Shopping Cart Solutions
Features at a glance
 Completely browser based Drag and drop layout Fully SEO optimized by experts Sell physical and digital products Easy-to-use store control panel Multiple logins with permissions Refunds & store credits Groups & wholesale pricing |
Fully PCI compliant software Per-product inventory control Custom store designs to choose from Easily customize your design Unlimited shipping zones Sell in multiple currencies Gift wrapping & messages Flexible tax settings & options |
Single page checkout Business intelligence reporting Google, PayPal, UPS, FedEx, etc Real-time shipping quotes Generate invoices & packing slips Handing & free shipping options Coupon codes and bulk discounting Full content management system |
Putting you in control
From complete SEO optimization to single page checkout, trackable coupon codes and business intelligence reports - no other shopping cart software increases your online sales like ours.
You can login, change and manipulate every aspect of your store when you need, with no technical skill required!. Its all done through your browser using Caveware's powerful, easy to use control panel and WYSIWYG ("What you see is what you get") editing.
Its never been so easy to sell online you can even edit, track and review orders via your iphone with our fully tailored Application.
How it works (your options)
We can migrate your existing inventory into our shopping cart
If you have an existing store we can simply migrate your inventory into our shopping cart solutions for you. Or, our built-in shopping cart importer can also migrate your inventories from Cubecart 4.0, OsCommerce 2.2, X-Cart 4.1, ZenCart 1.3.8.
We can custom build and design your store
Or, if you don't have one then we can custom build and design your store for you. Caveware can completely tailor your store to fit your business requirements and brand identity.
Or, just do it Yourself
We will install it for you then you can use our pre-built store templates, comprehensive help files and video instructions to start creating right away. The choice is yours!.
You host it? or We can host it?
You can host it on your server or we can host it, providing your hosting meets the neccessary requirements. See the server requirements now
Not sure which options are best for you?
Contact us for an informal chat and we can give you professional advice to help you make an informed decision. Furthermore, all our products come with 2 hours one to one training to ensure you and your staff have the confidence to maximise all the available features. This training can be extended (at an additional cost).
Our Guarantee
We are so confident in all our products that we offer a 30 day, no questions asked, 100% refund guarantee! Find out more
Our Shopping Cart products:
Our 'Lite Store' - recomended for small businesses. Our 'Pro Store' and 'Ultimate Store' recomended for larger organsations. All use exactly the same software architecture the only difference is the features available within each edition.
Full Feature List
Design Features 
Instore Features
Shipping Features 
Customer Features
Checkout Features 
Import/Export Features
SEO Features 
Marketing Features
Inventory Features 
Search Features
CMS Features 
Reporting & Metrics
Design Features
- Designs - Choose from a range of pre-prepared industry-specific store designs or we can tailor a bespoke design to fit your brand image.
Edit HTML & CSS - Have a techy in your organisation? they will have full FTP access to make changes to their store's HTML and CSS directly.
W3C Compliant Store Designs - All of our store designs are W3C-standards compatible meaning everyone can see your store in the same way, regardless of which web browser they use.
Drag And Drop Design - Want to change the layout in a jiffy?, no problem! using our unique "design mode" editor you can move blocks of content and change the text in your store with just a few clicks.
Shipping Features
Accept Credit Cards - Our Shopping Cart makes it easy to sell online. Right out of the box your store integrates with PayPal, Google Checkout and over 30 other merchant providers.
- SSL Secure Checkout - Your customers will be confident ordering online with full support for secure checkout via 128 bit industry-standard SSL security.
- Offline Payment Methods - Configure your store to accept credit cards and/or "offline" payment methods such as COD, pay in store, cheque, bank transfer, etc.
- Sell Online & Offline - Customers can order online, but you can also take phone or POS orders with our easy-to-use order taking system.
Sell in Multiple Currencies - Easily setup your store to sell in multiple currencies. Exchange rates can be updated manually or automatically every day using our live web service. Our Shopping Cart detects the geographical location of a customer and shows prices in their local currency. They can of course browse and buy in other currencies too.
Real-Time Shipping Quotes - Our Shopping Cart integrates with UPS, UPS online tools, USPS, FedEx, Canada Post, Australia Post and Royal Mail for live shipping quotes.
