Content Management & Design Features

• Designs
  Choose from dozens of beautiful industry-specific store designs which have been developed by a team of experienced graphic designers and search engine optimisation gurus. It takes just one click to enable a design in your store.
• Online Logo Editor
  Upload your own logo or use the logo editor to create a stunning logo for your store. Just fill in the logo text, choose a design and you're done.
• Drag and Drop Design
  Change the layout and text in your store using the unique "design mode" editor. Move blocks of content and change the text in your store without knowing HTML.
• Full CMS Functionality
  sitestudio.Online Shopping Cart includes a fully functional content management system which allows you to publish web pages, blogs and contact forms.
• Hierarchical Pages
  You can create pages (such as 'About Us') and sub-pages under each page (such as 'Mission Statement' and 'Company History'). These pages will be used to build the navigation menu in your store.
• Contact Forms
  Easily create and publish contact forms in your online store. Just choose who the contents of the form should be emailed to, pick the fields to display on the form and you're done.
• Publish News & Blogs
  Keep visitors coming back by publishing news and blogs in your store. Discuss new products, special offers and promotions.
• Restrict to Customer Groups
  You can restrict the viewing of any page in your store only to peple who are in specific customer groups.
  

Fully Automated Store Management Tools
With the sitestudio.Online Shopping Cart, keeping your store up to date using the fully-featured and secure Administration Panel is easy and cost effective.

• Unlimited Products and Categories
  Catalogue an unlimited number of products and product categories. Place your products in multiple categories. List product attributes, such as colour, size and weight, and include digital images to showcase your products. Supports physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products. Flexible for any type of product range, your store can grow indefinitely.
• Automatic Inventory Control
  Setup inventory levels per product or per product variation and when someone buys the inventory levels will be adjusted for you automatically. Interspire Shopping Cart will even tell you when it's time to order more stock!
• Include/Exclude Tax Pricing
  You can specify whether prices for products in your store already include tax, or whether tax rules should be applied when purchasing.
• Customer Groups
  Create unlimited customer groups, each with different pricing and access restrictions.
• Wholesale Pricing
  Set discounts on a per-product, per-category or storewide basis for each customer group. You can create an unlimited number of discounts and it's easy to choose which categories and products those discounts should be applied to.
• Business Intelligence Reporting
  sitestudio.Online Shopping Cart gives you more business intelligence reports than any other shopping cart software.
• Publish News & Blogs
  Keep visitors coming back by publishing news and blogs in your store. Discuss new products, special offers and promotions.
• Configurable Purchase Fields
  Assign text, file and checkbox fields to products and require customers to fill in the fields before purchasing. This comes in handy if you sell products with custom engraving, merchandise with custom images, etc.
• Refunds & Store Credits
  Process refunds from your store's control panel. You can either refund the order back to the customer or issue them with a store credit instead, which they can use to purchase through your online store.

Payment & Shipping Features

• Accept Credit Cards
  sitestudio.Online Shopping Cart makes it easy to sell online. Right out of the box your store integrates with PayPal, Google Checkout and over 30 other merchant providers.
• Offline Payment Methods
  Configure your store to accept credit cards and/or 'offline' payment methods such as COD, pay in store, cheque, bank transfer, etc.
• Sell Online and Offline
  Customers can order online, but you can also take phone or POS orders with our easy-to-use order taking system.
• Real-Time Shipping Quotes
  Interspire Shopping Cart integrates with UPS, UPS online tools, USPS, FedEx, Canada Post, Australia Post and Royal Mail for live shipping quotes.
• Define-Your-Own Rates
  Setup fixed shipping prices on a per item, order or country basis. You can even setup shipping rates based on order total and weight.
• Flexible Shipping Zones
  Offer specific shipping methods based on the customer's location. You can configure shipping zones on a per zipcode, state, and/or country level for ultimate flexibility.
• Handling & Free Shipping
  Add an optional handling cost to each order which you can show separately or as part of the shipping cost. Also offer free shipping on orders over a certain amount per shipping zone.
• Sell in Multiple Currencies
  Easily setup your store to sell in multiple currencies. Exchange rates can be updated manually or automatically every day. The Shopping Cart detects the geographical location of a customer and shows prices in their local currency. They can of course browse and buy in other currencies too.
  

