Modular Merchant shopping cart software for 
digital delivery and subscription products. 

Shopping Cart Service Features

Shopping Cart Service Features

Modular Merchant

can not only boast a powerful feature set, but also that many of these

features


were suggestions directly from our clients. We love to build software, and we love building things
our clients can actually use! It's win-win-win. (That last "win" was just for fun.)

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Add-on Modules

 
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Administration & Design

  • Add custom Meta tags to each product and category page.
  • Add "Add to Cart" buttons to remote websites or email messages.
  • Add your own custom HTML, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript, PHP, or XHTML to any store page.
  • Built-in search engine also tracks the phrases customers search for.
  • Bulk import products, categories, and customers.
  • Control panel for call centers to input orders.
  • Customizable website themes and templates.
  • Customize the colors, fonts, images and other store elements from a central control panel.
  • Export store data to spreadsheets for reporting and archiving.
  • Fully customizable storefront shopping area.
  • Graphic design expertise not necessary.
  • Includes secure administration, storefront, checkout, customer account area — and more.
  • Integrate your store into your existing website.
  • Integrated image FTP tools.
  • List your store's best selling, newest and featured products.
  • No software to install.
  • Programming skills not necessary.
  • Search-engine-friendly HTML catalog generator.
  • Single & batch upload options.
  • Transparently send data to 3rd-party systems during the checkout process.
  • Use the built-in design tools or import your own HTML from any website design program.
  • View and access orders, customers and products quickly online.
  • Web-based administration dashboard — manage your store from anywhere.
 
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Customer Management

  • Assign a credit account to your customers.
  • Create a "Members Only" area with content that only subscribing customers can view.
  • Create coupons for a group of customers all at once.
  • Customers can view/edit their product subscriptions.
  • Customers easily update their billing & shipping addresses within your store's built-in customer account area.
  • Customers track their orders without leaving your website.
  • Order history displays the shipping status of each product to your customers.
  • Place orders with multiple shipping addresses.
  • Review a customer's profile and purchase history in the Administration area.
  • Search, add, edit and delete customers from a central control panel.
  • Search customers by their purchase history.
  • Secure, password protected customer account area.
  • Sensitive customer data encrypted using unique account key.
  • Specify customers as tax-exempt.
  • Tracking ID numbers available to customers in their account area.
 
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Product Management

  • Add specific keywords to products to modify their placement within your store's search engine results.
  • Assign products to multiple categories and sub-categories.
  • Bulk product import/export — save time updating your products.
  • Customize keywords, title, description and other meta tags on a product-by-product basis.
  • Discount Options: Set bulk discounts, customer group discounts, sale date ranges, and more.
  • Gift wrapping options and additional fee.
  • Hide products without removing them from the database.
  • Inventory Management — see what's in stock, and make edits, all from one screen.
  • Live product stock status.
  • Low quantity email alerts.
  • Minimum/maximum purchase quantities.
  • Multiple images per product.
  • Multiple pricing levels.
  • No limit to the number of products your store may contain.
  • Product Stock Status: "In Stock", "Pre-Order", "Back Ordered", etc. Stock status changes automatically when a product becomes sold out.
  • Quantity discount by dollar value or percentage.
  • Real-time product availability status.
  • Sale price with date range.
  • Sell digital products and distribute them securely.
  • Set products as taxable or non-taxable.
  • Unlimited product variations. (Sizes, colors, etc.)
  • Vendor Management — Create a login for Vendors for them to log in and add/edit/delete their products.
  • View in stock/out of stock items.
  • Web-based product editor.
  • Wholesale vs. Retail pricing.
 
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Promotion & Marketing

  • Affiliate marketing system — Increase revenue with an Affiliate sales force.
  • Call centers place phone or mail orders with their own control panel.
  • Coupons — Discounts increase customer loyalty.
  • Customer never leaves your website during the shopping & checkout process.
  • Dollar or percentage discounts when purchasing multiple quantities.
  • Gift Certificates — Customers can buy coupons for other customers.
  • Include a "Gift Message" field during the checkout process that can be included in the printed order invoice & packing slip.
  • Offer free shipping for orders over a certain value, or other criteria.
  • Offer gift wrapping options on a product-by-product basis.
  • Promotions: Buy X get Y free.
  • Promotions: Buy X+Y, get discount.
  • Promotions: Buy X, get free shipping.
  • SEO Optimization built-in.
  • Search-engine-friendly HTML catalog generator.
 
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Reports

  • Best selling products.
  • Customer loyalty reports.
  • Declined orders.
  • Inventory reports.
  • Manufacturer royalties.
  • Marketing statistics.
  • Most popular store pages.
  • Open baskets. (Abandoned shopping sessions.)
  • Product performance.
  • Sales Tax statistics.
  • Sales by manufacturer.
  • Sales statistics: Gross vs Net sales.
  • Search customer purchase behavior.
  • Top referrers. (Where people are coming from.)
  • Traffic statistics.
 