Define-Your-Own Rates - Setup fixed shipping prices on a per item, order or country basis. You can even setup shipping rates based on order total and weight.
- Flexible Shipping Zones - Offer specific shipping methods based on the customer's location. You can configure shipping zones on a per zipcode, state, and/or country level for ultimate flexibility.
- Handling & Free Shipping - Add an optional handling cost to each order which you can show separately or as part of the shipping cost. Also offer free shipping on orders over a certain amount per shipping zone.
Checkout Features
Single Page Checkout - Customers can breeze through checkout using our Shopping Cart single page checkout system, which has been proven to significantly increase conversion rates.
Shipping Quote Estimates - Right from their cart, customers can enter their location to receive a shipping cost estimate. For many customers simply knowing how much you charge for shipping before they checkout will make them more likely to complete their order.
Guest Checkout - Enable the guest checkout setting to make it even easier for customers to buy from you. Guest checkout means they don't have to spend time creating an account with you - they simply type in their billing and shipping details, pay and they're on their way.
Refunds & Store Credits - Process refunds from your store's control panel. You can either refund the order back to the customer or issue them with a store credit instead, which they can use to purchase through your online store.
Take Orders Over the Phone - The one-page order form in your store's control panel allows to you enter phone orders. You can even use our Shopping Cart as your point-of-sale software in your physical storefront.
Tracking Numbers - Assign a tracking number to an order and your customers can see live order tracking details from their "My Account" page.
Email Order Confirmation - Customers will automatically receive an email when their order is shipped.
Order Shipments - Use order shipments to partially ship orders to customers. You can print packing slips and assign unique tracking numbers to each shipment.
Order Messaging System - The integrated messaging system allows you to send messages to customers about their order and vice-versa. These messages are emailed to them and appear in the "My Account" page. All messages are logged next to the order which makes it easy for multiple-staff members to deal with the one customer.
Search Engine Optimization Features
SEO Optimized - Our Shopping Cart template structure was designed from the ground up by search engine optimization experts. All templates make proper use of heading tags, alt tags, meta details, etc. Templates are tableless in design and are crafted to help your website rank favorably in all major search engines.
Per-Page Optimization - You can specify the page title and meta data for every category, brand and product in your store, giving you complete control over the keywords you want to rank for.
SEO-Friendly Links - All pages in your store from products to categories, brands and even search results use SEO-friendly links which make it easy for search engine spiders to find and then index the contents of your pages.
All our Shopping Cart store designs have been tested against the W3C's XHTML validator and have passed with zero errors. W3C are a standards body who maintain international standards for the world wide web. What does this mean to you? It means you can be confident your online store will look and function the same across all of the common web browsers people use to shop online.
Inventory Features
Easy-to-Use Control Panel - To add a product to your store you simply fill out the product details form and click Save. The product is then instantly available to purchase from your online store.
Automatic Inventory Control - Setup inventory levels per product or per product variation and when someone buys the inventory levels will be adjusted for you automatically. Our Shopping Cart will even tell you when it's time to order more stock!
Physical/Downloadable Products - See physical and/or downloadable products (such as eBooks) from the one store. Our Shopping Cart makes it easy to sell any type of product online.
Product Variations - Easily create product variations (such as different size and color combinations for t-shirts) each with their own prices, images and inventory.
Configurable Purchase Fields - Assign text, file and checkbox fields to products and require customers to fill in the fields before purchasing. This comes in handy if you sell products with custom engraving, merchandise with custom images, etc.
Gift Wrapping - Specify store-wide gift wrapping options or even specify them per product. For example, you might enable gift wrapping on all iPods but disable it on larger products such as TVs and computers.
Live Shipping Quotes - Specify physical dimensions and weight for products in your store to enable live shipping quotes from UPS, UPS online tools, USPS, FedEx, Canada Post, Australia Post and Royal Mail.
Product Reviews - Shoppers can post product reviews in your store. You can set reviews to auto-approve or you can even manually review and approve reviews as they come in. Reviews are a great way to encourage purchasing because opinions come from neutral third parties - your customers.
Content Management Features
Full CMS Functionality - Our Shopping Cart includes a fully functional content management system which allows you to publish web pages, blogs and contact forms.
