1ShoppingCart Review
Detailed Reviews
1ShoppingCart is Barrie, Ontario, Canada based company offering their
service to more than 25000 businesses according to the official
website. In 2006, the platform was acquired by web.com, a company
focused on web products and covers a number of tools to improve your
online marketing and website development efforts. Among their several
products and services, they also operate the popular Network Solutions
domain provider which may say a thing or two about the quality of its
services.
Design
Visiting the website, you
immediately get the feeling that the service is in need of a major
revamp to keep up with the times. 1ShoppingCart is notorious for their
lack of user-friendliness with their features. While there have been a
number of design modifications over the years, in recent times, the
frequency of these updates seems to have slumped.
1ShoppingCart provides several themes to choose from however,
like a few other competitors, the quality of themes may not be suitable
in the present area where design is a major focus for websites. The
site does offer a mobile version so that should bring in a few positive
points.
Promotion Tools
Their promotion tools are
one of their major advantages with the possibility of providing
discounts which are seasonal or based on coupon codes as well as other
offers such as the provision of free shipping for certain orders.
They
also recommend up-selling and promoting further during the checkout
process as well as the use of email marketing to garner more of a
response. We would not recommend the email marketing tools provided by
1ShoppingCart because you could get a more reputed, feature-rich tool
for a much lower price. Another useful tool is the option of providing a
product complimentary which can induce a purchase.
1ShoppingCart
allows integration with services like Doba, Doba is a leading dropship
service platform which allows selling millions of products without
actually keeping them in stock.
Lifeline
Lifeline
provides additional extended support to carry out various aspects of
your business. The services offered range from designing and marketing
your online store to setting
up your store for success. With their Jumpstart service, you can
outsource the task of setting up your store and getting it up and
running to one of 1ShoppingCart’s “e-commerce experts”. They also have
in-house designers if you are looking for a completely unique design to
brand your online store. They also have a marketing team to carry out
advertising and marketing campaigns as well as email marketing in order
to capture leads. If you are willing to pay for these extra services, it
shouldn’t be such a bad idea.
Data Feeds
With
1ShoppingCart, you can leverage the power of online shopping directories
and comparison websites. The service automatically submits your website
content to popular online product directories and price comparison
shopping sites to gain another avenue of traffic and in turn generation
of revenue.
Outsourced Customer Service
1ShoppingCart
gives you the option of centralizing your subscription services using
one provider. You have the option of setting up customer service for
your website by using their outsourced customer support service. This
includes email, chat or phone support based on your requirement. We
should warn you though; it may cost you a pretty penny.
Pricing
The
platform allows 500 products with its starting plan. There is also 1.25
to 0.75% fees associated with each transaction and depending on plan. Each plan offers many features including recurring billing, mobile friendly shopping cart, digital downloads, post-sale upselling tools and much.
Conclusion
1ShoppingCart
used to be one of the best options for shopping cart services and their
residual customer base is suggestive of that, but in the current trend
of the internet, they have failed to keep up which has led to their slow
decline.