Online Store Builder’s Guide
Introduction
CubeCart™ by Devellion Limited is a free product that allows you to build a high quality online store with a minimum of effort.
This Guide provides the basics you’ll need to setup and manage your own online store using CubeCart™. It includes step by step instructions on installing, configuring and managing your web store using CubeCart v.3.0.10 under AcomSolutions.com e-commerce hosting services.
The Guide is intended for both web developer and novices who want to do everything themselves. The tasks covered include how to:
1. Install CubeCart™ using the EasyApps quick installer.
2. Configure the general features of your store.
3. Configure your store’s look-and-feel.
4. Setup your product catalog, including product categories, attributes and product inventory.
5. Setup your store's business processes including taxes, shipping, payment processing and affiliate programs for your web store.
6. Update your store’s home page and the other informational documents displayed to store visitors.
7. Manage your web store, customers and orders.
The CubeCart Store Builder
CubeCart™ allows you to setup, run, and maintain an online store in as little as a few of hours. You can sell either physical or virtual (downloadable) products. CubeCart™ is Free and is integrated into all of our Commerce Hosting Plans so it can be installed with a few simple steps. You get everything you need to build your own online store.
History
Like many successful Internet products, CubeCart™ (originally named "eStore") started as a university project. After the author, Alistair Brookbanks, graduated from Loughbrough University in 2002, its popularity grew exponentially. CubeCart™ is now a registered trade mark of the company Devellion Limited (UK) and has been used for over 500,000 online stores.
Store Builder Features
· Easy to use
· Template driven
· Unlimited products and categories
· Digital & tangible Goods
· Inventory stock control
· Multiple languages
· Secure server (SSL) support
· Multiple Payment Methods (e.g. Accept postal orders as well as PayPal and Credit Cards)
· Customer login for easy repeat business
· Multi currency support
· Display multiple images per product
· Froogle support
· Email marketing
· Improved search allowing AND, OR and search by product ID
· Custom product identification or automatic generation
· Delivery status notification (Automatic emails sent to customers upon delivery status change)
· Improved security by restricting admin access by IP address and ability to ban access to storefront by IP.
· Tax by State/Zone or Country
· Full control over the store layout (e.g. No. products per page, multi column categories and ordering)
· Multilevel categories so that products can be located easily and logically
· Sale mode on/off
· Store online/offline at click of a button with custom message
· Order history with current order progress
· Automatic thumbnail generation
· Add/Delete/Edit products and categories within admin
· Upload & delete category/product images in *.jpg, *.png or *.gif format
· Statistics within admin displaying customers/hits/product popularity per month displayed graphically
· Track customer searches by key words
· Shipping calculated per category for national and international orders
· Cookies to remember customers shopping basket contents upon next visit
· List of customers with search facility and IP address for security
· Bulk e-mail facility via admin or e-mail dump for bulk e-mail software
· Automatic printing of invoice/delivery sheets
And more...