Interview: CoreCommerce

What do you consider sets you apart from your competitors?

We believe in order to be the best, you have to provide a great product at a competitive price with excellent support. We believe that because we have all 3, that sets us apart from our competition.

What is your pricing structure?

Our pricing structure is based on the amount of bandwidth, hard drive space, products and email accounts you wish to have or require, and starts at $39.99 for the basic plan and up to $179.99 for the Platinum plan. Our pricing can be found at http://www.corecommerce.com/ecommerce-software-pricing.html

How many pages long is your checkout process?

With CoreCommerce, you can choose between a 1 page checkout (so 1 page) or a traditional checkout process (max 5 pages).

Does your solution come with hosting?

Yes, it does and it is covered within the monthly fee. Our hosting is all done via Rackspace, the leader in managed hosting on the web.

How many shipping options do you provide?

We offer many real time options, such as UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, Canada Post, Australia Post, plus many “offline” shipping options such as “subtotal based shipping”, “weight based shipping”, “quantity based shipping”, “Product Based Shipping”, “State Based Shipping” and “Country Based Shipping”.

What are your contract term sizes?

With CoreCommerce you can cancel at any time. There is no contract.

Do you provide a free trial?

Yes! CoreCommerce comes with a 100% free 30 day trial so you can get a feel for CoreCommerce and confirm it will be the solution for you. https://www.corecommerce.com/ecommerce-software-pricing.html

How can a potential buyer find out more?

They can go to our website (http://www.corecommerce.com/) and find everything they need to know, or they can give us a call at 1-800-747-4270.

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Interview: digiSHOP

What do you consider sets you apart from your competitors?

We believe in order to be the best, you have to provide a great product at a competitive price with excellent support. We believe that because we have all 3, that sets us apart from our competition.

What is your pricing structure?

digiSHOP Basic is $249, digiSHOP Standard is $349 and digiSHOP Pro is $799. You can see all the pricing and compare the features of each version at http://digishop.sumeffect.com/compare.php

How many pages long is your checkout process?

With digiSHOP, you can choose between a 1 page checkout (so 1 page) or a traditional checkout process (max 5 pages).

How can a potential buyer find out more?

They can go to our website (http://digishop.sumeffect.com) and find everything they need to know, or they can give us a call at 1-800-747-4270.

Does your solution come with hosting?

digiSHOP is an off the shelf solution, and does not come with hosting.

How many shipping options do you provide?

We offer many real time options, such as UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, Canada Post, Australia Post, plus many “offline” shipping options such as “subtotal based shipping”, “weight based shipping”, “quantity based shipping”, “Product Based Shipping”, “State Based Shipping” and “Country Based Shipping”.

What are your contract term sizes?

With digiSHOP you get 1 year of support and 1 year of upgrades, and you can return the product within 30 days for a full refund. There is no contract for use.

8.Do you provide a free trial?

No there is no free trial of digiSHOP. But there is a live demo. http://digishop.sumeffect.com/shopping-cart-software-country-list-admin.php?

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Interview: X-Cart

Today's interview is with X-Cart, a shopping cart provider.

What do you think is the most important part of a shopping cart?

From our experience, a shopping cart as a standalone product is only a part of what online store owners truly need. In our opinion, it is important that the shopping cart should be accompanied by the whole scope of services allowing its owner to concentrate solely on sales and marketing and be sure that the technical side is handled by professionals.

What do you consider sets you apart from your competitors?

Since the software comes with an open source code, X-Cart can be used both as a ready out-of-the-box shopping cart solution and a powerful shopping cart platform which can be customized or enhanced to suit your needs. While the product can be maintained entirely by the owner, a full range of additional services (including turn-key software installation, custom development, ecommerce website design and shopping cart hosting) is offered directly from our company (in case they are necessary for a customer).

What is your pricing structure?

We have two versions of our product: X-Cart Gold and Pro (multi-vendor version). There is a one-time fee for a lifetime license. You may refer to our web site for the complete up-to-date pricing.

Please name five features that are included in your shopping cart.

- Fully customizable design & layout (including WYSIWYG tools for easy text content modification).
- Extended product specifications (product options and variants, price modifiers, detailed images, extra fields).
- Built-in marketing tools (discounts, gift certificates, special offers).
- Multi-lingual store interface (products, categories, product options, interface
elements).
- Variety of integrated payment systems (including PayPal, Google Checkout, Authorize.Net, 2Checkout and many others) and shipping carriers (UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, CanadaPost and AustraliaPost).

Does your solution come with hosting?

X-Cart itself is provided as a standalone distribution which can be installed on any compatible hosting. However, in the beginning of this year we've started offering our own shopping cart hosting service, X-Cart hosting, provided exclusively to X-Cart license owners.

How many shipping options do you provide?

