Complete List of ECommerce Features

Complete List of ECommerce Features2012-03-22T21:07:41+00:00

Let’s build your store.

HyperDo will build you the finest online store ever – just tell us what you have in mind. We’ll stock it with features such as:

Effortless Set-up

  • 8-step Quick-Start Guide
  • Simple web administration
  • Product importation – just name your database or text file
  • Store Templates – integrated into your custom website
  • Domain transfer
  • Downloadable & web-based manual replete with videos and images
  • Single & batch image uploading

Image Management

  • Image magnify, zoom lightbox & enlarge
  • Unlimited secondary images
  • Image tags for optimized searches
  • FTP or bulk image uploads
  • Thumbnail and catalog page image generation
  • Breezy image resizing
  • Global and product-level image style adjustment
  • Image placement control
  • Photo galleries
  • Hide/show images

Design

  • Horizontal & vertical navigation
  • CSS / XHTML table-less design
  • W3C / XHTML compliant templates
  • Easy integration with your current design
  • Drag-and-drop design interface
  • “Design Mode” – complete design autonomy – no need for web experience
  • CSS & HTML editing from your browser
  • Logo upload
  • Home page image upload
  • Over 30 button styles
  • Customize your own buttons/headers and upload them to store
  • 100+ box headers
  • Layout and width adjustment
  • Dreamweaver compatible templates
  • “Catalog View” manager for appearance control
  • Box adding/adjusting/advertising options
  • Custom header/footer
  • Multimedia files upload (YouTube, Flash, etc.)
  • Unlimited additional pages
  • Items’ addition from pages outside of cart application

Product Merchandising

  • Digital/physical product sales
  • “Ghost” URLs to hide actual location of product until completion of sale
  • Download limitations for digital products
  • PDF, video and music file sales, etc.
  • Gift certificate sales
  • Custom field creation
  • Drop-down, check box creation
  • Quantity discounts
  • Product reviews
  • “Call for pricing” & “catalog only” mode
  • Product/image/attribute importation and more
  • Customer/product relevance – “customers who bought x also bought…”
  • Global/product level discount/coupon code acceptance
  • Price-based discounts
  • Full product descriptions with HTML/product summaries
  • Attribute (size, color, etc.) creation & attribute-based price, weight, inventory and SKU
  • UPC and SKU number support
  • Manufacturer creation/assignment
  • Product image size control on product/catalog pages
  • Product recommendations
  • “Tell a friend” features
  • “Buy x, get y free” discounts
  • “Best sellers” area
  • Advanced product search
  • Gift message support
  • Product export to Google Base, ShopZilla.com, BizRate.com & more
  • iDevAffiliate/third party affiliate program (Linkshare, ShareASale, etc.) compatibility
  • RSS product feeds

Search Engine Optimization

  • Sharp SEO
  • Flat URL generation
  • Customizable URL structure
  • Category, product and page-level URL customization
  • Match new URLs to old URLs
  • Meta keyword/title/description for each product page
  • Meta keyword/title/description for each category page
  • Meta keyword/title/description for home page and all pages
  • Meta tags generated according to product descriptions
  • HTML/CSS modification from browser
  • Automatically generated site map
  • XML site map for Google Base
  • Valid W3C template design
  • Image ALT tags
  • Lightweight 100% HTML page design without CSS or PHP coding
  • “Breadcrumb” navigation
  • Search-engine-friendly architecture
  • Customized HTML page uploads for strategic search engine positioning

Wholesale / Drop Shipping

  • Support for up to three (3) different wholesaler levels
  • Wholesale pricing by product or percentage of sales price
  • Tax rates differentiated per wholesaler
  • Unlimited drop ship locations
  • Drop shipper notification control
  • Separation of drop ship products from other products
  • Email notification editing
  • Drop shipper assignment at product level
  • Case pack/inter pack pricing support
  • Tax ID/EIN/other customer information collection

Customer Management

  • “My Account” area for customers which allows access to previous orders/status/shipping & tracking information
  • Customer address book
  • Wish lists
  • Product newsletters
  • Saved Cart feature for purchase at a later time
  • Automated emails delivered to customer upon purchase/shipment
  • One-page checkout
  • Custom field creation during registration: collection at checkout of Tax ID numbers, referral and any other customer information
  • Guest checkout
  • Backorders support
  • Full customer reporting
  • Hide product pricing from unregistered customers
  • Free live chat
  • Customer Group creation & global/product-level product pricing
  • Customer Assignment to different group levels
  • Search by last name, username, phone number, email or company

