Design Features

35+ FREE Designs

Choose from dozens of beautiful industry-specific store designs which have been developed by a team of experienced graphic designers and search engine optimization gurus.

Edit HTML & CSS

Advanced users have full FTP access to make changes to their store's HTML and CSS directly.

Online Logo Editor

Upload your own logo or use our logo editor to create a stunning logo for your store. Just fill in the logo text, choose a design and you're done.

Compliant Store Designs

All of our store designs are W3C-standards compatible meaning everyone can see your store in the same way, regardless of which web browser they use.

Drag and Drop Design

Change the layout and text in your store using our unique "design mode" editor. Move blocks of content and change the text in your store without knowing HTML.

Product & Inventory Features

Easy-to-Use Control Panel

To add a product to your store you simply fill out the product details form and click Save. The product is then instantly available to purchase from your online store.

Import Existing Products

The flexible import wizard makes it easy to upload your existing products into your new Maxhosting Shopping Cart store via simple CSV files. You can map fields from your import file and can even bulk import images and inventory details.

Automatic Inventory Control

Setup inventory levels per product or per product variation and when someone buys the inventory levels will be adjusted for you automatically. Maxhosting Shopping Cart will even tell you when it's time to order more stock!

Physical/Downloadable Products

See physical and/or downloadable products (such as eBooks) from the one store. Maxhosting Shopping Cart makes it easy to sell any type of product online.

Product Variations

Easily create product variations (such as different size and color combinations for t-shirts) each with their own prices, images and inventory.

Gift Wrapping

Specify store-wide gift wrapping options or even specify them per product. For example, you might enable gift wrapping on all iPods but disable it on larger products such as TVs and computers.

Product Reviews

Shoppers can post product reviews in your store. You can set reviews to auto-approve or you can even manually review and approve reviews as they come in. Reviews are a great way to encourage purchasing because opinions come from neutral third parties - your customers.

In-Store Features

Product Comparisons

Customers can compare products side-by-side to aid in buying decisions. They can see complete details about a product (name, SKU, image, price, average rating, custom fields) and remove products from the comparison with a single click.

Order Status Updates

Your customers can see a complete status report on their orders, including orders which have shipped and those which are awaiting fulfillment or shipping.

Live Order Tracking

If you assign a tracking number to an order, your customer will be able to track their order in real time. This helps to reduce calls to your customer service team.

Email/Print Order Invoices

When a customer places an order in your store they are emailed an invoice automatically and can print invoices at any time from their "My Account" page.

Address Book

Anyone who creates an account in your store can enter multiple shipping/billing addresses and save them in their address book.

Public Wish Lists

Wish lists can be created and optionally shared by enabling the "public wishlist" option. There is no limit on the number of wish lists each customer can create.

Order Messaging System

Unique to Maxhosting Shopping Cart, customers can send a message to you about an order and that message will appear linked to the order from your store's control panel.

Related Products

Related products can be specifically manually or displayed automatically in your store. They are configured on a per-product basis.

Coupon Codes

Create flexible coupon codes to offer customers discounts on products in your store. You can even add a coupon expriy date or limit the number of uses.

Marketing Features

Analytics Integration

Integrate your Maxhosting Shopping Cart store with any analytics package you choose, including Google Analytics, to get a 360� view of your store.

Bulk Discounts

Create bulk discounts for quantity pricing of items in your store and incentivize customers to buy in bulk and save.

Gift Certificates

Sell gift certificates through your store. All gift certificates are delivered automatically to the recipient via email and redeemed in your store. You can even track who used a gift certificate and when.

Promotional Banners

Use the built-in designer to create and display promotional banners for special offers in your store. You choose which pages the banners appear on and where (top or bottom).

Newsletter Subscriptions

Accept newsletter subscribers through the "join my list" box in your store, which you can then use to send newsletters and promotions to your subscribers.

Export to Google

Export your products to Google's product search engine - "Google Products" and let Google help drive traffic to your store.

Affiliate Tracking

It's easy to plug any third party affiliate program into your Maxhosting Shopping Cart store. Visits and conversions are tracked for affiliate links automatically.

