A Debate, An Explanation And A List
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A Debate, An Explanation And A List
A Debate, An Explanation And A List Licensed carts and hosted carts have their supporters, and we’ve asked an eloquent proponent of each to make his case. You’ll read this “debate” on pages 10 and 11, from (a) Massimo Arrigoni, the co-founder and CEO of Early Impact, which produces Product Cart, a licensed cart, and (b) Michael Valiant, a product management and marketing specialist for 1ShoppingCart, a hosted cart. Our readers frequently ask us which Arranging a list of what we believe to be 100 notable shopping shopping cart is best for their company. They’ll describe carts is tricky. It’s tricky because not every shopping cart provider is their business to us, products they sell, where they ship forthcoming on the number of its installed users. And it’s also tricky merchandise and so forth. Then they’ll ask us which cart to use. because we’ve chosen a few key variables to compare each cart. These We love visiting with our readers on most any subject. But, we’d may be the wrong variables for some, but we’ve done our best. And like for these readers to decide for themselves. That is, we’d prefer pro- not everyone, of course, will agree with our list of notable carts. viding them with the impartial information they need and they can We explain other aspects of our list on pages 12 and 13, at then pick from, say, a list. That’s our mission, after all. To borrow from “The Shopping Cart Evolution.” The list itself appears on pages 14 Fox News, when it comes to shopping carts, “We report, you decide.” through 17. But there are more than 300 different shopping cart providers. Finally, know that this is our first attempt at assembling an There may be more than 400. Leading up to this annual shopping organized list of shopping carts. Next year, we hope to include cart edition, we had safely identified 328 of them. And then, near every cart, not just the most notable, and we’d welcome whatever our press deadline, a new shopping cart owner posted a comment comments you have to help us complete that task, via shoppingon our forum. He said his new cart works well with MySpace and [email protected]. - Pat Callahan other social networking sites. So we now know of 329 carts. To pick a shopping cart, a business owner must first decide whether he wants to purchase it or rent it. That is, he can actually purchase the in t his issue software and install it on a web server and the software is his to keep. It’s called a licensed shopping cart, and it’s sort of like purchasing, say, a copy of Microsoft Word. Alternatively, the business owner can pay 10Licensed Carts: Consider “Flexibility, Portability And Cost” monthly fees to use shopping cart software that’s already installed on 11 Hosted Carts: “Perfect For Most Entreprenuers” a web server. This is called a hosted shopping cart. He or she is free to 12The Shopping Cart Evolution leave the arrangement whenever they wish, and they are not out the 14 100 Notable Shopping Carts expense of purchasing it to begin with. 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We asked its CEO, Massimo Arrigoni, whether licensed shopping-cart software is better for smaller businesses than hosted cart solutions. PeC Why should an ecommerce business consider a licensed shopping cart, versus a hosted cart? Arrigoni Flexibility, portability and cost. In many cases a licensed shopping cart allows you to modify the system to better meet your needs, which gives you tremendous flexibility. Flexibility not only to alter an existing feature to address a specific scenario, but also to add new functionality over time or integrate thirdparty solutions as your business grows. A licensed shopping cart is also portable You choose where to host it and can bring it with you if you change your web hosting company. On the cost side, a shopping cart is normally a medium-term investment (at least two to three years using the same solution). Multiply the monthly fee of a hosted solution times 24 or 36 and the cost of a licensed cart very often represents a much cheaper alternative, although the start-up cost is higher. PeC Critics say licensed carts are difficult for small-business owners to implement, and, when coupled with hosting fees, SSL fees and other charges, can actually be more expensive. Is this true? Arrigoni I disagree. Do you build and maintain your own website? Then you most definitely have the skills to install a licensed cart and nicely integrate it with your website. Do you instead use a web designer to build and maintain your website? Then they are the ones that can easily help you add a shopping cart to it. In other words, nothing changes from your current approach to using the Internet for your business. As for the other charges, a 10 dedicated SSL certificate is a cost that you will incur even if you are using a hosted shopping cart (I don’t consider a shared certificate a good way to go, for a variety of reasons), and the cost has come down dramatically to under $100 per year for many certificates. Hosting fees are already being paid, as typically the company already has a website. It is true that if the ecommerce store becomes more successful over time, an upgrade of the hosting environment might be needed (e.g. a switch to a dedicated server), but that is always a good problem to have! PeC How much does ProductCart cost? Price ranges? Arrigoni A standard license costs $695 and includes hundreds of features that make it one of the best solutions out there. There are no limits in terms of products, sales, etc., unlike many hosted shopping carts. The price can go up to around $2,600 for a version of the software that contains a complex product configurator with conflict management capability (e.g. to handle the sale of a custom computer where the configurator knows which selections are incompatible and dynamically informs the visitor). The standard version is fine for the vast majority of ecommerce stores. Comparable hosted solutions typically run for $100/month or more. Do the math and the cost savings are substantial, on top of the incredible flexibility of having full access to the source code. PeC By Practical eCommerce’s count, there are more than 300 hosted and licensed carts available. How can a smaller business know which of these is the best fit? //// Practical ECommerce //// September/October 2007 Arrigoni I used to say “Write down the features that are most important for you, then see which shopping carts represent the best fit …” Well, that’s not possible anymore with so many solutions available, as you pointed out, it would take forever. So, I recommend a completely different strategy. Let’s focus on companies that are keeping their systems updated with the latest technology as a way to filter out older or less sophisticated systems. For example, take the carts that have been integrated with Google Checkout regardless of whether or not you plan to use that payment system. What matters is that you’ve now narrowed down the list to about 30 shopping Arrigoni carts that have been actively updated over the last 12 months or so to support Google Checkout. Of those, some will be hosted and some licensed, so you can quickly narrow down the list even further. When you are down to about 10 carts or so, then you can start looking at features, demo stores, live stores, etc. PeC Other thoughts on hosted or licensed carts? Arrigoni Do you see your ecommerce business as something that will evolve and grow over time? If so, a licensed shopping cart that gives you access to the software’s source code definitely gives you more control over the future of your online store. – PeC Staff Hosted Carts “Perfect For Most Entreprenuers” 1ShoppingCart officer lists overall benefits 1ShoppingCart is a hosted shopping cart with thousands of small business using right from the get-go will prove to be customers. Michael Valiant, 1ShoppingCart’s product management and market- an extremely valuable asset for your small business. ing specialist, offers his views on hosted cart solutions. Why should an ecommerce business consider a hosted shopping cart, versus purchasing a one-time cart license? PeC Valiant A hosted solution ensures quick implementation and turn around, inclusive security, 24/7 monitoring, no investment in infrastructure, full and continued support, regular automatic and free software upgrades, a maintenance free environment, easy data management accessible from anywhere in the world and a generally more robust system. Hosted solutions are responsible for the entire infrastructure, as well as maintaining the safe and smooth operation of a merchant’s data and order processing. It’s fully prepared to deal with any emergency situations that may occur with its merchants’ businesses online. A hosted solution is perfect for most entrepreneurs and small to medium-sized businesses that don’t have or want to invest in their own IT departments. Choosing to run your business online using a hosted shopping cart solution would prove to be the cheaper, easier and least risky solution for most business owners. Critics say hosted carts are less flexible than licensed carts. Is this true? PeC Valiant That’s such Val i ant a broad generalization. Like licensed carts, not all hosted carts were created equal, and I’m sure you’d find both more and less flexible