Searchfit Shopping Cart Software Features Overview Version 7.0

Shopping Cart - Web Services Features

• Detailed management of store inventory.
• Convenient addition of new products to the store.
• The capability to update existing products.
• The freedom to delete unused products at any time.
• Republication of websites.
• Synced inventory with vendor data feed (requires custom programming).
• Retrieval of external data feed from vendor(s).
• Parsing of data feed for necessary information.
• Creation of an import sheet based on individual store configuration.
• Addition of newly added products from vendor to inventory.
• Deactivation of unneeded products - If deletion is not desired.
• The ability to flag products as 'out of stock'.
• Republication of modified websites.
• Ability to import eProducts + Registration Numbers, exposed a web service that allows the operation to be performed programmatically as well.
• Web service available for "export orders" available for 3rd party developers.
• Web service available for "get orders summary".

Shopping Cart - Setup Features

• Build completely static pages.
• Full browser control panel.
• 5-level product structure.
• Automated navigation, site map capabilities, and more!
• Set up great product pages that can be optimized for search engines, either by importing existing product data or entering new information.
• Template and products can be set up or imported via SearchFit.
• Help files are included in the admininstration area for all areas of product setup.
• Products can be imported from either CommaSeparatedValues or TabSeparatedValues files.
• Ability to import categories, subcategories, products, options, manufacturer name, metatags, headings, etc.
• Vendors can also be imported and assigned to products for the new drop shipping feature.
• Delete, create new, or update existing records when importing.
• Order/QuickBooks database export is possible.
• Super fast HTML code generation.
• Setup for affiliates possible with reseller login.
• Vendor/Service login with automated drop shipping order system per vendor.
• Custom invoice, order, and email templates.
• Sitemap control: SearchFit provides the ability to specify whether individual and customized link/pages should be excluded from or included in the generated SiteMap.
• Choose between standard and parallel layouts on the second checkout page.
• You can include a custom help link on the second checkout page to explain parts of the process, like the Credit Card Security ID, to customers.
• Support of WebServices. Currently the following SearchFit's features are exposed as WebServices:
• do-test : just a test service
• do-import-store-records : import records to the store
• do-generate : start generation (and possible transfer)
• do-import-orders : import orders' information
• SearchFit's WebServices are mostly used by programmers and developers, as these features allow them to integrate SearchFit via their own software.
• "Dest Cart URL (HTTP)" property of the users may contain the non HTTPS URL of the cart. This URL is used to show non-secure information as popups of products and similar.
• If textareas include special symbols like € ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ™ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ © ­ ® ° ± · º ½ ¼ ¾, then the symbols will be repaced with the following html equivalents € ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ™ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ © ­ ® ° ± · º ½ ¼ ¾ ÷ . This feature requires "iconv character set conversion facility" installed on the servers.
• Configurable "Product Update Mode" with two choices. This setting is used for product import. The [Standard] choice creates links to existing products if different categories specified. The [No Links] choice enables reorganization of products by moving them to specified different categories.
• If a given option is required, then the "required" property of individual groups of product options can be imported as well.
• The names of the categorytypes, categories, and products can now be changed per user (website) and can be imported as well.
• The descriptions of the categorytypes, categories, and products can now be changed per user (website) and can be imported as well.
• The metatags of the categorytypes, categories, and products can now be changed per user (website) and can be imported as well.
• Manufacturers' properties can be configured including: name per user, metatags, metatags per user, description, and description per user.
• Show products as links (configuration per user) option allows the items (products) on the check out pages to be shown as regular text (not links).
• "Checkout Layout (2nd page)" property at Configure/PerUser can be set to display "Parallel Shipping+Billing".
• During an import characters like C (copyright), R (reserved), and TM (trademark) will be replaced with appropriate HTML substitutes.
• Products' templates keywords:
• a) AUTO GENERATED PRODUCT URL BRIEF: will be replaced with the the URL pointing to the webpage of the brief product
• b) AUTO GENERATED PRODUCT URL DETAILED: will be replaced with the URL pointing to the webpage of the detail product.
• This allows for flexible text and image links.
• When importing products, if the value of the importing product option contains "" then it will be created and marked as default one.
• Tags for custom content on dynamic pages including: and - the content between these tags will be shown on all dynamic pages, but the checkout ones.
• "Thanks Page" keywords including:
• a) SCART ORDER AMOUNT SUBTOTAL - will be replaced with the subtotal amount of the order (in selected currency)
• b) SCART ORDER AMOUNT SUBTOTAL USDOLLAR - will be replaced with the subtotal amount of the order (in us dollars)
• The MISC/FilesRepos area allows the uploaded files to be organized in different folders and subfolders.
• The keyword AUTO GENERATED TOOL CATEGTYPE will be replaced with a dropdown navigator that has category types only.
• The administration navigation menu was changed to better group the available menu items, the names of some menu items were changed as well.
• Functions for the Store/Customize and Handling/DropShipping features:
• Ability to select products by categoryType/category.
• Ability to deselect products by categoryType/category.
• Ability to assign products by categoryType/category.
• Ability to import/export product web page names.
• Ability to import categorytypes and categories web page names.
• The Following Keywords can be used in the main templates: AUTO_GENERATED_METATAG_CONTENT_TITLE: will be replaced with the title from the metatags section of the web page.
• Ability to have additional HTML anchor attributes for the custom web links.
• Products have 2nd additional brief and detail descriptions fields available. Ability to import and export them.
• Ability to search by product foreign id on the products' admin pages.
• Keywords available for the export products templates: PRODUCT_PRICE_COST (product cost price).
• Ability to show product properties (0-9) on the checkout pages. Use <checkout_indicator/> element to mark a property as to be shown.
• Ability to specify categorytypes, categories, and products web page names to be non-fully (with extra suffixes) or fully (no extra suffixes) customized.
• Ability to transfer only modified product images to the remote FTP server. On the generation page, show the latest date when a product image has been added/modified.
• Ability to generate style sheets (CSS) only.