RSS Feeds

Shoppers can subscribe to your RSS feed to be notified automatically when you add new products to your store.

Advertising Campaigns

In just one click you can generate complete advertising campaigns which you can import right into your Google AdWords or Yahoo Search Marketing accounts. No more spending days writing ads, finding keywords, etc.

Payment & Shipping Features

Accept Credit Cards

Maxhosting Shopping Cart makes it easy to sell online. Right out of the box your store integrates with PayPal, Google Checkout and over 30 other merchant providers.

Customers can purchase w these credit cards:

• Visa
• Mastercard
• American Express
• Diners Club
• Discover

Merchant Provides (Payment Gateways)

Maxhosting Shopping Cart supports these merchant providers:

• iPay88 (Malaysian Gateway)
• 2Checkout
• Amazon.comm SimplePay
• Authorize.net
• Beanstream
• Camtech (Now SecurePay
• Cardservice International
• ChronoPay API
• ChronoPay Hosted Page
• Cybersource
• Cynergy Data
• E-Xact
• eWay
• Google Checkout
• HSBC Secure ePayments
• Innovate Gateway
• LinkPoint Connect
• MIGS
• Moneris eSelect Plus
• MoneyBookers
• MyVirtual Merchant
• NetBanx
• Netbilling
• NetRegistry
• NoChex
• PayLeap
• PayMate
• Payment Clearing (iTransact)
• Payment Express Pay
• Payment Express Post
• PayPal PayFlo Pro
  
• PayPal Payflow Links
  
• PayPal Website Payments Pro
• PayPal Website Payments Standard
• PayStation
• Plug N Pay
• Protx VPS Direct
• Protx VPS Forms
• PSIGate.com
• Quantum Gateway
• Realex
• SecurePay (Formerly CamTech)
• USA ePay
• WorldPay
• YourPay Connect

Offline Payment Method

Maxhosting Shopping Cart supports these offline payment methods:

• Bank deposit
• BPay
• Cash on delivery
• Cheque
• Credit card (manual)
• Money order
• Pay in store

SSL Secure Checkout

Your customers will be confident ordering online with full support for secure checkout via 128 bit industry-standard SSL security.

Sell in Multiple Currencies

Easily setup your store to sell in multiple currencies. Exchange rates can be updated manually or automatically every day using our live web service.

Real-Time Shipping Quotes

Maxhosting Shopping Cart integrates with UPS, UPS online tools, USPS, FedEx, Canada Post, Australia Post and Royal Mail for live shipping quotes.

Define-Your-Own Rates

Setup fixed shipping prices on a per item, order or country basis. You can even setup shipping rates based on order total and weight.

Flexible Shipping Zones

Offer specific shipping methods based on the customer's location. You can configure shipping zones on a per zipcode, state, and/or country level for ultimate flexibility.

Handling & Free Shipping

Add an optional handling cost to each order which you can show separately or as part of the shipping cost. Also offer free shipping on orders over a certain amount per shipping zone.

Import/Export Features

Easy Import

Import your existing orders, products and customers using our flexible CSV-file import system. You can import your existing multi-level category structure, inventory and more. Maxhosting Shopping Cart has the best import system in any shopping cart software.

Fast Export

With two clicks you can quickly export orders, products and customers. Can can create and save custom searches which allow you to filter and export only the exact data you need - in CSV or XML format.

Export to Intuit QuickBooks

Using the free QuickBooks Web Connector (QBWC) software from Intuit, you can easily and automatically sync orders, customers, products and inventory from your store back to QuickBooks.

Search Features

Search Suggest

As shoppers start typing in the search box, they instantly see products that match their keywords, without having to click through to a search results page.

Related Searches

As people search for products in your store, Maxhosting Shopping Cart uses a proprietary matching algorithm to automatically match and display related search phrases, making it even easier for shoppers to find the products they want.

Advanced Search

The advanced search options allow shoppers to really drill down and filter search results. They can enter search keywords, filter by brand, categories, price, featured products and free shipping.

