CoreCommerce - The Ultimate E-Commerce Solution

The popularity and success of an online store depends primarily on e-commerce design. CoreCommerce offers a large number of storefront templates for people to choose from if they have no prior html knowledge.Those with html knowledge can create and upload their own custom design. With full control over the design of your entire store, you can create something truly unique. In addition, built-in navigation set up is available to provide customers with the best possible shopping experience.

E-commerce security is a crucial part of an e-commerce business and CoreCommerce is one of the leaders in the industry. With daily backups, 99.9% uptime and a state of the art firewall, it provides secure hosting for your customers while they are on your site. It also comes with 256 bit SSL encryption which offers the strongest protection against theft during checkout. Last but not least, PCI compliance guarantees safe payment processing so customer credit card data is always protected.

Ecommerce SEO is needed for the long term sustainability of your business, because good search engine rankings will help drive a lot of traffic to your online store. CoreCommerce automatically improves a store's SEO by creating search engine friendly URL's for all product and category pages. Allows easy set up of meta tags for any product, catalog or custom content page, alt tags for images and header tags for product names. With CoreCommerce, your well optimized site will help you stay ahead of your competition.

What sets an e-commerce site apart from a regular content site is its ability to process orders and accept payment. CoreCommerce has many features to complete customer transactions, calculate sales tax, manage inventory, keep track of orders and bookkeeping. Here is a look at some of the features in detail:

Quickbooks Integration
Have all of your customer orders and inventory automatically synchronize with Quickbooks, the #1 accounting and point of sale software for small businesses. CoreCommerce uses Quickbooks Web Connector to fully automate the process of sending your online store orders directly into QuickBooks to be processed, adding any discounts or gift certificates used, shipping, and sales tax to the total. Customers will also be inserted into QuickBooks, along with your store's product inventory. Invoices and sales receipts are then produced by the software to complete the order.

POS Online
Online point of sales can be easily synchronized with Quickbooks to produce real-time order processing. The same can be done offline at tradeshows, conferences and brick and mortar shops with CoreCommerce. You will need a barcode scanner to list products purchased, a credit card reader to accept credit card payments and a receipt printer to give customers a record of payment. All of these offline processes can be completed simultaneously with your online store without missing a beat. Simply hook up the machines to a computer via USB and process orders and payment in the exact same way as you would with web orders.

Online Payment Processing
CoreCommerce works with all of the major payment processors, both directly integrated into the checkout process or third party processors which require the customer to navigate away from your shopping cart. With 256 bit SSL encryption, customers can enjoy full protection of their credit card and personal data. Payment processing of international orders is also an added feature as well as the ability to accept other forms of payment such as checks, money orders, COD's and purchase orders.

Online Sales Tax
CoreCommerce allows easy sales tax calculation with a built-in tax wizard that you can operate directly from your store admin. Once you set up the system, it will automatically make the right calculations on customer orders that require sales tax collection. Set up is easy, simply determine the percentage of tax to collect and whether to collect at a state, county or zip code level. Other details to include are whether or not to tax customers from other countries, if tax should be collected before or after discounts and products that are nontaxable.

One Page Checkout
One page checkout is something that every e-commerce site should use to improve a customer's shopping experience and increase conversion rates. CoreCommerce makes use of one page checkout to collect billing, shipping and payment information all in one place. Online shoppers generally prefer this method to the traditional multiple page checkout. Giving your customers a faster and easier way to purchase your products not only decreases shopping cart abandonment rates, it also increases your sales.

International E-Commerce
Take advantage of the explosive growth of internet users around the world by offering international e-commerce. CoreCommerce comes with superior translation tools to turn the most important details of your site into multiple languages so that everyone will be able to read it. In addition, it also works with well known international payment processors and global delivery services to both accept foreign currencies and ship your products out to all corners of the globe.