versions in both categories. While it may be true that some licensed carts may offer slightly more shopping-cart-page customization (as long as you’re comfortable programming your own changes or paying for a developer to do it), many of those same carts lock you into very specific templates and design constraints through your entire storefront (website, catalogue pages, etc.). This is something you won’t encounter with a hosted shopping cart. Also, consider the amount of time you want to invest in maintaining and upgrading your ecommerce solution. Most business owners will agree that time is much better spent on efforts to grow their business. That means a hosted solution is the way to go. Other things to consider include: Time to market — How long it takes you to launch your ecommerce store after investing in a solution? PeC What does 1ShoppingCart cost? Price ranges? Security — Is the cart PCI/CISP certified? Does it offer HackerSafe? Valiant Our shopping cart package ranges from $29 to $79 per month and includes everything needed to run a business online. The low monthly prices with no start up fees ensure a low start-up and maintenance cost for any business. One of the benefits of being a hosted solution allows for us to offer a whole suite of more advanced tools, including email and broadcast marketing, affiliate marketing, ad tracking, dedicated IP services, etc., without having to charge our merchants until their businesses are prepared to take advantage of the increased functionality. All modules are pre-integrated and available with a flipof-a-switch readiness that allows us to grow alongside our merchants’ needs. Support — Can you call someone? Submit email or ticket support? What are the hours of operation? How well trained is the person helping you? Growth potential — Is the shopping cart just a shopping cart or does it offer advanced features like email marketing, autoresponder follow-up, affiliate management, ad tracking, analytics, etc.? PeC By Practical eCommerce’s count, there are more than 300 hosted and licensed carts available. How can a smaller business know which of these is the best fit? Valiant It’s hard to do when you’re first starting out, but it’s really important to think about where your business is going to be in one, three and five years and choose a platform that will continue to be a viable solution throughout your growth. Finding a solution that can grow with your business, while not having to pay for features you aren’t PeC Other thoughts on hosted or licensed carts? Valiant The fact is there are a variety of great licensed and hosted shopping carts available. You really have to compare what you’re getting for your money and consider how much time you want to, as a business owner, dedicate to integrating and maintaining your shopping cart process. When you invest in a hosted system, you’re paying for an entire secure infrastructure where, frequently, millions of dollars have already been invested to build-in the highest levels of certified security, including PCI/ CISP certification through the credit card industry and HackerSafe certification through ScanAlert. – PeC Staff September/October 2007 //// www.practicalecommerce.com //// 11 The Shopping Cart Evolution Tracking features of hundreds of carts in the marketplace themselves choosing the product with the most name recognition rather than spending hours looking for a cart that will best meet their needs. We understand the frustration, and we have embarked on an ambitious project to chronicle key features for every cart in the marketplace. What it is, and what it isn’t I’ve compiled a list of 328 hosted and licensed carts in the marketplace, and I’m convinced there are another 100 carts I haven’t found. From our current collection, I’ve segmented a By Mitch Bet tis group of notable players in the market. Let me explain what this collection of carts is, and what it isn’t. Ecommerce merchants seem inventory levels of particular products. There First, it is not meant to be an exhaustive list to be on a never-ending quest to are carts integrating zoom and pan technol- of carts — yet. Second, the features we have find a shopping cart that meets ogy that allow customers to view detailed, chosen to highlight for this first publication every need of their growing businesses, only multidimensional images of a product before aren’t the only features we intend to docuto find the cart they chose comes up short buying. Other carts are incorporating Web 2.0 ment. In fact, with our first review of these one way or another. aspects of user-generated content by allowing 100 carts, we captured data for 20 features, The good news is that shopping carts are customers to write