Publish Web Pages - Create web pages such as "About Us" using the included WYSIWYG editor. Add text, upload images, insert links, lists and more. The editor is similar to Microsoft Word.
Hierarchical Pages - You can create pages (such as "About Us") and sub-pages under each page (such as "Mission Statement" and "Company History"). These pages will be used to build the navigation menu in your store.
SEO-Friendly Pages - All pages in your store have their own page title, meta keywords and description, which can be entered when you create the page in your store's control panel.
Restrict to Customer Groups - You can restrict the viewing of any page in your store only to peple who are in specific customer groups.
Contact Forms - Easily create and publish contact forms in your online store. Just choose who the contents of the form should be emailed to, pick the fields to display on the form and you're done.
Display as Home Page - Any page you create can be set as the home page of your store, instead of the default page which contains new/featured products and news.
Publish News & Blogs - Keep visitors coming back by publishing news and blogs in your store. Discuss new products, special offers and promotions.
Create Banners & Promotions - Use the promotion designer to create and display banners through your store. You can link banners to specific categories, products, brands or even search results, and you can even display banners only between specific dates - perfect if you're having a sale!
Tax Features
Flexible Settings - Our Shopping Cart allows you to setup tax and how it applies to orders in your store in 4 separate ways:
- I don't want to apply tax to any products in my store
- I want to apply tax for specific countries and/or states
- I want to apply one tax rate to all products in my store
- My prices do/do not already include tax
Inc/Ex Tax Pricing - You can specify whether prices for products in your store already include tax, or whether tax rules should be applied when purchasing.
Flat Tax Option - A flat tax rate can be applied to all orders in your store, based on a percentage of an orders subtotal or subtotal and shipping.
Tax Rate Display - Tax options and the amount of tax are clearly displayed in the subtotals area on the cart page, during the checkout and on invoices.
Country/State Tax Rates - Tax rates can be configured per country and/or state. Tax can be calculated based on the customer's billing or shipping address.
Instore Features
Product Comparisons - Customers can compare products side-by-side to aid in buying decisions. They can see complete details about a product (name, SKU, image, price, average rating, custom fields) and remove products from the comparison with a single click.
Order Status Updates - Your customers can see a complete status report on their orders, including orders which have shipped and those which are awaiting fulfillment or shipping.
Live Order Tracking - If you assign a tracking number to an order, your customer will be able to track their order in real time. This helps to reduce calls to your customer service team.
Email/Print Order Invoices - When a customer places an order in your store they are emailed an invoice automatically and can print invoices at any time from their "My Account" page.
Address Book - Anyone who creates an account in your store can enter multiple shipping/billing addresses and save them in their address book.
Public Wish Lists - Wish lists can be created and optionally shared by enabling the "public wishlist" option. There is no limit on the number of wish lists each customer can create.
Order Messaging System - Unique to Caveware Shopping Cart, customers can send a message to you about an order and that message will appear linked to the order from your store's control panel. You can reply back to their message and they will receive a notification of your reply. The entire message history is logged for you automatically.
Related Products - Related products can be specifically manually or displayed automatically in your store. They are configured on a per-product basis.
Suggestive Cart - Using proprietary matching algorithms, our Shopping Cart automatically suggests other products the customer may be interested in when adding an item to their cart.
Returns System - The returns system allows customers to submit a return request directly from their "My Account" page. You can completely customize (or disable) the returns system from your store's control panel.
Customer Features
- Customer Groups
- Create unlimited customer groups, each with different pricing and access restriction
- Assign customers who register in your store to a particular group
- Limit which product categories customers in a specific group can see when browsing your store
- Setup a default customer group for anonymous website visitors
- Move customers from one group to the next from your store's control panel
- Filter and view customer, reports and statistics by customer group
Wholesale Pricing - Set discounts on a per-product, per-category or storewide basis for each customer group. You can create an unlimited number of discounts and it's easy to choose which categories and products those discounts should be applied to.
Import/Export Features
Easy Import - Import your existing orders, products and customers using our flexible CSV-file import system. You can import your existing multi-level category structure, inventory and more. Our Shopping Cart has the best import system in any shopping cart software.
Fast Export - With two clicks you can quickly export orders, products and customers. Can can create and save custom searches which allow you to filter and export only the exact data you need - in CSV or XML format.
