While each company’s needs are unique when setting up a shopping cart solution for your business you need to have several core features that gives you a competitive advantage. With Cornerstone Media Group, Inc. (CMG), Cornerstone Commerce shopping cart software you get hundreds of practical and useful features build in right from the start to grow your business online and manage your ongoing profits.

Our solution includes many of these unique and powerful features:

Your First 60 Days of Hosting Are FREE!! While most companies start billing you monthly fees the moment you place your order, we wait until your site is finished, tested and approved by you. Then you still have 60 more days free because we want you to experience our world class hosting and excellent customer support that is starting to draw a great deal of attention to Cornerstone Media Group. Monthly Fees include many services beyond the basic hosting of your website including project management and technical support.

Dedicated Server IP Address and Dedicated Digital Certificate. These two items are critical elements in your online security. All credit card prcessing companies are now mandating these to protect your customers credit card information and identiy. While other e-commerce development companies charge extra for this sort of protection, it’s already included in your monthly fees in order to give you and your customers peace of mind when buying from you.

Comprehensive orders management engine

Customers information and orders are saved into your store database. In administrative mode you can effectively manage this information to provide your customers with outstanding service:

• Manage new orders
• Create an unlimited number of order states (e.g. Pending, Processing, Completed, etc.) and append a status to customer’s order
• View order history by customer
• Track orders by IP address, billing information, email address – essential tools for payment verifications

Support for complex (configurable) products

If you sell complex products, which can be configured by customers during purchase (e.g. adjust preferable computer configuration, select clothes color and size, select calling plan when buying a mobile phone), then this software is right for you!

Using our shopping cart solution you can add an unlimited number of product custom options, e.g. clothes colors and sizes, computer configurations, calling plans for cellular phones, etc. You can categorize options with fixed values, as well as adjustable characteristics, giving customers the ability to specify preferable product options before adding a product to shopping cart. You can also apply price surcharges for each available product option value.

Import products from a CSV file (Excel)

Have a large product database with more than, say, 500, 3000, 10000 products? We provide you the tools for bulk upload (import) and export of your products database.

The easiest way to import a large product database into your online store is CSV import facility. Add all your products into an Excel spreadsheet, save it as a CSV file, and upload your inventory in a minute!

Please note the software can import/export products and categories from/to a CSV file of a certain structure. For more information on how import/export procedure are handled please contact your representative for more information.

User friendly searchable products catalog

Our shopping cart software provides tools to create and manage product catalogs. Products can be distributed among a custom categories tree. Category nesting is unlimited. In our software you can place a single product in multiple categories (as many as you like). Products and categories are very easy to manage in shopping cart administrative mode (backend). No specific skills are required for that!

When designing our shopping cart software we paid much attention to product catalog representation in your online store, and tried to make it as attractive and usable for your customers as possible.

Customers have tools for searching products in your store. In our software’s administrative mode it allows you to setup a list of product custom options, by which customers can perform a search, e.g. on the screenshot to the left customers can search automobiles by name, price and “Color” and “Power” options. Everything can be configured in administrative mode with only a few clicks!

Related products / cross selling

When selling a mobile phone, why not suggest to your customers a hands-free device or a calling plan as well?

Cross selling is a very good marketing tool. We provide you with necessary tools for you to suggest complimentary products to the original purchase.

Product picture gallery

The best way to showcase your products is to present good photos! Your store allows you to accompany all your product offers with an unlimited number of quality photos – this is a proven method to increase your product sales.

Easy localization

The shopping cart software is easily adaptable for the market you are selling to.

You can easily translate your store interface language into any language you like. With the software you can create a list of payment and shipping types, a list of countries and states to which you sell, a list of available currency types; in addition, manage custom information pages with the information about your online store, terms of service, etc.

Flexible sales tax configuration

With the shopping cart software sales taxes can be defined for countries, states and counties:

• Apply tax rate for a country or a list of countries
• Apply tax rate for a single state or a list of states
• Define tax rates for counties (by entering zip code masks)
• Create as many tax classes as you like and append them to your products
• Create tax classes independent from customer address (e.g. VAT)

Real-time shipping quotes with major shipping companies

Our shopping cart software is integrated with major shipping carriers: UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL.

To enable real-time shipping quotes with a certain provider you need to have an account with this provider, or to have an account with InterShipper.com – this company provides real-time shipping quotes with all carriers mentioned above, but without requiring to have accounts with the carrier companies.

Are you wasting your time trying to drop ship with with your current solution? Manually splitting orders and sending fulfillment requests to your suppliers is a repetitive task better suited to computers. The CMG Drop Shipping Extension was made to seamlessly fill the gap, offering a solution that works behind the scenes to ease the pain and allow you to get back to more important things.

Printable invoices

In the online store administrator you can easily view an invoice for a certain order right in the administrative mode. Printer-friendly invoice appears in a new window.

Customers also have facilities to print invoices from his personal account.

Customers’ personal accounts

Each registered customer has access to a personal account. This account provides following facilities:

• Contact information management: customer can view and edit contact information, e.g. first and last names, email address, phone number, etc.
• Address book management: the ability to view/add/edit/delete address book entrie
• Shopping history: customer can view comprehensive information about all his orders placed in your store
• Visits history (authorization log)
• And more…

Online feedback forms

Online feedback forms should be an essential part of every ecommerce website!

To achieve success in online sales you should provide your customers with the comprehensive information about your product offers. However, good products descriptions and visual representation (pictures) are usually not enough – very often customers can only find answers to their questions by contacting you. Thus it is essential to provide your customers with the ability to easily contact you.

The shopping cart software provides your store with the online feedback forms which are accessible on every product’s information page and in a separate department (‘Feedback’). After customer fills a feedback form, request is emailed to store administrator.

Feedback forms are secure and protected from spammer attacks.

Integrated with Google Analytics

Google Analytics (www.google.com/analytics) is a comprehensive web analytics system. Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site.

To start tracking your shopping cart activity with Google Analytics is as simple as getting your invitation to Google Analytics and then merely input your account number into the system. It’s all that simple! After doing this you will see your store visitors statistics and sales in your Google Analytics account.

And many, many more…

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So are we. There’s nothing we love more than sitting down with our clients and collaborating on innovative strategies that produce the results you’re looking for. Contact us: 770.717.0837 or email us via our online signup form.