product reviews for other and that only scratches the surface. For this evolving with a myriad of features, and the shoppers to see. print edition, we’ve showcased only a few of quantity of cart solutions is growing at a rapid The bad news for merchants is it takes an those features (plus a quote from the cart’s pace. If your business needs much more than enormous amount of time to vet all these manufacturer), but additional features will be a “buy now” button to facilitate a transaction, feature sets and wade through the various available at Practicalecommerce.com. there are plenty of robust shopping cart solu- cart options. It can be an overwhelming In short, this is a first attempt at building tions. For example, many carts have taken task to find the “right” cart for a particular a one-of-a-kind resource for ecommerce meron functions to help business owners track business, and many merchants simply find chants. In addition, we view this project as a 12 //// Practical ECommerce //// September/October 2007 living document, as we intend to add every cart to our comparison matrix, and we intend to highlight additional features to help merchants further distinguish one cart from another. As you’ll see on pages 14-17, this matrix is broken into two categories of carts — hosted and licensed solutions. Within each of those groups we have sorted them based on the number of active users, and we’ve compared identical features in both groups. The “active users” were reported to us by most of the carts (although many of the carts are very secretive about this number), and then reviewed by a collection of staff members. In addition, we’ve asked a group of well-placed sources throughout the ecommerce landscape to weigh in on whether the cart manufactures were being honest. These industry insiders have provided valuable insight, and we’ll continue to use them throughout this project to help verify the veracity of the cart manufacturer’s claims. It’s important to note that just because we have “sorted” our matrix to highlight the number of active users of a cart, we don’t necessarily believe the “largest” number represents the best solution for everyone. Size matters, I suspect, but it should only be one criterion a merchant considers. Being part of a large group could mean a merchant will join a well-funded, well-run operation, or it could mean the merchant will never get suf- ficient, individual attention. Your needs may be better met by a company with 125 users that offers a feature set you need to sell more products, satisfy a finicky customer base and grow your business. know carts are continually making changes. So, if you see something that is incorrect, please let us know and we’ll investigate. Our online version of this information will be updated routinely. If you have features you would like to see incorporated into our A journey of data collection matrix, please let us know that, too. And, finally, if you want to make sure your cart Though we’ve done our best with this first is part of our master list, we’d like to hear collection of data, I’m certain there is an from you. Drop us a line at shoppingcarts@ error somewhere. If for no other reason, we practicalecommerce.com. INCREASE YOUR ODDS OF SUCCESS...WITH digiSHOP. digiSHOP is the easiest way to increase profits on your website, with no monthly fees. 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Small Business Smallbusiness.yahoo.com 50,000 Licensed √ √ 47,000 Hosted √ √ 10 BV Commerce 11 cityMax bvsoftware.com 38,000 Licensed √ √ √ Citymax.com 27,000 Hosted 12 X-Cart Pro X-cart.com 24,000 Licensed √ √ √ 13 ProStores Prostores.com 22,000 Hosted √ √ √ 14 GoEMerchant Goemerchant.com 20,000 Hosted √ √ √ 15 Shopify Shopify.com 20,000 Hosted 16 1ShoppingCart 1shoppingcart.com 15,000 Hosted √ √ √ 17 SalesCart Salescart.com 15,000 Hosted √ √ √ 18 CartIt Cartit.com 14,000 Licensed √ 19 SecureNetShop Securenetshop.com 13,000 Hosted √ √ 20 osCommerce Oscommerce.com 12,667 Licensed √ √ √ 21 MIVA Merchant 5 Miva.com 12,500 Licensed √ √ √ 22 FORTUNE3 Wizard Fortune3.com 12,000 Hosted √ √ √ 23 eCartsoft Ecartsoft.com 11,000 Hosted √ √ √ 24 AbleCommerce Ablecommerce.com 10,000 Licensed √ √ √ 25 Apple Cart Spads.com 10,000 Licensed √ √ √ 26 Cart32 Cart32.com 10,000 Licensed √ √ 27 digiSHOP Digishop.sumeffect.com 10,000 Licensed √ √ √ 28 JustAddCommerce 7 Justaddcommerce.com 10,000 Hosted √ √ √ 29 RealCart Realcart.com 10,000 Licensed √ √ √ 30 Volusion Volusion.com 10,000 Licensed √ √ √ 31 Quick Cart Quickcart.com 8,500 Hosted √ √ √ 32 Virtual Cart Virtualcart.com 8,000 Hosted √ 33 MMK Cart Mmkcart.com 7,500 Licensed √ 34 NOP’s Free Shopping Cart Nopdesign.com/freecart 6,065 Licensed √ 35 AspDotNetStorefront