AgoraCart Features

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Unlimited and Free to Use

Unlimited Product Categories
Unlimited Products
Unlimited Orders
No advertisements shown to your customers
No per transaction charges from us
Guest checkout - no customer login required
Free to Download - Community Version
Free to Use - Community Version

Responsive & Mobile Ready

100% Mobile Ready - Tested on iPhone 6-X/XS, Samsung Galaxy 3-9, Samsung Note 5 & 9, and other Android based mobile devices
Responsive and flexible design to fit any screen size
Mobile-friendly storefront for Google indexing
Use optimized dynamic or user-friendly (SEO) product category/item URLs
Automatically senses if mobile, desktop, or a search-bot but displays same code/page for Google purposes.
7"-10" (and larger) Apple iPad, Samsung, and generic Android tablet-friendly design
Browsers Tested: Firefox, Chrome, Brave / Dissenter (both Chromium based), Safari, and Samsung Internet
Rocks on laptop and desktop screens too.

Template & Layout Management

New Template packages that contain headers, footers, CSS files, javascript libraries, HTML widgets, homepage widgets, and a manifest to tie it all together
Template package options: optionally you can include productPage layouts (aka PPINCs) for categories, custom headers and footers for static HTML/content pages or categories, and CSS/HTML/JS framework files that are needed for the template
Manage Template packages and included files: add, edit, install, copy, delete
New widget system for easier placement of common features like cart contents, featured roducts, etc.
Enable/disable widgets and then visually order widgets with drag and drop functions
Manage Metatag, SEO items, and page layouts (aka PPINCs) for each product category.
Add/Create custom headers/footers for each product category or static/content page (aka static pages or cartlinks)
File editor for misc templates: emails, verify pages, thankyou pages, order forms, headers and footers, etc

* Headers and Footers are the template top and bottom skin / wrapper for the site, a page, or a product category

Category & Product Management

Flexible Product Add, Edit, Delete functions
Add new product categories on the fly when adding or editing products
5 userfields to expand product information needs
10 userfield expansion/option available in marketplace
Primary and 1 sub-category levels for product categories
2 additional virtual sub-category levels for product categories - requires 1-2 open userfields for use
Basic option file builder with up to 3 option sets: colors, sizes, suggested sales, bundles, etc with prices
Advanced variable options that can be nested, include other option sets already built, add multiple products options at once with individual qunatities, or provide discounts based on quantity, weight, item total, etc. - requires very basic coding skills
Import product database files in pipe, comma or tab delimited spreadsheet formats
Export product database files in pipe, comma or tab delimited spreadsheet formats

Content Management - Basic CMS

New HTML widgets and zone system. Any standard widget can be customized and included in a template pack.
Templates can support any number of widget zones for vertical and horizontal widgets
Widgets: cart contents, featured product, best sellers, new products, category list, search box, price search, and more.
New HomeZone HTML Widgets: controlled by each template package, once enabled, these can be ordered by drag and drop for display on the main page for the store.
HomeZone widgets can be included in the content areas of Static HTML pages, if supprt added to a page's content area.
Cartlinks: static HTML pages for non-product pages like about us, shipping policies, privacy policy, terms of service, returns, or even categories and groups of products you want to manually create. &cartlink=pagename.html in the link to the page.
Product Pages: static HTML pages for additional product information or whatever you you need content wise that you want to manually create. &page=pagename.html in the link to the page.
Static HTML Page Managers for both cartlinks and paroduct pages where you can convert legacy versions, or create, copy, edit or delete pages, with full control over metatags, headers, footers, titles, content, etc.
Featured Product with image - manually created widget with manager
Best Sellers list with images - manually created widget with manager - Gold Supporter benefit
New Products list with images - manually created widget with manager - Gold Supporter benefit

Misc

Supports shared, dedicated, and free/auto SSL/TLS security certificates and URLs
Checkout Security: verified products in database, verified options, minimum order amounts, negative option price prevention, inventory status check before checkout (if inventory module installed), order info & payment verification, and more
Manager security: unique session tokens per each screen (limits usability), manager session length can be set, .htaccess directory password protection for manager areas (optional, but recommended)
Customize code using freeform logic: create a subroutine/function and latch onto codehooks spread throughout the code - advanced feature

