List of accomplishments re-visited. Contact us to discuss in more details.

1. One page checkout (downloadable products/ membership and subscription)
Any situation where there’s no product which needs to be shipped – non tangible products. Custom forms for check out which require specific information…ie: image upload, logo submission, in additional yoga classes/fee, gym memberships, rental products, resort rentals, rental/booking sites collection, golf booking and dues. This can also be very useful for leader sites, SEO sites, and small applications where you are selling one product and want the checkout to be done easily and quickly on one single page.

2. Mass capture (pre-authorized payments)
Mass capture all of your pre-authorized amounts in one foul swoop! For those that use pre-authorized payments, you know the usefulness of this modification.

3. Multiple gateway instances one cart
If you wish to take in multiple currencies but do not want to use a different merchant, you will need to modify the cart to allow for multiple instances of the same merchant. This way you can collect USD, or CDN or AUS and have no exchange fees. It is also useful if you have affiliates or suppliers that you want to have as vendors to your site and they have their own merchants, as there may be a conflict depending on how many vendors you might have.

4. Payment processing leader pages
Pick your payment options prior to getting into the checkout process. This allows you to be able to offer special discounts and direct customers appropriately before checking out. It is also useful for presenting a lot of payment methods to your customer in a nice fashion and before they are on the final checkout step.

5. Product specific gateway selection
Product can be attached to different payment gateways. Depending on circumstances you may want specific products to have a specific merchant or gateway to be used for it. (maybe you have one merchant for many low dollar value transactions and another for high dollar)

6. Product specific shipping
Different shipping for different country’s…or different vendors.

7. Product bundles (assigned cost or non)
Select multiple products –add up and check out….ie: custom build gift baskets, wedding stationary kits, custom bulk…
8. Buy 2 get a free product (category specific) – custom rules.
We have written custom rules to do a couple different scenarios, one of which is “Buy 2 and get 1 free – only once” .

9. Bulk purchase discounts category level/ Bulk purchase discounts on products variations.
Interspire does not natively support bulk discounts on products with variations. We have coded our version of this and make it so you can manage these rules in the administration screen.

10. Country specific products
Assign products to a specific country and limit view of user to only products in their selected country. This goes well with the multi currency/merchant checkout modification so that your store can be international and use the same merchant and block out unwanted guests.

11. Points system
Points system to allow customers to use points for discounts in the future or bank and get free products

12. Timed auctions.
Just as it says, and just like groupon-which says it all.

13. Country specific gateways
Ensure that ONLY specific merchants are used for specified countries.

14. Full language conversion
Convert the entire site and backend entry fields to a completely different language and allow for a language chooser from the front end of your site

15. Multi vendors
Have people do the work for you! Have vendors as part of an affiliate program or just use vendors to have their own store within your store. Many options.

16. Affiliate system with split payments (payflow pro)
Automatically pay your affiliates and vendors on the fly. Why do math? Quick and easy solution to getting everyone paid the right amounts and way less administration.

17. Rocketgate stored credit cards
Integrated with a non supported merchant that can provide credit card tokens for stored credit cards.

18. Custom administration area for on-line shoppers (CRM).
Cron jobs, automated emails, lets kick up the sales side a notch and get you doing more with your cart!

19. Multi-step forced cart admin system
Make your cart into a completely customized machine that can do anything you ask it to… then stick all those goodies into the database where it should go! TA DA! You have a custom X step checkout process!

20. Contact extractor. – Evite center with csv upload
Make E-vites and manage the lists

— beyond these 20, we have completed the following —-
21. Booking Calendars. Ie: classes, services – with payment.
22. Vacation rental/booking engine
24. Price Club for private pricing . Specific price discounts on specific products.
25. Membership lockout. Private paid member
26. Free coupon code modification – URL coupon injection (affiliate)
27. Affiliate integration with affiliate pro.
28. Dealer network site setup
29. Gateway transaction management. Ie: auto decline, tracking…
30. Loyalty rewards like overstock.com and recurring membership billing
31. Autoship. Ship monthly and get paid monthly.
32. Rewards group advancement for higher discount levels
33. Click filtering to filter results on the fly

Since we took on Interspire as our main shopping cart platform we have achieved many customizations.