Pro Aspdotnetstorefront.com 6,000 Licensed √ √ 36 KonaKart Konacart.com 6,000 Licensed √ √ 37 MonsterCommerce Monstercommerce.com 6,000 Hosted √ √ 38 CartManager Cartmanager.com 5,000 Hosted √ 39 DesignCart Designcart.com 5,000 Hosted √ 40 Make-a-Store Make-a-store.com 5,000 Hosted √ √ √ 41 Pinnacle Cart Pinnaclecart.com 4,300 Licensed √ √ √ 42 Marketworks Marketworks.com 4,000 Hosted √ √ √ 43 Squirrelcart Squirrelcart.com 3,500 Licensed √ √ √ 44 Zoovy Zoovy.com 3,500 Hosted √ √ 45 1GreatShoppingCart 1greatshoppingcart.com 3,000 Hosted √ 46 CactuShop Cactushop.com 3,000 Licensed √ 47 GoldbarOne Goldbar.net 3,000 Hosted √ √ 48 ShoppingCartGurus Shoppingcartgurus.com 3,000 Hosted √ √ 49 Shop-script Shop-script.com 3,000 Licensed √ √ √ 50 WebStore Valueweb.com 3,000 Hosted √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ Low Price High Price Transaction Fees Quote From Cart Personnel $0.00 $89.95 Powerful, free to use ecommerce solution used by over a million store owners globally. $0.00 $45.67/year Powerful, free, open source, limitless flexibility. 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Very affordable with lots of option. 100 Notable Shopping Carts Cart URL Active Users 51 CashCowCart Cashcowcart.com 2,500 52 ProductCart Earlyimpact.com 53 EasyStoreCreator Store Easystorecreator.com 54 E-Junkie 55 56 Type unlimited products Site Search Real Time Shipping Hosted √ √ √ 2,500 Licensed √ √ √ 2,000 Hosted √ √ √ E-junkie.com 2,000 Hosted GoDaddy’s Quick Shopping Cart Godaddy.com 2,000 Hosted √ √ MyCart.net Mycart.net 2,000 Hosted √ √ √ 57 PDG Commerce Pdgsoft.com 2,000 Licensed √ √ √ 58 WebGenie Webgenie.com 2,000 Licensed √ 59 WebPlusShop webplusshop.com 2,000 Hosted 60 Evolve Lynxinternet.com 1,800 Hosted 61 3dCart Shopping Cart Software 3dcart.com 1,600 Hosted 62 SurfShopPRO Surfshopcart.com 1,500 Licensed √ √ 63 MyWebSiteTool Mywebsitetool.com 1,221 Hosted √ √ 64 CoolCart Coolcart.net 1,100 Hosted √ 65 ASecureCart Asecurecart.net 1,000 Hosted √ 66 Catalog Integrator Cart Ecatalogbuilders.com 1,000 Licensed √ 67 SmartCart Smartcart.com 1,000 Hosted 68 UltraCart Ultracart.com 1,000 Hosted √ √ √ 69 Veracart Veracart.com 1,000 Hosted √ √ √ 70 GoEcart Goecart.com 850 Hosted √ √ √ 71 AAcart Aacart.com 800 Hosted √ √ 72 VevoCart Vevocart.com 800 Licensed √ √ 73 EasyCart Easycart.com 777 Licensed √ √ 74 Agile Cart Eastland.com 750 Licensed √ √ √ 75 Nexternal Nexternal.com 600 Hosted √ √ √ 76 King Cart Services King-cart.com 500 Hosted √ √ √ 77 eCOMpal Ecompal.com 400 Hosted √ 78 cf_ezcart Cf-ezcart.com 300 Licensed √ 79 MightyMerchant Mightymerchant.com 300 Hosted √ √ √ 80 AmeriCommerce Americommerce.com 250 Hosted √ √ √ 81 Marketplace STANDARD Modularmerchant.com 230 Hosted √ √ √ 82 Magnet Commerce Magnetcommerce.com 200 Hosted √ √ 83 Mountain Commerce Mountainmedia.com 163 Hosted √ √ √ 84 Advanced Cart v2.07 Bsmstore.com 150 Licensed √ 85 eBanyan Ebanyan.com 150 Hosted √ √ √ 86 Shop a la Cart Shopalacart.com 120 Hosted √ √ √ 87 123 Shop Pro 123shoppro.com 100 Licensed √ √ √ 88 BIZyCart Bizycart.com 100 Hosted √ √ 89 CapitalCart Blueshoppingcart.com 100 Hosted √ √ √ 90 SoftSlate Commerce Softslate.com 100 Licensed √ √ √ 91 StoreBox Storebox.acromediainc.com 50 Hosted √ √ √ 92 Magic Shopping System Magiclamp.net 45 Hosted √ √ √ 93 LiveMerchant Bbdesign.com 40 Hosted √ √ √ 94 ClearCart Clearcart.com 35 Hosted √ √ √ 95 5th Avenue Shoppe 5th-avenue-software.com 30 Licensed √ 96 Ruby Business Platform Rubensteintech.com 24 Licensed 97 Internet Commerce Engine 5 ice5software.com 22 Licensed 98 SEO-Cart Seo-cart.com 18 Hosted 99 SightShop Sightworks.com 18 Hosted 100 BakeSale Bakesalehq.com 15 Licensed √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ Low Price High Price Transaction Fees Quote From Cart Personnel $39.95 $39.95 Flexibile and adaptabie. The integration is seamless and enhances the customer’s current website. $695.00 $1,495.00 Certified by Google, PayPal, Authorize.net, FedEx, UPS, others. Hundreds of features, from user feedback. $67.00/mo $67.00/mo User-friendly software, multiple features, competitive pricing, free upgrades, superior service. $5.00/mo $125.00/mo Great for both tangible items and downloads. Works “inside” the merchant’s website. $9.99/mo $39.99/mo $35.95/mo $95.95/mo $999.00 $999.00 Real-time QuickBooks synchronizations. Numerous payment options. Built-in shipping calculators. $495.00 $495.00 We put the power in your hands to create the entire online store and install on your own server. $14.95/mo $99.95/mo Customer service number one priority. One page checkout. Affordable. Easy to use. Customizable. $205.00/mo $1,541/mo Full-featured cart for database driven, market oriented websites. Perfect