Shopping Cart Features:
What can shoppers do in
my online store?

Your business can start selling products online sooner than you think. Z² Media's e-commerce shopping cart is a simple solution that requires minimal prior knowledge. A person of any skill level can easily be on their way to selling products online with Z² Media's e-commerce shopping cart! We use an administration portal that makes it easy to add and edit products, catagories, search customer data, order status with just a few clicks. You can add another layer of functionality with coupons or promotions and others. These are the basic features that you will get when you opt for our e-commerce solution. You may also wish to add extra features to the cart that you may wish to buy

Z² Media can assess your companies needs and, from scratch, build a program that may be the key to increased performance from your staff.

Standard Features

Admin Features

Extra Features

Home Page

Site Home Page with Featured products you may modify any time

Header/Footer

Custom Header and Footer design and implementation by our on-staff web designers

Search Results Page

Allows users to search, browse and quickly buy your store’s products in an easy to follow format.

Product Details Page

Allows user to read more specific information on a particular product.

About Us Page

A page on your site to tell customers more about your company.

Contact Us Page

Allows shoppers to address concerns or questions easily through the web site itself.

Frequently Asked Questions Page

A reference page for shoppers to help quickly and efficiently resolve and questions/concerns they might have.

Customer Login System

Allow previous customers to login at a later date, retrieve information on the status of an order, or update their personal information, store credit cart information for quick, one click buying.

View Cart Page

Simple, easy to use interface to modify the contents of your shopping cart at any point of your browsing for products.

Advanced Search Page

Narrow your search by Category, Sub-Category or keyword to help the shopper find a more exact match to what they are seeking to purchase.

Automatic Category Menus

Category Menus on the left side of your side to browse products. Contents of menu are determined by how you classify and categorize your products.

Secure Checkout Pages

Our simple 3 step checkout process makes for a quick and simple buying process.

Tell A Friend Capabilities

Ability for shoppers to tell friends about products they are browsing through the website.

SSL Certificate for 2 years from GEOTRUST

Keep your site safe and secure with GeoTrust’s advanced 128-bit encryption.

E-mail Accounts

Setup up to 4 private emails in your site’s domain and an unlimited amount of alias accounts.

Remote E-mail Login

Through our friendly web interface, check your email from anywhere!

Ultra Fast OC-48 Backbone / 99.9% Uptime Servers

Never worry about whether your site is running slow again with our world renowned hosting.

Microsoft .NET Technology

Our application was developed using Microsoft’s newest development technology, .NET. What does this mean? More secure and efficient performance than any other web technology today.

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Store Settings Management

Setup which states your store sells to, and set your own tax rates for each state. Set your own personal messages for email responses to customers after a purchase.

Home Page Management

Setup which products in your store will appear featured in the middle of the home page. You may enter your own headlines for each product on the home page. Products are added in rows of 4.

Product Management

Add/Remove/Modify products for your store. Each product will consist of the following:

• Product ID unique identifier name


• Product Model Name


• Short Description for the product


• Full Description for the product


• List Price for product


• Price you assign for the product


• Product Image


• 1 or more categories to apply to the product


• 1 or more sub-categories to apply to the product


• Option to set product as free of state tax


• A set of products related to the product, which the customer will see after adding this product to their shopping cart.


• Hidden keywords to help trigger this product in search results within the site.


• Additional notes field for an extra message to the customer who browses the product.


• Shipping fields such as product weight used in real-time shipping calculation, a manual override ship price, option for free ground, and option to use real time ship or not.


• Up to 2 different attributes for the product and a set of possible values for each.

Orders Management

Easily find orders that have been placed in your cart within a few seconds, view full details of each order with one click. Automated e-mail communication with customers on order status through the simple click of a button.

Customers Management

Easily find customers that have previously placed orders on your site and pull up their complete history with one click.

Admin User Management

Setup user/password accounts for your employees to login with 2 different permission levels. Data Entry – User can only access product and order/customer functions.

Shipping Management

Be able to modify what shipping types the store allows and automatically calculate real time rates. Set promotional flat rate shipping fees for U.P.S ground based on the order total.

Category/Sub-Category Management

Ability to add/modify/remove categories and subcategories to classify your products.

Coupon Management

Add coupon codes for use during checkout. Can discount by percent off order total or dollar amount from total. Can set for single use per email or infinite use. Ability to turn coupons on and off at will.

Gift Certificate Management

Ability to issue gift certificates in your store. The gift certificate is given a balance and customers may use this certificate as store credit in a purchase.

Buy-Get Free Management

Add marketing promotions to your store of getting 1 or more items as a free bonus when specific items are added to your cart.

Value Pricing Management

Add marketing promotions to your store which will discount items in your cart if a specific quantity of these items are purchased

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Country Administration

Be able to decide which countries your cart will sell to. In addition, you will be able to use real time calculation rates for international shipping.

Drop Shipping Management

Add locations where your store may ship FROM. Each product will have the ability to set a drop ship location.

Sales Report Section

Allows merchants to monitor sales and print up easy to read reports.

Wish List Section

Allows customers to create a wish list.

Category Home Pages

Allows up to 10 Category Home pages which can be navigated by the category menu. 8 products featured products must be selected for each Category home page.

Activity Reports Section

Be able to monitor who is coming in your site, how they are coming in and full hit statistics.

Customer Mailer Section

Integrate Constant Contact with Customers in your database.

Advertising Management Section

Setup banners and advertising accounts in the cart.

Upsale Modules

Automatically database generated upsale modules

• “Hot Products” – calculates the top 8 products which have been purchased the most within the past week (Home Page)


• “Newest Products” – calculates the top 8 newest products entered in the store (Home Page)


• “Customers also Bought” picks the top 4 products that are most frequently purchased with this product based on past orders (Product Details Page)


• “Best Sellers” – calculates the top 8 products which have had the most sales since the beginning of the cart. (Product Details Page)

Quickbooks Integration

Integrate your cart with quickbooks, allow easy import/export of products and orders (Quickbooks enterprise edition only)

Import Products / Orders From Your Data

Allow our on staff developers to create the interface you need to easily exchange product/order data from your own personal data source.

Product Priorities

Control how your products appear in search results, mark products “featured” – to visibly stand out amongst other results and “priority search” for the product to appear before others in the result set.

Clearance / Blowouts

Use the left space below on the menu on each page to promote clearance or blowout priced products.

Payment Management

Ability to add/remove/modify which payment types are accepted by your cart (ie Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express). Here you may also enter in authorize.net account information if you plan to use automated credit card processing. Your pay pal account information can be configured here as well.

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Contact us and start selling online today!