With ShopVisible’s wish list capabilities, consumers can set aside all the items that peak their interest, and then transform those shopping dreams into reality thanks to enticing promotions and an easy checkout process.  ShopVisible’s wish list feature is just one of many tools offered by the all-in-one ecommerce solution that continues to effectively turn online browsers into buyers.

Much like the Amazon.com feature, when a visitor enters a site powered by ShopVisible and chooses to add an item to his wish list, he will be directed to an area to login or create and account.  Once the visitor logs in to his account, he can set up multiple custom wish lists (i.e. home, work, holiday gifts).  When he clicks the buy button on a wish list item, all his information is automatically pre-filled for checkout, making the  process both quick and convenient.  

ShopVisible offers a special promotional section connected to the wish lists, which allows online merchants to cross-sell and up-sell potential customers.  For instance, when a visitor returns to a site powered by ShopVisible, he can be prompted with a special offer or discount – “Take 10 percent off any purchase today that comes from your wish list.” Often times, customers just need that extra encouragement to buy an item they have on their mind.  

ShopVisible can turn the wish list function into a gift registry simply by making it public.  Once a customer creates a public wish list, he can choose to send an announcement to his friends and family, who then can link back to the site and purchase items directly from the list. ShopVisible also offers the option of gift-wrapping items purchased from a storefront, as well as an option to write a personal message to the recipient.  The owner of the gift registry can return to view how many of a particular item was bought, but in some cases, such as weddings, the function can be customized so that the owner cannot view who purchased the items.

The holidays are just around the corner, and New Years will be here before we know it.  If you are unhappy with your current ecommerce solution, you may want to add switching to a provider like ShopVisible to your wish list for 2009.  

ShopVisible is an ecommerce solution headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

     

This holiday season is especially busy for our clients.  While online merchants gladly welcome the surge of orders, handling shipping complications during a chaotic time of year is an e-tailer’s worst nightmare. 

At ShopVisible, we’ve created the most robust shipping engine available.  With our easy-to-use, reliable tools, clients can put their shipping frustrations aside and focus on growing their business.  In addition, customers can track their packages with ease and get those gifts in before its too late.  ShopVisible’s shipping tools are just one more way we’re helping to save Christmas for business owners (and consumers) one online storefront at a time.  

With ShopVisible, you can choose to offer three types of shipping.

1.    Multiple carriers, including FedEx, UPS, DHL, and USPS.  Our handy shipping calculator formulates costs against real time rates.
2.    Freight shipping including Yellow Freight, Conway, Etes, and FedEx Freight, also calculated against real time rates.  Clients can program special freight options into the site manager to help determine the appropriate cost for their customers (i.e. does the customer need a lift gate?).
3.    Custom shipping just for you.   Create your own business model around shipping.  Offer free shipping as a holiday promotion or an extra “white glove” cost to customers with special delivery requests.  

With ShopVisible, drop shipping is easy.  We’ve completely automated the process to eliminate communication mishaps between the drop-shipper, retailer, and consumer.  Anytime a package is shipped, a record with all order data is sent to the client and drop-shipper.  Tracking numbers are emailed directly to the customer.  In addition, if a customer purchases multiple products that ship from different locations, he will receive all tracking numbers accordingly.  

However, we don’t just service retailers with drop-shippers.  We service manufacturers, wholesalers, and franchises using fulfillment houses, in store inventory and more.

So if your business could benefit from a sophisticated, user-friendly shipping engine like ours, you may want to consider changing platforms.  Online shopping is in full swing, and with the ShopVisible ecommerce solution, our clients can celebrate the holidays without the added stress.  

     

The Friday after Thanksgiving has become known as Black Friday, formerly, because of the madness of holiday shopping rained down upon retailers. This year, Atlanta ecommerce solution provider, ShopVisible, is helping to turn Black Friday Green.

Several new environmentally friendly retailers have chosen the ShopVisible ecommerce solution to drive the growth of their eco-friendly businesses online. Ecomeme is a retailer providing the finest in home furnishings, toys and clothing, made from sustainable or renewable materials.  With trendy and ethical companies like Ecomeme, green living and great taste don’t have to be mutually exclusive.  

Idbids are a hot new toy with a message. Made from organic materials, Idbid’s three plush characters, Scout, Waverly, and Lola teach children the importance of environmental sustainability and provide parents with a gift that they can feel good about.  Idbids’ “iddy bitty steps for a greener world” have lead to big strides for the online business.  Idbids founders have won numerous awards for their eco-friendly toys including being named one of Time Magazine’s Top Toys of 2008.  

The Beehive Co-op is a local designer cooperative in multiple cities that encourages the development of emerging designers and artisans in the community.  Complimenting their brick and mortar store, the online storefront showcases lovingly handcrafted gems from clothing to jewelry to home accents.  The Beehive-Co-op also supports green designers including ShopVisible client, Felted Heart, offering sustainable wool fashions to eco-friendly adults and kids.  

