Selling your Products Online

Thousand's of businesses around the world sell their products online, why not you?  Whether you have several hundred or several thousand products, Lakes Area Web Services can provide you with a customized shopping cart and E-Commerce system that will meet, and often times exceed, your needs.  Our shopping system gives you the tools to manage your products, categories, customers, orders, shipping, taxes and provides multiple add-on modules to make the system even more robust.

What do I need to know?

Creating an online store or business requires a few key elements.  You will need to know certain things about your products (such as SKU, weight, description, features, etc.) and you will need to know certain things that are standard in the world of Online business (such as payment gateway's, SSL certificates, taxation rules, etc.).  Just like opening a "brick and mortar" retail location, opening an online store or business requires the same amount of planning and work to get started.

How do I get started?

Well, if you do not have a web site to sell your products on, you will need to build that first.  Don't worry, Lakes Area Web Services can help you there.  Once you have your web site (or if you have one already), the next step is preparing the information for your products and making some decisions on what and how you want to sell them.  We will provide you with the system to be successful, but it will ultimately be up to YOU to manage your online business - with our help of course!

Here are the basic features included with our Shopping System:

• Add unlimited Product Categories
• Add unlimited Product Sub-Categories
• Add unlimited Products
• Includes the following standard Product Fields:

• Thumbnail
• Product Image
• Category/Categories
• Manufacturer
• SKU
• Product name
• Additional Search Keywords
• Short Description
• Detailed Description
• Selling Price
• List Price (MSRP)

ADDITIONAL FIELDS CAN BE ADDED AS NEEDED (ADDITIONAL FEES MAY APPLY)

• Unlimited category nesting (list products in multiple categories)
• Products can be assigned to unlimited number of categories
• Ability to modify multiple products simultaneously
• Members-only categories
• "Featured Products" box
• 1-click enable/disable switch for products and categories
• Configurable search by title, description, category, SKU, price and weight
• Unlimited product options/variants/properties w/optional price modifiers

Shipping and Tax

• Flate rate, weight, order total and per-item based shipping
• Mark your products as "free shipping" products
• Add handling/freight charges
• Handle international, domestic and local shipping
• Allow your customers to choose delivery methods

Sales Analysis & Tracking

• Comprehensive statistics:
  • Number of orders
  • Number of customers
  • Product views
  • Category views
  • Products removed from cart by customers
  • Sales by product / best sellers
  • Total sales
  • Client environment settings
  • Statistics on search patterns
  • Customers use when searching products

Payment Gateways & Methods

• Allow payment via several online payment modules
• Payment systems (including PayPal payments)
• High variety of real-time credit card processors (over 100 payment gateways)

Search Engine Friendly

• Pages can be indexed by all major search engines
• Define custom META tags for every category
• Customer referrer info is stored in database
• Product catalog can be generated as static HTML pages for better SE indexing and ranking

Repeat Customer Accommodation

• All customer's data is stored in database
• Registered customers do not have to enter their data again
• Registered customers can edit their profile
• Registered customers can access history of their orders

Web Based Control Panel

• Password-protected administrative access
• All changes are real-time
• Control the cart from anywhere in the world using your web browser
• Unlimited number of admin accounts
• Ability for administrator to act on behalf of other users (e.g. to place phone orders for customers and use X-Cart as web based point of sale system)

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