Shopping Cart Features

[fahadp]

What are the most common features that are required by a shopping cart? Please list your suggestions according to following categorization

• Pre-Sales
• Post-Sales
• Marketing
• Promotion
• Sales Related
• Taxation
• Financials
• Fulfillment
• Shipping
• User Management
• CMS

These are the general modules that are required in a good shopping cart. Please specify what features are required per module.

[mailor]

Hi. May be, you can better clarify your terms? Not quite clear what "sales related" mean. And what about pre-sales and post-sales? Are those special types of online order?

[fahadp]

Pre-sales can hold following sub modules
-supply chain
-campaign management
-lead management
-pricing
-distribution channel
-demo products etc

Post-sales can hold following modules
-payment management
-inventory management
-support or qa
-customer feedback
-resller commissions
-financial reporting

etc

[dave]

Billing management and SEO friendly cart, I'll add.

[fahadp]

Billing is usually done for postpaid services. When we talk about shopping cart, that doesnot imply that you are selling your services. Selling services is a seperate thing. Usually shopping cart refers to selling physical or digital products.

[nategeeze]

I would add under shipping some supply chain features.

-Ability to export orders in real-time to a warehouse or your internal fulfillment center
-synchronizing to give your customers tracking information with their order
-plug into multiple warehouse so you can fulfill inventory out of multiple warehouses

Just some thoughts to help with shipping and storage. As your business succeeds order fulfillment will become either a giant hassle or a way for you to distinguish your service to buyers.

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Nate