Ordering

Guest checkout - no customer login required
Direct customer after add-to-cart to: back to same page product added from, cart contents screen, or the checkout form
Multiple payment options supported
Customizable order forms for each payment solution
Custom order verify and thank you pages - templates for each page type
Take donations: select amount option or donor supplied amount, with or without product database
Customizeable order confirmation emails to customer: text or HTML based
Order confirmations sent via SMTP or script authorizations
buySAFE order insurance bonding - requires buySAFE account.
Select currency symbol and placement
Discount Codes / Promo Code support - Gold Supporter benefit

Payments & Order Management

Enable/disable payment solutions easily - rewritten to allow multiple gateways without a secondary location
Specific order forms for each payment solution
Generic verify page and thankyou page templates, some payment gateways with dedicated templates
PayPal IPN integration - rewritten and improved in Route 66
Accept manual payments: POs, eChecks, mailed payments, etc - Gold Supporter add-on
Core payment solutions: Authorize.Net SIM, PayPal Basic, PayPal IPN.
Gold Supporter benefits - payment solutions: Manual/Offline
More payment solutions in the pipeline for Route 66 and above
New order logs with new interface to make order management and archiving orders easier
Monthly & individual order logs for redundancy
Look up orders by date range or by IDs
Individual orders: delete, make edits, or even add admin notes
Order data mapper/exporter add-on coming soon for Route 66 version - Gold Supporter benefit
Donation mode: with or without product database -requires donation mode template

Shipping Management

Enable/disable shipment services
Selected and custom shipment methods automatically built for your order forms
Select/Edit the States/Provs and Countries you wish to include for shipping selection
Add handling charges: flat rate or as a percentage of order total
Core shipment rating options: USPS and UPS (basic, when good enough is close enough)
Gold Supporter benefits - shipment ratings: UPS XML (account based and more accurate)
Marketplace shipment rating add-ons: UPS XML, and FedEx XML (coming soon for Route 66)
Custom shipping logic for advanced use
- Endless custom shipping logic possibilities
- Set rates an any combination of order or individual product attributes such as weight, price/total, quantity, category name, product ID using custom shipping logic code
- Define your own shipping methods and shipping rates
- Indicate items for free shipping - requires open userfield and custom shipping logic
Add shipping to product options in options files.
Add shipping to products in HTML snippets (embedded code) used on other sites

* Note: more advanced custom shipping logic requires basic coding skills or ability to hire help.

Tax Management

Handles US, Canada, and custom country tax rates.
Set items tax free (requires open userfield)
Avalara AvaTax integration - get in marketplace
3 custom tax logic levels for advanced use
Endless tax logic possibilities on almost anything collected on order forms
Compute sales taxes on any combination of countries, states, cities, postal codes, product categories, product items, product DB userfields, and more using custom tax logic code

* Note: more advanced custom tax logic requires basic coding skills or ability to hire help.

100% Template Driven

Place all your JS, CSS, HTML, language overrides, headers, footers, and product page layouts in one template package.
New widget system for easier placement of common features like cart contents, featured products, etc.
Enable/disable widgets in manager screens
Visually order widgets in drag and drop managers
Add/Create custom headers/footers (aka skins or wrappers) for each product category or use a default template
Add/Create custom headers/footers for each static/content page or use the global default
Use standard product page layouts or include custom versions in a template package
Add custom product page layouts (PPINCs) per category for a different layout
Override default product page layouts (PPINCs) by adding a ppinc value to your link URLs - see our Demo Page for sample links
Manage Metatag and SEO items for each product category.
Control robots metatag info for each product category and static/content page using: noindex, nofollow, noarchive, noimageindex
Templates for order confirmation emails sent to your customers and store admin
Templates for the order verify step during checkout
Templates for the thank-you page shown after a completed order