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Pinnacle Cart is an extremely powerful php shopping cart and website builder application. Designed from marketing perspective, this eCommerce application is feature-packed, robust, scalable and easy to use.

Pinnacle Cart is the clear choice for serious merchants focused on rapidly and cost effectively deploying, managing and growing a successful web-based business.

Easy Set-Up

• Easy-to-understand, web-based administration
• WYSIWYG editors help you create professional looking product pages with no programming experience
• Bulk Loading Feature that imports products from any database or text file
• Single or batch image uploads
• Web-based or downloadable help manual with images and examples, video tutorials, knowledge base, discussion boards and more.
• Fully customizable storefront

Product Merchandising

• Supports Gift Certificates
• Provide discounts based on number of items ordered (quantity discounts)
• Product up sell opportunities
• "Customers who bought "x" also bought these products" in the checkout areas.
• Supports discount / coupon codes
• Price-based discounting
• Supports full product descriptions with HTML and product summaries
• Allows for unlimited secondary images
• Ability to control the product image size on both product and catalog pages
• Recommended products
• "Tell a friend" feature
• Create "Buy x Get y Free" discounts
• "Best Sellers" area
• Advanced product search capabilities
• Supports Gift Messaging
• Export products to Google Base, BizRate.com, ShopZilla.com and more

Customer Management

• "My Account" area allows customer to view previous orders, status and shipping tracking information
• Customer address book
• Allows customers to create wish lists
• Send product newsletters to your customers
• Send product update notifications to your customers
• Saved Cart feature allows customers to save multiple carts so they can purchase items later
• Automated e-mails when customer creates order and order is shipped
• One-Page Checkout feature - Fastest checkout available on any cart
• Ability to add custom fields to the checkout process for collecting additional customer information
• Allows customers to checkout without creating an account
• Supports backorders
• Full customer reporting
• Hide product pricing to all but registered customers
• Create customer pricing groups
• FREE live chat

Search Engine Friendly

• True flat URL generation
  (http://www.yoursite.com/
  products/product_name.html)
• Most search engine friendly cart available today
• Complete Meta Tag (title, keyword and description) support for all pages including home, product and catalog pages
• Automated title, keyword and description tag generator with the ability to override for all product pages
• Google™ Site Map support
• Robots.txt files supported
• Auto generates site maps
• Creates "Breadcrumb" navigation
• Search-engine-friendly architecture
• Ability to upload customized HTML pages to assist in search engine positioning

Unlimited Payment Options

• Fully PCI Compliant
• Gateways include:
  • Authorize.net
  • Worldpay
  • Linkpoint
  • YourPay.com
  • Echo Inc
  • Google™ Checkout
  • 2Checkout
  • HSBC
  • iTransact.com
  • Accept Paypal, Paypal Payments Pro, Paypal Express and more
  • Click on the "Supported Gateways" tab to view them all
• Supports eChecks
• Ability to store credit card information for off-line processing
• Ability to accept payments via telephone, mail, fax
• Ability to set unlimited custom payment methods
• Export data to QuickBooks™, Peachtree™ or other accounting programs

Updates and Backups

• Cart notifies you when updates are available and allows you to update your store in a couple of clicks
• Back-up cart flies from the admin area
• Restore any file with one click

Order Management

• Ability to "status" orders
• Add / edit / delete orders
• Create custom status to help with your internal order management
• Displays both order and payment status to assist with order processing
• Bulk edit orders
• Notifies customer when order is shipped
• Create professionally printed invoices
• Integrates with Stone Edge Order Manager, Atandra T-Hub and Webgility eCommerce Connector to assist with order processing

Administration

• Create unlimited administrator accounts
• Restrict access to particular features by administrator
• Control which e-mails are received by administrators

Completely Customizable

• Professional and Sleek design
• Select one of our color templates or create your own
• Pick from one of our professionally designed templates
• Select from multiple product page templates to better present your products
• Our "Catalog View" manager allow you to select a two-column, three-column, thumbnail double, thumbnail single or text view
• Choose from over 200 different button and header combinations (or upload your own)
• Adjust boxes, create advertising areas, highlight products, change fonts, add logos, manage links, create new pages all with one click
• Easily make text changes anywhere on your site
• Want more control over your design? Our File Manager give you access to all files in the application
• Ability to add your own custom header and footer to the site
• Create unlimited pages for your cart from within the administrator area
• Supports the ability to add items to the cart from pages outside the cart application
• Multi language and multi currency support with "One Click" updates on currency rates

Product & Category Management

• Unlimited number of products and categories
• Unlimited subcategories
• Support Image Magnify and Image Zoom
• Layered navigation allows customers to sort products based on price, manufacturer or category
• Ability to control product and category order
• Export products to Google Base
• Ability to duplicate products
• Show retail, wholesale and sale prices depending on the product
• Supports both detailed and summary descriptions by product
• META keyword and description for each product and category
• Add “sale” image to the product
• Ability to control which products appear on the home page
• Select from a number of different product / catalog page layouts.
• Supports tax exempt products
• Ability to allow only logged in customers to view pricing
• Inventory tracking by product and attribute
• Receive inventory alerts if quantity drops below pre-determined levels
• Supports attributes (color, size, etc) by product, or create a Global Attribute and simply assign the attribute to a product.
• Change price or shipping weight based on attributes
• Create editable custom fields by product. This feature is perfect for products that require personalization.
• Use HTML in product descriptions
• Products can reside in multiple categories
• Ability to change product / category order
• Enable / Disable products
• Supports manufactures
• Upload a manufactures logo which can displayed on the product page
• Manage sales pricing
• Supports Minimum/Maximum quantity in order by product
• Complete control over image and thumbnail sizes
• Supports downloadable products
• Manage products in bulk using MS Excel / CSV
• Import / export products using csv format

Technical

• Application built using PHP / mySQL
• Runs on UNIX, Linux, Windows or FreeBSD
• Source Code avaliable upon request
• Completely customizable - Use our developer network to customize the cart to your needs

Reporting

• Dynamic graphs for reports
• Creates the following reports based on date
  • Top viewed products
  • Top viewed categories
  • Top orders by product
  • Top referring sites
  • Top sales by customer
  • Consolidated orders by date
  • Individual orders by date
  • Taxes
  • Promo codes
  • Payment types

Security

• Full support of HTTPS/SSL protocols
• Password protected administrative area
• Locks account after set number of failed credit card attempts
• Ability to control administrative access and set access levels
• Give you the ability to display prices only to customers that have registered
• PCI/CISP Compliant

Wholesalers

• Supports up to 3 different levels of wholesale pricing (can also be used for customer level pricing)
• Allows you to set wholesale pricing by product or as percentage of retail
• Supports case pack / inter pack pricing
• Collects Tax ID, EIN, Reseller ID or any other information you require

Superior Support

• 24/7 world-class e-mail and phone support
• Easy-to-understand, on-line and downloadble user manuals
• Video Tutorials
• Cart and marketing training services avaliable
• Informative articles and datasheets
• Access to our knowledge base and discussion board