Online Store Features in CS-Cart Store Builder
Key components of online store features in CS-Cart Store Builder
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Store Builder Management System
Split all the store users into groups. User groups allow you to grant different rights to different users. Let your sales manager only access the order management page, content manager—product pages and blog, designer—the look and feel section.
User Groups and Admin Levels
Every day, the store admins and managers add new pages, post on the blog, and write descriptions. Store Builder comes with a modern and easy-to-use CMS to create a copy and format it to your liking, add pictures, videos, and custom HTML elements.
Powerful CMS
Build a business ecosystem around your store without coding. Zapier allows you to connect your store with over 5,000 third-party business applications. With professional business apps connected, you can greatly automate your workflow.
Connection with more than 5000 apps through Zapier
26 Built-In Languages
Sell worldwide: 26 built-in translations allow you to attract vendors from different countries. All translations are available for the storefront and admin panel. It is a community-driven translation made by native speakers.
Communication is essential for establishing healthy relationships with your customers. We simplified the communication management by creating a dedicated message center right in the admin panel of your store.
Message Center
Google Analytics
Store builder integrates with Google Analytics by default. This service generates detailed statistics about your website visitors. It gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness.
Store builder comes with a wizard that guides you through settings just in a few screens. For example, the Business Model screen lets you determine how you accept payments, installs the necessary add-ons, and creates payment methods if necessary.
Initial setup wizard
The admin panel pages have a button with a “question” mark. This button opens a Help section with the links to relevant documentation and videos lessons on store management. Learn more about the section of the admin panel you’re in right now.
Help Center
The notifications center is a single place where all records about the emails, pop-ups, messages, etc, are collected and stored. In the Notification center, you see the notifications about the messages sent to you, your managers, and customers.
Notification center
Running a large-scale store is much easier when delegating certain duties to your staff members. Set different levels of access for your employees. For instance, your web designer can work on the look-and-feel while sales guys process orders.
Administrator access levels
With 45 search parameters, you will easily locate the required product among thousands of items. Besides, you can save search parameters for the future. Advanced search works for products, categories, orders and customers.
Advanced search
It may be a good idea to make periodic database backups—that way you can always roll back to the previous state if something goes wrong. This tool allows you to easily back up the whole database of your store and restore it from a backup copy.
Database backup / restore tool
Take the most of the mobile sales. Responsive design themes make your store convenient on any device. Thanks to the responsive themes, Google will rank your store higher for customers browsing from smartphones and tablets.
Responsive design
To simplify the ordering process for customers, your managers can get incoming requests called "Buy now with 1-click". When a customer clicks the "Buy now with 1-click" on a product page, a new order is created in the admin panel.
Call requests
Create an unlimited number of templates for product pages to diversify them. Selling jewelry? Choose a product template with a large product image to show small items in detail. Selling car parts? Make large descriptions.
Multiple product page templates
Attract customers from all over the world as CS-Cart Store Builder can be used in any country. Customers can choose local currencies and see taxes pre-set by the store administrator.
Multiple currencies
You can enable the admin authentication by Google accounts. This is a great means of protection from unauthorized access to the admin panel of your store. Only users with the company’s Google accounts will be able to access the admin panel.
Back-end sign-in via Google
This feature simplifies the supplier management. Supplier accounts are used in the database to flag products that belong to third-party providers. Products from different suppliers can have different shipping methods.
Suppliers
The General Data Protection Regulation’s primary aim is to give individuals control over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU. CS-Cart is GDPR-compliant.
GDPR compliance
The CS-Cart Store builder store system integrates with maps from Google to show physical stores and pickup points and other objects on the map.
Google Maps
Product Information Management
Filling up the catalog with products and product information can be very time consuming, especially if a seller has thousands of products. That’s why Store builder has a convenient product import tool with presets for different import file formats.
Convenient Product Import
You can have multiple physical shops, and not all of them have the product in stock. You might have the product, but it takes some extra time to get it to the store or ship it. The Warehouses function informs customers about such things.
Warehouses
This feature allows you to sell digital products along with physical or digital ones only. You can build a store for digital art, 3D models, video courses, software, music, and whatnot!