Inventory Tracking

  • Product-level inventory tracking
  • Attribute-level inventory tracking
  • “Low stock” notifications by product
  • Product removal/”out of stock” message when inventory falls to zero
  • Control over when inventory is removed (at purchase or order completion)
  • Automated inventory control
  • Two-way sync with desktop order management products like Webgility & Store Manager

Payment / Shipping Options

  • Accept credit cards online
  • Take orders by fax/phone/mail/offline payments
  • Payment page/entire purchase process security
  • Compatibility with the following gateways:
  •  – Authorize.net
  •  – PayPal
  •  – PaylPal Pro
  •  – Payflow Link
  •  – PayPal Express Checkout
  •  – Fast Transact
  •  – NetBilling
  •  – ProtX
  •  – Intuit
  •  – DataCash
  •  – Echo Inc
  •  – Worldpay
  •  – First Data Global Gateway (formerly Linkpoint)
  •  – NTPNow
  •  – Shift4
  •  – PSiGate
  •  – ViaKLIX
  •  – Transaction Central
  •  – YourPay.com
  •  – Moneris
  •  – WorldPay
  •  – USAepay
  •  – Pay Junction
  •  – eProcessing Network
  •  – Money Bookers
  •  – Amazon Payments
  •  – QuickBooks Merchant Services
  •  – Google Checkout
  •  – 2Checkout
  •  – HSBC
  •  – iTransact.com
  • 3-D Secure/Verified by Visa (VbV)/MasterCard SecureCode (MCSC) via Cardinal Commerce support
  • eChecks support
  • Credit card information storage for offline payment
  • Payment acceptance via phone/mail/fax
  • Unlimited custom payment methods
  • Data to QuickBooks/Peachtree/other accounting programs exportation
  • Sell in multiple currencies
  • Real-time shipping quotes from USPS, UPS, FED-EX and Canada Post
  • Real-time mark-up/discount rates from shippers
  • USPS shipping labels
  • Custom handling fees
  • Custom shipping methods
  • Custom shipping costs by weight/quantity/region and more
  • Free shipping
  • Product-specific shipping pricing
  • Shipping restriction based on country/shipping method
  • Shipping management based on country/shipping method
  • International shipping
  • Quick “estimated shipping” calculator based on zip code
  • Shipping method/Shipping provider options

Product & Category Management

  • Unlimited products/categories
  • Unlimited sub-categories
  • Layered navigation – customers can search by price/manufacturer/category/product feature
  • Product/category organization
  • Edit category pages with text/images
  • Export products to Google Base
  • Product duplication
  • Retail/wholesale/sale prices per product
  • Detailed/summary descriptions per product
  • Product “On Sale” images
  • Product homepage appearance control
  • “New Items” pages
  • Different product/catalog page layouts
  • Tax exempt products
  • Product cost
  • Pricing for logged-customers
  • Option to use HTML in product descriptions
  • Option to assign products to multiple categories
  • Product/category organization
  • Enabled/disabled products
  • Manufacturer support
  • Manufacturer logo display on product page
  • Sale pricing
  • Minimum/Maximum order quantity per product
  • Multiple pricing levels
  • Digital (downloadable) products
  • Bulk product management with Microsoft Excel/CSV
  • CSV format product export/import
  • “add to cart” process control

Taxes

  • Advanced/simple tax features
  • State-based tax configuration
  • Country-based tax configuration
  • Ability to sell internationally & apply international tax rates
  • Advanced tax structures including VAT, Canada, USA, product/category tax & more
  • Include tax with price
  • Unlimited number of tax structures/rules
  • Sales tax by date query
  • Tax rates per individual products

Order Management

  • “Status” orders
  • Add/edit/delete orders
  • Order/payment status display throughout shipping process
  • Bulk edit orders
  • Customer notification of shipment
  • Integration with Stone Edge Order Manager, Atandra, T-Hub and Wegibility eCommerce Connector
  • Shipping tracking numbers on orders
  • View abandoned orders
  • Add notes to orders
  • Printable packing slips/invoices
  • Starting order number settings
  • Bulk status orders
  • Backorder/preorder features

