Features In ShopSite 8

• Rewards (Pro)
  Reward loyal customers and encourage new customers with rewards such as "buy 10 get 1 free" or "buy two pairs of shoes, get a free pair of socks". Rewards can be set up per-order, or over time for registered customers.
• Searchable Orders DB
  Merchants with Pro stores can now search on various fields such as Order Date, New, Order Number, Orders with Coupons, etc.
• Tell A Friend (Pro, Manager)
  Store Pages and Product More Info Pages can have links that allow visitors to send an acquaintance an E-mail containing a short message and a link to the page.
• Create/Modify Gift Certificates (Pro)
  Merchants can now create Gift Certificates in the back office, as well as editing the balance of existing Gift Certificates.

Shopping Cart

• Ordering Options can not be changed (Pro)
  Merchants can select not to allow customers to change order options from the Shopping Cart screen.
• No Warning about leaving a Secure Page
  Users with JavaScript enabled will not see a warning when going back to the non-secure Order screen from the secure Billing/Shipping screen.
• Payment Errors display on the Billing/Shipping screen
  When using an automated payment gateway, errors are now displayed on the standard Billing/Shipping screen, rather than on their own screen.
• E-mail address Validation
  Merchants can select to display a second E-mail address entry box, which must match the first E-mail address, to confirm the customer has entered the correct E-mail address.

Orders

• Packing Slips
  ShopSite now allows merchants to view and print Packing Slips for order fulfilment. Packing slips contain all the important order information except the billing information, so order fulfilment staff don't have access to customer credit card numbers.
• Order Download Format (Pro, Manager)
  When downloading orders, merchants can now pick which fields to download, and the order in which they will be downloaded. In addition, order fields can be renamed to match local database field names prior to download.
• Automated XML Order Download in Manager (Manager)
  ShopSite Manager stores will now allow merchants to download orders in XML format using the automated XML download API. This allows Manager merchants to use the QuickBooks Order Transfer Module.
• ShopSite Transaction ID
  ShopSite now creates and stores an order Transaction ID number, which it passes to gateways. Merchants can use this number to easily match payment information in a Virtual Terminal to a specific ShopSite order.
• Print Order
  A Print button is displayed on the View Order screen, so merchants can print the order to a local printer.
• Option Not to Store Credit Card Numbers
  Merchants using real-time payment gateways can choose to never store Credit Card numbers in order to comply with Visa security guidlines (similar guidelines exist for MasterCard, Discover, and American Express).
• Option Not to store Payment Information in Customer Registration (Pro)
  Merchants can select not to allow customers to store payment information in their Customer Registration settings, in order to comply with Credit Card security guidelines.

Payment Gateways

• PayPal Website Payments Pro
  ShopSite supports PayPal's new payment system offering.
• Verified By Visa
  Verisign payment gateway now supports the Verified By Visa program.
• Verisign Fraud Control
  ShopSite passes the information required by Verisign's Fraud Control system, allowing merchants to participate in the program.
• PSiGate
  the PSiGate payment gateway, which works with both Canadian and United States merchant accounts, is now integrated with ShopSite.

Shipping

• More Shipping Columns (Pro, Manager)
  Merchants using weight-based or currency-based shipping can now set up as many as 100 different shipping options.

Templates

• Display Inventory (Pro)
  New Custom Template tags have been created to allow merchants to display realtime inventory numbers in a pop-up window.
• Two New Themes
  Two new themes with templates for all the customer screens (including Shopping Cart, Search, etc.) have been added.
• Themes set Search, Cart, and other Templates
  ShopSite themes can now set templates and colors for the Shopping Cart, Search (Pro, Manager), Customer Registration (Pro), Gift Certificates (Pro), and Tell A Friend (Pro, Manager), in addition to Pages and Products.*
• Subproduct More Information Page Templates
  Subproducts can now use their own template for More Information pages, rather than using the More Information page template of the parent product.

Miscellaneous

• Color Wheel
  Color selection throughout the ShopSite back office now displays a swatch with the selected color, and uses a visual color wheel selection tool.
• Page/Product Download (Pro, Manager)
  When downloading Page or Product information, merchants can now specify individual fields and the download order, as well as changing downloaded field names to match with locally stored database field names.
• Option not to index subproducts (Pro, Manager)
  Merchants can choose not to index subproducts, so only parent products are found during a search.

• New Features In ShopSite 9
  If you haven't upgraded to ShopSite 9 yet, you're missing out! Really nice upgrades!
• ShopSite Upgrade Enrollment Form
  For ShopSite user who wish to enroll to a "Single Level Version" or "Multiple Level Version" upgrade (e.g. Single Level Version, 8 to 9; or Muliple Level Version, 7 or earlier to 9).
• ShopSite Single Version Upgrade
  Upgrade your version of ShopSite to the next version (e.g. 8.x to 9.x)
• ShopSite Current Feature List
  Get the whole picture of what's available in the most current version upgrade of ShopSite™
• ShopSite Multiple Version Upgrade
  Up grade your version of ShopSite to the newest available version (e.g. 6,7.x to 9.x)