SunShop Features

Developer:	Turnkey Web Tools, Inc.
License:	Free Demo
User Rating:	(10 votes)
Official Website:	www.turnkeywebtools.com
Platform:	Web-based

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SunShop is a turnkey, search engine friendly shopping cart software system. SunShop is a product of Turnkey Web Tools, Inc. The software provides solutions for user to create search engine friendly storefront, customize the store as they like, take order, manage product and inventory, process payment securely, view and analyze reports, and much more.

User can see the free demo of SunShop from your customers or administrators perspective from this shopping cart software website.

SunShop has 11 main features: Quick Online Store Setup, Search Engine Friendly, Customizable Storefront, Store Administration, Product Management, Extensive Payment Support, Customer Service Features, Extensive Reporting, Security Features, Marketing & Promotion, and Superior Support.

Quick Online Store Setup Highlight Features:

• Browser based Installation Wizard – Comes packed with a user-friendly install wizard that will get user’s shop installed and ready for setup in a few simple steps.
• Complete Ready-To-Use Storefront System – Includes a comprehensive ecommerce website with professionally designed, easy-to-customize templates for all pages. Templates are provided for the home page, category pages, product pages, and many others.
• Web-Based Site Configuration – User can configure, customize, and manage their online storefront through a highly intuitive, web-based Administration Panel.
• Built-in Professional Store Design Templates – Provides user with professionally designed web templates that they can use “as is” or completely customize to their design requirements.
• No HTML Skills Required, but HTML Authoring Allowed – There are absolutely no HTML, programming or web design skills required to use SunShop “as is”. There is also the option to completely alter the code for the more tech savvy web developers who have experience with web pages and HTML.
• Import Existing Product/Customer Databases – Allows user to import their existing product inventory data and customer details from a comma separated value (CSV) file into the cart database. This provides merchants with a powerful option to populate their online store with hundreds or even thousands of products and/or customers from and existing database or spreadsheet in a few quick steps.
• Multi-Platform Support – Supports almost any operating system that can be setup as a web server, including Unix, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Sun OS. As long as their system or web host supports PHP and MySQL, SunShop can be installed.

Search Engine Friendly Highlight Features:

• Search Engine Friendly Architecture – SunShop’s advanced search engine friendly architecture has been designed to support better search engine indexing and positioning.
• Search Engine Friendly User-Defined URLS – All pages, including the dynamically generated pages, are friendly to search engine spiders and crawlers. SunShop, also provides the option to define static and search engine friendly file names for all the category, sub-category, and product pages. This boosts user’s organic search engine rankings thereby lowering their traffic acquisition cost.
• Automated TITLE and META Tag Generator – When creating the products, SunShop has the ability to automatically create unique title and META tags for every product. This feature alone can save hours possibly even days of optimization work. User also has the option to refine these tags using SunShop’s built-in editor.
• Automatic XML Sitemap Generator for Google & More – Has the ability to automatically generate sitemap.org compliant XML sitemaps to use with such services as Google Webmaster Tools and other services.
• Breadcrumb Navigation and Sitemap for More Effective Indexing – The automatically generated sitemap and breadcrumb navigation in SunShop are both designed to guide search engine crawlers and spiders through all of the pages in their site.

Customizable Storefront Highlight Features:

• Professional & Sleek Default Design – Comes with professionally designed default templates that are a great starting place and are easily customized to user’s preference.
• Fully Customizable Site Look and Feel – SunShop is completely template based making it easy for user to manage and alter the look of their site with a few click. SunShop also includes a WYSIWYG editor for updating web page content.
• Easy Template Selection Dropdown – Lets user choose the right template for their shop with a few simple clicks.
• Move Sections Around Easily – User can move any of the template sections around easily by editing just one template.
• Create Custom Pages with WYSIWYG Editor – It is easy for user to create their template name, dropping in their text or using the powerful WYSIWYG editor and then saving their new template.
• Customizable Email Templates – User can edit the email messages that their customers will receive as part of their ecommerce experience at their web storefront.
• Customized Web Site Templates – Comes with a set of pre-designed website templates to suit user’s unique industry needs. User can also design their own web site design template and save all the style and design setting for future use.
• One Click Logo Upload – Lets user change their logo with one simple click.

