The 1USA Merchant Storefronts located at Mall.1USA.Com includes many advanced features to fully manage an online store. Our merchant also helps you PROMOTE your web store. For the truly sophisticated store, the 1USA Merchant Storefront is the ideal solution. These include affiliate program support, UPS/FedEx tie-in, store Promotional tools, custom catalogs, administration screens, more reports, multiple currency support, and hundreds of other features. You really have to have a look at the administration screens to get a feel for the power of this eCommerce solution. Orders & Customers ship to and bill to addresses ordering via credit card or "on account" customer can get history of their orders customer can do a lookup of order status handles subscription and recurring billing for magazines or monthly billing emails customer when order status changes - time saver allows customer to create a custom catalog of their favorite items floating basket option instead of refreshing the screen, allows faster shopping Shipping UPS and FedEx shipping tables and calculation lookups are included shipping range table for the number of products to calculate shipping amount percentage rate of order for calculating shipping amount Styles - yes, it handles product styles! ability to handle T-shirts and other products that have size and color variations. You enter ONE product, not 16 products for 16 variations. This feature is very rare in shopping cart software. ability to change the display order of the product styles that you do make the product copy function can copy style information as well the style editor allows easier editing to fix mistakes "write in" option to allow customization of a product such as monogrammed items Promotions - yes, it does Promotions! allows special promotions to be created and managed discount levels can be created and managed allows volume pricing calculations on orders Products & Categories a product can exist in multiple categories inventory control features - tells you when stock is low thumbnail handling of product images add custom fields to the products table to extend the functionality allows customization of the search parameters suppliers can be managed - part of the Inventory Control system Marketing Features search engine submission features meta tag creation assistance Integrated marketing database of email addresses. subscribe options to electronic web marketing/sales newsletters Affiliate Program creation and management, great for increasing sales. Hundreds of people can place your banners on their web pages and you can track sales and provide them commissions on sales generated from their link to you General Settings weight type in pounds or kilos (lbs. kgs.) really cool RGB chart for the link colours in the admin option to not store CC numbers in the database can override default SMTP server settings when sending out marketing emails or order confirmations Individual products may be marked as "New" and can be unmarked at will. Individual products may be marked as "On Special" and can be unmarked at will. Products may be marked as Active or Inactive at will. You don't have to delete a product's information then re-add it later. You can set a minimum order size common text areas can be modified easily from the admin screens Image Dimensions embedded in the html coding (width and height of an image) is used to draw screens quicker. Your customers have a shorter "World Wide Wait" compared to competitive shopping carts the customer can select Secure or Insecure payment options cookie path and site URL verifications to ensure correctness of orders. Some competitive "java-based" shopping carts can charge the wrong customer. "Continue Shopping" button on the basket page Templates Change the look and feel of your store effortlessly template options are provided to change colors or textured graphics Commerce multiple currency support and exchange rate handling Graphics for the credit cards you support are displayed on the site credit card verification occurs before transaction processing - reduces 50-cent charges by bank on invalid card numbers ability to turn off the commerce option and just use as an easy-to-maintain catalog Reporting additional reports account management (Check Status, View Old Orders) affiliate program reports - reduces a lot of paperwork.