Ecommerce website features
On this page I've listed the bulk of features available, although most sites only ever need a handfull.
Most ecommerce software comes with every conceivable feature built in, while this may sound great, what it actually does is add levels of complexity, anxity and confusion. So if you want an ecommerce website that just gets the job done, is super easy for your customers and you to use - I can probably help you out.
Products
- Sell products, services or content
- Sell products with options (size, color, etc)
- Downloadable products
- Combine and bundle products
- Upload multiple images
- Show related products
- Show multiple images
- Automatic inventory reduction
- Search products
- Products can be on sale, with an optional start date and end date
- Add per-product handling charges, or mark products to have free delivery
- Automatic low inventory alerts
- Different pricing levels for each membership level
- Password-protected content and downloads
- Create unlimited sub categories
- Add products to unlimited categories
- Product reviews & comments
- Enter sale price for sale events
- Choose if a product is taxable or not
- Enable free shipping on a per-product basis
Payments
- PayPal Express
- PayPal Website Payments Pro
- Cheque
- Ogone
- Worldpay
- Realex
- Sage direct
- Sage server
- Paypoint
- Commidea
- And more...
Orders
- View orders
- Delete orders
- Print invoice
- Print packing slip
- Export orders to Excel
- Email order confirmation
- Agree to terms before ordering
- Minimum and maximum order quantities
Delivery
- Flat rate delivery per order
- Flat rate delivery per item
- Free delivery
- Table rates for weight and destination
- Zone rates
- Threshold rates
- Per location rates
- Delivery confirmation of purchase via email
- Countries / Regions - optionally define which countries/regions are available in your store
Images, Photos & video
- Upload an unlimited number of photos
- Automatically generated photo galleries
- Photo thumbnails on product pages
- Thumbnail photos created automatically
- Upload dozens of images at once
- Photo manager to organize photos
- Open large images in a popup window
- Per-image alt text and description for SEO
- Share photos between products
- Product videos
Customers
- Customers can create accounts any time while browsing or during checkout
- Order status
- Newsletter subscription management
- Customers do not have to be logged in or create an account to purchase
- Order history
- Per-group pricing
- Wholesale/retail pricing
- Move customers between groups
Promotions
- Newsletter subscriptions
- Rules-based pricing
- Add per-product sale pricing, with optional on-sale dates
- Amount off over x
- Amount off product
- Amount off entire purchase
- Buy x get x for discounted price
- Free order
- Free delivery
- Limit by quantity
- Percentage off categories
- Percentage off product
- Percentage off entire purchase
- Discount codes
- Promotional banners
- Free delivery coupon code
- Coupon expiry date
- Coupon limited uses
- Google Analytics integration
- Popular products list
- New products list
- Top sellers list
Reports
- Top products
- Sales by product
- Sales by category
- Summary report (view sales for the day, month and year)
- Product sum report (how much have you made from each product) with Excel
- Monthly history report with Excel
- Low stock report with Excel
- Google Analytics integration
Communication
- Order status change can be linked to an email which gets sent to the customer