Shopping cart software overview
For a quick introduction, below we present some of the best shopping cart software features available in CS-Cart. While all of these tools are very powerful and provide a lot of opportunities, your store can still be maintained with ease and will not require great learning efforts.
Therefore, you are likely to be interested in trying the software in action. And, by all means, we encourage you to do so. You may either immediately browse through online demo or download a free, fully-functional trial version and maintain it for two months directly on your server without any restrictions.
Highlights of CS-Cart:
Extensive use of AJAX
AJAX technologies allow to considerably reduce traffic and optimize speed by updating a part of the page without its full reloading.
One-page checkout
The one-page checkout feature enables to go through the checkout on a single page and makes ordering process quick and intuitive.
Inventory tracking
Automated inventory tracking makes the stock control process much easier. Each product can be tracked with or without options.
Promotion options
Promotions is an effective marketing tool to increase sales and interest your customers. The idea is simple, you just define certain conditions, meeting which, a customer gets a bonus.
Gift Certificates
Gift Certificates system allows to purchase and redeem either email type or postal type gift certificates. And thanks to a variety of options, you can easily manage the process and be in total control of it.
Return Management
Availability of return management system increases confidence in your store and makes your business more competitive. A flexible return policy will satisfy both you and various groups of customers.
Gift Registry
Gift Registry enables customers to inform their friends and relatives of events or occasions in their lives (e.g. weddings, birthdays) and get the presents they want.
Block manager
Block manager is intended for creating additional information blocks and special lists like Bestsellers, Related products and Featured products allowing to draw attention to a greater number of catalog items.
50+ payment gateways
CS-Cart is integrated with more than 50 payment gateways (including both credit card processors and payment systems) out of the box.
Real-time shipping rates
Our shopping cart software supports all major shipping providers: FedEx, UPS, USPS, Canada Post, Australia Post, DHL and Intershipper. Besides, you can offer not only real-time shipping rates but also customized ones.
Flexible tax rate system
Full tax support allows to set up taxes in different ways and apply them to shipping methods or certain products, also they can be configured to depend on either shipping address or billing address.
Built-in affiliate system
Built-in affiliate system allows to build mutually beneficial partnership with your affiliates and thus advertise your products on other web sites with no third-party software required.
Statistics add-on
Covering different aspects of store attendance, the statistics add-on makes it much easier to control the store. This enables to see, for example, the most frequently searched products or popular browsers among your visitors.
Extended import/export
With the improved import/export functionality you have a chance to transfer data about languages, orders, products or users separately. You can even select the fields that a CSV file will contain.
To look further into the details, please, refer to the complete list of shopping cart software features available in CS-Cart.
Technologies
CS-Cart is built using industry-standard technologies: PHP and MySQL.
Optimized programming code allows to achieve the best performance and build online stores that can easily handle over 10,000 products.
Design architecture of CS-Cart is based on Smarty template engine that, along with completely CSS-based template layout, makes it very simple to change the look-and-feel of the storefront.
Pricing
The price of a CS-Cart license is $285. Each additional license is available at a $100 discount and costs $185.
CS-Cart is sold on a lifetime basis, thus allowing to host the software for unlimited period of time, within a single domain per license.
With each shopping cart license, you are granted with the complete access to the source code, an extensive set of alternative skins, a one-year access to free software updates and a free technical support package.
A first license is also eligible for 30-day money back guarantee.