• Ability to generate partially the web sites by specifying the category type and category of the pages to be generated.
• Implemented security enhancements, stronger encryption, encrypting additional data.
• When a product is inactivated it is not unselected from the customized stores or drop shipping vendors. This allows the system to restore to the old configuration when the product is activated again. The inactive products are shown on the customize store and drop shipping vendors pages
  The "Edit Order Textarea Rows" property at Configure/PerUser has default value of 12 rows for all new customers.
• Increased the max length of member's email fields from 25 to 100.
• Ability to export product navigation bar tabs (refer to the export products examples).
• If textareas include special symbols like µ × , then the symbols will be replaced with the following html equivalents: &micro; &times; This feature requires "iconv character set conversion facility" installed on the servers. µ ×
• Ability to activate/deactivate products during "Edit All" products.
• The new "SiteMap: custom links position" property at Configure/PerUser allows the store owner to select whether the sitemap to start or end with the custom links.
• Ability to search by product id on the products' admin pages.
• Sitemap.htm custom page will be automatically created for new users.
• Keywords available for the product templates:
• AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_NAME_ONLY: will be replaced with the name of the product (not as link)
• AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_URL_PRINTABLE_VIEW: will be replaced with the "Printable View" url (read the help for an example).
• The following keywords are available for the export orders templates:
  ORDER_SELLER_ID: seller's id
• ORDER_SELLER_USERNAME: seller's user name
• ORDER_SELLER_FULLNAME: seller's full name
• ORDER_SELLER_COMMISSION: seller's commission
• ORDER_PRICE_SUBTOTAL_COST: cost of the ORDER is the subtotal calculated by the costs of the items instead of their selling prices
• ORDER_ITEM_PRICE_COST: item's cost price
• ORDER_WEIGHT - the weight of the ORDER
• ORDER_ITEM_WEIGHT: item's weight
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_01: item's property 01
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_02: item's property 02
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_03: item's property 03
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_04: item's property 04
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_05: item's property 05
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_06: item's property 06
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_07: item's property 07
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_08: item's property 08
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_09: item's property 09
• ORDER_PRICE_TAX_EXEMPT: tax exempt of the ORDER (valid for v6.6+)
• ORDER_SHIPPING_STATE_XX: abbreviated shipment state of the buyer
• ORDER_SHIPPING_COUNTRY_XX: abbreviated shipment country of the buyer
• ORDER_BILLING_STATE_XX: abbreviated billing state of the buyer
• ORDER_BILLING_COUNTRY_XX: abbreviated billing country of the buyer
• Ability to enter/import products' cost prices.
• Ability to skip transferring of the ImagesTempl to the remote FTP server. On the generation page, show the latest date when an image templ has been added/modified.
• Different Generation Methods Available
• Generate Custom Pages Only
• Generate Entire Web Site
• Ability to start multiple generations (multiple users) with different types of generations:
• Functions available for the Store/Products feature: ability to make the cost/list/selling price to be X% of the cost/list/selling price, ability to make the user price diff to be X% of the selling price
• Functions for the Handling/DropShipping feature: Ability to deselect all manufacturer's products for selected vendor, ability to assign all manufacturer's products to selected vendor.
• Functions available for the for the Store/Customize feature:
• Ability to select all manufacturer's products for selected user
• Ability to deselect all manufacturer's products for selected user
• Ability to assign all manufacturer's products to selected user
• Ability to send test email for a user on the Store/User page.
• Ability to have search form on the generated pages that allows visitors to search by product name, number, or description.
• Ability to use product's auto-generated keywords (tags) in the product's navigation tab content.
• Increased the max length of all email fields from 50 to 100.
• The import functions have an extra validation to make sure that the importing files do not have ".xls" extensions as customers often make the mistake to create an xls file and try to import it before converting it to comma separated or tab separated file
• The following keywords are available for the WEBSITE/TemplMain, SCART/TemplTop, and SCART/TemplBottom templates: http://www.searchfit.us.com - URL of the user's destination website, http://www.searchfit.us.com/ - URL of the user's destination store, https://www.searchfit.org/SEARCHFIT-US-COM/scart/public/scart/ - URL of the user's destination cart
• Ability to import: Category Descr (below products), Category Descr (below products) (selected user), SubCategory Descr (below products), SubCategory Descr (below products) (selected user)
• Ability to import the category/subcategory description below products.
• The following tags allow custom content to be placed on the checkout pages only if a customer is not logged in as a member <scart_area_notmember> and </scart_area_notmember>.
• The "Show Qty Field" property on the product options screen allows a Qty field to appear on the generated pages per option in case the option has a price and it is shown as check box or radio button.
• The AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCTS_GROUP_id keyword can be used in the descriptions of category types and categories.
• Ability to import eProducts + Registration Numbers, exposed a web service that allows the operation to be performed programmatically as well.
• Different Types of Generation Are Available: Generate Entire Web Site, Generate Custom Pages Only.
• The product properties "To Order", "Order By Phone Only", and "Orderable By" were moved to the Misc tab and grouped together with the new "Order Offline Only" property.
• New customers will have automatically created default.htm and missing.html custom pages.
• The "Change NEW Order Status Rule" property at Configure/Per User allows the store owner to select whether the status of the NEW orders will be changed automatically to IN PROGRESS or not when clicked on the "view" link for the orders
• Ability to show quantity field per checkbox and radio button option for groups of options with prices.
• .name is an allowed extension for email addresses. For example user@domain.name
• The following keywords available for the order emails: ORDER_DATE (the date of the order), ORDER_TIME (the time of the order), ORDER_SHIPPING_METHOD_NAME (the shipping method of the order)
• The "duplicate product" function handles the assigned navigation bar (if any).
• Ability to import navigation bar tabs of the products.
• Ability to define "common includes" in the templates repository. Enter the keyword of an include in another template to include it's content.
• "Export Products" examples with templates available for the following online, comparison shopping: www.froogle.com, www.pricegrabber.com, www.pricescan.com, www.shopping.com, shopping.yahoo.com, www.shopzilla.com, www.sortprice.com