Store Administration Highlight Features:

• Highly Intuitive & Easy-to-use Administration Panel – SunShop’s browser-based administration panel provides a user-friendly design and simple navigation. SunShop makes managing customers, posting products, updating inventory, and generating reports as easy as surfing the web!
• Content Management Tools & WYSIWYG Web Authoring – Includes a WYSIWYG editor for content so that updating and formatting web page text. Tech savvy web developers who prefer to code web pages using HTML can do so as well.
• Unlimited Administrator Accounts – Allows user the ability to create and manage an unlimited number of administrators who can accesses the admin backend.
• Restrict Access By Administrator – User can also delegate specific jobs to each administrator and restrict access to particular areas within the administration area.
• Easy “Point & Click” Setting Changes – Most of SunShop’s features and settings can be managed within the admin area with a few simple clicks.
• Export Orders To Microsoft Excel – Supports the import and export of all data including orders and order details. Exported files can be opened in Excel for easy editing before reimporting into their cart.
• Drop-ship Management - Includes extensive support for the drop-ship inventory distribution model. User can setup vendors for each of their products and notify them with a click of a button about their new orders.
• Click Backup/Restore Tool – With a few simple clicks of the mouse, user can backup and restore their complete database to ensure peace of mind that their data is always backed up.

Product Management Highlight Features:

• Unlimited Products & Categories – User can add as many products and categories as they would like, there are no limitations.
• Short and Long Product Descriptions – User can create both short and long descriptions for their products in HTML or plain text formats. Images can also be included as a part of the product description.
• Custom Product Attributes – Attributes can be used to display any information about their product that is not their by default.
• Multiple Product Images – Lets user add an unlimited amount of product images for each of their products. You even have the ability, using one of our plugins, to create mouse over images which can display the larger images without any clicks.
• Multiple Product Options – User can setup different sizes, colors and any other option with a few simple clicks.
• Featured Products – User can display their most popular products either on the home page under the Featured Products section, or under the category listings related to product.
• Products in Multiple Categories – Lets user showcase their products across multiple categories without duplicating product information.
• Related Products – Lets user relate products in their catalog. The relationships can be used to “cross sell” or “up sell” the products.
• Set In-Stock Inventory Quantity – User can set the inventory levels for each of their products or even each of their products options.
• Automatically Updates Stock Quantity After Each Sale – With each sale the user makes, the product stock is automatically updated to ensure them always display the correct inventory levels.
• Sell Digital Delivery Products – Supports the selling of digital and electronic goods right out of the box. Effortlessly setup a download file associated with a file with a few clicks of the mouse.
• Manage Inventory in Bulk – User can easily manage their products and catalog in bulk using the csv export and Excel or something similar to alter the data and re-import it.

Extensive Payment Support Highlight Features:

• Real-Time Credit Card Acceptance – Provides modules for and supports several leading payment gateways.
• 60+ Real-Time Credit Card Processors Supported – SunShop is currently integrated with 60+ payment gateways and services around the internet.
• PayPal & Google Checkout Support – Supports all of Paypal’s payment solutions right out of the box including, PayPal Standard, Express Checkout, Web Payments Pro and their Payflow solutions. Additionally SunShop supports Google Checkout payments as well.
• Non Real-Time Payment Options, Including Telephone, Mail Order, and P.O. – Enables user to offer non real-time payment options to their customers like offline credit card payment processing by telephone, fax, local pickup, mail order by check, C.O.D., and many others.
• Offline Credit Card Processing – Allows user to process credit card orders for their customers manually.
• Fully PCI/CISP Compliant - User will need to complete all necessary steps to achieve PCI compliance. SunShop does offer tools to ensure that user is fully PCI Compliant.
• Set Minimum Order Amount – Let user set a minimum order amount on their cart to enforce a certain dollar amount that must be in the cart before a customer can checkout.
• Sell & Accept Gift Certificates – User can sell and accept gift certificates with the ability to set a minimum gift certificate amount.
• Full Quickbooks Export Capabilities – User can export customers, invoices and transaction straight from SunShop into Quickbooks with a few clicks.