Below is a list of some of the modifications which Interspire e-commerce doesn’t facilitate which we were able to master.

•    One page checkout (downloadable products/ membership and subscription)

Any situation where there’s no product which needs to be shipped – non tangible products.

Custom forms for check out which require specific information…ie: image upload, logo submission, in additional yoga classes/fee, gym memberships, rental products, resort rentals. Rental/booking sites collection, golf booking and dues.

No shipping functions or needed.

•    Mass capture (pre-authorized payments) -

Assign a payment gateway to a specific account. Ie: multiple vendor stores with multiple gateways.

•    Multiple gateway instances one cart

•    Payment processing leader pages

pick payment process/ options prior to cart.

•    Product specific gateway selection

Product can attach to different payment gateways: ie country, autoship, perpetual billing. “autoship”

•    Product specific shipping

Different shipping for different country’s…or different vendors.

•    Product bundles

select multiple products –add up and check out….ie: custom build gift baskets, wedding stationary kits, custom bulk…

•    Buy 2 get a free product (category specific) – custom rules.

•    Bulk purchase discounts category level/ Bulk purchase discounts on products variations.

•    Country specific products – assign product to country . limits view of user to only products in their selected country.

•    points discount system

•    Timed auctions.

•    Country specific gateways

•    full language conversion

•    Multi vendors

•    Affiliate system with split payments (payflow pro)

•    Rocketgate multi currency merchant (SSO)

•    Custom administration area for on-line shoppers (CRM, CMS).

•    Multi-step forced cart admin system

•    Contact extractor. – Evite center with csv upload

•    Booking Calendars. Ie: classes, services – with payment.

•    Vacation rental/booking engine

•    Product as classes for online booking of services

•    Price Club for private pricing . Specific price discounts on specific products.

•    Membership lockout. Private paid member

•    Free coupon code modification – URL coupon injection (affiliate)

•    Affiliate integration with affiliate pro.

•    Dealer network site setup

•    Gateway transaction management. Ie: auto decline, tracking…

If you have some questions about our services, please feel free to contact us.

Ray McDonald
888-992-2761 x 702
www.beapartof.com

We have completed Zencart shopping carts, Yahoo shopping carts, Joomla, Drupal and others. Can’t say we have been impressed with any of them. To be honest, not only from a developer point of view, but from our customers point of view, Interspire is the best out there. It’s made to sell and does just that.

Take a look at these features below.It’s amazing what they have to offer.

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Compare the different editions for the licensed version of Interspire Shopping Cart below.If you have any questions about features, please contact us.

