Shopping Cart Software Solution: Product Zoom Feature

When you go shopping online, don’t you wish sometimes that there was a shopping cart software solution available to give you a better view of the item you are interested in? More so if the item is a piece of jewelery or has intricate designs or details on it. You see, (useful) information helps a person decide whether or not to buy an item. And information is not just restricted to text. It comes in the form of images as well. Every little bit counts when trying to convince potential customers to buy your products.

Enter InstanteStore’s Product Zoom feature, a small shopping cart help that has the potential to reduce product page bounce rates and improve sales.

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Good Free Shopping Cart Software Trial To Do List

There are many ecommerce solution providers out there who provide good free shopping cart software program trials. The free shopping cart software program trial duration varies from 15 to 30 days. Many, especially newbies, might find 15 days a tad too short to get the feel of a solution so if you need more time to try out all the bells and whistles, just ask for an extension; most good free shopping cart software trial providers would be more than happy to oblige.

So now that you’ve signed up for a 30-day good free shopping cart software trial, what do you need to do? Well, try the easiest stuff first. Here are 5 things you can do in just a matter of minutes with your free shopping cart store software 30-day trial.

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Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software Service – Autoresponders

So what actually are autoresponders and how can merchants take advantage of this feature?

Autoresponders are part of the email marketing arsenal and this tool is available as an ecommerce shopping cart software service feature with the InstanteStore shopping cart solution. There have been tons of articles written about autoresponders as this feature is such an essential part of email marketing campaigns. The concept of autoresponders is fairly simple – remind subscribers through email about your products, offers and the store itself while subtly convincing them to buy your product.

There are a couple of strategies when it comes to autoresponders. Some are more direct than others. But they all share one thing in common – a killer headline or subject line.

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Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software Service – Music And Such

Many merchants are selling downloadable content these days. Downloadable products would include music, videos, software and ebooks. Needless to say, InstanteStore’s ecommerce shopping cart software service can accommodate such products.

Pros And Cons

There are pros and cons to selling downloadable products as opposed to tangible products. On the bright side, these products do not necessitate large physical storage space. Also, they do not require any shipping and packing, which would mean no more shipping related issues like lost items, delayed shipment, items damaged during delivery and wrong quantity being shipped. Customers can also download their purchases pretty much immediately after completing payment, which adds to customer satisfaction.

On the downside, these products do use up a bit of bandwidth especially when it comes to videos. But the pros very obviously out weigh the cons.

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Online Shopping Cart Checkout Website Design Alternative

As you would expect from a top shopping cart provider, InstanteStore offers a wide array of online shopping cart checkout website design payment methods for merchants to choose from. Stores usually have more than 1 shopping cart payment method in order to be more accessible to a wider market in terms of payment acceptance.

Google Checkout is an alternative to the popular PayPal shopping cart software payment method. But as with all online shopping cart checkout website design payment methods, none are perfect; which is why it is better to have a variety available at your store, requirements and cost permitting. Before you decide to offer Google Checkout as a payment method at your store, read on to find out the pros and the cons.

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Custom Shopping Cart Designs – Are They Really Necessary?

Many merchants who sell products to very niche markets have done quite well even without the aid of custom shopping cart templates. In such cases where competition is relatively low, utilizing our free shopping cart templates is adequate for ecommerce shopping cart software storefronts designs.

InstanteStore offers 52 free template designs, which come in 5 different color styles each. This saves you the trouble of having to search for free shopping cart templates download sites. With the free templates from InstanteStore, all you have to do is simply select the template of your liking and you’ll have a storefront up in no time at all. It’s that easy, no downloads and no online shopping cart tutorial needed.

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Free Keyword, Site Design And Shopping Cart Software Tips

Here are a few more FREE keyword, site design and shopping cart software tips that we’ve garnered by analyzing customer questions, digesting the latest ecommerce findings and carrying out our own little experiments. It’s still basically the usual suspects – keywords, site design and shopping cart software – that are under the microscope, but with a little twist here and there. All these little tweaks are important as customer trends keep changing.

Every year it seems like we encourage our merchants to get their Christmas/Holiday store preparations done a little bit earlier than the year before. This year is no different. (more…)

Shopping Cart Software Review Of Popular Features

As you may well know, the InstanteStore solution is packed with some really nifty features. In this article, we will do a quick shopping cart software review of some of the features that prospective merchants usually look out for before making a decision as to which shopping cart to sign up with.

When shopping for anything, it is common practice to always try to get the best deal around. When it comes to shopping carts, the question of what is the best shopping cart software around would definitely arise. Also common is screening through shopping cart software reviews and visiting a couple of ecommerce forums along the way.

However, some of you may have noticed that one shopping cart software review may differ drastically from another in terms of rating criteria for reasons we are not too sure of. When it comes to forums, it seems no shopping cart provider is spared from having at least one bad comment against it. But that is to be expected as no software solution is perfect (though we try!) and choosing the right ecommerce shopping cart solution is also a matter of personal preference and matching business needs to what’s provided.

If you’ve gone through this important process yourself but are still coming up blank, why not just compare a few key features of competing software providers before making up your mind. Here are some of the usual key features…

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Introducing Free Live Chat Software from InstanteStore

Over the last while, we’ve received numerous queries from our merchants, asking if there’s a particular live chat software solution that we recommend for use (free live chat or otherwise). It’s partly in response to these requests that we’ve now introduced InstanteStore’s very own free live chat software.

When it comes to running an ecommerce store, one of the main factors that will determine a store’s success or failure is the quality of customer service and support that’s offered. Customer support comes in many forms: email, support ticket systems, phone support, etc. One of the most direct and effective forms of customer support is live chat software.

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Shopping Cart Options – Let Us Help You Decide

While browsing ecommerce forums, we’ve come across many questions from those who are interested in running their own web stores but just cannot choose a suitable solution from the multitude of available shopping cart options. Many of the “solutions” put forth by forum regulars only seem to further confuse those in need of help.

In this post we will take a look at 3 of the most common shopping cart options that stump those who are interested in starting their own web stores.

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