Customer Service Highlight Features:

• Customer Account Area – Area allows customer to view previous orders, status and shipping tracking information all from one single location.
• Wishlist & Registry Feature – Customers can create wishlists to send to their friends and family or even setup a gift registry for a special event. The registry feature will keep track of how many items have been purchased by friends and family ensuring that duplicates are avoided.
• Quickly Process Telephone and Mail Orders – Allows user to login as a customer or place a new order for a new customer as if they were placing the order themselves. This allows the customer to have the convenience of placing a phone order but at the same time allowing them to track their order online.
• Fully Personalize Product Offerings – Makes it easy for user to reward loyal customers. For example, user can assign discounts to customers via coupons, discounts and other methods.
• Live Order Tracking – Customers can view and track the status of their orders and shipments in real time from the storefront. They can also view their order history and obtain a history of past purchases.
• Intelligent Product & Catalog Search – Customers will rapidly find what they are seeking using SunShop’s quick or advanced search features.
• Newsletter Signup and Bulk Email Management – Makes it easy for user to offer a personalized newsletter to their customers.
• Account Custom Fields – Provides user the ability to add custom fields to the checkout process for collecting additional customer information such as Tax ID for processing wholesale orders. These custom fields can be printed on invoices and packing lists.
• Checkout Without An Account – Allows customers to checkout without creating an account.
• Customer Saved Cart – Lets user encourage their shoppers to come back then by saving their cart for them automatically for when they decide to return.

Extensive Reporting Highlight Features:

• Dynamic Graphs Reporting – Provides dynamic graph and chart reporting to ensure the best possible.
• Ecommerce, Sales, and Store Activity Reports – Allows user show reports for Sales By Month as well as Sales by Type; Category, Product, Vendor & Manufacturer.
• Website Statistics – Includes a basic website statistical reporting tool that tallies the number of visits to their online store, the source from where they come, and other details regarding web page visits.
• Google Analytics Support – Comes pre-packaged with plugins for Google Analytics as well as Google Analytics Ecomerce Tracking.

Security Highlight Features:

• Full HTTPS & SSL Protocol Support – To ensure all of user’s customers data is transmitted securely and safely, SunShop support both the HTTPS & SSL protocol anywhere that data is collected.
• Password Protected Administration – The shops administration area is kept safe with passwords that only user and their employees know and stored in the database securely.
• Custom Administration Area Folder – Has better way to stop snoopers then to rename their administration directory to something less commonly used. This thwarts attempts at unauthorized access to their customers information.
• Administration Access Limitations – Allows the administrator the ability to control administrative access and set access levels for all other administration account.
• reCAPTCHA.net Support – Lets user put a stop to the spam received and ensure that their forms are filled out by live humans instead of spamming bots.

Marketing & Promotion Highlight Features:

• Fully Integrated Points System – Lets user reward their returning customers with a fully functional and built in rewards system. Set their own dollar to point values and vice-versa. Allow their customers to redeem their points on future purchases.
• Tell-A-Friend Functionality – Enables site visitors to recommend their products to their friends and family simply by inputting their email addresses. The email is automatically sent to the specified recipients with a link to the description and a picture of the product.
• Product Reviews And Ratings – Gives user the ability to choose whether to allow customers to leave feedback regarding products and services on the storefront. Store administrators can add, delete, view, and publish selected reviews with a few clicks.
• Affiliate Program Support – Supports two of the most commonly used affiliate programs available, iDev Affiliate & Post Affiliate Pro.
• Coupons & Gift Certificates – User can offer online coupons and associate them with certain products or groups of products.
• Discounts – Provides a number of ways for user to offer discounts. Offer discounts that are product related, group related, quantity related and much more.
• On Site Promotions, Cross Selling And Up Selling – Lets user relate products in their catalog on the basis of similar features. The relationships can be used to “cross sell” or “up sell” their products.
• Product Feed Modules – User can export and upload their product feeds to some of the major shopping sites with a click. Modules include Shopzilla, Shopping.com, Google Base and Yahoo! Shopping.

Superior Support Highlight Features:

• Toll Free Phone Support – User can reach a live person who can address their questions and concerns all with no extra cost to them.
• Ticket Support & Community Forums – User can get support 24 hours a day using the email and ticket system or browse the community forums for answers to commonly asked questions.
• Online Documentation – User can get access to SunShop’s online documentation, knowledge base and articles 24 hours a day online.

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