Shopping Cart - Search Engine Optimization

• Cart designed for search engine optimization structure using an internal link system.
• Bring more traffic and sales to your site by creating search engine friendly pages with SearchFit's optimization tools and features.
• SearchFit is the first web-based shopping cart that truly allows search engine bots and spiders to visibly grab and cache your pages.
• SearchFit offers more control and uses the correct HTML, text, and keyword frequency so your pages and products can be seen by the Search Engines.
• Full Static HTML, Optimized Page Generation - 50,000 HTML page generations in less then 18 minutes.
• Fully automated HTML web site generation with new web site creation date for Search Engine Robot rescrolling.
• Integrated product-specified page Title/Meta/Description tags for each user.
• Build product pages loaded with content.
• Heading text (H1 to H6) for all product levels per user.
• Builds link text summary links in 5 levels.
• New functions enable the metatags (title, keywords, description) of the products and categories to be updated with default values using specified rules.
• Page/Product specific elements for search engine optimization.
• Custom page and category naming for better keyword frequency.
• Build 5-level product pages (Category Type Page - Category Page - Sub Category Page - Short Description Page - Detail Description Page) for each product.
• Integrated link popularity system for reciprocal and inbound links. Social Link - System between SearchFit Member Websites Shopping Network (No LinkFarm).
• Possible automated square linking between all sub or affiliate users.
• Auto Generated Site Map for deep scrolling robots.
• No more doorway pages with irritating junk URLs - just real related URLs with keywords.
• Included Search Engine Submission with single main page submission.
  Product keyword optimization on the complete document. Automated tool for renaming:
• Title
• Meta Information
• HTML Document
• Asset Files.
• (Keyword Frequency Optimization Tool per single document for better inbound link and text frequency - a convenient SEO Optimization Tool.)
• High Text integration for every single HTML document via tool, especially important for large documents.
• FileName Words Separator: Underscore or Dash. Will be used when generating the filenames for the CategoryTypes, Categories, Subcategories, Products, Manufacturers. This is required as some search engines do not consider the underscore character as a words separator anymore.
  Navigator Type property at Configure/PerUser allows two types of navigators to be selected:
• a) standard navigator: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50.
• b) single number navigator: 1 2 3 4 5.