Marketing & Promotional Tools

• SEO Optimised
  The Shopping Cart template structure was designed from the ground up by search engine optimisation experts. All templates make proper use of heading tags, alt tags, meta details, etc. Templates are tableless in design and are crafted to help your website rank favorably in all major search engines.
• SEO-Friendly Links
  All pages in your store from products to categories, brands and even search results use SEO-friendly links which make it easy for search engine spiders to find and then index the contents of your pages.
• Create Banners & Promotions
  Use the promotion designer to create and display banners through your store. You can link banners to specific categories, products, brands or even search results, and you can even display banners only between specific dates - perfect if you're having a sale!
• Coupon Codes
  Create flexible coupon codes to offer customers discounts on products in your store. You can even add a coupon expriy date or limit the number of uses.
• Affiliate Tracking
  It's easy to plug any third party affiliate program into your sitestudio.Online Shopping Cart store. Visits and conversions are tracked for affiliate links automatically.
• Analytics Integration
  Integrate your Shopping Cart store with any analytics package you choose, including Google Analytics, to get a 360° view of your store.
• Bulk Discounts
  Create bulk discounts for quantity pricing of items in your store and incentivise customers to buy in bulk and save.
• Gift Certificates
  Sell gift certificates through your store. All gift certificates are delivered automatically to the recipient via email and redeemed in your store. You can even track who used a gift certificate and when.
• Newsletter Subscriptions
  Accept newsletter subscribers through the 'join my list' box in your store, which you can then use to send newsletters and promotions to your subscribers.
• Promotional Banners
  Use the built-in designer to create and display promotional banners for special offers in your store. You choose which pages the banners appear on and where (top or bottom).
• RSS Feeds
  Shoppers can subscribe to your RSS feed to be notified automatically when you add new products to your store.

Enhanced Customer Experience

• Spotlight Lists
  • Featured Products
  • Top Sellers
  • New Products
  • Related Products
  • News & Blogs
• Product Comparisons
  Customers can compare products side-by-side to aid in buying decisions. They can see complete details about a product (name, SKU, image, price, average rating, custom fields) and remove products from the comparison with a single click.
• Wishlist
  Wish lists can be created and optionally shared by enabling the 'public wishlist' option. There is no limit on the number of wish lists each customer can create.
• Product Reviews
  Shoppers can post product reviews in your store. You can set reviews to auto-approve or you can even manually review and approve reviews as they come in. Reviews are a great way to encourage purchasing because opinions come from neutral third parties - your customers.
• Customer Account Maintenance
  Your customers can manage their own account details such as contact information and multiple delivery addresses.
• Order History
  Your customers can see a complete status report on their orders, including orders which have shipped and those which are awaiting fulfillment or shipping.
• Gift Wrapping
  Specify store-wide gift wrapping options or even specify them per product. For example, you might enable gift wrapping on all iPods but disable it on larger products such as TVs and computers.
• Shop by Brand
  Shoppers can view a complete list of all brands/manufacturers in your store. You can upload a logo for each brand and all logos will be displayed on one page. Clicking on a logo will show the products in your store for that brand/manufacturer.

Checkout Features:

• Single Page Checkout
  Customers can breeze through checkout using the sitestudio.Online Shopping Cart single page checkout system, which has been proven to significantly increase conversion rates.
• Guest Checkout
  Enable the guest checkout setting to make it even easier for customers to buy from you. Guest checkout means they don't have to spend time creating an account with you - they simply type in their billing and shipping details, pay and they're on their way.
• Shipping Quote Estimates
  Right from their cart, customers can enter their location to receive a shipping cost estimate. For many customers simply knowing how much you charge for shipping before they checkout will make them more likely to complete their order.
• Tracking Numbers
  Assign a tracking number to an order and your customers can see live order tracking details from their "My Account" page.
• Email Order Confirmation
  Customers will automatically receive an email when their order is shipped.