MEI Shop Site makes setting up your web store easy. The basic theme (look-and-feel) can be set up in a matter of minutes. We gladly assist with setup of the more technical aspects of your store including our powerful Shipping Calculator, Category Structure, Merchandising Tools, and Brand Loyalty Tools. Hundreds of options allow you to make your store unique both in style and features.
Browser Based Interface
The only tool you need to operate your Shop Site web site is your Web browser. Using your Web browser, you everything about your store using Shop Site’s simple user interface. No need to install any programs on your computer; this means you can monitor orders, manage your catalog, change prices, control sales and promotion from anywhere using your PC or even your mobile devices including iPad, iPhone or tablet PC!
Fully Customizable “Home Page”
Your Home Page is merely a Category Page and may be designed to contain any graphics and text you wish including the use of HTML, JavaScript, etc.
Full Control Over Look and Feel
Shop Sites “Layout” feature allows you fine control over colors, fonts, and images that make up your web store including “Header” images, “Menu” images, and even detailed images like your “Shopping Cart” icon.
Global Layout Customization
Changes made to your store’s Layout are effective immediately and are applied globally on every page of your web site.
Top Navigation Menu
Your store can include Menu Choices that appear that the top of every page driving customers to the most important pages on your site. These can be Category Pages, Product Pages, Static Pages including “Contact Us”, or Custom Pages promoting Sales, Memberships or other important information.
Left Navigation Menu
Shop Site provides Static Menu Choices on the Left side of the screen providing easy and consistent navigation to the Top Level pages of your site. In addition to System Menu Choices, you can add links to Categories, Custom Pages, and Shop Site’s exclusive “Menu Advertisements” giving you complete control over what your customers see while visiting your site.
Expandable Left Menu Choices
Select Category-based Left Menu choices can be configured to expand and display all sub-categories providing quick access to the most important deep-links to your store.
No Limit on # of Products per Page
There is no limit on the number of products that can be displayed on a page. You decide how many you wish to display. This allows you to customize the presentation of each individual Category page ensuring your customer sees every product you offer. Shop Site provides powerful pagination and page navigation allowing your customers to browse painlessly.
Multiple Image and Thumbnail Support
You can upload as many product images as necessary for each product in your catalog. Thumbnails for all additional images are displayed on the product detail page. MouseOver or clicking on a thumbnail causes the immediate view of the Large image on the Product Detail page.
Visual Color Selection Tool
Friendly ColorChooser applets are available to selecting colors when designing your store Layout.
Search Engine Friendly HTML Pages
All Category and Product pages meet WhiteHat SEO standards providing maximum index ability to all search engines. Shop Site includes the option to specify unique title text, META keywords, and META descriptions for each Category page or Product Detail Page.
Express Checkout Screen
For “Express Sales” of a single item, as in promotional redirection, Shop Site offer a single screen, express checkout for fast, easy, no-distraction orders.
Customizable “Narrow Your Search”
You can override your sites default settings and specify which “Narrow Your Search” attributes you wish to appear on individual Category Pages and the Search Results Page.
Copy Pages and Products
Products can be copied for fast catalog population. Categories can be copied, or replicated, including Sub-Categories and even Products within the Category.
Bulk Image Resize
Need to change the size of your product image thumbnails to fit your new invoice format? Resizing all of your product thumbnails is a single-click away using Shop Site’s Image Resize tool.
Automatic Thumbnail Generation
No need to create multiple versions of your Product images. Once you’ve created your “Main” Product image and uploaded it to your catalog, Shop Site automatically creates thumbnails in all necessary sizes.
Store Reviews (Auto Display on Custom Pages)
Use Shop Sites exclusive %StoreReview% feature to automatically include the latest Store Reviews (Testimonials) on any Custom Page on your store’s web site.
Micro-Site Auto Generation and Update (Sub-Sites)
Shop Site offers another exclusive: “Micro-Site Autogeneration”. Just select the Category you would like to use to populate a stand-alone “Micro-Site” with and provide a valid URL (WebDAV), and Shop Site will create a web site automatically and update it with Product Adds/Changes daily.
Random Image Presentation on Custom Pages
Keep your site Dynamic by specifying any number of Random Images to be displayed on any Category page. Use this to promote several Products or just keep static pages fresh.
Automatic, Real-Time “Top Sellers” Displayed optionally on Category Pages
Want to give your customers an idea of what’s “Hot” in your store? Shop Site can automatically display your best selling products on any Category page.
Fully Customizable Non-Product Related Pages including text and images (HTML Optional).
Create pages containing any content you with using plain text or HTML.
Featured Items
Select any number of products from your catalog to be presented as “Featured Items” promoting cross-selling on Category pages and Product Detail pages.
Search Capability – Full search capability.
Customers can enter text into your site’s Search Box and Shop Site will perform a contextual search of the entire catalog and present matches in order of relevance. Customers can then Narrow their Search by options you specify.
Credit Card Support – Credit Card acceptance for using your own credit card merchant account.
No need to open a new Merchant Account to accept payment by credit card on Shop Site. All Merchant Account providers as supported, Platinum Management being the Preferred Merchant Account Provider for Shop Site. If you don’t already accept credit cards, we are happy to help you open an account with our preferred Merchant Account Provider, Platinum Management.
Credit Card Gateway Support for Authorize.net
Full Support for the Authorize.net payment gateway including non-transaction based refunds.
Full Site Statistics provided by Webalizer.
Easily see and understand the traffic that your web store is enjoying. View charts and graphs summarizing traffic sources, most viewed pages, most common search strings as well as detail.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Use of customizable META Description and META Keywords Tags. White Hat SEO conforms to 100% of specifications and requirements set forth by Google. Additional automatic page generation for all Categories and Products with industry and store specific content.
Full SSL Certificate Support
1024-bit SSL Certificates.