Product Overview
Triskelon Shopping Cart Software
The Best Shopping Cart Available
We are pleased to announce the release (9/1/2011) of version 6.541 of the Triskelon eCommerce Shopping Cart. Prior shopping cart versions were available as part of the Web Builder integrated software suite. However, as of this version, our shopping cart software is now fully modular. That is, it can operate with or without the integrated suite. It is also mobile friendly, and vastly more feature rich than prior shopping cart versions. As with all Triskelon software, the shopping cart user experience is simple and elegant both for you and your customers.As most shopping carts are not mobile friendly, it is not an exaggeration to say that our web 2.0 shopping cart software is now the best available for small-to-medium sized businesses who wish to build shopping websites to sell tangible products, based within the 48 contiguous United States, plus Alaska and the District of Columbia.
See also shopping cart browser support and shopping cart update history.
A Professional, Yet Affordable, Shopping Cart Solution
For unlimited part numbers, the one-time lifetime licensing fee is $300. For 25 or fewer unique part numbers, the license is free! Either way, labor is required for installation, custom configuration, and custom skinning, for which we charge a one-time fee of $200.| Configuration does not include populating your online store with products. Product data formatting and import services, if any, would be additional. You can enter your own product data after training, so product data formatting and import services are optional. Configuration does not include defining applicable sales taxes. You will be able to define your sales taxes yourself after training or, optionally, you may hire Triskelon to research and define sales taxes for you based on your types of products offered for sale, your localities with nexus, and the requirements of taxing agencies that have jurisdiction in those localities. |
Our ecommerce shopping cart software is not a hosted solution or software as a service. These services often result in a significantly higher cost of ownership over time. Rather our web 2.0 shopping cart is software, installed on your web server, which carries a one-time lifetime licensing fee (waived for stores with 25 or fewer unique part numbers), so you get more bang for your buck than with hosted solutions.
There is no more comprehensive yet affordable solution for shopping websites which carry 25 or fewer unique part numbers.
Staff Training
Training is required and available for $90. In-person training is available in the Seattle/Bellevue/Everett/Monroe area. Training by teleconference also possible. One 1-hour training class, in a one-on-one setting, to enable you or your staff to administer, manage products, and fill orders in your online store using a friendly menu-driven user interface. If there is a database of products to be imported to the online store, this should be done before training. No prior web skills required. Basic computer literacy is required.CCSZ Service
Sales tax management for online stores is not as simple as it once was. Online stores can no longer afford to charge just one flat sales tax rate on all orders being shipped to destinations within their own state, and leave it at that. There are thousands of state and local taxing agencies in the United States, and they are all clamoring for their “cut” of growing online sales. Despite a tax reform movement lead by state governments, there is not yet any nationwide standardization in sales tax collection rules, nor any online support services to enable collection of uniform nationwide sales taxes that are practicable and priced for small business owners.So the prevailing sales tax rule practicable for small businesses is the one set by the US Supreme Court in 1992, “Quill vs. North Dakota”. (Please see your CPA or tax attorney for details.) Our shopping cart provides full support for sales tax collection and remittance under Quill vs. North Dakota sales tax rules, making collection and remittance of sales taxes as easy for you and your customers as it can be, while ensuring compliance and adequate collection.
Besides the locality of your shipping warehouse (your primary “nexus”), if you have “nexus” elsewhere (which could mean a vacation home in another state), these taxing agencies may come after you for failure to collect sales taxes in secondary localities, too. Even if you have only one "nexus" (your shipping warehouse), you still likely have to pay separate amounts to multiple taxing agencies within your own state.
This, however, requires an accurate database of every county and city in the country. Databases of this type require maintenance, because new cities and zip codes are created every month. Pay a one-time lifetime CCSZ licensing fee of $75, and you do not have to maintain any database; yet you and your customers will benefit when other Triskelon clients and their customers report new cities and zip codes. Your CCSZ license helps cover the costs of maintaining the Triskelon central city/county/state/zip database.
