Shopping functionality, including:

• Secure shopping environment with PGP encryption
• Support of third-party payment systems
• Notification of online orders
• Notification of site errors
• Automatic calculation of sales tax and shipping charges
• Pre-screening of credit card numbers to avoid incurring authorization fees on numbers that shoppers enter incorrectly

Site and catalog page generation, featuring:

• More than a dozen template sets
• Several merchandising product templates to describe the status of products (such as "feature", "out of stock", or price comparison)
• Search engine

Back office assistance, consisting of:

• Reports of online order activity
• Affiliate program support and reports
• Download capability to retrieve order data
• Automatically implements product discounts
• SoftCart add-on modules to further enhance your store operations
• Drop-Ship Module-Automatically notifies your warehouse supplier or vendor when your store has received an online order that needs to be fulfilled
• QBLink Module-Lets you import SoftCart online order data into your Intuit® QuickBooks® accounting system

SoftCart provides two means of generating and maintaining your store:

• SoftCartT StoreBuilderT Wizard
• SoftCartT Store Manager
• Generate a new e-commerce storefront
• Perform basic maintenance of product, store, tax, and shipping information and regenerate new store pages
• Viewing and downloading online order data
• Configuring the Drop-Ship Module to send online order data to specific vendors or fulfillment suppliers
• Configuring the QBLink Module to export online order data to a QuickBooks accounting system
• Creating and viewing sales reports and graphs