Opening and operating your own online store
is easy and inexpensive.

Let Ciniva set up your e-business.

If you have a retail or wholesale business, or are thinking of starting one, we can provide a turn-key ecommerce website for you and build an e-commerce site that puts you in complete control. Whether you are selling crafts, hot sauce, or fishing bait, our design and programming package for e-commerce is a complete online solution for marketing and selling your merchandise.

Unlike ecommerce sites where you 'rent' space on another site, your own online store gives you complete flexibility and numerous advantages:

• your store is completely customizable - the store is in an integral part of your website
• there are no transaction costs - the store is part of your site, no need to pay ever-increasing fees as sales increase (merchant credit-card fees do apply)
• there is no limit on the quantity of merchandise you wish to display
• you set your own policies and customer payment options
• you establish your own identity on the web
• you control your own database of inventory and customer information
• you present your own business image on your site - sophisticated gallery or flashy arcade
• you enhance your marketing efforts around your online store and attract visitors with creative features, useful information, special offers (and we can help with that!)
• you allow others to sell your product through their website as affiliates - they earn commissions while you control actual transactions

Browse our complete design, e-commerce, and hosting packages and contact us today to build your own online store.

Click on the shopping cart features below to read details:
MERCHANT FEATURES
SHIPPING CONFIGURATION FEATURES
STOREFRONT FEATURES
INVENTORY CONTROL
GLOBAL TAX OPTIONS
FEATURES FOR DISCOUNTING
CREDIT CARD PROCESSING

Merchant Shopping Cart Features

• Multiple pricing levels. Set as many pricing schemes as you like and assign any customer to any price level.
• Browser based product and order administration - simply enter your administrator username and password and organize your products, enter product information, set prices, and so on - it's easy!
• Upload images for every product
• Ability for administrator to place orders for any customer in the database.
• Comprehensive Order Reporting, optional software available to integrate with Quickbooks or other accounting software
• Database includes all countries of the world and states/territories (over 3,900) within each country, along with the currency name and currency code. Choose to allow orders to any or all of these countries (or home country only).
• Issue Store Credits (Great Customer Service Feature!)
• "Unlimited" configuration options on a per item basis.
• Price items based on size, style or both.
• Adjustable shipping weight for each size and/or style of an item
• Products may be broken down by main category/sub category and manufacturer, artist, etc.
• Prices may be based on quantities purchased. Allows for, and verifies, minimum and maximum quantities.
• "Multi-Item" setup option to allow customers to purchase any or all of a group of products from a single page.
• Encourages cross buying by relating discounted items to the main item (related discounted items cannot be purchased without purchasing the main item) back to top

Flexible Shopping Cart Shipping Configuration

• *"Live" UPS Online® XML Shipping & Tracking Tools.
• *"Live" U.S. Postal Service XML Web Tools, including shipments to APO/FPO addresses.
• *Set your own rates based on weight.
• *Set rates "per order".
• *Set rates based on order total.
• *Allow "Drop Ship" orders in which shipping is not calculated at checkout. This is convenient if you have items shipping from different fulfillment houses making rate calculation impossible. For obvious reasons, this should not be used in conjunction with real time processing.
• Specify the maximum package weight. For example, if you set the maximum package weight to 25 lbs, and a customer orders six 5 lb. items (30 lbs. total), two 15 pound packages will be calculated by UPS, U.S. Postal Service, or using your own calculations.
  Set any item to be calculated individually by adding dimensions on that item. Dimensions will be transmitted to UPS or U.S. Postal Service, returning the shipping rate for an oversize package if applicable.
• Two additional "Freight" shipping variables are available. One for domestic, one for international. Any item that is too large to ship using your standard carrier, or is restricted by the carrier, may be given a unique "Freight" shipping rate.
• Choose whether to allow your customers to choose a different shipping method for each individual package, or choose a single shipping method for the entire order.
  Set your own "per item" rates, either individually or across the board.
• Handling charges may be applied to entire order or to each package in shipment. An additional handling charge may be set on any country.
• Allow shipping To billing address only or to any address.
  Notify customers of order shipment, including tracking number with link to shipper's website (or to your own branded UPS tracking page if using UPS Online XML Tools) if desired.
• Electronic Delivery. Items available immediate for downlaod on order approval if using real-time processing. Otherwise, you must manually approve the order to allow items to be downloaded.

