New Control Panel

We've made changes to the Pinnacle Cart control panel to make your life easier. Now everything you need is easy to find and one click away.

Easy to Use Design Features

Having a professionally designed storefront has been proven to increase sales conversions and is a direct reflection of your business. With this in mind we’ve created a set of design tools that allow you to manage every aspect of your design, without having to learn code. These simple, yet powerful tools, give you complete creative control over your store. Still want access to the code? You can get to it quickly using our proprietary “Design Mode” toolbar, via our internal file manager, or access the files directly through FTP. You can also use desktop editors like Dreamweaver, Visual Studio or Front Page to design and / or manage any page on your site. Don’t worry about updates; our unique template structure allows you to update the cart without having to worry about design changes.

Certified “Best Search Engine Optimized Ecommerce Application” by the world’s most respected SEO firms

We worked extensively with three of the most respected search engine optimization firms ensuring Pinnacle Cart helps you achieve the most optimum ranking possible on major search engines including Google, Bing, Yahoo and more. Some of our Search Engine Optimization features include:

• SEO friendly URL’s

• Custom URL’s (for sites that are already indexed)

• SEO friendly hyperlinks

• Site maps

• Custom alt image tag

• Compliant header tags

• Complete meta tag control on product, categories, brands, home and additional pages

• Product-based keywords

• Strict CSS/XHTML/tableless coding

• WC3 compliant pages

• Robots.txt file

• And more!

Pinnacle Cart is designed to generate free, targeted organic traffic for your website. In fact, it's rated as “Most Search Engine Friendly eCommerce Solution” by SEO Shopping Carts, an independent research site that looks exclusively at ecommerce solutions and their effectiveness at achieving the highest ranking possible.

FREE Social Media Platform

Tweet, Like, Digg, Buzz, Share and more!
Nothing is more powerful or inexpensive ( it's free! ) as word-of-mouth advertising.

Our social media platform allows your visitors to create a social tsunami by spreading the word about your products across the world's most popular social media sites. Just activate it and let your visitors do the rest!

Recapture lost sales with Drift Marketing

As a store owner, nothing is more frustrating than seeing orders and dollars sitting in an "abandoned" status. All of your marketing time and money flushed down the drain over something outside of your control. Now you can recapture those sales through our powerful Drift Marketing. It's features allow you to create campaigns that "re-market" to those visitors and create incentives to get them to come back and complete the sale.

Payment Tokenization

Make checkout quicker and more convenient by allowing returning customers to access their payment information from previous orders. Once activated, customers can "save" their credit card information with their account information making it easier for them to complete a sale. This feature is limited to selected payment gateways.

Powerful Marketing Tools

• Create quantity discounts, or buy X, get Y FREE promotions

• Offer free shipping on orders over any dollar amount

• Create discounted pricing groups or promotional codes

• Sell gift certificates

• Create product families and recommend products based on items in a cart

• "Customers who bought X also bought Y" promotional areas

• Seamlessly integrate with affiliate systems

• Create professional newsletters and product updates

• Upload unlimited secondary images

• Utilize our advanced image manipulation tools (Zoom, Lightbox, Magnify and more)

• Drift Marketing tool designed to increase cart conversions

• Mail Chimp intergration

• eCommerce PLUS for Facebook

• Social Media Platform

• Plus much more.

Product Syndication

Want to reach millions of potential customers? Using our Pinnacle Cart eCommerce Plus, you can add any product in your store to your Facebook page and have customers add products to their wall dramatically increasing product visibility which results in more sales. Additionally you can use our product feeds to post all or selected products to eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, Google Product Search, PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, NextTag, and others.

PA-DSS Certified/PCI Compliant

Pinnacle Cart is one of only a handful of eCommerce applications certified PA-DSS / PCI compliant by the PCI Security Council. The PCI Security Council along with all major credit card companies have dictated that any storefront collecting, storing or transmitting customer sensitive information must be on a PA-DSS compliant payment application or risk ADDITIONAL FEES and / or CANCELLATION of your merchant account. Additionally you or your company could be held responsible for any security breach as a result of using a non-compliant software. Even if you don't use Pinnacle Cart, don't risk the future of your business by using a non-compliant solution.

Advanced Image Tools

Research has consistently shown that customers respond favorably to large and detailed product images. Pinnacle Cart has implemented many new Web 2.0 technologies that give you the ability to dynamically display and resize your product images. Besides allowing you to upload an unlimited number of images, Pinnacle also provides you tools like Image Zoom, Magnify, Lightbox and Magic Thumb which provides your customers the details they need to move from browser to buyer. All of our image manipulation tools are fast-loading, cross-browser compatible, and XHTML/CSS compliant. .

FREE Live Chat

Visitors who can “chat” tend to purchase at much higher rates than those who can’t. Sales suffer when consumers have doubts or lack the information they need to complete a purchase. Our live chat software will allow potential customers to interact with you directly; allowing you to assist them with any questions they may have. While most companies charge for this service, we provide it to you FREE OF CHARGE through our partner, ChatStat.

Advanced Analytics

Pinnacle Cart tracks every aspect of your cart and presents this information in easy to understand charts and advanced graphical analysis. Pinnacle Cart is fully integrated with Google Analytics and Google Adwords, and gives you a complete analysis of every action performed on your site. Use conversion tracking to see which sites provide visitors that are converted into sales. You may also use it in conjunction with Google Adwords to understand which advertising programs are working best for your store and which programs may require adjustments.

Advanced Product Management

Pinnacle Cart allows you to:

• Add products to the home page

• Manage sales pricing

• Control product placement on category pages

• Sell downloadable (e-books, software, PDF)

• Create unlimited product options that control price and shipping weight

• Create bulk product options

• Import and export bulk data and images

• Manage inventory in real-time with low inventory notifications at both product and option (variant) level

• Add product reviews

• Add wholesale discounting

• Add product videos

• Case pack/Inter Pack

• Add HTML descriptions and product summaries

• Feed product information to top competitive shopping sites

• Plus much more…

Advanced Shipping Management

Pinnacle Cart supports real-time shipping quotes from all major providers including USPS, UPS, Fed Ex, and Canada Post. Mark up real-time rates and add handling fees, ship internationally and allow customers to track shipments. Additionally, you can set up rates by regions, states, or countries and create custom rates by weight, quantity, price, and price plus weight. Customers can see estimated shipping rates before completing their purchase when the "Get Shipping Rates" feature is enabled.”

Powerful Order Management

Since every business is different, Pinnacle Cart is designed to be flexible enough to work with businesses of all types. Regardless of the number of transactions, Pinnacle Cart can help you effectively manage your orders and ensure customer satisfaction. Features include:

• Unique order and payment status

• Customizable automated email notifications on order and new user registration

• Drop-shipping support

• Supports multiple locations

• Automated credit card processing and storage

• Shipping tracking numbers

• Account area for customers where they can manage previous orders, edit wish list, review order status and update their addresses.

• Create forms to collect additional information on the product. registration and checkout pages.

Fully integrated with all major eCommerce automation tools.

Including:

• Webgility eCommerce Connector.

• T-Hub by Atandra Systems.

• StoneEdge Order Manager.

• Store Manager by MagneticOne.com.

• Add up to 1.5 million additional products seamlessly through DOBA.

• Outsource order fulfillment through ShipWire.

• Create and automate your newsletters through Sales in a Click.

• Use affiliate marketing to create an online sales force through IDevAffiliate.