subject: Customize These 4 Things With Your Customizable Shopping Cart Software [print this page] Customize These 4 Things With Your Customizable Shopping Cart Software
If you are using a customizable shopping cart software, you can actually do a lot of customization and changes to make your online store better. Here are a few things that you can change.
Your Store Look
Don't just settle for those ready made templates that come with your ecommerce shopping cart. Although some look really beautiful and stylish, you can choose to enhance or improve on the look of those templates that you have selected for your online store. Change some of the wordings or text as well as the background color. I mean, make your online store look special. And in the process, try not to mess it up or make it worse. If you are a bit paranoid about messing something up, just go ahead and sign up for a free trial store with the same provider to try out the changes that you would like to do. That way, once it works out well, you could replicate the same changes on your real store.
How Your Products And Categories Are Displayed
A powerful shopping cart should be able to allow you to display your products in different ways. They will have different page layout options for you to choose from. Find the ones that you like the best and these are usually the ones that are able to display your products most clearly to customers. If you are bored with how your categories are displayed, you may opt to add some images to it.
Which Payment Processor To Use?
Since these customizable shopping cart software will come with a range of payment processor, select at least 2 payment gateways to use. That will give your customers the options to choose which is the one they prefer to use. You could also have those payment gateway logos displayed clearly in your online store's front page for customers to know.
How To Ship Out Your Stuff
Shipping could also be customized to offer a few options to customers. Some customers may prefer to have their items combined and sent out together while others may want to choose the cheapest option to save money. Either way, you could customize your store to offer free shipping for customers who spend up to a certain amount. Just make sure that you don't make any loss in the process.
Summary
These are the main things that you can customize in your online store provided your shopping cart is powerful enough to allow it. You can make your store better by customizing it.