Leiberts provides the best in energy efficient and energy star products to help you improve your home, while minimizing your impact on the environment and reducing that costly energy bill.  Between kitchen appliances, air conditioning units, and backyard living, with Leiberts, you can easily transform your home into a green haven.  

ShopVisible’s ecommerce solution integrates all of these clients website storefront management, with their order processing, inventory and administrative tools, so these clients can grow their business with the convenience of an all-in-one solution.  Even more, with email receipts, online transactions, and online communication, eco-friendly businesses powered by ShopVisible can reduce their carbon footprint by eliminating the need waste paper on printing.  

So help make this Black Friday Green, and consider all the amazing products offered by online eco-businesses this holiday season.  Gift giving has never been as stylish, practical, and meaningful as this.  

     

Have you ever sought out an item online, successfully located it, planned on purchasing it, and then forgotten where you originally found it?

The other day my mother had a birthday. She had recently finished renovating her living room so I thought that it would be a great idea to buy her a new lounge chair. I checked out Rooms To Go online. This furniture purveyor had a lot to offer...including URL confusion.

I browsed the website and found a Beachside Khaki Chair. I liked the look but was unsure if my mom would approve of the color scheme's matching coordination with her new paint job. I jotted down the URL to pass along to her:

www.roomstogo.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=showitem&ipac_id=12738

(Please keep in my mind that my 60 year old mother is no Bill Gates when it comes to web navigation...)

Since there is a Rooms To Go present here in Atlanta, I decided that maybe mom would be able to visit the store to view the chair. I then thought: "What if I want to save her a trip to the brick and mortar store? Wouldn't it be easier for her to remain home and browse selections?"

After giving her the above confusing URL and waiting on the phone while she slowly yet gracefully sojourned to her destination site, she said: "you know, I cannot find this chair you speak of... Some 404 error page keeps popping up. I hate computers!"

"Mom. Don't blame the computer; blame the URL. Blame Rooms to Go," I replied. I then rehtought the birthday gift buying process which I was attempting to enable my mother with. I recalled seeing another site on the web while I looked for "Atlanta teak (one of ma's favorites types) furniture." AuthenTeak, a ShopVisible powered Atlanta furniture provider, utilized clean and simple URLs. This online storefront popped up at the top on Google's listing.

For a chair similar to that from Rooms To Go, AuthenTeak showed a listing for a "Gloster Plantation Deep Seating Spring Rocker." The neat and tidy URL was:

http://www.authenteak.com/swivel-rocking-and-spring-rocking-chairs/gloster-plantation-deep-seating-spring-rocker.asp

As both you and my mother can see, the URL states the name, style, and brand all in one place. Let us again try and see what Rooms To Go offered up:

www.roomstogo.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=showitem&ipac_id=12738

The latter URL was complicated and jumbled, filled with caps, letters and numbers. When I sent my mother the AuthenTeak link, she almost already knew what she was looking for going off the URL alone. She exclaimed, "I love it already. Deep seating, swivel rocking, and located here in Atlanta. How easy!"

Shopvisible's seamless integration and user-friendly SEO content construction made for an overall agreeable shopping venture. For a glimpse into SEO powered retailers, look at all of the ShopVisible merchants.

They have been making URLs and mothers seeking easy web navigation happy for years.

ShopVisible is an Atlanta based ecommerce solution provider. Equipped with Google Checkout Integration and more, ShopVisible utilizes ecommerce state of the line technology, SEO tactics and SEM in order to incorporate efficiently fluid ecommerce processes.

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ShopVisible is proud to announce its certification for Google Checkout integration.  Soon, customers purchasing items from storefronts powered by ShopVisible will have access to a quick, easy, and secure checkout alternative.

For the ecommerce solution headquartered in Atlanta, Google Checkout comes as another worthy addition to a variety of integration tools already offered with the software.  Boasting an all-in-one solution that covers everything from analytics to shipping tools to features galore, ShopVisible continues to impress clients with unbeatable capabilities that almost magically function together in an easy to use platform.  

Google Checkout integration helps both online consumers and online merchants.  Users who sign up have the ability to purchase items across multiple channels with only one username and password.  Online shoppers don’t have to prolong the checkout process on a site by retyping and reentering transactional information, because Google keeps that information securely stored.  

For e-retailers, the addition of Google Checkout adds credibility to storefronts and gives otherwise weary consumers an alternative to a merchant system for transactions.  As a dependable, widely used vehicle for navigating the web, Google has become a name that people recognize and trust.  Therefore, displaying the Google Checkout badge provides another way for retailers to get customers to trust them.  

Google Checkout integration offers a speedy safe way for customers to get what they want on the web.  That means higher conversion rates and fewer abandoned carts for online merchants.  

ShopVisible clients have already achieved great success selling products through the platform integrated with Amazon, eBay, Craigslist and PayPal Checkout.  However, the addition of Google Checkout will help further boost sales for business owners in every industry ranging from fashion to automotive to manufacturing.  

For a closer look at Google Checkout Integration with ShopVisible, click here.

ShopVisible is an ecommerce solution in Atlanta, GA.  For a list of ShopVisible clients, click here.