Downloadable Products
Get extra leads from shopping directories like Google Product Search, Shopzilla, Shopping.com, etc. With Data feeds, you can export any number of custom product feeds of different formats to shopping directories.
Data feeds
You can track product inventory with options to see the exact number of items in stock. If a product is out of stock, you can hide it, allow customers to buy in advance, and to sign up for an in-stock notification.
Stock control, low stock notifications
The Age verification feature in CS-Cart Store Builder enables you to restrict customers’ access to certain products and categories on the basis of their age. This one comes in handy in case you sell products not intended for children.
Age verification
The Catalog mode feature enables you to set products to be displayed only in the catalog mode with product information and a direct link to an external website where the products are actually sold.
Catalog mode
The eBay synchronization feature enables you to exchange products, their data, and orders with eBay, an online auction and shopping website. This is a great tool for multi-channel commerce and an effective method of getting new audiences.
eBay synchronization
This function empowers you to generate and publish your product information in the PDF and XLS formats. For example, you can send price lists to your customers by their request or make it a bonus that is only available for VIP customers.
Price list
Order Management System
Returns happen during a normal business operation. The order management system in CS-Cart has an RMA feature to conveniently manage order returns and minimize the negative impact on the seller-customer relationship.
Return Merchandise Authorization
Order barcode
The order management system in CS-Car provides the ability to add barcodes to invoices. A barcode is a machine-readable representation of data that is printed on the invoices and contain information about the orders.
Order statuses simplify the order management. This is useful when you have multiple managers who process orders. Statuses allow you to avoid confusions, failed orders, and as a result—minimise the number of unsatisfied customers.
Custom Order Statuses
After a customer places an order, the CS-Cart system automatically generates an invoice. The customer can download and print the invoice from his or her account. You are free to modify the invoice content and look through the built-in document editor.
Invoice Creation
Knowing when your customers abandon their carts can help you detect and eliminate bottlenecks on their way to checkout, improving their shopping experience and your profits.
Abandoned Carts
Your managers can accept orders by a phone call. In this case, you or your manager can easily create an order manually for the customer right in the admin panel. This is convenient for customers as they buy with one click.
Manual order creation
Avoid delays with order processing and shipment. With automatic email notifications, you get an instant email about new orders. Customers receive email notifications about the order statuses as well.
Order email notifications
Marketing and SEO
Those who say “SEO is dead” just don’t know how to do it right :-) By optimizing your store, you can reach customers through Google way more effectively. Your store will take top ranks in online search results with CS-Cart's SEO tools.
SEO tools
Show complementary and recommended products on any page of your store. Draw your customers’ attention to Bestsellers, Newest products, Most popular, Recently viewed, On-sale, Similar, Featured, and Recommended products.
Cross-selling, upselling
Boost your sales by increasing the average order receipt. Product bundles can motivate customers to buy more. Discounted sets of products allow customers to save their money, and you—to increase the average receipt.
Product bundles
Newsletters and Email marketing
CS-Cart Store builder has native tools to conduct newsletter campaigns and synchronize your subscribers with Mad Mimi and MailChimp.
This feature enables your customers to purchase and use gift certificates in your store. A gift certificate is the best solution for customers who don’t know what to buy as a present. You can set up custom parameters for certificates.
Gift certificates
Bring customers back and persuade them to complete the order. Abandoned carts section keeps personal lists of products that your store visitors left in their carts and wish lists.
Abandoned carts
The Banners functionality allows you to add custom text and visual banners on any page of your storefront. Need to promote a particular product? No problem—just ask your designer to create a promo banner and place it on your store home page.
Banners
Engage customers and keep contact with them. With Store builder, you can create a fully functional blog inside your store. In your blog, you can publish news, special offers, announcements, and SEO articles to achieve a search boost.
Built-in blog
Encourage customers to buy more and shop regularly. You can launch loyalty programs via a built-in "Reward points" system. It lets customers earn and spend points for purchases.
Loyalty program
Payment System
Mobile payments such as Apple Pay and Google Pay are super popular. These methods are easy to use, don’t require entering any credentials, and can be used to pay for orders in just one touch. Your customers can freely use these payment options.
Apple Pay, Google Pay
Payments by country
CS-Cart Multi-Vendor Ultimate has the Payments by country function. It allows you to show or hide a payment method, depending on the country that the customer has selected. It comes in handy for large marketplaces that work all over the world.
