15
Dec
3dcart & OrderCup Deliver Affordable Shipping Efficiencies
(PRLEAP.COM) To enhance shipping for small and midsize customers,OrderCup today announced a tight integration with leading ecommerce software provider 3dcart to provide a hosted shipping management service that handles shipping, order tracking, returns and more through leading carriers USPS, UPS and FedEx.
OrderCup offers a simple, easy to setup, affordable and customizable solution for 3dcart customers that manages the entire shipping process end-to-end, without signing up for supplemental services. Additionally, through OrderCup, 3dcart customers gain access to many value added services like discounted postage and insurance, free address validation and returns processing. You can visit the following link to learn more about the key capabilities provided by this integration.
“OrderCup automates administrative tasks like sending order tracking information to the customer, handling returns if needed and managing split orders, saving time and money for 3dcart customers,” said 3dcart CEO Gonzalo Gil. “With the holiday season approaching, OrderCup will greatly ease the shipping burden for online merchants.”
Because the service is web-based and fully integrated, customers can easily generate and print shipping labels for product returns through an online store, helping build brand loyalty and return customers-especially around the holidays. The rest of the feature set is equally simple to use for online merchants.
“As a trusted leader in ecommerce, 3dcart gives us the ability to expand our target audience and reach a community of more than 10,000 online merchants looking to bring greater efficiency to their businesses,” said OrderCup CEO Aloke Nath.
To learn more about how OrderCup can help 3dcart customers streamline their shipping operations, visit http://blog.3dcart.com/streamline-shipping-like-the-pros/
12
Dec
3dcart Inspiration On eCommerceDeveloper
Creating a well-designed store with 3dcart is simple! With 3dcart, you can fully customize your online store using images, HTML/CSS, javascript, and flash so the design options are endless! Some other design friendly aspects of 3dcart shopping cart software are:
- Zoom Technology for Displaying High-Resolution Images: If you have high quality image of your products, your store can include a “Zoom” feature to each of your item’s images.
- Fully-Customizable Product Pages: 3DCart’s unique template design lets you have complete control over the layout of your product pages.
- Fully-Customizable Category Pages: 3DCart’s unique template design lets you have complete control over the layout of your category pages.
- Unlimited Images for Products with Flash Image Gallery: Upload unlimited images to each product and create an image gallery with the click of a button!
- Breadcrumbs and intuitive navigation.
- FTP Access to HTML Files
- Featured Products” on Homepage and Category Pages: Display items on sale on your home page and categories with the click of an option. Change items monthly, weekly or hourly if you like
- WYSIWYG Editor for Categories, Products and Content Pages: Use the built in web editor to add/edit content. Much like Microsoft Word, the editor is very simple to use and can be used to build and edit complex web-based documents without actually typing a word of HTML!
Learn more about 3dcart’s design features here!
ECommerceDeveloper.com just published a showcase of some of our most well-designed stores! Check it out!
07
Dec
Can You Make Free Shipping Work for Online Store?
For savvy online shoppers, finding “free shipping” is like discovering buried treasure. But can shipping really be free? Someone has to pay that shipping charge, and if you’re experimenting with the phrase “free shipping” in your marketing plan, that someone is bound to be you.
Still, it’s an enticing strategy. ComScore reports that 72 percent of online shoppers prefer free shipping.
For small merchant, the unfortunate truth is that free shipping can put a heavy burden on your profit margins. Unfortunately, if you change your product price to reflect that additional shipping fee, you’ll could drive smart shoppers, aka comparison shoppers, away from your store. BUT The Wharton Report finds that a handful of shoppers, about 30%, will pay more for a product if free shipping is included.
So what’s the best way to incorporate free shipping? If you can afford it, a short-term promotion to current customers or a “free shipping” coupon code posted on coupon websites is a great way to drive more traffic and convert more sales.
Another way you can incorporate free shipping into your sales process is to develop complementary shipping strategies for large orders. Again, this is simply a process of weighing your profit margins and how free shipping on large orders affects your rate of returning shoppers.
The big stores will always be able to offer free shipping. Remember that there are benefits to buying through a small-to-medium size shop for the customer; you can always tout those benefits in your marketing to beat out big-store competition.
To learn how to offer free sipping with 3dcart read our blog post here:
17
Nov
3dcart Partner Spotlight – OrderCup
Come join us for the following webinar!
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Are you tired of dealing with multiple, disjointed, manual processes to handle your fulfillment and shipping? A common problem which is further aggravated further if you have multiple sales channels and multiple carriers! Add to that the increased holiday volume, and it can be overwhelming. Fear not, OrderCup can help you bring all of this under control. OrderCup is an SaaS (software as a service) order management, fulfillment and shipping solution for small and medium sized ecommerce businesses. It automates, simplifies and standardizes your process to easily handle multi-channel, multi-carrier ecommerce; while providing many value-added services such as returns, discounted shipping and package insurance. It streamlines your post-order operations, allowing you to provide the experience, level of service and visibility buyers are accustomed to with the major online companies. Join 3dcart and OrderCup for this joint webinar where we discuss how to streamline your operations. During the webinar, we will cover: |
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07
Sep
Using Autoship to Increase your Sales
Thanks so much to all who joined us today for our ‘Using Autoship to Increase your Sales’ Webinar!
It’s a great time to sign up for 3dcart’s autoship feature because for the rest of September, 3dcart is waiving the set-up fee! That means you’ll only be charged the $99 monthly service charge without having to pay the higher set up fee.
All you need to do is contact our sales team and mention today’s webinar and they’ll be sure to take care of it for you! 1-800-828-6650
Or if you want to can learn more about our autoship promotion click here.
If you didn’t get a chance to join, you can watch the presentation on YouTube or check out the slides on Slidedeck. And make sure to check out 6 Reasons to Use Autoship Recurring Delivery Program.
07
Mar
How outsourced fulfillment can help you go global
By Nate Gilmore of Shipwire e-commerce product fulfillment service
Many entrepreneurs get started by selling a product online on a web store like 3dcart. For these entrepreneurs, one of the biggest challenges to growth is finding a shipping solution that will scale with their business, offer business flexibility, be cost effective and not become a distraction from the marketing and sales efforts.
A good rule of thumb is that warehousing and shipping can run about 10% of costs for an e-commerce company (give or take a few % and clearly depending on the type of products you sell ). Other than inventory, storage and shipping is often the largest component costs in an online retailer’s business. It is sometimes more than marketing.
Setting up your own warehouse facility involves a lot of guesswork and probably won’t give your business the flexibility you need. Leasing a warehouse forces the entrepreneur to guess sales volume, put cash up front to secure the location and guess as to where sales will be if they want to try and store products reasonably close to buyers. Factor in market volatility from the economy and unknown global traction and managing your own warehouse quickly becomes a scary proposition for fast growing companies.
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