Shopping Cart Solution ShopIntegrator Announces Ecommerce Integration Guide for BaseKit DIY Websites

HARPENDEN, U.K. - March 26, 2013 - PRLog -- Hosted ecommerce solution ShopIntegrator offers users of DIY site builders such as BaseKit a simple and swift way to add-in a secure shopping cart and checkout to their website. Straightforward, step-by-step integration guides and a wide range of invaluable add-in ecommerce buttons and ecommerce widgets make it easy for web designers and merchants to create a professional, PCI compliant, and easy to navigate online store.

ShopIntegrator delivers affordable ecommerce expertise to small to medium businesses (SME’s) through its cost-effective, McAfee secure shopping cart and checkout software.  Whether an established business or a small cottage industry working from out of the home, ShopIntegrator provides a sophisticated ecommerce platform from which businesses can sell their products.

ShopIntegrator’s advanced cart  is mobile and tablet compatible and enables businesses to sell physical goods that require shipping and delivery, customisable goods and digital downloads such as multi-media software, e-books, MP3’s or audio tracks;  making it a great ecommerce option for merchants with a BaseKit website. With a choice of Basic, Business and Premium packages, BaseKit provides an excellent website platform with some great features for merchants to develop their websites such as Google maps, images, forms and customisable templates.  

When choosing an ecommerce option for their business, merchants need to consider their own management needs alongside the expectations of their customers. Some merchants may find that the basic PayPal and Google Checkout that are part of BaseKit's subscription packages are not able to offer the range of features they require for their business. ShopIntegrator’s diverse range of ecommerce buttons and ecommerce widgets, alongside its choice of payment processors can provide a more advanced shopping cart and checkout system for BaseKit users.

Being able to effectively manage your products is central to the success of any business. ShopIntegrator’s excellent web administration system offers merchants a range of invaluable features through its Product and Inventory Management http://www.shopintegrator.com/feature/online-store-produc... . Businesses benefit from the effective management of stock levels, product prices and product options like size, shape and colour. Free text entry capture is also available for merchants selling customisable and personalised goods.

Businesses with shippable products are able to benefit from ShopIntegrator’s flexible shipping and delivery options. Shipping notification emails keep customers up-to-date on the progress of their order, merchants can work out delivery costs by weight, order value and country destination and calculate taxes on an order determined by a customer’s country and state.

An expert in selling digital downloads, ShopIntegrator provides superfast international automated delivery and high capacity secure storage through its Amazon CloudFront global CDN (Content Delivery Network). Upon payment customers can immediately access their purchased digital files through ShopIntegrator’s Digital Download Portal thus avoiding any SPAM risks associated with email links.

An ecommerce system must be able to successfully cater for the business needs of the merchant as well as meet the demands and rising expectations of customers. According to ComScore an average of 67% of online sales are abandoned before they reach the checkout. There are many reasons for shopping cart abandonment but some can be attributed directly to the checkout process. In recent research (Fifth Gear, smartinsight.com), 7% of buyers left their cart because their chosen payment option wasn’t available or accepted and 11% felt the checkout process was unclear.

ShopIntegrator offers an ecommerce process that is clear and straightforward to navigate for merchants and customers alike. To ensure the whole process is as cohesive as possible, ShopIntegrator’s cart and checkout can be designed to match in with the rest of the merchant’s website. Purchasing to payment is a seamless process with ShopIntegrator; this is something most basic shopping carts are unable to offer. The purchaser remains on the seller’s website for most of the checkout process; only at the very last payment stage does the shopper transfer seamlessly to the merchant’s elected payment processors hosted payment page.

Unlike basic carts, ShopIntegrator is also able to offer businesses a number of leading payment processors to connect to. Merchants can currently choose from CardSave, PayPal, SagePay and eWAY. ShopIntegrator also provides a Pay Offline and Pay by Bank Transfer feature which enables BaseKit merchants to offer their customers even more payment channels.  With Pay Offline merchants can also choose to present customers with pay by cheque, pay on delivery, pay by phone or pay on collection options.

It really is simple to turn a BaseKit website into an online store with ShopIntegrator’s new step-by-step integration guide http://www.shopintegrator.com/cms/basekit-shopping-cart-e... . Integration is quick and easy, BaseKit users need follow just a few simple steps. To begin with editing the BaseKit page options and copying and pasting a ShopIntegrator script into the BaseKit pages script links the BaseKit web page to a ShopIntegrator account. After this the BaseKit Custom HTML element is simply dragged and dropped into the page where the ecommerce button is to appear, then finally copying and pasting the ShopIntegrator ecommerce button script from the ShopIntegrator web admin into the BaseKit Custom HTML element completes the process. These simple instructions can be followed to add-in any of the 18 ecommerce buttons and ecommerce widgets ShopIntegrator has available including Add to Cart ecommerce buttons, Buy Now ecommerce buttons and a shopping cart Checkout ecommerce button to open the store checkout.

To find out more about ShopIntegrator’s easy integration process for BaseKit users and its free 30 day trial simply visit http://www.shopintegrator.com/freetrial/free-ecommerce-pl...

ShopIntegrator's e-commerce/m-commerce shopping cart solution offers smaller merchants a secure, powerful and easy to use solution for selling digital downloads, deliverable products and personalized products. ShopIntegrator is both PCI Compliant and McAfee secure.

With ShopIntegrator there is no need to change the current web host and no software to install. ShopIntegrator can be used with most website builders such as Weebly, BaseKit, Moonfruit, 1&1 MyWebsite, Webs, Yola, Vistaprint and more and works with stand-alone HTML web templates. ShopIntegrator also has specific e-commerce add-ins for many of the popular Content Management Systems (CMS) such as DotNetNuke (DNN), WordPress and Drupal.