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Custom Programming Examples

 
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The Shopping Experience

  • 1-step merchant account integration.
  • Automated recurring billing system.
  • Browse products by category.
  • Browse products by manufacturer.
  • CVV2 (Credit card security code) support.
  • Checkout progress bar.
  • Custom payment methods.
  • Custom tax tables.
  • Fast and easy checkout.
  • Gift messages — included in packing slips.
  • Gift wrapping options.
  • International PayPal currencies.
  • Multiple store currencies available.
  • NO per-transaction fees! — Modular Merchant does not charge a percentage of each order.
  • Order flood check (prevents spamming).
  • Process payments in real time or later during order fulfillment.
  • Real-time credit card processing.
  • Real-time shipping calculation.
  • Receive orders by website, phone, fax or mail order.
  • Set minimum/maximum values for orders.
  • Shopping cart summary.
  • Store search engine.
  • Tax calculation based on customer's location.
  • Website remembers the customer — auto fills their information on subsequent visits.
 
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Hosting

  • 99.9% uptime guarantee.
  • Advanced server extensions: Zend, mcrypt, PayFlow extensions, etc.
  • Bandwidth: Starts at 10 Gigabytes a month. (Upgrade to 2,250+ Gb/month.)
  • Daily data backups.
  • Dedicated IP address.
  • Deep discounts available on dedictaed SSL Security Certificates.
  • Disk Space: Starts at 1 Gigabyte. (Upgrade to 2500+ Gigabytes.)
  • FTP account — access to your website files.
  • Free software updates released regularly.
  • Managed Hosting Solutions: You'll never need to install server applications, libraries, configure apache .ini files, etc.
  • MySQL database(s)
  • Optional Semi-Dedicated hosting.
  • Optional Dedicated Server hosting.
  • Optional File Storage Areas: Add 200 Gigabytes of storage and 2,000 Gigabytes of monthly bandwidth.
  • Shopping Cart and website hosted together in one location.
  • Unlimited number of products.
  • Up to 100 email accounts.
  • Web-based email control panel.
  • Website management control panel.
 
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Shipping & Order Management

  • Add a markup to shipping rates.
  • Assign additional shipping & handling fees to products.
  • Automated digital product distribution & expiration.
  • Batch order printing.
  • Custom shipping methods.
  • Display different shipping rates to customers in different geographic locations.
  • Email decline notifications to multiple admins.
  • Email order notifications to multiple admins.
  • Exclude products from shipping calculations.
  • Minimum/maximum shipping values.
  • Multiple warehouse/vendor support.
  • Print gift note on invoices.
  • Print packing-slips, receipts and invoices.
  • Search, add, edit and delete orders from a central control panel.
  • Secure digital product and ebook delivery.
  • Shipping confirmation emails.
  • Shipping estimator tool.
  • Track the shipping status of each product in an order individually.
  • Real-time UPS, FedEx and USPS shipping rates.
 
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Security

  • "Members Only" product content — available only to customers who subscribe.
  • Deep discounts available on dedictaed SSL Security Certificates.
  • Ban notification — email notification when a banned user attempts to place an order.
  • Ban tool — expel problem customers and thieves.
  • Cart Retention — If a customer's browser crashes, the contents of their cart are retained, and they'll be able to pick up right where they left off.
  • Credit card information never transmitted via email.
  • Daily data backups.
  • Data Center — Access to the data center floors is restricted to those holding military-grade pass cards.
  • Data Center — Access to the data centers themselves is restricted by Biometric hand scanners.
  • Data Center — Continuous interior and exterior surveillance.
  • Data Encryption — All sensitive customer and order data is encrypted before being transmitted or saved in your store database.
  • Multiple administrator accounts — each with different permission levels.
  • Password protected customer account area.
  • Secure credit card display (ie: XXXX XXXX XXXX 1234).
  • Secure password-protected administration area.
 
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Support

  • Complete documentation - tutorials, guides and manuals.
  • Forums - find answers and discussion.
  • Free regular software updates install with just a click.
  • Free store migration.
  • Help buttons, definitions and instructions throughout the system.
  • Integrated Support Ticket system.
  • Online searchable knowledge base.
  • Setup assistance with our "Warm Welcome" package.
  • Toll-free phone tech support.
  • 24/7 toll-free emergency server support.
  • 30 Day money back guarantee.
 
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3rd-Party Integration

  • 2Checkout
  • AmericanExpress
  • Authorize.net
  • BluePay
  • Discover
  • Echo
  • Froogle
  • Google Checkout
  • MasterCard
  • NetworkMerchants
  • Order Motion
  • PayPal
  • SecurePay
  • Stone Edge
  • TransFirst
  • True Ship
  • Visa
  • viaKLIX
 

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