for beginners to developers. $35.99/mo $99.99/mo Secure, SEO friendly, unlimited support, spam-free email, store templates, free updates. Flat monthly fee. $89.75 $599.50 A rock solid partner. Sleep sound knowing that you have one less thing to worry about. $9.95/mo $19.95/mo Fully automated secure cart, works with any site, real-time processing, no HTML knowledge. $20.00/mo $30.00/mo Great way to sell products, services from an existing website without programming. Free 30 day trial. $15.95/mo $15.95/mo $69.00 $795.00 A versatile, economical, designer and customer friendly web-server cart for small to medium businesses. $24.95/mo $69.95/mo Very scalable. Start with basic plan and expand as your business grows. Very customizable. $35.00/mo $105.00/mo Integrates with your entire ecommerce business, is an asp model, and is always being enhanced. $24.00/mo $1,500/mo Best SEO cart on market. Easily fits in your web design. Standout service: We answer the phone! $249.95/mo $999.95/mo The most search-engine-friendly ecommerce software on the market, bar none! $19.00/mo $69.00/mo Affordable, very user friendly. No programming required, just use a browser. Great technical support. $0.00 $99.95 We are happy to offer the free commercial versions with essential features for an online business. $399.99 $399.99 Set up and make changes faster than you can explain it to someone else. Very search engine friendly. $395.00 $395.00 $250.00/mo $250.00/mo √ Powerful software filled with features, functionalities. Order management system minimizes costs. $0.00 $0.00 √ Economical. Easy set-up. Customizable. Actual shipping rates. Suports regional taxes. 800 support. $17.00/mo $49.00/mo Easy to set-up for beginners, with all of the features that professionals need. $200.00 $250.00 Open source, ColdFusion. Unparalled support. Very scalable. SEO friendly. $59.95/mo $119.95/mo $39.00/mo $250.00/mo $119.95/mo $119.95/mo Specializes in digital/subscription-based products; securely distribute downloads, members-only content $99.95/mo $99.95/mo We’re a certified PayPal solution. Multilingual / multicurrency stores; unique customization. $69.95/mo $199.95/mo Mountain Commerce was built to be search engine friendly, flexible and feature-rich. $120.00 $120.00 Plug and play solution. Just drop into your website. No complicated configuration. $99.00/mo $189.00/mo Ecommerce software, shopping cart software, business banagement tools for resellers, dealers. $95.00/mo $95.00/mo Powerful, a breeze to use, and completely customizable to work with any online business. $550.00 $850.00 We also provide hosted cart solutions. Used by huge companies and small ones, too. $24.95/mo $24.95/mo BIZyCart is the only “Ecommerce Server.” It is a compiled program instead of a shopping cart script. $99.00/mo $99.00/mo The boutique solution. Custom setup and specialized features; helps clients gain market share. $0.00 $495.00 The first Java cart aimed at smaller businesses: Feature rich, customizable, source code. $99.00/mo $128.00/mo $49.95/mo $199.95/mo Price includes robust analytics system to track conversions and to mesure adverising ROI. $12.50/mo $66.67/mo Not a typical off-the-shelf cart. We do a lot more personal customization for our clients. $100.00/mo $100.00/mo Appeals to those selling beautiful products; enables you to build and manage your store with ease. $395.00 $495.00 Robust and feature-rich makes shopping easy for consumers, while fitting merchants’ specific needs. $15,000.00 $100,000.00 Ideal for high-volume merchants requiring efficient catalog, customer, order management. $2,500.00 $10,000.00 Comprehensive back-end allows you to update products without programming skills. $69.00/mo $149.00/mo Powerful, SEO-friendly cart that gives your products a unique presence in search engines. $60.00/mo $60.00/mo Clean and intuitive. Quick-turnaround, affordable, customizable professional. $0.00 $0.00 Simple, free and SEO-optimized cart built with web standards and usability best practices. Build a store or add one to an existing site; no ‘percentage of transaction fees.’ Hosting included. √ √ Order retrieval system for anyone who abandons a cart; allows merchant to email the consumer. Free technical support, easily customized. Includes order history, gift certificates, coupons, inventory. 12 years of ecommerce experience. Constantly updating to stay current, drag and drop interface. Site-wide dynamic content. Very SEO friendly. Quanitity discounts, wholesale/retail. Google Analytics. √ √ Flexible platform, grows with your company. Includes advanced sales analysis, multiple storefronts. Eye-riveting design. Intuitive self-management tools. Customization. You’ll never outgrow StoreBox.