E-Commerce Vendor ShopSite Announces Version 11 of Leading Shopping Cart System

OREM, Utah, June 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ShopSite, Inc., a leading provider of e-commerce shopping cart and catalog software for small to medium-sized businesses, announced the release of ShopSite version 11.  ShopSite® is an industry leading e-commerce software option for web hosting providers, for new or existing Internet merchants, and for Web designers.

"ShopSite v11 has also passed the PCI Security Standards Council testing for PA-DSS (Payment Application Data Security Standard)," said ShopSite CEO David Hills.  "In addition to many new features, v11 also integrates more tightly with third-party services such as Facebook and Constant Contact," said Hills.

Constant Contact is supported in ShopSite Manager and Pro.  When an order completes ShopSite can now send a shopper's name and e-mail information to Constant Contact to automatically subscribe to the merchants newsletter or other marketing activities.  "When buyers go to check out, it's a perfect time to capture their contact information," said Gail Goodman, CEO of Constant Contact. "They've just had a great experience shopping with you and tend to be much more open to staying in touch in the future. This integration is designed to make collecting those details really easy for ShopSite merchants."

New Features

Facebook Store (Pro)

Allows your customers to shop for select products while visiting your company Facebook site.

User Accounts (Pro, Manager, Starter)

Separate login accounts can be created for each user accessing the merchant's ShopSite back office.

Roles (Pro)

The merchant can restrict individual user permissions as needed to specific roles such as Administrator, Order Fulfillment, Content Management, etc.

Reports (Pro, Manager, Starter)

The Reports feature has received a significant overhaul, both in ease of use and power. Everything from sales and inventory to coupon and gift certificate use can be examined and charted.

The full list of new features can be found here: http://www.shopsite.com/help/11.0/en-US/new-features.html

ShopSite is sold by hundreds of reseller partners, including hosting companies such as NTT/Verio, IPOWER, PowWeb, FatCow, Go Daddy, LexiConn,  pair Networks, and YourHost.com.  Merchant web sites using ShopSite include: the Getty Trust Foundation, Avia, Kitchenshop, W+S Water Safety Europe GmbH and thousands of others.

About ShopSite

ShopSite, Inc., is a private company based in Orem, Utah, and has provided electronic commerce software for the small to medium-sized business since 1996. The company's software is an online catalog and shopping cart system that is extremely powerful and easy to learn. With ShopSite software, merchants can manage their online stores entirely, regardless of their technical background—there's no HTML coding required.

The ShopSite family includes three products:

• ShopSite Starter™ for merchants just starting out or stores that don't have many products.
• ShopSite Manager™ offers an unlimited number of products and pages, Custom Templates, data upload and download, Store Search, and more.
• ShopSite Pro™ for stores that need advanced features such as Coupons, Digital Downloads, Gift Certificates, Customer Registration, Inventory Tracking, Volume Discounts, and Associates.

A comprehensive list of features in all ShopSite products can be found at www.shopsite.com/scchecklist.html.

ShopSite is server-based software that works with existing Web browsers, which means that merchants do not need to download or install anything on their desktop in order to create and manage a ShopSite store. Merchants can preview a demo version of ShopSite and obtain pricing information by visiting www.shopsite.com.

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Copyright © 2011 ShopSite, Inc. All rights reserved. ShopSite, ShopSite Pro, ShopSite Manager, and ShopSite Starter are trademarks or registered trademarks of ShopSite, Inc., in the United States. All other names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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