*Any combination of the first 6 items (marked with *) may be used for any country, for Alaska and Hawaii and for APO/FPO (except UPS which does not ship to APO/FPO addresses. For example, you may use UPS Online® Tools to calculate shipping within the contiguous US, use U.S. Postal Service Web Tools to calculate shipping to APO/FPO addresses (and add a $10.00 handling charge for the additional paperwork), set your own rates for orders to Alaska and Hawaii, set a flat "per order" rate for shipments to Canada and Mexico and calculate shipping based on order total to all other countries.back to top

Shopping Cart Storefront Features

• Quick 2 step customer checkout.
• Advanced search capabilities. Boolean ("And" or "Or") searches by Manufacturer, Product ID, Product Name or Product Description by price range if desired.
  Customers may view order status and summary of past orders.
  Works if cookies are disabled. MOST SHOPPING CARTS DO NOT!
• Electronic Gift Certificates
• Traditional Gift Certificates
• Global currencies specified by the merchant may be changed by the customer "on-the-fly". (Exchange rates must currently be kept up-to-date manually by the merchant.)

Our shopping cart system also supports a multi-level banner driven affiliate program, if you decide to expand your sales through independent sites that may wish to link to you and receive a commission. back to top

Shopping Cart "Live" Inventory Control

• Once a customer places a controlled item into their cart, the corresponding quantity immediately becomes unavailable to other shoppers.
• Item is automatically placed back into inventory if the shopper's session times out or if the customer removes the item from their cart.
• Item is removed on a permanent basis at checkout.
• Inventory control may be disabled. back to top

Shopping Cart Global Tax Options

• Multiple Tax States and Rates, including County and Municipal Taxes if applicable.
• US: Set tax rates on any number of states. Tax shipping charges if required in any states.
• US: Set tax rates on any county or counties in any or all taxable states.
• US: Set tax rates on any city or cities in any or all taxable states.
• Worldwide: Set tax rates on any single country.
• Worldwide: Set tax rates based on line item or total invoice including shipping.
• Items are set as taxable or non-taxable based on category. back to top

Shopping Cart Discount Features

• Customer Specific Discounts
• Store-wide Discounts
• Promotional Discounts
• Bankable "Web Bucks". Issue X number of Web Bucks for every X number of dollars spent, encouraging return shopping. Web Bucks may be cashed in with any future purchase or allowed to accumulate. Web Bucks may be changed to reflect your products. For example, if you sell pet supplies, you could change the name to "Doggie Dollars". back to top

Online Payment Processing
In order to accept credit cards, debit cards, or check-debist online, you will need to use a 'gateway' service either in conjunction with your existing bank merchant account, or a new account that many gateway services provide. We can walk you through the process, as well as including the SSL (secure encrypted pages you need to provide confidence to your customers.)
Real-time credit card processors supported:

• Authorize.net 3.0 and 3.1, The Processing Network , LinkPoint, CyberCash,
  TPG by iPayment Technologies, PayFlow Link and PayFlow Pro by Versign Corp.,
  PayPal, including Integration with PayPal's Instant Payment Notification System
• CINIVA will provide the necessary programming to integrate your credit card processor with your online store; other systems integrated on request
• We can advise you on the process of establishing online credit-card processing, whether you have an existing merchant account or not (see below link)
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We challenge you to find a more complete, flexible online shopping cart system than described here - and combined with custom professional design, additional web pages, turn-key programming, and full hosting and support, we think that Ciniva is the perfect choice for providing your online store and ecommerce business solution. Click here to see our design and hosting packages, including our shopping cart program.