. The Product Editor will help you set up the option of deducting the Quantity in stock of a particular product with its variant, after the customer has placed the order successfully.

  • Hide Product Quantity
    You can now display your products on the storefront without displaying the Quantity of these products available with you. Our Product Editor helps you to hide quantities of all products available on your web store.

  • Display Product Price Only When Customer Logs In
    This feature of GoECart gives you an option to display prices of your products to only those visitors of you storefront who login to the shopping cart with their User Name and Password.

  • Hide Price Label if Price is Zero (0)
    As the storefront administrator, you are able to control your product price display options. If the price of a particular product is equal to Zero (0), you have the option to hide the price label for that particular product.

  • Sort Facility for Product Variant Options
    GoECart provides you the facility to display your product variants in a desired manner. Product Variants being an important factor for defining the various options available with your product, you can list the variants in a format that best suits the appearance of a product.

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Efficient Order Processing and Discounts

 

  • Offer Quantity Discounts and Discount Codes
    GoECart allows you to set quantity discounts to avail benefits to the customers who are doing bulk buying. You can also send discount codes to your special list of customers based on your store sales policy.

  • Special Discount Schemes through Discount Cookies
    GoECart helps you offer your customers special discount schemes for special offers on various occasions using the discount cookies. The discount cookies can be added to the URL as part of the query string to let your targeted customers avail these special discounts.

  • Sitewide Discounts for specific Time Periods
    GoECart helps you offer Site Wide Discounts using the sitewide discount feature. It enables you to apply a discount Code for all the products available in the store for a specific time period. This is like putting up the Christmas Sale on your site for all the products.

  • Manage Orders through Eight Different Order Status
    With GoECart, as an administrator of the estore, you have the exposure to eight different order status as New, In Process, Shipped, Partially Shipped, Cancelled, Returned, On hold, to manage your orders in a systematic and timely manner.

  • Search Order Options with Ten Different Parameters
    GoECart facilitates you on the admin panel with an option to search the order and review its status through ten different parameters as order status, order number, tracking number, email id, start date, end date, discount code, etc. This allows you to track the orders as well as mange them efficiently by keeping you in touch with the current status of the orders under consideration.

  • All orders get directly stored in the database
    Whenever a customer places a order on your online storefront, the order information is automatically stored in the database by GoECart.

  • Printer Friendly Order database display
    The order details can be printed through the printer-friendly version, thus making a hard copy available for reference purposes.

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Payment Options

  • Accept payments in Any Currency
    GoECart's integrated payment system permits you to accept payment in multiple currencies, giving you the benefit of serving customers around the globe.

  • Offline Credit Card Processing
    You, as a site administrator of GoECart shopping cart software, can process the custom credit card orders of your customers manually.

  • Create your own Credit Card Options
    GoECart gives you the facility to create your custom credit card options apart from the real time credit card payment option. This helps you serve customers not having online credit cards.

  • Create your own Custom Pay Methods
    With GoECart, you can offer different payment options to your customers like Payment by Check, Payment on Delivery, Payment through credit cards other than the ones integrated with GoECart, etc.

  • QuickBooks Integration (Coming Soon!)
    GoECart is soon coming up with a version which will support QuickBooks integration in order to facilitate you with the accounting functions simultaneously with the other transactions taking place on your online storefront.

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Shipping and Tax Options

  • Approved Product Provider for UPS Shipping Tools
    GoECart is an approved product provider for UPS shipping tools, thus providing you and your customers with the facility of generating online packing slips and calculating the shipping costs for orders placed.

  • Generates Shipping Labels Automatically for UPS Shipping
    If your customer selects UPS as the shipping option for an order, you as the administrator of your store can generate shipping labels with tracking numbers for those orders. This avoids the hassles of calling the shipping company for the parcel number and then generating the shipping labels manually. It also helps your customers track their parcels with the tracking number.

  • Create your own Custom Shipping Options
    Apart from the real time shipping options provided by GoECart; you can also have custom shipping options for your customers. You can create your own shipping options by partnering with some other shipping company apart from the ones that GoECart is integrated with.

  • Online Tracking for Goods Shipped
    The current status of the orders can be viewed with GoECart, providing the facility of online tracking for goods shipped. You come to know the exact status of the order and can hence be efficient in responding to inquiries about the order status.

  • Add Handling Charges
    GoECart permits you to add handling charges with every order on a flat or percentage basis. Handling charges can be set separately for domestic as well as international shipping.

  • Restrict Shipping by Location
    As an administrator of the GoECart shopping cart software, you can decide upon your business territories from within the US or outside and set up shipping facilities accordingly.

  • Ship by Price or Weight
    With GoECart, you can create custom shipping methods based on the price or weight of the order placed.

  • Full International Shipping
    GoECart permits you to offer shipping facilities at an international level depending on your business requirements.

  • Real Time Tax Calculation
    Using GoECart, you have option to set the tax rates for states within the US. With a single click, you have the facility to make all the products tax-free or tax them as desired.

  • Custom Tax Manager
    GoECart gives you a custom tax manager to customize the tax options if you do not follow the real time tax rates. If you are serving your customers out of the US, you can set the tax rates for them as per your business requirements.

  • Offer Free Shipping
    With the help of the Custom Shipping Manager, you can also offer Free Shipping to your Customers by configuring the Shipping Cost to be zero.

  • UPS Shipping Calculation based on Customer Profile
    GoECart provides you with both Business to Business (B2B) as well as Business to Residential (B2R) Shipping Calculations which results in savings in Shipping Cost for the Residential Customers.

  • Display Quick Shipping Calculator
    GoECart allows your customers to calculate the shipping costs for both shipping options - real time shipping and custom shipping - depending on the configuration.

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Marketing and Promotion Tools

  • Affiliate Program Manager
    With GoECart, you can create your personal affiliate program, which can be run on your online storefront. Our Affiliate Program Manager helps you extend your reach to customers of various other complimentary business segments through an affiliate program for your web store.

  • Tell-a-friend
    This feature of GoECart enables visitors of your site to recommend your products to their friends by inputting their friend's E-Mail addresses. E-Mail will be automatically sent to the specified recipients with a description and a picture of the product.

  • Product Review
    GoECart offers your customers a choice to leave their feedback regarding any product. As the storekeeper, you can add, delete, view, and publish all these reviews. Your customer is able to rate a product between 1-5, with 5 being the best. This feedback /review gives you an opportunity to evaluate customer retention and preferences regarding your merchandise.

  • Cross Selling Related Products / Up Sell / Cloning
    GoECart supports setting up relationships between complimentary products on your online storefront to aggressively push one product with another. You have the option to recommend accessory A on a product detail page for Product B.

  • Product Groups / Products Clustering
    Every product on GoECart needs to be grouped under a particular Product Category or Sub Category. This helps the customer to find out the different range of products within the category and helps you to display the products in a customer friendly manner. You can also group related products within one group to push complimentary products more aggressively.

  • Gift Wrapping
    GoECart allows you to easily setup eCoupons. You also have the ability to associate coupons with certain products or groups of products. And your customers also have the option to gift-wrap their order with a personalized message.

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Customer Service and Support

  • Customer-Specific Discounts & Loyalty Schemes
    GoECart enables you to reward customers who are loyal to your business. You can assign discounts to specific customers among a desired category or products list. The discount code given by you to your customer will verify the authentication of the customer availing the discount.

  • Live Order Tracking
    Your customers can view the status of their order in real time through the Live Order Tracking facility of GoECart. This reduces your work of attending customer calls and inquiries to a considerable extent and lets your customer be updated about the current status of his/her order.

  • Ask Product Personalization Questions of the customer
    GoECart allows you to ask your customers product personalization questions to gather information about their choices and preferences in order to serve them better in the future.

  • Ask for Special Customer Comments during Checkout
    This feature provides you with the feedback of the customers about your online storefront and their experience of shopping on your webstore.

  • Express Checkout Option
    With GoECart, you can provide your customers with the facility of express checkout. All the registered customers need not enter their personal information except for identification-related information during checkout. This gives your customer a smooth flow of buying products from your online storefront.

  • Newsletter Management
    GoECart allows you to have a personalized newsletter to serve your customers with updated news about your business as well as your latest business offerings.

  • Repeat Customer Reporting
    GoECart generates automatic reports when any of your customers shops more than once from your online storefront. This helps you track customer records as well as to study the purchasing behaviors of the customers to serve them better.

  • Import facility for updating Customer information from existing database
    You can import your customer details from an existing database to the GoECart Database.

  • Customers can view order history
    The customers can return to your store and track their orders for the shipment status and can also avail the history of their past purchases they have made from your store.

  • Automated Confirmation Emails on receiving order
    On receiving orders from the customers, the system automatically sends the confirmation email using the email template configured by you.

  • Automated Confirmation Emails on the completion of orders
    When the order is marked as completed by the administrator, an automated email is sent to the customer intimating them about the completion of the order. This email template can be set from the admin panel by the administrator.

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Robust Reporting

  • Sales Report
    The Sales report gives you a complete report on the products sold, the quantity and the amount of sales for the time period you have opted for. This helps you to analyze your store performance to enhance your sales strategy.

  • Store Activity Report
    The Store activity report is the information about the various transactions taking place on your store on monthly, weekly and daily basis with parameters such as number of customers, number of repeated customers, total orders, etc. This keeps you in total control of the store with all the updated information available on hand.

  • Inventory Report
    Inventory report provides you with the latest product-wise inventory status on your online storefront.

  • Shipping and Tax Report
    This report gives you the information about the shipping and tax amounts that were charged to the various orders. This helps you to determine the amount of tax owed to the Government and the amount you need to pay to the Shipping Company the for various orders processed.

  • Repeat Customers Report
    This will generate a report of the Customers who have repeatedly placed Orders on your storefront.

  • The Affiliate Referral Report
    This report is used for viewing the Orders placed using the Affiliate Codes. You can create an Affiliate code and give the URL of the site with the Affiliate Code attached to it. When a customer browses your site using the URL which has that Affiliate Code attached to it and places an order in your site, the affiliate Code will be stored along with the order details. .

  • Searched Terms Report
    GoECart shopping cart software captures the keywords that the customers have used to search for the products using the search section of the site and generates a report to display the searched terms. The Searched Terms Report helps you to find out the most searched items on your store and also helps you revise the product descriptions based on the searched terms for better customer accessibility.

  • Site Statistics
    This section gives you the information useful to evaluate the performance of your online storefront. The information is in terms of the number of visits to your online store, the source from where they come, and details of the pages of your webstore visited, etc.

  • Data Import and Export
    This feature allows you to import and export data regarding product and customer details as well as all reports data into a spreadsheets format.

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Reliable Hosting

    GoECart provides you with reliable ecommerce hosting services. GoECart is hosted, managed, and maintained on co-located servers, with redundant OC3 Internet connections, unlimited bandwidth, UPS and generator power backup, firewall protection, and daily as well as weekly tape backup.

    GoECart gives a 99.9% network uptime guarantee and provides support via email and telephone. Server Monitoring and Intrusion Detection are rigorously implemented at GoECart.

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Security

    GoECart uses the latest Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to process orders and manage the whole the shopping cart software system. The administrative access is password-protected and the administrator has the option to create multiple password-protected administrator accounts.

    GoECart is soon coming up with a version that supports permission based access control for multiple logins.

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Database and Systems

    GoECart is built on Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Database, which is well equipped to handle heavy traffic on your sites. The technologies used for development are ASP and Windows 2000 Server. You have direct access to the database with free monthly upgrades and advanced security monitoring.

    We are soon coming up with the MS Access version for GoECart.

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E-Mail Features

    GoECart comes with WebMail (Web based access) tool with 50 MB E-Mail disk space per mailbox. This email features supports aliases, auto responders and forwarders and also offers a catch-all option under which you can collect all the mails of your multiple e-mail ids for your online store at one place.

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