Shopping Cart - Product Features

• Ability to display multiple products per row with optional photos for each product.
• Ability to how many products will be displayed per page (Max 50).
• Unlimited number of product's options (color, size, weight, length...). In addition:
• Drop Box, Check Box, Radio Button, or Text Box can be used for options.
• You have the ability to set extra charges for each option added.
• Choose whether or not you wish to display the number of products in a category.
• Choose whether you want to display short or detailed product descriptions in categories.
• Choose whether or not to display category category descriptions.
• Search for products via keyword, category, brand, or vendor.
• Browse products by category or manufacturer/brand.
• Custom Search Function available.
• Different product types, categories, subcategories and products can all use different design templates.
• Products can be sorted by name, manufacturer, or SKU.
• Categories can be updated with default values using specified rules.
• Ability to search by product number.
• Import product data via spreadsheet or simply add single products to manually to the control panel.
  External database query via foreign database ID for product inventory, display etc.
• Product update via for foreign database ID to SearchFit Database ID.
• Custom product templates.
• Ability to query via XML Sheet the SearchFit Database (Custom Programming).
• A category type can be classified to "Generate Manufacturers", which means that the engine will generate static pages for all manufacturers that have products assigned. You are able to specify if the structure should or should not contain subusers. The structure of the new generated menu will be as follows:
• - Category Type (of generation type = Manufacturers)
• --- Manufacturer 1
• ------ category
• ------ category
• --- Manufacturer 2
• ------ category
• ------ category
• --- Manufacturer 3
• Ability to add "Separator Products" to category and subcategory pages in order to create multiple product sections per page. Gift certificates can be set to be electronic or paper.
• Setting per product to determine if taxes are applied.
• Setting per product to determine if discounts are applied.
• The store owner is able to mark group of product options as required.

Shopping Cart - Multi User & Multi Server System

• Excel in your industry by quickly creating multiple, customized websites based on your original that draw from the same product database.
• Individual affiliate shopping carts managed by the Chief Admin.
• Multi user systems with multi domain names managed between 5 user levels.
• Customize a shopping cart for each user in Selling Price / Design / Language etc.
• Discount or surcharge percentage can be specified for each user.
• Multi server system with cost-effective shared traffic system
• Multi server hosting for each sub user.
• Sales and commission statistics for each sub user.
• User-specific category and product configuration.
• A level of permission can be granted to another user in order to enable that user to change the prices of the products only - and no other product's properties.
• Special level of access can be granted to "Service Users / Vendors" (e.g., drug store pharmacists), enabling them to log in and approve orders based on the answers given by the buyers (or by calling them directly). If activated, only the approved orders can be processed.
  Co-Branding for a large SearchFit reseller or partner is now available. Call for details.
• Rapidly create multiple stores.
• Focus on your key product areas.
• Add your products to any site.
• Affiliate/Reseller Commission-based functions.
• Adjustable permissions/per user levels.
• Ability to not display customers' credit card numbers to specified user (employee). More level security passwords.
• Two more supported languages are now available: English II and English III. These can be assigned to users to allow them to have different descriptions of the same category types, categories, products.
• User screen displays online status per users.
• The Chief Admin user can restrict the Credit Cards viewing to selected role.

Shopping Cart - Taxes and Currencies

• Ability to set tax on shipping/handling fees.
• Ability to set mark-up on shipping and handling fees.
• Ability to set multiple state taxes and country taxes.
• Ability to set/exclude sales tax for orders via PayPal.
• Ability to set exchange rates for all currencies.
• PayPal is supported.
• New option with name "Include Sales Tax".
• Select "No" only if PayPal calculates the sales tax by itself, so SearchFit will exclude the sales tax from the total when processes the order via PayPal.
• Also supports USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, and JPY currencies with PayPal.
• You can list prices in any currency.
• Full international tax setup available per user.