Total Cost of Ownership Illustrated
This sample illustrates the total cost of ownership. Includes software license, installation, custom configuration, custom skinning, CCSZ license, and training. Does not include building your main website, marketing of any kind, nor populating your online store with products. A “small store” is one which offers 25 or fewer unique part numbers. A “large store” may sell an unlimited number of products.| small store | large store | |
|---|---|---|
| Software license | Free! | $300 |
| Install/Configure/Skin | $200 | 200 |
| CCSZ license | 75 | 75 |
| Training | 90 | 90 |
| Total | $365 | $665 |
| small store | large store | |
|---|---|---|
| Software license | Free! | $300 |
| Install/Configure/Skin | $200 | 200 |
| CCSZ license | 75 | 75 |
| Training | 90 | 90 |
| Total | $365 | $665 |
Complete, Reliable, and Feature Rich
The Triskelon Shopping Cart is built using the same reliable engineering and craftsmanship as all our other ecommerce products. Our web 2.0 shopping cart is complete and feature rich, including all the features and benefits shown below.| feature | benefit |
|---|---|
| AJAX | Less waiting during page loads |
| Authorize.Net support | Receive payments using almost any credit card merchant account |
| Automatic image sizing on upload | Less image pre-processing is required |
| Automatic part number assignment | Optionally generate automatic part numbers, less work for you |
| Batch shipping support | Shipping becomes much easier and faster, even as your order volume grows |
| BBCode formatting support | You can easily enter attractive and compelling product descriptions |
| Comparison shopping feeds | Stay competitive using comparison shopping feeds, supported via SQL |
| Custom skinning | Your shopping cart's appearance matches the appearance of your main website for a seamless customer experience |
| Customer testimonials | Receive testimonials from satisfied customers and feature them in product descriptions, increasing your sales |
| Featured products, on-sale products | Easily manage special product groups as categories with discounts for each |
| Free domestic ground shipping | Encourage customers to buy more using a minimum threshold for free shipping |
| Real time worldwide shipping calculation | Never let shipping costs eat into your profits by making sure shipping costs are always accurately calculated and adequately met |
| Gift certificate support | Sell and redeem gift certificates automatically, increasing your sales by tapping into the gift market |
| Gift wrapping, notes | Make it easier for your customer to give gifts, and they will respond via repeat sales |
| Gift registry | Enable your customers with a special occasion to use your store as their gift registry, increasing sales |
| Hazmat support | Protect yourself from legal and environmental consequences while broadening your product line |
| Inventory control | Make reordering easier for mass-produced products, avoid overselling unique one of a kind items |
| Keyword seach | Customers can quickly and easily find what they're looking for, increasing sales |
| Log-in free | No customer log-in is required, increasing customer convenience and sales |
| Maintenance via chron jobs | Less work for you when your web hosting provider handles maintenance for you |
| Member-only products | Legally sell restricted-access products such as prescription medicines |
| Military postal address support | Accurate shipping and handling even for unusual addresses, increasing customer satisfaction |
| Mobile friendly | Offering more convenience means increasing sales, not losing sales to larger competitors |
| Mod-rewrite support | Get your product pages ranked as highly as possible in search engine results. (Also called “SEO URL's”.) |
| Multiple images per product | Multiple images with enlargements mean increasing customer confidence and sales |
| Multiple security access levels | Enable your staff to do exactly what they need to do, reduce risk by preventing inappropriate access |
| PCI DSS exempt | Avoid high PCI DSS compliance certification costs, be exempt by handling payments smarter (see details) |
| PayPal support | Receive payments using the most popular payment service of it's kind |
| Product import automation | Where a large product base already exists, automation makes it cheaper to bring your new store online |
| Product export automation | Use the SQL query browser to export for comparison shopping feeds or to produce reports of any kind |
| Product ratings | Enable your customers to rate the products they purchased, increasing socially-driven sales |
| Promo (coupon) codes | Offer special pricing incentives for product categories or customer groups |
| Quill vs. North Dakota sales tax support | Easily maintain compliance with sales tax rules, even if you have nexus in multiple localities |
| Special order support | Convenience for handling for special ordered items, reduced overhead while broadening product selection |
| SQL query browser | Any data reporting or data manipulation feature not already built in can still be handled using SQL queries |
| Target delivery dates | Customer service and shipping staff will be able to easily support realistic expectations, increasing customer satisfaction |
| Tax payments with one click | Minimize your labor while remitting collected sales taxes to your taxing agencies |
| Tell a friend | Enable social product referrals, increasing sales |
| Variants support | Not necessary to create a unique part number for each color, etc. This makes defining products easier for some online stores |
| Wish list support | Enable customers to record their favorite products they plan to buy later, increasing sales |
| Web API for POS systems | Expand into a brick-and-mortar store and maintain inventory control |
The Best Choice for Small Business
The Triskelon Shopping Cart is the best available for small-to-medium sized businesses who wish to build shopping websites to sell tangible products, based within the 48 contiguous United States, plus Alaska and the District of Columbia. Give it a try! You'll be glad you did. (See also “What Clients Say” and “$100 Guarantee”.)See related ecommerce products.
