ShopIntegrator Launches Version 4.3 Offering Improved Ecommerce Shipping and Delivery Functions

Jan. 14, 2013 - PRLog -- ShopIntegrator is the provider of PCI compliant, cost-effective shopping cart software.  Its shopping cart and checkout are quick and easy to add, offering an effortless way to turn any website into an online shop. A simple copy and paste technique allows merchants and web designers to customise and manage their online store with a range of invaluable ecommerce buttons and widgets. Continuously updating and improving its features to reflect the needs of both clients, clients’ customers, http://www.shopintegrator.com has launched its latest upgrade - Version 4.3 - with a focus on improvements to its shipping and delivery capabilities.

ShopIntegrator is ideal for small to medium enterprises (SME’s) and perfect for home businesses. Packed with features that are simply not available from basic shopping carts, ShopIntegrator’s cost-effective pricing means it is not as prohibitively priced as some other advanced carts on the market.  Mobile and tablet compatible, ShopIntegrator includes invaluable ecommerce features such as its clever web admin system. The extensive management options within Order Manager and Product and Inventory Control facilitates merchants in the management of their own store. Its designer settings feature allows merchants and webs designers to customise ShopIntegrator's cart and checkout. Essentially ShopIntegrator’s hosted shopping cart solution enables businesses to individually customize their online store and manage their products and orders to suit their own business requirements.

Selling deliverable products couldn’t be easier. ShopIntegrator offers a wide range of intelligent shipping and delivery features all developed with the merchant and end user in mind. Shipping Plan Creators enable merchants to calculate delivery costs at the checkout, this includes multiple shipping options. Keeping the customer fully informed on the progress of their order is integral to good customer service. ShopIntegrator’s Order Manager provides a shipping and delivery workflow which provides status notification emails to the customer.

Quick to respond to market and customer demands, ShopIntegrator understands the importance of offering intelligent shipping and delivery options.  Shopping cart abandonment poses a real issue to merchants operating in e-shop environment, therefore it is essential merchants don’t underestimate the importance of the delivery element of their online business. Indeed research shows that 45.2% customers look at the delivery pages of a website before looking at the actual merchandise (metapack.com, home delivery statistics).

ShopIntegrator’s latest upgrade, Version 4.3, has introduced some significant and exciting developments to further enhance the Shipping and Delivery elements of its online cart and checkout.  http://www.shopintegrator.com/news/improved_shopping_cart... Improvements to shipping plans means merchants can now set delivery zone exclusions. Countries that the merchant wishes to exclude are not shown to the customer as an option at the checkout. Sellers are also able to create shipping plans for specific country deliver zones. These shipping plans are only made available to shoppers in those locations.  

Version 4.3 has also added a default courier method and tracking link to ShopIntegrator’s delivery status email notifications. When the order delivery status is updated a default courier method and tracking link are automatically allocated to the customer order. Notably, if required, merchants are able to override the default courier and tracking links on an order-by-order basis.

ShopIntegrator's latest upgrade includes an addition to Product Manager. Alongside product option price modifiers, product option weight modifiers can now be set. Products can be given a weight that feeds into the checkout for a weight-based shipping plan. The product option weight modifiers means that merchants can now change the weight of the product for the shipping plan, should they so need.

Merchants are now also able to manage which products they wish to include or exclude from free shipping calculations, giving them greater control. Merchants can also choose whether they wish free shipping to be excluded for the entire order should the order include a product the merchant does not wish to offer free delivery on. This is particularly useful if an order contains a mix of products that qualify for free delivery with products that don’t qualify.

ShopIntegrator has improved Order Manager by providing a central location from where to manage orders. Orders from multiple websites and order payments from different payment gateways can be managed from a single location. To further help with the organisation of orders, Order Manager now also offers a single order sheet for each order that puts item cost, shopping cost, order discount amount and tax amount all together.

ShopIntegrator can be integrated into any website and also provides step-by-step integration guides for DIY Site builders and Content Management Systems (CMS). Its online checkout seamlessly connects to a number of leading payment processors such as CardSave, eWay, PayPal and Sage Pay.  

ShopIntegrator's Version 4.3 implements some valuable enhancements to its shipping and delivery features. And, because ShopIntegrator’s online shopping cart and checkout is hosted, any upgrade is automatically available to all ShopIntegrator subscribers – so websites are always kept up-to-date with the latest version.  ShopIntegrator offers McAfee secure, cost-effective hosted ecommerce to businesses of all shapes and sizes and offers invaluable ecommerce features to merchants wishing to sell online, whether selling digital downloads, customised products or physical goods requiring delivery.

For further information on ShopIntegrator’s latest upgrade and to find out more about its free 30 day trial 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, 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.