Shopping Cart - Web Design Customization

• Design your site to your own specifications. Use your preferred methods to layout your page., including:
• HTML
• CSS
• Flash
• JavaScript
• Create a great-looking, fully customizable, and highly usable design with SearchFit's feature-packed, template-based system.
• 100% your own design - HTML based with CSS Style.
• Works with virtually any type of code, including Flash and JavaScript.
• Ability to use multiple CSS, Category, and Product Layout Templates.
• Full generic web site integration with 5-level web site navigation. Or use your own navigation system.
• HTML: easy to use database plugins via include text including:
• Auto Generated Subscribe and Unsubscribe.
• Auto Generated Search Form/Page.
• Auto Generated Drop-down Menu.
• Customized Category Display.
• Web Site "Check Order Status" Link.
• Features auto generated sitemap with detailed layout of the 5-level structure.
• Automated 404 Error Protection with integrated missing HTML function.
• All standard text and text link "Labels" can be changed to images, buttons, or different text.
  Time and date display for the last time web site was updated.
• Custom order form fields for each different category, subcategory, product.
• Integration of support web pages to the shopping cart system.
• Easy image upload with automated unzip function for multiple images via .zip files.
  Options to have .php, .htm, or .html file extensions.
• Automatically add groups of product displays to your pages. "AUTO GENERATED PRODUCTS GROUP id": will be replaced with group of products. Replace the id with id of Group you want to generate the products of. Example: AUTO GENERATED PRODUCTS GROUP 3. The keyword also helps customers that have customized pages where they manually show products. Now, they can just define a group of products, assign a product template to the group, and include the keyword in the customized pages or main templates where they would like to show the products. Changing the groups of products will automatically change the pages where the products appear during the regeneration.
• Thumbnails can be added to products in addition to small and big images. The thumbnails can be imported, exported, and used in templates.
• "Show Shipping Phone" property at Configure/PerUser allows a phone field to be shown/hidden at the shipping section on the checkout pages.
• "Show Shipping Email" property at Configure/PerUser allows an email field to be shown/hidden at the shipping section on the checkout pages.
• The categories have been assigned a new property: "content below products," which will be shown (if not empty) below the products on the categories pages.
• Navigator Type property at Configure/PerUser allows two types of navigators to be selected: a) standard navigator: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 b) single number navigator: 1 2 3 4 5.
• "AUTO GENERATED TOOL CATEGTYPE id": will be replaced with a dropdown navigator that has categories and subcategories. Replace the id with id of CategoryType you want to generate the dropdown for. Example: AUTO GENERATED TOOL CATEGTYPE 3.
• New keywords can be used in the main templates:
• a) "AUTO GENERATED LINK_CATEGORYTYPE id": will be replaced with CategoryType link. Replace the id with id of CategoryType you want to generate the link for. Example: AUTO GENERATED LINK CATEGORYTYPE 3.
• b) "AUTO GENERATED LINK CATEGORY id": will be replaced with the Category link. Replace the id with id of Category you want to generate the link for. Example: AUTO GENERATED LINK CATEGORY_3.
• c) "AUTO GENERATED LINK PRODUCT id": will be replaced with the Product link. Replace the id with id of Product you want to generate the link for.
   Example: AUTO GENERATED LINK PRODUCT 3.
• New CSS item for the CSSMain of the generated website: "categories_path" - style for the "category > category > category" paths that can appear on the top of generated pages if the user chooses.
• For product pages, the keyword "AUTO GENERATED PRODUCT CATEGORY NAME": will be replaced with the name of the category the product belongs to.

Shopping Cart - Discount and Coupons

• Set percentage or amount for discounts.
• Free shipping discount available.
• Coupons/Discounts can be assigned to category types, categories, products, and manufacturers
  All kinds of discounts can be assign to the online store
• Discounts can be specified as valid to non-members, members, or special members.
• Discounts/coupons can be specified as valid only between specified dates.
• Ability to set the number of coupons available.
• Ability to set a coupon/discount as valid only with a minimum purchase of a customized quantity and/or amount spent.
• Discount or special prices can be assigned to every shopping cart member.
• General discount and payment requirement can be assigned to each special member.
• Special discount can be assigned to each product. For example: buy one, get one free.
• Discounts can now be created in this format:
• buy X number of items - then buy Y number of items at Z% discount (example: buy 2 t-shirts and get the 2nd one for 50% off).
• Store/Groups allow products to be grouped. Discounts can be configured for the created groups using the STORE/Discounts feature.
• Products can be assigned to a coupon and be given specific discounts.
• S&H custom method and S&H real-time services can be configured to accept or not a free S&H for discounted (special) product.

Shopping Cart - Customer Friendly Shopping

• Easy navigation.
• Multipe search methods.
• Secure checkout area.
• Coupons/Discounts.
• Become a member.
• Send e-mail newsletters.
• Order progress bar.
• Ability to check order status.
• Ability to order with/without setting up account.
• Ability to choose different shipping methods.
• Special keywords can be used in the Thanks Page that will be replaced with the corresponding values of the placed order.
• Members can close their accounts if they want.
• Custom wish list with member setup.
• Customers can create, purchase, and send electronic or paper gift certificates for your site.
• Members can specify their birthday and gender. Store owners can search for members with specific birthdays and gender.
• Custom payment methods per member.
• Custom special prices.
• Super Fast Loading Web Pages - no database queries!
• Search results can be sorted by Price: Lowest First or Highest First.
• "Check Gift Card/Cert Balance" function is available. The URL of the function is like http://www.yourwebsite.com/tool_scart.php?action=giftcard_checkbalance.
• WishList feature allows your customers to let their friends know about and purchase from a list of products. Customers can make their wishlist items publically available, so friends can search for and order them.
• A printable view of a product page can be made available. "AUTO GENERATED PRODUCT LINK PRINTABLE VIEW": will be replaced with the "Printable View" link.
• "Show Login/Register/Continue Page" configuration at Configure/Per User allows the store owner to specify whether page with "Login Existing User", "Register New User", and "Continue With Order" actions to be shown to the customers when they click on the "Next" link on the 1st checkout page.
• Ability to view previous transactions and to allow easy ordering of previously purchased items. The items are added to the cart using their current prices.
• Product's property that allows to select the incremental of the quantity. If the incremental is more than 1 (one) then the quantity field will be generated as a dropdown with the possible values. Ability to import the property as well.
• The new "Edit Order Textarea Rows" property at Configure/PerUser allows for configuration of the number of rows of order's properties like "Progress History" and "Internal Notes"
• The following support of tax exempt per member is available:
• Member is able to enter tax id number.
• tore owner is able to search members by "tax id", "company name".
• Store owner is able to "Tax Exempt" a member, the member will be notified by email when that happens.
• Store owner is able to search "tax exempt" orders.
• If available shipping methods are only of type "Order Amount [CUSTOM]" and "Order Weight [CUSTOM]" and they have adjustments by country or state then show fewer shipping fields on the 1st checkout page where buyers are entering their shipping information to calculate the shipping fees.

