Hosted shopping cart software allows you to focus on building your online shop while the shopping cart provider takes care of the technical aspects of the store behind the scenes. This includes configuring the website to meet the technical requirements for security compliance, configuring the website for the country it operates in and providing you with support for getting your store operating the way you want it to. Ozcart® is an example of a hosted shopping cart configured for the Australian market.
Ecommerce Features
There are a lot of considerations when setting up an online shop – how will you accept payments and how will you charge for delivery are two of the main ones. Another major consideration is how to get cusotmers through the checkout process as quickly as possible. If it is too hard to check out, customers will abandon the shopping cart and buy elsewhere. Customers are just a click away from competitors online, and in many industries the competition is cut-throat. Some of the popular ecommerce features that store owners will look for are:
- Quick checkout – with as few pages as possible for customers to go through
- Security – if customers can’t put confidence in the security of the website, they will not buy
- Design – who wants a website that doesn’t look professional? With many of the major offline brands now heading online in a tough retail environment, competition is heating up and design will make a huge difference in the years to come
- Australian live postage calculators – end customers want accurate postage estimates, and not everyone uses Australia Post. But shipping calculators for other Australian shipping providers is something that other cart providers often overlook
- Payment options for credit cards – including support for Australian payment methods
Design customisation
One thing that makes Ozcart™ a popular shopping cart is that design customisation is built-in to the setup price. That means there’s nothing extra charged to customise the graphics and colours of the store to suit your business. That applies whether you’re talking about a drop down menu, rotating gallery slider with graphics, changing the background colour scheme or inserting your logo and business name.
Generous Bandwidth and Disk Space Allowances
Disk space limits are set on Ozcart website packages to be generous. There’s no “unlimited” bandwidth and disk space options, because just as there’s no such thing as a free lunch, the reality of unlimited disk and bandwidth usage is that the provider is usually taking a gamble that not every person can use their allocated disk space and bandwidth allocations. Ultimately web servers are just computers and have physical limits on the amount of traffic and disk space that they have. Everything is finite and nothing is ever unlimited.
Australian features
Focusing on website features for Australian business is a big part of Ozcart. There’s built in support for an Australia Post calculator, with support for satchels, platinum and express network delivery time calculations, as well as support for the live calculators of other Australian shipping providers: Trans Direct, Fastway, eGo, and Smartsend. When it comes to payment providers, many Australian providers are also covered: Westpac Payway, Suncorp Virtual POS, Bendigo Bank (MIGS), ANZ eGate, St George Hosted Payment Pages, Camtech, DirectOne (SecurePay), NAB Transact, CommWeb, SCNet iPay, e-path, Paymate and Paypal are amongst them.
