Planet Online Web Store Features:

Easy Store Creation And Management Tools

Planet Online eStore's online E-Commerce Manager, the merchant interface for creating and managing the web store, can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection.

Allow for Multiple Administrators
Share the responsibility of product maintenance, store promotion, etc, by allowing others to use the online E-Commerce Manager.

Use Themes to Speed Up The Store Design Process
Greatly reduce the time required to design an effective on-line store using Planet Online eStore’s professional web store themes. Create customized themes or use existing site designs.

Upload Images With Ease
Instantly, easily add compelling graphics to your web store. Simply browse your work station to upload images with the click of a button.

Control Page Layout
Specify every detail of your web store pages, from navigation to product layout with our extensive store design controls.

Build Unlimited Web Pages
Customize the store's home page with an image, text, and featured product. Add an unlimited number of pages to your web store right from your browser. No HTML editor is required.

Operate In Any Country
Two-tier tax capability supports stores operating in countries with VAT or other multi-level tax structures. All Windows currency types and languages are supported for international web stores.

Merchandise Products

Unlimited Price Sensitive Product Attributes
Fully catalog all product options, such as size, style, and color, using Planet Online ’s support for unlimited, price sensitive product attributes.

Advanced, Customizable Search Utility
Shoppers can conduct simple text or product category searches or perform advanced searches by keyword, manufacturer, vendor, price range, and/or sale items.

Suggestive Selling
Take advantage of upsell opportunities by entering a suggestive sales message for each item in your inventory. The message will appear when the item is added to a shopper's cart and suggests a complimentary product.

Display Product Images and Info
Display large and small product images, detailed product information, and more for each product. Use the Category, Manufacturer, and Vendor settings to organize products. Shoppers can browse products by selecting the Category name from the main store navigation menu on all web store pages.

Drive Traffic to Your Store

Display your products in Planet Online Comparison Shopping
Every Planet Online ecommerce solutions includes CPC (Cost Per Click) allowance equivalent to your monthly service charge. That gives you added product exposure for your ecommerce web site. For instance if you monthly ecommerce hosting with Planet Online equals $50 then you get $50 CPC spending allowance on PLanet Online Comparison Shopping portal - As many as 500 targetted leads to your specific products.

Create Meta Tags
Search engines operate largely off key words and descriptions. Type in your own site-specific key words and descriptions, and Planet Online will automatically place them on your web store pages.

Submit to Search Engines
Automatically submit the Planet Online web store to key search engines

Run Sales and Promotions
Mark down individual product prices, run storewide sales, and offer free shipping for orders that exceed a set dollar amount.

Send Targeted Mail
Send targeted promotional e-mail to customers by date range or product purchases. Visitors can manage their subscription preferences online.

Operate An Affiliate Partner Program
Build referral sales with Planet Online ’s fully automated affiliate program. Powerful affiliate management tools allow affiliates to securely track referral sales.

Speed Up The Checkout Process For Returning Customers

Retrieve Previous Orders
Allow returning customers to retrieve and reorder from previous orders and recall customer profile data to speed the checkout process with built-in CRM (customer relations management) tools.

Save Items for Later
Capture window shoppers and cater to corporate purchasing agents by allowing customers to save items and orders for later retrieval, review and completion.

E-Mail Product Information to A Friend
Drive site traffic by giving shoppers the ability to email product information to a friend or associate.

Offer Currency Conversion
Allow shoppers to instantly convert product prices to any of over 142 currencies using Planet Online ’s integration with OANDA currency conversion services.

Chat With Potential Customers
Increase browser to buyer conversion rates with integrated, real-time customer support services from "ezeehelp."

Provide Real-Time Shipping Rates from Leading Carriers
Accurately manage shipping charges with integrated support for real-time shipping costs directly from UPS, FedEx and USPS rate servers.

Send Customized Order Confirmation E-Mails
Automatically send an e-mail confirming a shopper's order, as well as an order notification to two merchant e-mail addresses.

Offer Multiple Payment Options
Accept electronic checks, purchase orders, COD, credit card, phone/fax orders, and Internet Cash.

Process Credit Cards Real Time
Planet Online has built-in support for online transaction processing services* for real-time credit card processing. Integrated services include: