Administrator Tools
Built-in Integration w/ Merchant Accounts using Authorize.NET
Automatically charge credit cards in real-time using Authorize.NET. Simply fill in your Authorize.NET credentials and never worry about manually processing another credit card. Other payment options are available.
Industry Leading Support
Premium Service Package subscribers to the Merkatis Commerce™ ecommerce solution receive free unlimited technical support via telephone or email. Our staff is ready to assist you in getting your store online, and keeping it running smoothly.
Easy Customer Management
Merkatis Commerce™ is equipped with advanced reporting tools to manage sales and customer records. You are never more than a few clicks away from your ecommerce web site reports on:
- invoices
- sales and product summaries
- credit card transaction reports
Bulk Product, Category & Department Import Tool
Making big changes to your store has never been easier. Using Microsoft Access, you can download your database of products, and easily search and replace content, update prices, change category, vendor or manufacturer for anything in your store! Merkatis provides the tools to work on your database locally and with one click synchronize your entire product line.
Perhaps you need to move your existing ecommerce solution to the Merkatis Commerce™ ecommerce solution. Using familiar desktop tools, your database can be easily converted and imported into your new shopping cart software. Or if you prefer, Artifex can migrate the data for you.
Search Engine Optimized (SEO)
Our ecommerce solution allows you to target search engine traffic by creating custom meta tags for every page on the system. Meta tags help tell search engines what a web page is about, and you can adjust and optimize them to send your ecommerce web store to the top of the listings.
Merkatis Commerce™ automatically shortens the urls to keep your web page addresses short and easy to index. Search engines can index your entire site, not just a few pages.
Custom Design on Any Page
You can use CSS to control the look and feel of your entire site, or you can personalize individual elements with style attributes, The look of the home page, the category page or the page of any individual product are completely customizable.
Sales Reporting
No ecommerce solution is complete without an in-depth and detailed reporting section. Find out:
- Which products are best sellers?
- Which are the worst performers?
- What are your sales figures this week? This month? This quarter? This year?
Merkatis Commerce™ places important information in charts so that you can quickly track the progress of your online business.
Unlimited Departments, Unlimited Categories
Build unlimited levels of departments/sub-departments arranged in any order you choose to easily manage your products. You are not constrained to fit your web store into a preset number of categories; you can organize your store how you want it.
Promotional HTML E-mail Utility
Send HTML e-mails to all of your customers from within the Merkatis ecommerce solution. The Promotional HTML E-mail Utility sends mail directly to your customer base, keeping you in contact with them and reminding them to re-visit your web store.
But why send plain e-mail when you can and add graphics and dynamic data for real impact? Merkatis e-mail comes equipped with a WYSIWYG editor to compose and send HTML e-mail, so dressing up your e-mail blast is as easy writing a letter in your favorite word processor. It's perfect to announce a sale, a new category, or a new product.
Cross/Up-selling for Each Product
Easily control similar items that show up on product pages. It has been designed to make sure that shoppers find all of your products that interest them, and presents them with the information at the point of sale. When shoppers add a product to their cart, you can then choose to display a custom message to up-sell them based on the product they just added to their cart!
Product, Vendor or Storewide Sales
Create storewide sales and discounts, or set mark-downs on individual products or specific vendors to generate quick increases in revenue. Merkatis is the ecommerce solution that offers the power and flexibility to increase sales and manage inventory.
Site Search Report
Nothing will teach you more about your customers than their search habits. Understand your shoppers with detailed reporting on latest search terms, and write your product keywords, descriptions, and meta tags to better match your products with your customer's searches.
Affiliate Report/Payments
Offer an incentive to affiliates! Merkatis makes it easy to track sales and reward your affiliates for sending their traffic your way.
Manage Order Confirmations for Customers, Merchants & Vendors
Customize each e-mail Merkatis sends. From the look to the content, you have complete control over your store's identity. You can configure the e-mails differently for order notification to you, your vendor, and your shopper.
Manage Country, State & Local Tax Rates
Define various tax brackets on a country, state, and even local level.
QuickBooks Integration
Download your orders, customers, and other important information into QuickBooks through our optional QuickBooks Module.
Microsoft Access Integration and Bulk Import Tool
Use Microsoft Access to edit your database and then reimport it back into Merkatis. Changes to your product line are fast and efficient. Also use Access for Bulk Importing products.
Full Product Detail Customization
Merkatis is the only ecommerce solution to offer so much control over your inventory! There are short and long descriptions, product keywords, up-sell information, discount information, and more. The shopping cart software also allows you to add attributes to your products which gives you complete control over color choices, size information, custom options, and personalized merchandise.
Test the products section now in our fully-functional ecommerce solution™ demo.
Advanced Order Search
Keep on top of your orders with a glance. With the Advanced Order Search, you can search and sort orders by date, payment or ship status, order type, and more.
Manage Price Groups
Apply discounts and other criteria to entire price groups. You're in complete control of every aspect of your web store.
View Unfinished Orders in Real-time
The Merkatis shopping cart keeps track of unfinished orders. You can check on all unfinished orders in real time to see what people add to their shopping carts, and take the opportunity to follow up with your customer to close the deal.
Volume Pricing
Selling in volume? Offer your customers special discounts when they buy in bulk. Offer discounts to shoppers who buy a certain amount, or use the advanced tier-based structure so you can give higher discounts to larger volume orders.
Real-Time Shipping Rates
Never have to estimate prices. Merkatis interfaces directly with FedEx, UPS, the United States Post Office, and other major carriers to provide accurate, real-time shipping quotes. Know your costs and earn your customers' trust with genuine shipping prices and not inflated estimates. Merkatis also offers the ability to add a mark up to shipping. Add a flat rate or a percentage to specific shipping methods.
Fully Customizable Menus
Our unique ecommerce solution allows for as many menu systems as you need. You have full control over what shows in each menu from an easy to use management console. Use your choice of dynamic animated dropdown menus or static html menus.
Order Fulfillment
Manage incoming orders with our order fulfillment tools. Keep track of which orders have been paid and/or shipped, print packing slips, and enter shipping tracking numbers. Merkatis Commerce™ gives you the tools to manage every step of the sale from shopping cart to shipping.
Inventory Tracking
Whether you choose to allow real time credit card processing or not, you have the ability to allow backordering of products. You can notify shoppers which products are out of stock and the ecommerce solution will automatically send you e-mail notices to let you when its time to reorder inventory.
Shopper Specific Pricing
For frequent shoppers or wholesale shoppers, you can set up custom pricing for anything in your store. Whether it's your entire inventory or just one product, category, manufacturer, or vendor, you have full control over what discount you offer to which customers. You may set up a discount percentage from the original price or a markup percentage based on your cost.
- See the ecommerce solution Features Overview
- Read the complete list of Customer Benefits
The Merkatis Commerce™ ecommerce solution offers administrators a powerful and easy to use solution to start and run a totally customized shopping cart on the web.