MoparStyle Racing offers three excellent options for you to sell on-line
Option #1 – Southern Star Hosting Quick Shopping Cart
Southern Star Hosting's Quick Cart is by far the most simple way to sell on-line and accept credit cards. Plans start for as low as $5.81 per month for a 20 product catalog, to $40.95 a month for an unlimited number of products.
All Plans Include
> Fast and easy setup
> No set-up or per-sale fees
> Accept credit cards, PayPal or phone orders
> Add your products to eBay and Google Product Search
> FREE Hosting
> FREE 24/7 Support
Easy, flexible web store design
- Select from over 800 design and color combinations, 10 Category page styles and 10 Product Detail page styles.
- Personalize with your logo, brand and product images.
- Make changes easily with click-&-type editing.
- Easily customize your navigation to integrate your store with your main Website.
- Add impact to your shopping cart with royalty-free photos from Fotolia®. All plans include 10 free download credits.
Simple catalog set up
- Navigate quickly and easily with a step-by-step Store Setup Wizard.
- Specify product details, including SKU, description, pricing, options and inventory tracking.
- Add and manage product images, including enlargements. Deluxe and Premium plans support up to five images per product.
- Configure your product search options.
- Create nested categories to help your customers browse through your catalog.
Multiple payment & shipping options
- Accept all major credit cards through Chase Paymentech, VeloCT, Intuit Merchant Service Account, Authorize.net, Innovative Merchant Solutions, PayPal, and PayPal Express.
- Pay no setup or percentage-of-sales fees.2
- Get real-time U.S. and international shipping rate quotes from UPS, FedEx and the USPS — or create your own custom shipping rate table.
- Use built-in shipping and tax calculators.
Coupons, up-sells & featured products
- Showcase featured products in your sidebar navigation. Specify multiple products for a rotating display.
- Create product cross-sells and up-sells that suggest related products (ie: "You may also like…").
- Create coupon codes for an amount-off, percent-off or free shipping. Coupons can also require a minimum purchase amount.
- Create product bundles with special discounts.
Market your online store
- Increase the visibility of your online store with search engine-friendly page URLs.
- Track the response of your marketing campaigns with auto-generated links that include your promotional code.
- Easily add your products to Google® Product Search and eBay®.
- Promote your products with FREE Google® AdWords® credits.
Manage your orders & customer
- See new orders, inventory status and member activity at a glance.
- Search and filter orders and export information to a Microsoft® Excel file.
- Capture credit card payments, enter shipping and tracking information and print shipping labels.
- Receive email notification for orders.
- Track product inventory and set minimum thresholds.
Hosting & security
- FREE hosting with guaranteed 99.9% network uptime.
- 24/7 phone and online support.
- SSL Certificate enabled to securely process credit cards.
- PCI compliance verified by independent auditor.
- Fraud Module
- Offer easy and secure customer login and checkout.
Integrate your store
- WebSite Tonight: Combine your store with a content-rich Website using one of more than 100 common designs.
- eBay®: Quick Shopping Cart is a certified eBay listing tool.
- Google Product Search®: Help customers find your products online.
- PayPal: Accept payments directly from PayPal.
- Microsoft Excel: Import and export data with ease.
- Atandra T-HUB: Integrate with QuickBooks, UPS, USPS, and FedEx with T-HUB multi-channel order manager.
This is by far the best option for those wanting to sell on-line, but have little to no web experience. No programming code is required to set up your shop, you don't have to worry about application upgrades, and there is free 24/7 support to answer your questions.
Option #2 – Install ZenCart on a Southern Star Hosting Account
ZenCart is by far the best eCommerce application for the professional seller. It is "open Source" and free. This is better suited for the larger retailer, and it requires an experienced web master to setup and maintain. The web master has far more control over the creating a custom look and many more options — but it is not for the faint of heart. Additionally, the web master will need to apply the upgrades and revisions required to stay one step ahead of the hackers. In the Quick Cart in Options #1, the Southern Star Hosting Support people keep the Quick Cart application up to date for you.
All Southern Star Hosting web hosting accounts have access to the 1-click installation of ZenCart, and while it eliminates the hosting customer having to create a database, database user, FTP the application to the server, and run the installation script — you still have configure the features and create your custom "Look and Feel" of the store.
ZenCart will give your the most control over features, and the look of the store — but you should have some experience with the installation and configuring semi-complicated php applications; and have the time needed to go through the learning curve before attempting to put together a ZenCart store.
Option #3 – Have us create a Turn-Key ZenCart Store for you
MoparStyle Racing can provide different levels of help to create a ZenCart Store for you, on your Big Kahuna Hosting Account. Installation of the most current version of ZenCart, operational set-up, basic configuration, and creating the custom look and feel you desire will cost $1,499 – plus the hosting and SSL Certificate. At that point, most non-programmers who are comfortable with computers can set up their store sections and credit card authorizations; shipping and sale tax tables; and other basic set up and product entry by using ZenCart's excellent documentation. While there is a slight learning curve before most become comfortable administering their store, the free documentation is very good, and once the store is set up — it is low maintenance.
If you wish us to help further, we do so at the rate of $50 per 30 minutes, in 30 minute increments.
We have a lot of experience with putting together good looking ZenCart stores.
A couple examples of on-line stores using ZenCart include:
- http://www.gizmosforall.com/store/
- http://www.kgcollectiblesandgifts.com/
- http://www.fuelpumpsusa.com/
- http://www.decaldepot.net/
- http://www.pistolandpawn.com/store/
- http://www.nfllicenseplates.com/
- http://coinsandmoreonline.com/
- http://www.groskopfsluggage.com/store/
- http://www.antique-auto-parts.com/zencart/index.php
- http://www.worlditoys.com/