SunShop Shopping Cart Features

SunShop Features

There are many choices when it comes to php shopping cart software today, so what makes Sunshop shopping cart different than the rest?

To put it simply, SunShop shopping cart Software offers more features and flexibility than any other php shopping cart software package in its class.

Our complete solution provides you everything you need to successfully create and manage an on-line storefront. The standard features are outlined on this page. For a comprehensive view of SunShop shopping cart's offerings please view our online demo storefront.

Key Features:
Easy To Use Administration
Fully Customizable
W3C XHTML 1.0 Compliant
55+ Integrated Payment Processors
Google Base & Google Checkout Support
Gift Certificate Support
Sitemap.org Compliant XML Sitemap Export
Digital Download Support
Extended import/export
Transaction Reports & Statistics
*NEW* SunShop iPhone Tool

Unlimited Products & Categories
Custom Account & Order Field Support
PayPal Standard & Web Payment Pro Support
Inventory Control & Tracking
Realtime Shipping Rates
Flexible Tax Rate System
Gift Registry & Whishlist
Encryption & Security Of Customer Information
SEO Optimized Shopping Cart
100% Template Based

Features Breakdown

Click on any feature item below to bring up a descriptive explanation. If you don't see a feature below you need, please contact us so that we can verify whether or not SunShop has it for you.

Quick Online Store Setup

Browser based Installation Wizard (?)

Browser based Installation Wizard

SunShop comes packed with a user-friendly install wizard that will get your shop installed and ready for setup in a few simple steps.

Complete Ready-To-Use Storefront System (?)

Complete Ready-To-Use Storefront System

SunShop includes a comprehensive ecommerce website with professionally designed, easy-to-customize templates for all pages. Templates are provided for the home page, category pages, product pages, and many others.

Web-Based Site Configuration (?)

Web-Based Site Configuration

You configure, customize, and manage your online storefront through a highly intuitive, web-based Administration Panel. To view the Administration Panel and witness how it easy it is to configure first hand, click on our online demo.

Built-in Professional Store Design Templates (?)

Built-in Professional Store Design Templates

SunShop provides you with professionally designed web templates that you can use "as is" or completely customize to your design requirements!

No HTML Skills Required, but HTML Authoring Allowed (?)

No HTML Skills Required, but HTML Authoring Allowed

There are absolutely no HTML, programming or web design skills required to use SunShop "as is". There is also the option to completely alter the code for the more tech savvy web developers who have experience with web pages and HTML.

Import Existing Product/Customer Databases (?)

Import Existing Product/Customer Databases

SunShop allows you to import your existing product inventory data and customer details from a comma separated value (CSV) file into the cart database. This provides merchants with a powerful option to populate your online store with hundreds or even thousands of products and/or customers from and existing database or spreadsheet in a few quick steps.

Multi-Platform Support (?)

Multi-Platform Support

SunShop supports almost any operating system that can be setup as a web server, including Unix, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Sun OS. As long as your system or web host supports PHP and MySQL, SunShop can be installed.

Search Engine Friendly

Search Engine Friendly Architecture (?)

Search Engine Friendly Architecture

SunShop's advanced search engine friendly architecture has been designed to support better search engine indexing and positioning.

Search Engine Friendly User-Defined URLS (?)

Search Engine Friendly User-Defined URLS

All SunShop's pages, including the dynamically generated pages, are friendly to search engine spiders and crawlers. SunShop, also provides the option to define static and search engine friendly file names for all the category, sub-category, and product pages. This boosts your organic search engine rankings thereby lowering your traffic acquisition cost.

Automated TITLE and META Tag Generator (?)

Automated TITLE and META Tag Generator

When creating your products, SunShop has the ability to automatically create unique title and META tags for every product. This feature alone can save hours possibly even days of optimization work. You also have the option to refine these tags using SunShop's built-in editor.

Automatic XML Sitemap Generator for Google & More (?)

Automatic XML Sitemap Generator for Google & More

SunShop has the ability to automatically generate sitemap.org compliant XML sitemaps to use with such services as Google Webmaster Tools and other services. By using this feature you can substantially reduce the time it takes to get your web site listed into Google. This may be particularly helpful for a site with dynamic content or if your site is new and has few links to it. Once you have created your Sitemap, you can add it to your Google Sitemaps account or simply edit your robots.txt to point to it.

Breadcrumb Navigation and Sitemap for More Effective Indexing (?)

Breadcrumb Navigation and Sitemap for More Effective Indexing

The automatically generated sitemap and breadcrumb navigation in SunShop are both designed to guide search engine crawlers and spiders through all of the pages in your site.