Shopping Cart - Shipping and Handling Methods

• Set percentage or amount for discounts.
• Free shipping discount available.
• Coupons/Discounts can be assigned to category types, categories, products, and manufacturers
  All kinds of discounts can be assign to the online store
• Discounts can be specified as valid to non-members, members, or special members.
• Discounts/coupons can be specified as valid only between specified dates.
• Ability to set the number of coupons available.
• Ability to set a coupon/discount as valid only with a minimum purchase of a customized quantity and/or amount spent.
• Discount or special prices can be assigned to every shopping cart member.
• General discount and payment requirement can be assigned to each special member.
• Special discount can be assigned to each product. For example: buy one, get one free.
• Discounts can now be created in this format:
• buy X number of items - then buy Y number of items at Z% discount (example: buy 2 t-shirts and get the 2nd one for 50% off).
• Store/Groups allow products to be grouped. Discounts can be configured for the created groups using the STORE/Discounts feature.
• The Misc/Zones feature allows zones (list of countries) to be created. A zone can be applied to the default shipping zone, categorytypes, categories, subcategories, and manufacturers to restrict shipping to the countries that are specified by the zone.
• "Allowed Shipping Zone" property at Configure/PerUser allows default shipping restrictions to be applied.
• "Allowed Billing Zone" property for CategoryTypes, Categories, SubCategories, and Manufacturers allows billing restrictions to be applied.
• Additional handling fee can be specified on a per store basis.
• Support of an external (3rd party) shipping fees calculator service. If this shipping method is selected then the content of the cart will be passed to the specified URL using an HTTP POST method, which means that the target URL should be a kind of CGI script that is capable of processing the posted arguments. The value returned by the external service should be the amount that represent the shipping and handling fee.
• If there are items in the cart from different vendors then the S & H engine will calculate the S & H fees based on the addresses of the vendors. Thus the addresses of the vendors MUST be correct. Check them by the STORE/Users/Edit function.
• The product's "ships in own box" feature has allows the store owner to specify what products and quantity of the product go to it's own box.
• Ability to indicate the most common shipping address of the customers to be "Residential Address" for the UPS shipping method.
• Ability to enter description of a shipping method. The description will be shown on the checkout pages when the method is selected from the buyer.
• Ability to adjust the total weight of an order by shipping method.
• "Support APO/FPO Mail" property at Configure/PerUser allows APO/FPO to be enabled/disabled. If enabled then the buyers will be able to specify APO/FPO states during check out. APO/FPO states are:
• AA - Armed Forces Americas
• AE - Armed Forces Europe
• AP - Armed Forces Pacific
• For more information about APO/FPO go to http://www.oconus.com/ZipCodes.asp
• S&H custom method and S&H real-time services can be configured to accept or not a free S&H for discounted (special) product.