Mobile Commerce
With the emergence of smartphones and handhelds, more and more people are beginning to do all of their normal internet activities on the go. This includes online shopping, therefore it is extremely important that your online store is mobile friendly. CoreCommerce offers mobile commerce features that reduces the size of your entire site to fit the smaller screens of mobile devices perfectly. This eliminates distortion and requires less scrolling than it normally would without mobile integration. The system will be able to automatically detect what kind of device you are browsing the web with and make the appropriate conversions based on that information. Mobile integration enables a hassle-free checkout process for mobile users, which gives them a pleasant shopping experience and helps you make more sales.

Product Options
There are many types of goods that come in a variety of product options such as different colors and sizes. CoreCommerce, unlike many of its competitors, count each product with multiple variants as just one product which will not increase the amount you have to pay for your monthly plan. What it allows you to do is enter all of the options in your store admin area and select how to display them on the product page. It also provides inventory control for each variant as well as the ability to set multiple prices for the different product options. You get to offer your customers multiple choices and do it all with ease.

Sell Personalized Item
Personalization is a feature that is growing in popularity, because more and more people want to buy products for both themselves and other people that have significant or personal value. If you have the ability to offer products that can be engraved, embroidered or printed with either text or images that the customer provides, then you can sell personalized items with CoreCommerce. Simply choose whether or not to accept product personalization from the store admin. With this feature, your customers will be able to write a text message or upload their images directly from your online store . You can even charge an additional fee for personalization, which will be added to the final cost of the product.

Products Rating
Online shoppers like to base their decision to make a purchase on the opinions and advice of other customers who have already bought the product. Product reviews and ratings are an effective and powerful sales tool for an e-commerce business. CoreCommerce gives you the ability to add product reviews and ratings to any one of your products, and you get to choose whether you want it to automatically appear on the product page after submission or approve them manually. With CoreCommerce, you can help your customers make better buying decisions.

Drop Ship Program
Many e-commerce business owners choose to sell products using a drop ship program. This way they are able to focus on the marketing aspect of the business and driving more traffic to their online store while the drop ship vendor takes care of the order fulfillment. With CoreCommerce, you are allowed to add an unlimited amount of vendors and manage them directly from your store admin. When an order is placed, real-time shipping is calculated based on the location of the vendor, an email automatically goes out to that vendor notifying them of what needs to be shipped out. You can also give your vendors their own login, allowing them to update and manage their own inventory through the store interface.

E-Goods
E-goods are intangible products that can be downloaded instead of shipped out to the customer. They come in the form of ebooks, software, music files, etc. CoreCommerce allows you to easily sell and manage your e-goods from the store admin. You can sell e-goods as either stand alone products or part of a product option. A customer that purchases an e-good will be given a dynamic link, once clicked on the downloading begins. You can also set up parameters regarding the validity of the link, such as how many clicks or how many days before the link becomes invalid or only allowing the customer's IP address to download the product.

Offer Subscription
E-commerce business owners that are looking for more stable streams of income can create a subscription based or membership website. CoreCommerce works with many well known payment processors with experience handling recurring payments. The entire system works on auto-pilot as soon as you set up details regarding when a customer gets charged, what countries to accept subscriptions from, number of payment declines before deactivating an account, number of days to wait after a decline to try again, etc. As long as you can keep producing the products, content or services that the customers are paying for on time, there is no need to worry about the rest of the process. Customers can sign in to their account and cancel at any time, and you receive detailed reports.

Gift Card Program
Give your customers more options by offering a gift card program, this will not only improve your sales revenue during the holiday season but throughout the year. It's getting more difficult to give people what they truly want, that is exactly why gift cards are so popular now. With CoreCommerce, your customers can choose between getting gift codes online or having actual gift cards mailed to recipients. All gift certificates or gift cards are auto-generated and can be easily purchased through your online store. The recipient then goes to your store, add the products they want to the shopping cart and enter the gift card code before checking out. It even gives you the ability to check the balance from your store admin.

