Hosted Shopping Cart

The fastest way to create a shopping cart is to use a hosted shopping cart solution. A hosted shopping cart is a ready-made shopping cart that already has its own web hosting. All you need to do is pay for hosting (which you need to do with any website).

One of the great things about a hosted shopping cart is that you don't need any technical skills to create or run it. The technical details are already taken care of, so you can focus on the things that really matter - like managing your catalog, promoting your products.

Quick Shopping Cart is an affordable, hosted shopping cart by ZappyHost. No technical knowledge is required - with Quick Shopping Cart, anyone can add a shopping cart to their website.

Many professional companies have used Quick Shopping Cart to build their online storefront. Quick Shopping Cart includes a website builder, Quickbooks integration, UPS support, and much more. See below for a full list of features.

Hosted shopping cart plans start from $11.99 per month - hosting included.

Quick Shopping Cart - Behind the Scenes

Screenshots of Quick Shopping Cart
Product Tour

Quick Shopping Cart provides you (the store owner), with a secure administration area, as well as the storefront that your customers see. The administration area allows you to set up your ecommerce website by following an online wizard. You simply click your way through the wizard!

The wizard enables you to do things such as:

  1. Choose the template for your storefront (to determine what it looks like to your customers)
  2. View store activity reports
  3. Set up your catalog
  4. Determine shipping options
  5. Include your products on Google Product Search
  6. Sell your products on Ebay
  7. Integrate with Quickbooks

To get a feel for what Quick Shopping Cart is like to use, check out the Product Tour. This product tour contains screenshots of Quick Shopping Cart - so you can see how easy it is to set up your own online store.

Overview of Features

Here's a quick overview of what's included with Quick Shopping Cart:

Features (Full List)

Here's a complete list of the features that are included with Quick Shopping Cart:


General Features List
  • Built-in Web site hosting
  • Excel® import/export
  • QuickBooks Integration
  • Certified eBay® listing tool
  • Basic and advanced product searches
  • Support for physical products, digital downloads and product bundles
  • Auto-link generation with source code tracking
  • Privacy and return policies

Design

  • Invoice Customization
  • Menu Customization
  • NEW! Customization of colors, fonts, headers, and footers. Customized themes, custom CSS file
  • Step-by-step Wizard setup
  • Professionally designed templates, includes 45 of the most popular WebSite Tonight® themes
  • Integrate with WebSite Tonight® for a complete site that shares the same themes
  • Multiple font and color choices
  • HTML-based formatting on selected content fields
  • Image and photo uploads
  • Preview and publish site
  • Create a Favicon (a browser bar icon)

Security

  • SSL enabled
  • Site administrator password protection
  • Data encryption
  • Fraud Module

Product Catalog

  • Import product information database
  • Unlimited product categories
  • Product sub-categories
  • Search by product, category or SKU
  • Upload multiple images
  • Interactive Image Viewer
  • Permit discontinued & backordered items

  Pricing & Promotion
  • NEW! Let shoppers opt-in to Express Email Marketing® campaigns during checkout
  • Coupon Manager
  • Free Shipping Promotions
  • Product Option Pricing
  • Establish product prices
  • Determine discounts and sales periods
  • Identify upsell/cross-sell products
  • Feature products or specials
  • Bundle products or services
  • Automatic submission to Google™ Product Search
  • Site Promotion Manager-Custom Meta Tags

Orders

  • Get order notices via email
  • Send confirmation emails
  • View/search/sort/print orders
  • Print customer invoices/receipts
  • Accept phone/mail/fax orders

Shipping

  • Track order status
  • Offer Shipping
  • Online calculator & rate table
  • To U.S. addresses
  • Improved! UPS OnLine® Tools
  • Improved! USPS® shipping
  • Weight-based shipping
  • Flat-fee shipping
  • Special handling charges
  • Free shipping option
  • Unique "Bill to" and "Ship to" addresses

Tax Options

  • Online tax calculator for orders
  • Collect state tax
  • Collect value added tax (VAT)
  • Set a flat tax
  • Disable order taxation
  • Enhanced tax table that supports multiple tax rates by zip code

  Payments
  • Real-time processing
  • Card verification & validation
  • MasterCard and Visa certified payment processes
  • Innovative Merchant Services (IMS), PayPal®, VeloCT and Authorize.net-certified payment gateways
  • PayPal® Instant Payment Notification (IPN)
  • Offline processing and POS terminal
  • eCheck & COD orders
  • Phone/fax/email orders

Customer Management

  • Registration/profile
  • Accounts/orders
  • Password recovery
  • Inventory Management
  • In-Stock/Backordered
  • Discontinued items
  • Set inventory thresholds
  • Low inventory email alerts
  • Inventory status search

Reporting

  • Custom Conversion Tracking
  • Orders/sales reports
  • Shipping/tax reports
  • View/sort/print/export
  • Integrated with Google® Webmaster Tools
  • Integrated with Yahoo!® Search Marketing

Free Extras

  • Google® AdWords® Credit
  • Microsoft® adCenter Credit
  • Practical eCommerce