Shopping Cart - Marketing Tools and Reports

• Ability to view report by orders, country, state, order status, customer, and/or date.
• Perform custom data exports.
• Send e-mail Newsletters / Mailing List.
• Ability to send an email text or HTML Format to all registered customers simultaneously.
• Mailto Feature supports now a "url_success" field for form submission.
• Users can setup an email address to receive emails of the orders in text format for wireless devices that do not support HTML.
• Ability to set commission rate (percentage or amount) for affiliation.
• Detail statistics on orders per user store with commission reports.
• Individual reseller website setup with external hosting and custom web design.
• Recommend to a friend.
• Customer wish list.
• "Products Sold Report" is available in the "Reports by Orders" area. It shows the products sold for a given period of time.
• REPORTS/Searches menu item where captured search information is recorded. It allows the store owner to have an idea of what the visitors are searching for while they are on his/her website. This feature works only if the dynamic search function that allows visitors to search through the store is available on the owner's website. For more information about the dynamic search refer to the main template help and read the "AUTO GENERATED TOOL SEARCHDB" section.
• "Sql_where" attribute for an advanced way of exporting orders. The usage of the attribute requires a knowledge about the order_customer database table. The following example will export only orders that have PayPal payment method: order number = ORDER NUMBER, payment method = ORDER PAYMENT METHOD
• Click on the vendor icon (in case of dropshipping) while reviewing an order and see a popup window with an information about the vendor like name, phone, email.
• The report "products sold" includes the options sold as well/
• Information about the posted "tell a friend" messages from customers are sent to the store owner.
  Report by orders shows how many times each custom field has been selected that can be filtered by date ranges.
• Report "Totals of Orders" is now called "Summary". The "Summary" report was enhanced to show taxable and non-taxable totals.
• New report of type "Sellers Commissions" at Reports/ByOrders that enables to generate the commission report for all sellers in the system for a specific period. The report can be exported as CSV to allow external commission calculation logic to be applied.
• Ability to mark a system user to become a seller. Sellers are able to login on the checkout pages and place orders. Orders placed by a seller will be associated with the seller. Ability to run a report how much sellers have earned for a specific period.

Shopping Cart - Orders and Inventory Control

• Efficiently view, manage, and ship your orders using powerful features like drop shipping and order exporting.
• Can be organized by changing the status to "in progress," "done order," or "bad order." The status is originally listed with the status "new."
• Orders can be searched by country, state, and status.
• Ability to export shipping or complete order information in order to print shipping labels.
• Receive e-mail warnings for low inventory.
• Inventory levels specified per product.
• Inventory amounts adjusted automatically per purchase.
• Backordered status indicated on orders.
• "Monitor All Transactions" for the PayPal payment method helps find orders that have been paid but have not been finalized by the buyer on the PayPal's pages.
• Quantity can be entered/imported for every product. It will be used if the Inventory Control is enabled.
• Quantity threshold can be entered for every product. It will be used if the Inventory Control is enabled to send email notification when a product's quantity reaches the threshold.
• New option's properties: option number (SKU), option quantity. These will be used if the Inventory Control is enabled.
• All quantities of products/options will be automatically decreased/increased if Inventory Control is enabled and there is a new order or if a change of status of an existing order has been made.
  Added options to the "configuration per user" that allow the inventory control to be enabled.
• Exports of products like "Purchase Orders" and "Inventory Report" by creating corresponding templates (see the examples).
• New template allows exports of SearchFit's orders to QuickBooks as Sales Receipts.
• "Change Inventory by Product Number (SKU)" feature accepts quantities in the format "=X", where X is a number. If such a format is used then the quantity of the product(s) will be directly changed to be X.
• Emails sent to the store owners include internal information of the orders like:
• store name
• user name
• buyer's remote address
• buyer's remote host by address
• buyer's http user agent
• referrer
• Partial order shipment is supported.
• Ability to activate Inventory Control. Ability to allow/disallow order "out of stock" items.
• Ability to set minium order ( purchase amount). Tool special Important for large documents.
• UCP Code Reading via webbrowser for Inventory setup.
• Create order custom fields for any kind of additional questions on your shopping cart order form. Set up additional text fields or radio button.
• Every order has a new text area property named "Internal Notes," which can be used to keep notes about the order that will be hidden from the customer.
• ORDER_NOTES (keyword) can be used in the templates for receipt emails. It will be replaced with the notes of the order.
• Search, Show, Export orders by customer's email.
• Ability to make a product orderable/not orderable - while still generating it to the website.
• Ability to export the "bill to" phone and fax numbers.
• Ability to export the products' inventory threshold.
• "Progress history" and "internal notes" properties can be imported from an external file by overriding or appending them. At the same time the "Paid" and the "Status" of the orders can be changed.
• "By Phone" and the "Customized" payment methods are available and can be configured to collect Billing Address OR BillingAddress+CreditCard OR NoBilling information on the checkout pages.
  eProducts and registration numbers automation feature.
• The old keyword "ORDER ITEM PRICE" used in the export orders template has the applied discounts (if any) as well.
• Ability to insert the current time/date to the order's "Progress History " and "Internal Notes" text fields with a click of a button.
• The following keywords are available for the export orders templates: ORDER_CHARGED_TOTAL: charged total of the order.
• If the user has selected to change the statuses of the orders while exporting them then a prompt will be shown to confirm the action.
• The new "Rely when Order Paid Status is" property at Configure/PerUser allows the store owner to specify whether an order is being considered good if the paid status is "authorized only (funds not collected yet)".
• Added new "Customized 2" method at Payments/Other Methods.
• Introduced new order status "Ready for Shipment".
• The following keywords are available for the dropshipping emails: ORDER_ITEMS_DETAILS_COSTS: the details of the items ordered using cost prices instead of sale prices.
• If there is an order with items from two different vendors then emails will be sent to them using the "Email DropShipping Template" setting of each vendor.
• The following keywords are available for the export orders templates: ORDER_ITEM_CATEGORY_NAME - name of category the ordered item belongs to the new "Email Receipt From Address" property at Configure/PerUser allows the store owner to select whether the email receipt will have the "from" to be the store owner's or buyer's email address.
• Show foreign_id together with id and sku on the preview product window.
• There is a new function available for the export orders template that helps limit ANY generated string to X characters. Examples: ORDER SHIPPING FIRSTNAME ORDER SHIPPING LASTNAME this text will have only 30 characters.