Precise Filtering

Maxhosting Shopping Cart has a built-in search range system which allows shoppers to search for products based on a number of criteria within a range. For example, ipod price: RM300-RM500 will show all iPods with a price of RM300 - RM500.

Search Tips

Power users will appreciate the "search tips" page in your store. It explains all of the advanced search and filtering options available, along with clear examples of how to use each option.

Search Engine Optimization

SEO Optimized

The Maxhosting Shopping Cart template structure was designed from the ground up by search engine optimization experts.

Per-Page Optimization

You can specify the page title and meta data for every category, brand and product in your store, giving you complete control over the keywords you want to rank for.

SEO-Friendly Links

All pages in your store from products to categories, brands and even search results use SEO-friendly links which make it easy for search engine spiders to find and then index the contents of your pages.

Order & Checkout Features

Single Page Checkout

Customers can breeze through checkout using the Maxhosting Shopping Cart single page checkout system, which has been proven to significantly increase conversion rates.

Guest Checkout

Enable the guest checkout setting to make it even easier for customers to buy from you. Guest checkout means they don't have to spend time creating an account with you - they simply type in their billing and shipping details, pay and they're on their way.

Refunds & Store Credits

Process refunds from your store's control panel. You can either refund the order back to the customer or issue them with a store credit instead, which they can use to purchase through your online store.

Tracking Numbers

Assign a tracking number to an order and your customers can see live order tracking details from their "My Account" page.

Email Order Confirmation

Customers will automatically receive an email when their order is shipped.

Content Management Features

Full CMS Functionality

Maxhosting Shopping Cart includes a fully functional content management system which allows you to publish web pages, blogs and contact forms.

Publish Web Pages

Create web pages such as "About Us" using the included WYSIWYG editor. Add text, upload images, insert links, lists and more. The editor is similar to Microsoft Word.

Hierarchical Pages

You can create pages (such as "About Us") and sub-pages under each page (such as "Mission Statement" and "Company History"). These pages will be used to build the navigation menu in your store.

Restrict to Customer Groups

You can restrict the viewing of any page in your store only to peple who are in specific customer groups.

Contact Forms

Easily create and publish contact forms in your online store. Just choose who the contents of the form should be emailed to, pick the fields to display on the form and you're done.

Display as Home Page

Any page you create can be set as the home page of your store, instead of the default page which contains new/featured products and news.

Publish News & Blogs

Keep visitors coming back by publishing news and blogs in your store. Discuss new products, special offers and promotions.

Create Banners & Promotions

Use the promotion designer to create and display banners through your store. You can link banners to specific categories, products, brands or even search results, and you can even display banners only between specific dates - perfect if you're having a sale!

Customer Features

Customer Groups

• Create unlimited customer groups, each with different pricing and access restriction
• Assign customers who register in your store to a particular group
• Limit which product categories customers in a specific group can see when browsing your store
• Setup a default customer group for anonymous website visitors
• Move customers from one group to the next from your store's control panel
• Filter and view customer, reports and statistics by customer group

Wholesale Pricing

Set discounts on a per-product, per-category or storewide basis for each customer group. You can create an unlimited number of discounts and it's easy to choose which categories and products those discounts should be applied to.

Reporting Features

Business Intelligence

Maxhosting Shopping Cart gives you more business intelligence reports than any other shopping cart software:

• Daily conversion rate
• Top 20 customers
• Best selling products
• Order locations (Google maps)
• Orders by item sold
• Orders by revenue
• Popular products
• Inventory report
• Customers by date
• Revenue per customer
• Search keywords with results
• Search keywords without results
• Best performing keywords
• Worst performing keywords
• Search term corrections

View Search Keywords

See exactly which keywords shoppers are searching for in your store. You can even see a list of misspelled words and the correct spelling automatically offered to your customers by the Maxhosting Shopping Cart "smart search" system.

See Customer Locations

Integrated Google Maps support allows to to see the exact location of your customers. You can use this geographic information to better target your advertising or even setup region-specific specials and promotions.

Request More Information

These are just a sample of the features included in Maxhosting Shopping Cart. If you'd like to inquire about a particular feature that isn't listed above, please contact us and we will be happy to help.