Content Management

  • Additional pages from control panel (Contact Us, About Us, Return Policies, etc.)
  • Easy WYSIWYG editor for appearance management
  • SEO-friendly pages
  • “Closed Store” feature
  • Testimonials
  • “New Items” feature
  • Areas for promotions/banners/Google ads
  • Editing for all emails sent from cart

Checkout/Registration

  • One-page checkout and traditional checkout
  • Guest checkout
  • Option for customers to create account or not
  • Minimum number of items/amount settings
  • Order number settings
  • Terms and Conditions mandate
  • Suggested Products feature on cart page
  • Custom field creation, applicable to entire checkout process
  • Control over optional/required fields

Security

  • Hosted cart is PCI compliant
  • PA DSS certification
  • Database can be separated from application
  • IP address designation for singular admin access
  • Administrator lockouts after too many attempts
  • Unlock administrator accounts via control panel
  • Track and log users’ actions inside the control panel
  • OPEN SSL compliant encryption for credit card info storage
  • Visitor lock outs after too many failed transactions
  • Secure control panel access
  • Total SSL protocol support

Reporting/Business Analytics

  • Seamless integration with Google Analytics/Google Adwords tracking tools
  • Charts of visitors/hosts/revenue per month
  • Generates resulting reports based on date
  • Top viewed products
  • Top viewed categories
  • Top orders by product
  • Top referring sites
  • Top sales per customer
  • Consolidated orders by date
  • Individual orders by date
  • Promo codes
  • Payment types
  • Taxes collected
  • Site profit

Administration

  • Unlimited administrator accounts
  • Restricted access to particular features as set by administrator
  • Control which emails are sent to/received by administrators
  • Lock out administrators after too many failed login attempts
  • Reminders to change password
  • File Manager – allows for template editing from control panel

Currency/Language

  • Complete multi-currency support
  • Currency symbol, decimal placement & presentation
  • Weight control (American or metric)
  • Measurement control (inches, feet, centimeters)
  • Custom exchange rate set-up
  • Customers can view transaction in their currency but pay according to yours
  • Add/edit/delete language templates
  • Add/edit/delete countries, states, providences & regions

Marketing and Promotions

  • FREE sales on Facebook
  • Drift Marketing
  • Integration with MailChimp
  • “Products you may like” tool
  • Date-driven promotional discount codes
  • Global/product-level promotional codes
  • Recommended products
  • Product families
  • Bulk discounts by product
  • Free shipping per amount purchased
  • “Customers who bought x also bought y”
  • “Buy x, get y free”
  • Newsletter tool
  • Product updates emails
  • Bounced email management
  • RSS product feeds
  • Product export to .csv files for exportation to other sites
  • API
  • Gift certificates
  • New items page
  • Hot deal feature
  • Brand landing pages
  • Top selling products
  • FREE live chat software
  • iDevAffiliate integration
  • Discounts per amount purchased
  • Product reviews/testimonials
  • Email list export
  • Global sales prices (“20% off everything)

Export/Import

  • Product export to eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, Google Product Search, PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, Next Tag, Goshopping and more
  • Import products/categories with flexible bulk loader
  • Import rules management
  • Overwrite existing data
  • Add/keep existing data
  • Delete/add new
  • Updates for existing products only
  • Control panel/FTP bulk-loads images
  • Order/products/user export
  • Back-up/cart restoration from control panel (hosted carts only)
  • Field select for export
  • Database management
  • Exported data is “normalized” for applications like QuickBooks, Peachtree, MYOB, etc.
  • Smooth integration with Store Manager, Stone Edge Order Manager and Webigility eCommerce Connector
  • Base API for order export/customers/products in XML format

Product Attributes

  • Ability to sell products with options (computers, t-shirts, etc.)
  • Unlimited product attributes
  • Add/subtract pricing according to attribute selection
  • Instantly adjusted prices based on selection
  • Inventory control based on attributes
  • Track combinations defined by administrator
  • Sell combinations defined by administrator
  • Disable specific product attribute combinations
  • Create a unique SKU based on attribute combination
  • Global attributes for categories/products
  • Attributes display on cart page/invoice/order
  • “Low stock” warnings according to attribute combinations
  • Instantly remove attributes
  • Drop-down/radio buttons/text/text fields for attributes
  • Organize priorities to attributes