Customizable Storefront

Professional & Sleek Default Design (?)

Professional & Sleek Default Design

SunShop's professionally designed default templates are a great starting place and are easily customized to your preference.

Fully Customizable Site Look and Feel (?)

Fully Customizable Site Look and Feel

SunShop is completely template based making it easy to manage and alter the look of your site with a few click. SunShop also includes a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor for updating web page content.

Easy Template Selection Dropdown (?)

Easy Template Selection Dropdown

Each of SunShop's included template sets are just a click away from change. You can choose the right template for you and your shop with a few simple clicks.

Move Sections Around Easily (?)

Move Sections Around Easily

Move any of the template sections around easily by editing just one template. For example, you can move your category section below the search box by dragging a simple variable within a template.

Create Custom Pages with WYSIWYG Editor (?)

Create Custom Pages with WYSIWYG Editor

Creating custom pages is simple with our template management section on the admin area. It's as easy as creating your template name, dropping in your text or using the powerful WYSIWYG editor and then saving your new template.

Customizable Email Templates (?)

Customizable Email Templates

You can edit the email messages that your customers will receive as part of their ecommerce experience at your web storefront. For example, you can personalize the order confirmation emails with your own custom text.

Customized Web Site Templates (?)

Customized Web Site Templates

SunShop comes with a set of pre-designed website templates to suit your unique industry needs. You can also design your own web site design template and save all the style and design setting for future use.

One Click Logo Upload (?)

One Click Logo Upload

Uploading your logo is as easy as selecting the image on your local machine and clicking the update setting button within the admin area. Change your logo with one simple click.

Store Administration

Highly Intuitive & Easy-to-use Administration Panel (?)

Highly Intuitive & Easy-to-use Administration Panel

SunShop's browser-based administration panel provides a user-friendly design and simple navigation. SunShop makes managing customers, posting products, updating inventory, and generating reports as easy as surfing the web!

Content Management Tools & WYSIWYG Web Authoring (?)

Content Management Tools & WYSIWYG Web Authoring

SunShop includes a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor for content so that updating and formatting web page text is as simple as using your favorite word processor. Tech savvy web developers who prefer to code web pages using HTML can do so as well.

Unlimited Administrator Accounts (?)

Unlimited Administrator Accounts

SunShop allows you the ability to create and manage an unlimited number of administrators who can accesses the admin backend.

Restrict Access By Administrator (?)

Restrict Access By Administrator

Not only can you create additional administrators, but you can also delegate specific jobs to each administrator and restrict access to particular areas within the administration area.

Easy "Point & Click" Setting Changes (?)

Easy "Point & Click" Setting Changes

Most of SunShop's features and settings can be managed within the admin area with a few simple clicks. For example, turn off the wishlists feature or setup a payment method within a few minutes with a few simple clicks.

Export Orders To Microsoft Excel (?)

Export Orders To Microsoft Excel

SunShop supports the import and export of all data including orders and order details. Exported files can be opened in Excel for easy editing before reimporting into your cart.

Drop-ship Management (?)

Drop-ship Management

SunShop includes extensive support for the drop-ship inventory distribution model. Setup vendors for each of your products and notify them with a click of a button about your new orders.

Click Backup/Restore Tool (?)

Click Backup/Restore Tool

With a few simple clicks of the mouse, you can backup and restore your complete database to ensure peace of mind that your data is always backed up.

Product Management

Unlimited Products & Categories (?)

Unlimited Products & Categories

Add as many products and categories as you would like, there are no limitations.

Short and Long Product Descriptions (?)

Short and Long Product Descriptions

You can create both short and long descriptions for your products in HTML or plain text formats. Images can also be included as a part of the product description.

Custom Product Attributes (?)

Custom Product Attributes

Attributes can be used to display any information about your product that is not their by default. For example, if you are selling books, you can add ISBN to display the ISBN number or Pages to display the number of pages the book has.

Multiple Product Images (?)

Multiple Product Images

Add an unlimited amount of product images for each of your products. You even have the ability, using one of our plugins, to create mouse over images which can display the larger images without any clicks.

Multiple Product Options (?)

Multiple Product Options

Setup different sizes, colors and any other option with a few simple clicks. Do you have options that add to the products base price and weight? No problem, SunShop can handle all of your option variables.

SunShop Shopping Cart

E-commerce Shopping Cart Software

SunShop

SunShop Features

Key Features:

Features Breakdown

Quick Online Store Setup

Search Engine Friendly

Customizable Storefront

Store Administration

Product Management

Extensive Payment Support

Customer Service Features

Extensive Reporting

Security Features

Marketing & Promotion

Superior Support

Features Breakdown

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