ShopSite Starter Reviewer's Comments
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ShopSite 7 Starter from ShopSite Inc. is a good package for anyone who wants to experiment with ecommerce. This package only allows you to sell 15 products on your website, but you can mix and match different varieties in your products (such as color and size choices).
Your customers won't be frightened away by your ShopSite checkout procedure since this company's focal point is the quality of their shopping cart. Their shopping cart is easy to use even if you offer several product choices.
Concerns we had with ShopSite include the need to set up a separate hosting account and a credit card processing account; ShopSite offers only website building tools, a shopping cart, and website tracking tools, not website hosting. So, if you've already paid for a hosting plan elsewhere and now want to add ecommerce to your website, this package is ideal.
Feature Set:
ShopSite states that you need to evaluate and react to your online store's statistics quickly; their service makes easy to get accurate statistics in several areas fast, including sales, page hits, traffic summaries, and other customer reports.
Another fine feature that ShopSite offers is variants. A variant is a product purchase choice, such as different size or color choices. With ShopSite, it’s simple to offer variety on each product, but you can only sell 15 different items.
ShopSite offers you secure order management—this means you can view your orders securely from any computer—all you need is a browser. And it’s painless to download your orders and save them in separate accounting software or an Excel spreadsheet for processing.
Ease of Use:
ShopSite is easy to use; graphics quickly allow you intuitive access to any part of your ecommerce site. To navigate, you simply click on the right icon, and you're there.
Ease of Setup:
ShopSite 7 was the easiest of all the services we reviewed to set up. To use ShopSite, all you need is a web browser.
ShopSite has a simple website wizard that takes you through creating a website, step-by-step. ShopSite limits choices for beginners so you won't be overwhelmed, but can grow into your website management. With ShopSite's store building wizard you can quickly create an ecommerce website and product list.
Help/Documentation:
The help in ShopSite is excellent; it includes screen references to answer any question specific to that page. ShopSite also has FAQs, getting started help, search features, How-to sections, and a help index.
Fraud Protection:
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ShopSite offers risk tools such as a secure https server (SSL) for transactions and CVV2 code requirements—this means that your financial transactions are encrypted, and customers must enter a value printed on the physical credit card to make a purchase. (This helps ensure the customer is holding the physical card during purchase, not just the card number. Most thieves only have the credit card number.) The credit card company you select will offer you more fraud protection tools. To see a review of the Top Ten Credit Card Processing Companies, click here.
Summary:
ShopSite 7 starter is an excellent package for anyone getting started in online ecommerce, especially if you want a top quality shopping cart and already have hosting elsewhere.
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