Call for pricing	Starter	Professional	Ultimate
General Features
60 Day Refund Guarantee
100% Open Source PHP Code
Easily Customize PHP Code
Private Label Capabilities
Number of Products	50 100	500 5,000	100,000 Unlimited
Number of Staff Logins	2	3	20
Sell in Multiple Currencies
Mobile Commerce
Checkout
Secure Checkout
Single Page Checkout
Custom Form Fields
Customer can search and browse order history
Real time customer order tracking
Guest/anonymous checkout option
Forced Registration Checkout
Quote Cart, i.e. Ordering disabled, prices replaced with “Call for Pricing”
Customer Registration
Customer Accounts
Agree to Terms During Checkout
One Click Re-Ordering
Sell Products With Delivery/Event Dates
Order Management
Set Min/Max Order Quantities
Accept Pre-Orders
Sync to Quickbooks
Order Messaging System
Export Orders (CSV/XML)
Global Store Tax Calculation
International Orders
Per Country/State Tax Rates
Order Notification Emails
Order Notifications via SMS
Order Notifications via Windows Live
Order Status Change Emails for Customers
Tracking Number for Orders
Limit Shipping to Certain Countries
Specify Order Handling Fees
Invoices & Packing Slips
Affiliate Conversion Tracking
Bulk Import Tracking Numbers
Supported Payment Methods
Over 50 payment providers supported
Selling/Comparison Integrations
List your products on eBay
Export to BizRate
Export to Shopzilla
Export to Beso
Export to NexTag
Export to PriceGrabber
Export to Shopping.com
Export to MySimon
Supported Shipping Methods
Australia Post
Canada Post
FedEx
Intershipper
UPS
USPS
Flat-Rate Per Country
Flat-Rate Per Order
Free Shipping
Fee Per Item
Ship by Weight
Ship by Order Total
Easy Integration With Other Shipping Methods Via Modules System
Returns Management (RMA)
Customers Can Submit Return Requests from Your Store
Customizable Return Instructions
Customizable Return Reasons
Customizable Return Actions
Advanced Returns Processing
Returns Notifications by Email for Store Owner
Returns Status Update Emails for Customers
Issue Store Credit for Returns
Inventory Control
Per-Product Inventory Levels
Per-Variation Inventory Levels
“Out of Stock” Messages
Low Stock Warning Emails
Easy Inventory Management
Product Management
Sell Physical & Downloadable Products
Photos Per Product	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Bulk Product Editing
Product Variations
Files Per Downloadable Product	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Limit Access to Downloadable Products
Expiry Dates on Downloadable Products
Product Reviews
Product in Multiple Categories
Set Product’s Cost, Retail & Sale Prices
Automatic Thumnail Image Creation
Per-Product Free Shipping
Automatically/Manually Specify a List of Related Products
Per-Product Custom Fields
Specify Sort Order
Choose Different Product Layout Files (HTML)
Full SEO Customization
Hide Pricing Per-Product
Tabs on Product Pages
Customer Management
Advanced Customer Search
Customer Order History
Import Customers (CSV/XML)
Export Customers (CSV/XML)
Store Credits System
Customer Groups w/ Discounts & Access Permissions
Promotions & Marketing
Discount Rules
Banner Management
Integrates With Any Live Chat Software
30 Day Free Trial of LivePerson Express (Exclusive to Interspire customers)
Coupon Codes
Newsletter Subscriptions
Easy Interspire Email Marketer Integration
Easy Interspire Knowledge Manager Integration
Newsletter Subscribers Export (CSV)
Google Products Export
Fully Modular Addons System and Framework
Content Management System
Create Web Pages
Contact Form Creation
Syndicated Web Pages
News Management
Analytics Integration
Google Analytics
Easy Integration With Other Analytics Package Via Modules System
Statistics and Reporting
Store Overview
Top Customers
Best Selling Products
Customer Location (via Google Maps)
Orders by Revenue
Orders by Items Sold
Popular Products
Inventory Reporting
Customer Signups
Revenue Per Customer
Search Statistics
Search Keyword Performance
Search Term Corrections
In-Store Features
Sell Physical & Downloadable Products
Pictures for Products	5	5	5
Wish Lists
Quick Search Box
Order History
Active Order Tracking
Unlimited Billing & Shipping Addresses
Ship to Multiple Addresses
Recently Views Products List
Newsletter Subscriptions
Order Messaging System
Add Multiple Items to Cart at Once
Gift Certificates
Enable/Disable Functionality
Choose Which Gift Certificate Values You Sell
Custom Gift Certificate Values
Expiry Dates
Customizable Themes
Settings, Maintenance & Logging
Built-In Backup System
Remote FTP Backups
Automatic Backups (CRON)
Built-In System Log Files
Database Error Logging
Staff Action Logging
Per-Staff Permissions
Import from CSV
Custom Export Templates
Views (Saved Searches)
Order Views
Customer Views
Product Views
Gift Certificate Views
Return Request Views
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Friendly URLs
Site-Wide Meta Keywords
Site-Wide Meta Description
Category Page Titles
Category Meta Keywords
Category Meta Description
Product Page Titles
Product Meta Keywords
Product Meta Description
Brand Page Titles
Brand Meta Keywords
Brand Meta Description
Web Page Titles
Web Page Meta Keywords
Web Page Meta Description
XHTML/CSS Standards-Based Markup
Store Customization & Layout
Drag and Drop Page Design
100% Template Driven
CSS-Based Layouts
Download New Store Designs from Control Panel
Store Designs to Choose from	20+	20+	20+
Integrate an Existing Store Design Easily
Customize Included Store Designs
Browser-Based HTML & CSS Editor for Store Designs
Localization
Fully Translatable Store
Configure Currency Settings
Configure Number Formatting
Configure Date Formatting
Configure Weight Settings
Configure Measurement Settings
Other Features
Built-In Help Documentation
Inline Help Tips
Browser-Based Installation Wizard
Browser-Based Upgrade Wizard
Customize Email Messages
Built-In WYSIWYG Editor
Customer Address Verification
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Online storefronts for retail goods are popping up all over Facebook, with the social network fast becoming a virtual shopping mall. Today, BigCommerce, a company that provides ecommerce software to online retailers and merchants, is adding the ability to create a storefront on Facebook pages.

