Selecting a cart for your business is a difficult issue, you have many things to
consider, features, speed, technical support, ease of use the list is endless, and
no matter how hard you look it always seems that you can never find a solution
that fits perfectly, and you end up having to make do.
We decided to do something about it !
We designed MercuryCart from the customers perspective, a simple concept
but one that seems to have been over looked. Since 1994 we have been
designing custom made shopping carts, which fit your business perfectly providing you can meet the high development costs. In the early part of 2003 we decided to
channel all our knowledge and experience into creating a shopping cart that the smaller customer could afford while still offering all the features, customizations and scale ability of turnkey solutions, MercuryCart was born.
As standard MercuryCart offers:
Unbelievable cart page configuration
Advanced cart style customizations allowing a professional look that integrates
easily into any site that are easy to configure. Customers can modify there cart
pages using they own graphics, input there own HTML and CSS if needed, cart
appearance settings can be carried out in either simple or advanced mode.
Your own code and database
Each customer has there own unique set of code and database, allowing any
modification to be carried out and providing much greater speed and reliability
over conventional carts , it's like having a cart designed just for your business.
Because MercuryCart is a totally hosted solution, there is no software to
install, no servers to set-up and all the problems that are associated with
running a secure database and server over the internet are all taken care
for you.
Members database:
MercuryCart includes a robust members database that can be used for email marketing, Members can be added to your database automatically after a purchase or large customer details that you have generated outside of MercuryCart can imported using the member upload feature.
Affiliates and resellers
Create and manage your own network of affiliates and resellers, MercuryCart comes complete with various methods to add new affiliates and manage existing ones. Now setting commission rates, viewing sales and calculating your affiliates commissions is simple.
Adding Promotions
Using a simple interface, you can add as many promotions as you wish. Promotions can be time limited, they can be set to work after a certain order value, you can even view statistics on which promotions are giving you the best return, and with all the functions in MercuryCart the setting up and managing of your promotions is quick and simplistic.
Orders
View and manage your orders from any location in the world with just a standard
web browser, orders can be modified, printed and arranged as needed. Flags can be set against orders detailing there status such as, Hold, Part Ship, Payment Declined, Fraud etc. Orders can also be searched for using a powerful built in search engine, and order stats also come as standard.
Products
MercuryCart can hold up to 200,000 products without any loss in performance, and
maintaining large product lists can either be administrated from within MercuryCart or uploaded from a spreadsheet . MercuryCart even incorporates a stock inventory to manage your stock fulfillment of online orders. Adding or amending products is a quick and simple task.
Shipping
Configuring shipping settings in most carts is a complex and time consuming task, MercuryCart offers a simple to implement but yet extremely powerful shipping engine. Multiple regions, multiple shipping methods and individual product shipping prices can be easily set up. Mercurycart offers one of the most comprehensive shipping models in the world.
Payment settings
As well as MercuryCart supporting most payment gateways a unique method is also employed “Secure Order Capture”, this makes trading on the internet a lot simpler, the need for another third party processor is removed, the checkout process is faster and a lot more reliable.
These are only some of the features in brief that MercuryCart comes as standard with. Mercurycart can also be modified to meet you specifications should you require. All this backed by expert, helpful technical support.