Online Wishlist & Online Gift Registry
Most big name retailers have wishlist and gift registry features, but it's such a powerful marketing tool that even the smallest e-commerce businesses should take notice. With a wishlist, even if visitors don't make a purchase right away, you can still remind them of products they selected or similar products based on what you know they like the next time they arrive on your site. If people add their wishlist on social media sites, your store can get a lot of unexpected exposure. With a gift registry, you are guaranteed more exposure, because the person who created the registry will send the information out to friends and they will have to go to your site to buy the gifts. If you offer great products and an easy checkout process, those unfamiliar with your store before are likely to become your new customers. Creating and managing a wishlist or gift registry is very simple with CoreCommerce, all you need to do is set up the initial parameters in your store admin and it pretty much works on its own. Customers are given their own accounts where they can log in and manage the products in their wishlist or registry themselves.

Online Store Coupons
Coupons are a great way to boost sales during periods of slow growth, because everyone is looking for a bargain. You can offer all kinds of online store coupons using CoreCommerce. Create an unlimited amount of coupons directly from your store admin, set up the coupon codes, determine whether the discount should be based on percentage of total or dollar amount, select expiration date and other coupon validity parameters, allow all or only select groups of people to use the coupons, etc. Customers apply the coupon code during checkout and discounts are automatically calculated. You even receive detailed reports of how each coupon is used, which helps you determine what types of discounts work better than others.

Customer Reward
Having a customer reward program set up for your e-commerce business is a great customer retention tactic. You can offer reward points to people who make purchases, enter a contest or tell their friends about your online store, it's completely up to you. It gives customers more of an incentive to take action and in turn they become more loyal to your business. The system is extremely easy to set up and works on its own, all you have to do is set up the rules for calculating these points. As soon as customers have enough points, they will receive a gift certificate to go towards future purchases or some other prize.

Newsletter Program
Keep your customers well informed of new products, discounts or promotions with a newsletter program, it gets them to come back and buy from you again and again. With CoreCommerce, you can create and even send out newsletters from your store admin, just set it up so that it matches the look and feel of your online store, add whatever new announcements you want your subscribers to know about and hit send. CoreCommerce will also include a sign up box in the customer checkout area so they can choose to be added to the mailing list right after they make a purchase.

Ecommerce Ebay Integration
Nothing beats having your own online store, but Ebay remains a strong sales channel that cannot be ignored. You can take advantage of both with CoreCommerce, sell your products from your online store and list the same products on Ebay directly through your store admin. With Ebay integration, you can choose from auction or fixed price, add some item details, add optimization features if you want and it will automatically create the Ebay listing for you. Expose your products to millions of new potential customers and manage it all from your store interface.

Ecommerce Facebook Integration
Facebook is a giant social media site with an astonishing amount of traffic that every e-commerce business owner wants to tap into. Recently changes have been made to the site to make it easier for marketing and sales purposes. CoreCommerce offers Facebook integration which allows you to post your products into your Facebook profile or fan page. Many businesses have successfully used fan pages to promote themselves, now it's easy for you to do the same with this special feature.

Product Submit
One of the fastest and easiest ways to promote your products is to use product marketing feeds. You can get more exposure by listing your products on product search engines and price comparison sites. CoreCommerce has a product submit feature which sends the data feeds of each of your products to major players like Yahoo Shopping, Google Product Search, Shopping.com, Pricegrabber and more. It helps you get very targeted traffic, because people who frequent those sites know exactly what they want and when your product shows up in their search results there's a good chance they will go to your site with the intent to buy.

Online Affiliate Program
An online affiliate program is one of the best marketing tools an e-commerce business can have, it is like having your own sales force working hard to promote your store. The best part is, unlike traditional advertising, you don't have to pay unless you see results. CoreCommerce gives you the option of using their free built-in affiliate program or using a popular paid third party software. With the built-in one, you set up the percentage you want to pay your affiliates for each sale they help you make. Your affiliates can create and manage their own accounts directly from your online store interface. The system automatically produces different tracking URL codes for each affiliate to use and provides accurate reports of their commission earnings.

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