Re: [cobalt-users] New E-Commerce Shopping Cart Review

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--- sales@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wanted to pass on some helpful information
> regarding an incredible
> shopping cart that we recently, and fortunately
> stumbled across. This
> informative review will be beneficial to any
> business owner who is looking
> to setup their own online store, as well as hosting
> companies who are
> looking for a very powerful shopping cart to offer
> to their hosting clients.
> Since this shopping cart can be totally private
> labeled, you can completely
> brand it as your own!
> 
> I know there are a lot of business owners setting up
> online stores, and
> there are probably tons of other business owners
> that would like to do the
> same thing, but they are not sure how to get
> started.  Website designers
> often charge several thousand dollars or more to do
> this kind of work, and
> understandably so!
> 
> But if you are reluctant to put out that much money
> to get started, then we
> would highly recommend that you read the following
> information below about a
> very powerful shopping cart called ?ShoppingQ? (by
> Bitwise Software
> International, Inc.)
> 
> ShoppingQ is fast, reliable, feature rich, very easy
> to use, and very
> inexpensive!  Since the vendor will setup a FREE
> test drive of this
> phenomenal shopping cart for you, we wanted to pass
> this on, as we think it
> will benefit anyone that is fortunate enough to use
> it.
> 
> 
> Features List:
> 
> The first attractive feature about ShoppingQ is it
> that it is very easy to
> use. It is so easy to use that even a beginner can
> setup an entire store in
> about an hour! All you need to make this shopping
> cart work is access to the
> Internet, and your favorite web browser. (i.e.
> Internet Explorer or
> Netscape, 4.0+)  To begin your store setup you
> simply access a web page on
> your hosting account, with your browser, called the
> ?Store Main Menu?. We
> refer to this entire section as the ?store
> administration area?.
> 
> Once you are logged into the store administration
> screen, the program walks
> you step-by-step through the process of setting up
> the basic and more
> advanced options of the store. This includes your
> store logo and welcome
> text, custom checkout fields, payment methods you
> wish to accept, store
> coupons and discounts, real-time credit card
> processing, members only
> access, as well as sales tax and shipping methods.
> 
> One thing that we really appreciated about the store
> administration screen
> was that it was very easy to navigate, and you could
> quickly find what you
> were looking for!  We appreciated that even more
> after we attempted to walk
> thru the demo of another popular shopping cart
> program that just released a
> new version. We played with the other shopping
> cart?s administration screen
> for about 10 minutes trying to figure out where the
> link was to add a
> category or a product, and finally we had to break
> down and read their
> instructions to learn how to do that!  But that is
> simply not true of
> ShoppingQ! We had no trouble at all in finding
> everything we needed in
> ShoppingQ, right on the main page of the store
> administration screen.
> 
> After you have setup the basic and more advanced
> options of your store,
> which probably only takes about 10 minutes, you then
> move on to setting up
> the various departments of your store. For example
> if you sell sports
> equipment, your departments may be ?Basketball?,
> ?Football?, ?Soccer?, etc?
> Once you setup your departments you move on to setup
> the various categories
> and sub-categories you many have for each of those
> departments. ShoppingQ
> allows you to setup 1000 different departments, 1000
> categories under each
> of those departments, and 1000 sub-categories under
> each of the categories.
> Most business owners would probably not setup
> anywhere near that many, but
> we liked the fact that you could if you needed to.
> 
> The last step is to setup your products. This too is
> a very simple process.
> Since the shopping cart can handle the setup and
> administration of over
> 1,000,000+ products, this shopping cart can handle
> just about anything you
> can put it in! There are also many options that you
> can enable for each
> product!  For example, you can setup items so that
> they are on sale and
> expire on a certain date. You can even enter how
> many you have in stock, and
> ShoppingQ will display that information to the
> customer. Every time an item
> is purchased form your website, ShoppingQ
> automatically reduces the quantity
> on hand in the database. The store can also be setup
> to actually email you
> when product inventory levels fall below a certain
> number. Those are just a
> few of the nice product setup features that caught
> our attention.
> 
> All in all, we found that the store administration
> screens walk you
> step-by-step thru every detail, and if you get
> stuck?. (this is the great
> part), all you have to do is click the HELP button
> at the top of each and
> every page. The online help explains exactly what
> you need to do. Yes, each
> copy of the store has it?s own online manual. It
> just doesn?t get any easier
> then that, and we really liked that feature.
> 
> 
> 30 Website Skins To Choose From:
> 
> Part of the basic store administration is selecting
> the website template or
> ?skin? that you want to use for your store.
> ShoppingQ has 30 professionally
> designed website ?skins? to choose from. Once you
> pick the skin for your
> store, every page of your website is automatically
> displayed using the
> selected skin!  This allows you to know exactly what
> your website will look
> like at the touch of a button. If you get tired of
> the skin you are using,
> you can easily change it with the click of a button
> right from the basic
> store administration page. From that point forward,
> your entire website will
> display itself using the new skin.
> 
> By the way, these are high quality skins which add
> value to the owners
> website!  To give you an example about just how
> important it is to have a
> quality website design, I wanted to relate a brief
> personal experience.
> 
> A few days ago my wife and I decided to purchase a
> product that we had been
> wanting online. After finding several websites that
> offered the product,
> here is what happened? The first website we found
> was very informative, and
> actually had a streaming video clip of the product
> we wanted. It was pretty
> cool!  But as I looked at the website it looked like
> it was designed by a 3
> year old!  The graphics of the entire site were
> awful. After looking the
> website itself, and the order process they had, we
> were so turned off by
> this website that we actually went to the next
> website on the list (which
> was quite professional looking) and made the
> purchase.  To top it off, and I
> know this might have been going a little too far,
> but a couple of days
> later, I actually emailed the company that we didn?t
> buy from (you know,
> from one business owner to another), and very nicely
> explained to them why
> 
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