Shopping Cart - Payments Gateway

• Bank Card Services / SearchFit are proud to offer credit card processing services to both SearchFit's members and non-members at the lowest rates. We approve 99% of all merchant accounts even if you have less-than-perfect credit. More info on Bank Card Services / SearchFit Credit Card Processing Services.
• Configurable transaction types.
• Custom gateway integration available.
• Currently Integrated Gateways:
• - Authorize.net
• - Bankofamerica.com
• - Cybersource.com
• - Ecs-world.com
• - Linkpoint.com
• - Innovativegateway.com
• - Internetsecure.com
• - Moneris.com
• - Paradata.com
• - Paymentech:smwp.com
• - Plugnpay.com
• - Verisign.com
• - Worldpay.com
• - Google Checkout
• For authorize.net customers: SearchFit transmits the order numbers to the credit card processor using the x_invoice_num field. This means that using the authorize.net admin pages, the customers will be able easy to refer to the corresponding SearchFit order.
• SearchFit now supports "Password Required Mode" for different payment gateways.
• Added security check prevents unknown websites from using the store checkout pages.
• "Finalize Order Now" button that is on the last checkout page changes immediately to "Please Wait! Processing..." to prevent double clicking, and credit card overdraft problems.
• Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Optima, Euro Card, Diners Club, JCB, Delta, Solo, Switch, Visa Electron , Paypal, check, and money orders are supported.
• Secure order transaction via 128 bit Secure Server optional Custom SSL Certificate.
• Ability to verify credit card numbers & and CC Security ID.
• Ability to show full or partial credit card numbers (email & order review).
• Additional level of security for credit card numbers using mcrypt
• Payment method called "NothingToPay". The method will be the only choice on the first checkout page if the grand total of the order is zero. This may happen if the buyer uses a gift certificate, coupon, discount, or anything that makes the order to have no grand total (zero amount). By default, no billing information will be collected if this method has been selected.
• PayPal IPN (http://www.paypal.com/ipn) can be specified for the Paypal payment method.
• The system supports/submits the customer_cc_cv_number field to the cybersource payment gateway.
• Offline products feature (enable/disable real-time funds capture):
• Ability to specify which product is offline/online, default is online.
• New payment method called "offline".
• Allow only the "offline" payment method if at least one offline item has been placed in the cart.
  Ability to submit all cart amounts to the selected credit card processor as USDollars even if the selected currency is different.
• NOVA viaklix.com real-time credit card processor is now supported.
• PayPal PRO real-time credit card processor is now supported (requires PHP 4.3+ and PEAR).
  Support google checkout as an additional payment method. Merchants can instruct Google Checkout to automatically charge orders as soon as they become chargeable via the Google Checkout's Settings/Preferences. For authorized only orders, ability to charge them from SearchFit with a click of a button.
• Ability to modify the "charged total" of an order.

Shopping Cart - In House Web Design

• Sites built by SEO professionals.
• SearchFit Template Web Design.
• Expert Top Ranking Consultation.
• Professional Graphic Design Service.
• Advanced Programming service available for custom cart features In House Design and Development.

Shopping Cart - Member and Tech Services

• Toll-free customer service line.
• Email support - live chat.
• Integrated online help file system (located on and accessible by the administration panel).
• SearchFit Flash Tutorial.
• SearchFit PDF & HTML Tutorial.
• SearchFit discussion forum including toll-free customer service line.
• SearchFit discussion forum including programmer help.
• More language tech support.

Shopping Cart - SearchFit Webservices Compatability

• Detailed management of store inventory.
• Convenient addition of new products to the store.
• The capability to update existing products.
• The freedom to delete unused products at any time.
• Republication of websites.
• Synced inventory with vendor data feed (requires custom programming).
• Retrieval of external data feed from vendor(s).
• Parsing of data feed for necessary information.
• Creation of an import sheet based on individual store configuration.
• Addition of newly added products from vendor to inventory.
• Deactivation of unneeded products - If deletion is not desired.
• The ability to flag products as 'out of stock'. Republication of modified websites.

 

 Standard Payment Gateways: