TheShoppingCart.com (TSC) knows that to create a successful online storefront today, a variety of technical requirements must be aligned – from automated sales and marketing functions, to customer support and direct fulfillment and management. TSC solution incorporates all of these needs and more! An overview of these eCommerce features includes:

Sophisticated Backend For Your Complete Control - Reach your information any time; review sales records, buyers purchasing habits and run reports all through a web browser. 
Retail Mode - Allows use of system as a mail order/customer service module, including pricing discounts, shipping cost overrides, hot key screen control, suspension of orders to be recalled at a later date, and much more. 
POS Mode - Allows use of the system as a cash register. End of day reports show daily sales and cash reconciliation allowing the user to reconcile their cash drawer or other cash collection points. 
Microsoft Access® or SQL Server® and MySQL Databases Supported - Full-text product searches are now supported in SQL Server to speed access on large database product lookups. 
Complete Security System Control - employee access to various parts of the program with our enhanced security system, controlled by password level and IP address.

Complete Inventory Tracking - Inventory Transfer Module tracks the creation, shipment and receipts of inventory between locations. 
Create/Receive Purchase Orders - This adjusts inventory when PO’s are received. 
Automatic Reorder - Automatically generate purchase orders for products that are below their minimum reorder points. 
Product Master Listing - Provides an overview of all products and their corresponding location information. 
Average Cost Inventory System - supports inventoried, serialized, matrix, bundled/kit and service type products. 
Inventory Modifications - Make changes to your product database instantly with a web browser. 

Seamless UPS Worldship Integration eCommerce website integrates directly with UPS Worldship. This saves a tremendous amount of time generating shipping labels and tracking numbers.
Flexible Order Tracking Module - Allows external fulfillment house to ship product. 
Auto Shipments and Recurring Sales - Auto-ship products to your customers, based on your pre-determined specifications. 
Shipping Cost Calculations - Four methods of generating shipping costs are available. Link directly to the UPS, FedEx, USPO, Airborne, or DHL sites.

Secure Payment - Integrated support for Verisign, SSL certificates. 
Flexible Payment Options - Accepts all credit cards, cash, checks, purchase orders, Paypal® and other customizable payment types. 
International Sales - Choose to sell in the USA only, USA and Canada, or worldwide. Based on your choice, the appropriate payment information is displayed. 
Multi-Currency Support - Allows on-line currency exchange updates. 
Serialized Tracking of Gift Certificates

Category Management - Dynamically control which categories and subcategories of products are available on your site. 
Serialized Items Supported Serial number tracking is available. 
Designate Personalized Items - Allows customers to fill in personalized information on specified items. 
Control Customer Purchasing - Products can be displayed based on 5 different purchase levels. 
Control Which Locations Can Sell Which Products - Great tool when using the system in POS or Retail Mode, and you have products that might be sold in your retail store but not on the web.

Customer Order & Maintenance Tracking - Statistics Track customer profiles in terms of total visits to your website, purchase history, last IP Address, payment records, etc. 
Customer History Customers can view their order history on-line. 
Order Tracking System - Customers can login to the main eCommerce page and review the status of their order. 
Flexible Message System - Customer message boards allow you to present real-time messages to your customers when they enter the cart.

Customer Referral Program - Track customer generation and automatically apply customer discounts based on referral agreements. 
Statistical Reporting 
Promotion Tracking - Design and track the success of eCommerce promotions, including on-line contests, specials, deals and more. 
Google Froogle Export - Generate the proper files to upload to Google (if you have the proper Google account) to allow the next generation of indexing of your website. 
Customer List Generation - All customers that enter the guest book are stored in the database, allowing for mass email functionality.

Flexible Website Interface - Control the graphics, colors and look & feel of your website by changing just a few parameters from the maintenance menu. 
Auto Picture Upload - Automatically send your product and category pictures to your website without the need for an FTP program.

Flexible Report Generator - Provides complete sales, order, COGs, profit and product reports. 
Inventory Reports - Includes current product inventory levels and inventory shipped by location. 
Stock Status - Reports At the press of a button, know which products are above and below their minimum stock values. 
Security Log - Reports View who is accessing your data. 
Order Reports - Provides order detail information, packing list, invoice and manual credit card processing information.
Shipping Reports - Includes recurring shipments, total orders, shipped log and auto-ship projections.

Take a test drive to TheShoppingCart.com (use password: "demo") to see a bit of what we can offer.