1. Storefront Web Design.

(a) Free Templates.
Enhance your online store with one of our professionally designed templates that come with all ActiveCheckout's eCommerce Packages. Take your online storefront from basic to beautiful!

New templates are being added all the time.

(b) WYSIWYG Editor & Advanced Design Controls.
The WYSIWYG Editor allows you to create and edit different areas of your storefront without any html knowledge needed. The editor's interface allows you to select fonts, add images and alot more without writing one line of html.

(c) Upload Your Own Logo.
Our ActiveCheckout Storefront software gives you the ability to upload your own company or website logo to your storefront via your storefront admin section. This logo will then be automatically placed within the template you have chosen for your storefront design. You can change the logo at any time with a few simple clicks of the mouse.

(d) Custom eCommerce Design.
Whether you are an established or new ActiveCheckout eCommerce client, who wants to have their own unique custom eCommerce design, ActiveCheckout can take care of this for you from start to finish. Click here for more information.

2. Adding Products.

(a) Product & Category Editor.
Editing categories and updating products is as easy as click, edit and your done. Using your storefront admin panel, in a matter of seconds you can change anything in your store with just a few clicks of the mouse including images, inventory numbers, pricing and more! Simple, easy and efficient.

(b) ActiveCheckout Import/Export Product List.
Using the Import/Export Product List feature you can add a large number of products to your online store, make updates to some or all of your products and you can do this in a matter of minutes. No more spending hours to update your products online one at a time.

You simply update your Excel or CSV file, upload it through the admin section and in a matter of minutes all the products in your store will be updated with your changes. This saves you time by allowing you to quickly and easily update all the products in your store at once.

You can also download your entire online store inventory in a document file to make changes to it offline. You can then upload this file to apply changes to some or all of your products in your online store.

3. Payment & Shipping Options.

Payment and shipping options are easily setup through the sections in your store front's admin panel.

(a) Payment options.
ActiveCheckout's shopping cart software will allow you to accept multiple payments online. You can choose to accept credit cards via a merchant account and payment gateway, accept credit cards via 2Checkout.com or accept payments via Paypal.com, as well as a variety of other solutions.

You can use one of the above or a combination of two out of the three to offer your customers flexible ways of making payment.

You can also choose to accept payments via check or money order and ship the items after payment is received.

(b) Shipping Options.
You can offer your customers shipping via FedEx, UPS, USPS, Canada Post and more. You can offer free shipping or shipping based on weight.

You can also connect directly to your shipping company's terminal and get real time shipping quotes. These are based on what shipping methods you are offering, where the item is being shipped from and where the item is going. The shipping quote then shows up during the checkout process while the order is being placed.

4. Promotion tools & Extended Exposure.

(a) Search Engine Friendly Tools.
Your online store comes built in with a Meta Tag Generator for every product you add to your store. You can enter your meta tags and a description to help in your SEO Marketing.

(b) SEO Assistant.
This great tool allows you to track your Google and Yahoo Index positions, as well as it will display your current Google Page Rank.

(c) Google Analytics.
The Google Analytics feature allows you to use a free tool from Google.com which tells you important information about your visitors. This information allows you to focus your marketing efforts, making any changes needed as you go which can directly affect your ROI and improve the number of visitors you convert into sales.

(d) Automatic Store Feeds.
The Automatic Store Feeds feature gives you the ability through your ActiveCheckout Storefront Admin section to directly feed a list of your products to online shopping directories such as Froogle.com, BizRate.com, BidHopper.com, Yahoo.com and others.

This feature allows you to easily get your products out to an already established market. In doing so you will be able to easily expand your current market place and consumer base.

5. Managing Your Customers and Orders.

(a) Automatic Order Notification.
Your storefront will automatically notify you via email when a new order comes in. You can then view and access this order from the admin panel of your online store.

(b) View, Manage & Fill Orders.
Any new orders that come in can be accessed from the admin panel of your online store. Here you can manage the order, update the status of the item(processing, delivered etc..) and print invoices or create packing slips for that item.

(c) Easily Communicate with Customers.
Our storefront software also makes it easy to communicate with your customers. After you have updated an order with a status or note you can also chose to send this to the customer. You can keep your customers informed throughout the whole process of shipping an item.

You can also email customers through your admin panel incase you need to update them or need more information on a order. You can also create and send out newsletters to your customers on specials or updates you've made to your store.

(d) Taxes.
You can also download a Monthly Sales Tax Report as a .CSV file which you can then use to calculate the taxes for your business at tax time. The taxes are broken down and displayed month by month.

Our storefront software makes it easy for you to manage orders, keep in touch with your customers and more!