We provide built-in real-time integration with all major shipping carriers (UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, CanadaPost and AustraliaPost). Also, we have a Shipping Labels Generator available for UPS, DHL/Airborne and USPS. In addition, you can set up your own custom flat rate, weight, order total and per-item based shipping charges based on destination.

What are your contract term sizes?

The shopping cart license is provided for a lifetime. If we speak of X-Cart hosting, it is available on a monthly (and up to yearly) basis.

Do you provide a free trial?

Yes, we offer a 30-day free trial version available for download at http://www.x-cart.com/downloadable_demo.html.

How can a potential buyer find out more?

For further details, please visit our web site at http://www.x-cart.com/ and fill the 'Contact Us' form or call us at +1-800-886-0359 (US toll-free).

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Interview: Miva Merchant

This week's interview is with Miva Merchant, another shopping cart provider.

What do you think is the most important part of a shopping cart?

The ability to build your online store to do business any way you like is the feature I would consider paramount. All too often online store products try to make the process of running a business oversimplified and thus make huge assumptions about someone might choose to build their business.

What do you consider sets you apart from your competitors?

3 things:
1. Miva Merchant's launched over 200,000 stores since our inception and been in the ecommerce business now since 1995 which is essentially the dawn of time in our industry. We've been through virtually every situation imaginable when it comes to the challenges and needs faced by an online merchant. We're uniquely qualified to help guide someone through the process of becoming a successful online merchant.

2. Miva Merchant gives the merchant full control over their online store. You can do virtually anything in Miva Merchant when it comes to your online store, there's few if any specifically built in limitations.

3. Even with our long history we're still far more similar to our clients than some giant tech company and that translates into a personal touch and superior service anytime they need help or assistance with Miva Merchant.

What is your pricing structure?

Most of our clients get their license through one of our web hosting partners. Which means they get the license included as part of their webhosting package (normally around $40 per month). For larger companies who want to host the product themselves we also license our software directly.

Please name five features that are included in your shopping cart.

-Easy to use point and click admin interface to add product, categories, configure your store for payment, shipping, upsale, related products, etc..
-Unlimited products, categories and sub-categories
-MySQL back end
-B2B features built in to allow for pricing and products to be altered or changed based on account login
-Synchronization with Quickbooks to make accounting simple

Does your solution come with hosting?

Most of our clients purchase our product through their web host, so they get a hosting/shopping cart solution in one place.

How many shipping options do you provide?

We ship with 9 different shipping modules out of the box and there are literally dozens of third party shipping modules available to allow you to ship any way you can imagine.

What are your contract term sizes?

No contract.

Do you provide a free trial?

Many of our web hosts do offer a free trial and we offer a 30 day money back guarantee.

How can a potential buyer find out more?

Call us at 866-284-9812 option 2 or visit http://www.mivamerchant.com/

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Interview: Easy Store Creator

Last Friday I interviewed AbleCommerce.com, a shopping cart provider. This week I am interviewing Easy Store Creater, another shoppping cart provider.

What do you think is the most important component of a shopping cart?

Assuring the customer that their information it is safe!

What do you consider sets you apart from your competitors?

Our excellent customer service. Many of our customers sign up because when they
call, 1. they get a live person and 2. I speak English.

What is your pricing structure?

Our service is only $67 per month and a 25% discount for yearly.

Does your solution come with hosting?

Yes it does. Your readers can check our site for all of our
features.

How many shipping options do you provide?

We have USPS, UPS, and FedEx and Canada Post.

What are your contract term sizes?

We have no contracts.

Do you provide a free trial?

No, we do not provide a free trial. Your readers can go to our website and under
FAQ's see the exact tutorials that our store owners view.

How can a potential buyer find out more?

By going to http://easystorecreator.com/ or calling 866-324-2764 Monday -
Friday 8:30 - 2:30 PST. They can also reach us via live chat.

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Interview: AbleCommerce.com

I hope to interview one company or person related to ecommerce each week. Today, for the first interview, I am asking AbleCommerce a few questions about their shopping cart solution.

What do you consider sets you apart from your competitors?

We’ve been developing eCommerce software for over 14 years. Please download a copy of AbleCommerce and compare us with ANY of our competitors you’ll quickly see our experience in the quality of the code and product design. AbleCommerce is fully compliant with payment card industry standards and may be used in a load balanced environment for high traffic stores.

What is your pricing structure?

$995.00 to purchase for use on your own server or hosting facility.

Does your solution come with hosting?

You can get an on demand hosted version for $195.00 setup and $99.00 a month.

How many shipping options do you provide?

UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL and Canada Post. In addition to built in shipping by flat fee, weight and order total.

What are your contract term sizes?

Hosting is available month to month no long term contract required.

Do you provide a free trial?

You can test drive a fully featured evaluation of AbleCommerce free for 30 days on our servers or download it and install it to your hosting environment.

How can a potential buyer find out more?

Visit our website at http://www.ablecommerce.com/ or call us toll free 866.571.5888 Monday – Friday 9am to 5pm PST

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