The Taxes management system allows you to flexibly set up taxes for different countries. You can apply taxes to all the products, to specific products, or to shipping methods.
Taxes
Thanks to the Payment dependencies feature, you can assign payment methods to shipping methods of your store. You too can bind any payment method to any shipping method.
Payment dependencies
Delivery of Products
By default, CS-Cart Store builder integrates with the world's 8 largest delivery services: USPS, UPS, DHL, FedEx, Canada Post, Australia Post, Swiss Post, and Temando. They offer delivery options with real-time rate calculation.
Realtime shipping rates
Rate areas
This feature allows you to determine from what warehouses the products are delivered to the buyer from a certain location. Configure your warehouses so that customers from New York see only the products from the New York warehouse as "In stock".
This feature allows you to create a “Pick up from store” shipping method, with manually-defined delivery times and rates. Let customers choose where they want to pick up the product. The shipping rates and time depend on rate areas.
Stores and Pickup Points
CS-Cart has an option to create a custom shipping method with manual rate calculation. This one comes in handy if you run your own delivery service and need to specify custom rates and delivery time.
Manual shipping calculations
Thanks to the Payment dependencies feature, you can assign payment methods to shipping methods of your store. You too can bind any payment method to any shipping method.
Payment dependencies
CS-Cart allows you to ship items from a single order in multiple batches and at different periods. These batches are treated as separate shipments of one order. This is useful when you have to deal with backorders regularly.
Shipment management
Scaling
Extending your regional store to new markets, even global, is not a problem with CS-Cart. Multiple storefronts help you take over new niches and reach new audiences.
Multiple Storefronts
CS-Cart gives you 100% access to its source code, which means almost unlimited customization and scaling possibilities. This gives you exceptional flexibility in growing your business.
Open Source Code
Sell worldwide: 26 built-in translations allow you to attract customers from different countries. All translations are available for the storefront and the admin panel. It is a community-driven translation made by native speakers.
26 Built-in languages
Scalesta's hosting solutions offer reliable speed, security, and efficiency, making it easy for your store to grow. With flexible pricing plans, you can scale your business smoothly while focusing on providing excellent service to your clients.
Hosting
Localization is not a single feature, it's rather a set of features that allow you to scale to new markets, countries, niches, and business directions. You can adapt your store to a certain region and audience.
Localization
You can integrate the store with your existing business software systems thanks to CS-Cart’s API possibilities. With the CS-Cart’s powerful API, build an ecosystem of business services around your store that will work like a charm.
Powerful API
On the CS-Cart app market you can get ready add-ons to extend the default functionality and add more integrations and features. Make your store bigger and even more functional without writing a single line of code.
Add-ons and themes
Mobile App
Offer a more convenient way to buy from your online store. With a mobile app for iOS and Android, your customers can browse your store, add products to wish lists and carts, pay for the orders, and submit product reviews.
Mobile App
The mobile app uses the same data as your eCommerce store: categories, products, users, carts, wish lists, orders, and more. As you change them in the CS-Cart admin panel, the changes affect the app immediately.
Synchronization with the Store
You can get access to the application source code. With the app source code in your hands, you’re free to develop your own application with custom design and functionality, an app that will perfectly fit your business needs.
Source Code Available
Your application will have colors and visuals that perfectly match your brand. Just select all the visuals and the style, and we’ll do the rest—build the app and upload it to the App Store and Google Play.
Custom look
Product reviews are an important part of building trust on your store. Customers’ reviews not only help other buyers choose high-quality products but they also help you identify bad products and brands and take precautions.
Product reviews
Promotions are a powerful part of the marketing toolkit in CS-Cart Store builder. Promotions allow you to offer various bonuses to your customers. You just choose conditions that customers should meet and the bonus they get.
Promotions
When getting the mobile app for your store, you have two options: let us build and support the app for you or get the app source code to develop and maintain the app yourself.
Built by the CS-Cart devs
CS-Cart Platform Rating
Our eCommerce platform is highly-rated software to build online store websites. It has an average rating of 4.75 out of 5 stars on the most popular business software review platforms in the software industry: SourceForge, Capterra, G2, TrustPilot, and others.