Export to Intuit QuickBooks - Using the free QuickBooks Web Connector (QBWC) software from Intuit, you can easily and automatically sync orders, customers, products and inventory from your store back to QuickBooks.
Marketing Features
Coupon Codes - Create flexible coupon codes to offer customers discounts on products in your store. You can even add a coupon expriy date or limit the number of uses.
Analytics Integration - We can integrate our Shopping Cart with any analytics package you choose, including Google Analytics, to get a 360 degree view of your store. So you know whats working and what isn't.
Bulk Discounts - Create bulk discounts for quantity pricing of items in your store and incentivize customers to buy in bulk and save.
Gift Certificates - Sell gift certificates through your store. All gift certificates are delivered automatically to the recipient via email and redeemed in your store. You can even track who used a gift certificate and when.
Promotional Banners - Use the built-in designer to create and display promotional banners for special offers in your store. You choose which pages the banners appear on and where (top or bottom).
Newsletter Subscriptions - Accept newsletter subscribers through the "join my list" box in your store, which you can then use to send newsletters and promotions to your subscribers.
Export to Google - Export your products to Google's product search engine - "Google Products" and let Google help drive traffic to your store.
Affiliate Tracking - It's easy to plug any third party affiliate program into your Caveware Shopping Cart store. Visits and conversions are tracked for affiliate links automatically.
RSS Feeds - Shoppers can subscribe to your RSS feed to be notified automatically when you add new products to your store.
Advertising Campaigns - In just one click you can generate complete advertising campaigns which you can import right into your Google AdWords or Yahoo Search Marketing accounts. No more spending days writing ads, finding keywords, etc.
Search Features
Search Suggest - As shoppers start typing in the search box, they instantly see products that match their keywords, without having to click through to a search results page.
"Did You Mean..." - Our Shopping Cart's smart search system picks up on spelling mistakes in search phrases and suggest alternative spellings, similar to Google's "Did You Mean" feature.
Related Searches - As people search for products in your store, Caveware Shopping Cart uses a proprietary matching algorithm to automatically match and display related search phrases, making it even easier for shoppers to find the products they want.
Advanced Search - The advanced search options allow shoppers to really drill down and filter search results. They can enter search keywords, filter by brand, categories, price, featured products and free shipping.
Precise Filtering - Our Shopping Cart has a built-in search range system which allows shoppers to search for products based on a number of criteria within a range. For example, ipod price:$300-$500 will show all iPods with a price of $300 - $500.
Search Tips - Power users will appreciate the "search tips" page in your store. It explains all of the advanced search and filtering options available, along with clear examples of how to use each option.
Shop by Brand - Shoppers can view a complete list of all brands/manufacturers in your store. You can upload a logo for each brand and all logos will be displayed on one page. Clicking on a logo will show the products in your store for that brand/manufacturer.
Custom Views - In your store's control panel you can create custom views (or saved searches) which allow you filter orders, customers, products and more. You can then use the views menu to access your custom views.
Reporting & Metrics
Business Intelligence
Our Shopping Cart gives you more business intelligence reports than any other shopping cart software:
- Daily conversion rate
- Top 20 customers
- Best selling products
- Order locations (Google maps)
- Orders by item sold
- Orders by revenue
- Popular products
- Inventory report
- Customers by date
- Revenue per customer
- Search keywords with results
- Search keywords without results
- Best performing keywords
- Worst performing keywords
- Search term corrections
- View Search Keywords - See exactly which keywords shoppers are searching for in your store. You can even see a list of misspelled words and the correct spelling automatically offered to your customers by Our Shopping Cart "smart search" system.
- See Customer Locations - We can integrate Google Maps support which allows to to see the exact location of your customers. You can use this geographic information to better target your advertising or even setup region-specific specials and promotions.
Iphone Features
We have made it easy to manage and update your orders through our Iphone compatible order management system. No scrolling, No pinching and zooming to view your orders, its fully tailored to work on your Iphone.
- Secure Login
- Check and review all orders
- Perform Live Actions on customer orders including:
- Send and review messages to your customers
- Review individual customer orders
- Review full customer contact details
- Update order status
- Update tracking numbers
- View customer locations via google maps
- Delete orders
