eCommerce Shopping Cart Features
There are a lot of great eCommerce platforms on the market today, so what makes Pinnacle Cart different?
Pinnacle Cart is the only shopping cart platform built for 100% scalability. We're the eCommerce software you can use from the idea stage all the way to a business selling billions a year in revenue, without ever needing to find a new provider. What's even better is that we're 100% customizable, all the way down to the source code, allowing you to use our technology as much as you'd like. Looking for the best WordPress eCommerce solution? We can match your store to your site down to the finest details. Looking to manage your entire site, including your store, all in one place? We can do that too.
What's even better is that we've got 100% US based support here ready to help with a smile. We've also got an in house design and development team ready to help you build your dream site, complete with just about any feature you can think up.
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Switch between Horizontal and Vertical navigation
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CSS / XHTML tableless design
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W3C / XHTML compliant templates
- Easy to integrate with your existing design
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Drag-and-drop layout design feature
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"Design Mode" allows you to create a professional looking storefront without programming experience
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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
- Cutting-edge search engine optimization
- Flat URL generation (www.yoursite.com/product/product-name.htm)
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Ability to create your own URL structure (www.yoursite.com/create-your-own-url.html)
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Manage all URL's at the category, product and page level.
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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
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Ability to modify HTML or CSS via browser
- Automatically generated site map
- Generates XML site map for Google Base
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Valid WC3 template design
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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
- 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
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Unlimited drop ship locations
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Allows you to control how and when the drop shipper is notified of an order
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Separates drop shipping products from other products in the order.
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Edit email notifications to drop shippers
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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
- "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 newsletters 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
- Product-level inventory tracking
- Attribute-level inventory tracking
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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"Closed Store" feature
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Testimonials
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"New Items" feature
- Easily add areas for promotions, banners or even Google Ads.
- Ability to edit all emails sent out by the cart
- Hosted cart is PCI compliant
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PA DSS certified
- Allows for database and application to be separated
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Allows you to designate an IP address allowing access to the admin area
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Locks out administrators after too many failed attempts
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Ability to unlock adminstrators accounts through the control panel
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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 protocols
- 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
- 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
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Site profit
- 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
- 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
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Sell your products on Facebook for FREE using eCommerce Plus
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Drift Marketing
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Integration with MailChimp
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"Products you may like" tool
- 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
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API
- Gift certificates
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New Items page
- Hot Deal feature
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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
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Product Reviews
- Export email list to other programs
- Global sale prices (example - 10% off entire store)
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Export products to eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, Google Product Search, PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, NextTag, Goshopping and others
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Import both products and categories 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
- 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
The following special offers are
included with every cart purchase:
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.
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.
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.
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.