Called SocialShop, the application allows merchants to display products on a Facebook Page. Merchants just have to add the application to their page, enter their store URL and then choose which products they want to display on the page. The retail platform will show up in a “Shop Now” tab on the page, and allows visitors to share products with their friends Facebook users can then click on a product to learn more but in order to buy the product they will be taken away from Facebook to the merchants store (which is also powered by BigCommerce).

The one drawback to BigCommerce’s application is that the actual transaction needs to take place on the merchant’s BigCommerce website instead of within Facebook. But Mitchell Harper, CEO of BigCommerce, says that this can also draw more traffic to the merchant’s main storefront.

BigCommerce helps small businesses power anything and everything related to an online storefront from search to inventory to online payments to marketing and SEO. And the price for the software is affordable for small businesses, with basic plans starting at $25 per month. The company is currently powering online storefronts for 4000 businesses and faces competition from Yahoo Stores and eBay’s ProStores.

Originally posted at  http://andrewbleakley.com

The two biggest hosted shopping carts (or e-commerce platforms if you want to impress girls)  offer incredible feature’s, years of development and award winning customer service. This review will have to look at how each feature is implemented to split the difference.

Price

Both offer free trials. 14 days for Volusion and 15 days for BigCommerce.

Both start at $24.95 a month – Volusion hide the link in the footer which always concerns me. Neither charge transaction fee’s – take that Shopify

Setup Cost:

Big Commerce is $49.95 to Volusion‘s $49.00 – not worth mentioning except that some Volusion fan boy will cling to it and mess up my comments.

So what price difference’s are there ?

The basic (cheapest plan) at Volusion allows 25 products and 1 Gb or data – BigCommerce give you 100 products and 2 Gb data

On price BigCommerce trumps Volusion.

Look and Feel – Front End

If you have  a designer on board that is going to customize your shop or integrate it into your existing design – skip this section now. I am going to say some truly awful things about the templates in Volusion and if you aren’t going to use them you might as well save yourself the blushing.

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With a rapidly growing company out performing  Yahoo Cart, ZenCart and many others, comes new versions of a successful product, BigCommerce!

Mitchell Harper, co-CEO of BigCommerce doesn’t like to spend too much money on product launches for a very good reason: His company has a major product debut every three months or so.

BigCommerce makes e-commerce tools, such as shopping carts, that help businesses process online sales. It’s a fast-moving, competitive space where successful introductions rely on casting a wide net for prospects, including BigCommerce’s previous customers as well as new prospects.

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