CartSpan Features
CartSpan is loaded with features that save you time, enhance customer service, and promote solid business practices. At CartSpan, we're 'business people' first and believe technology should serve to that end. This means that you will find us very receptive to all suggestions, large or small, as to how we can better support your unique business processes. We are an agile and flexible organiziation with repect to the evoloution of CartSpan. So, if you don't see functionality that your business requires, please contact us so that we may discuss the possibilities of collaborative development.
Option to preserve your legacy Customer ID's in Peachtree Accounting.
Option to import order as either an INVOICE or ORDER.
Option to automatically register cash receipt for invoice import (invoice remains open for unconfirmed transactions).
New customers are automatically added to Peachtree. If billing information has changed, it will be updated in Peachtree.
Proper creation of the Ship-To contact record and address in Peachtree for new Customers.
Special handling of 'Contact Name' in Ship-To detail to support ShipGear/UPS configured companies.
Intelligent abbreviaion of lengthy configurable options to 'fit' on Peachtree's order-line description.
Import from select stores if running a multi-store database configuration (not all shopping carts).
Option to automatically create items in Peachtree as a 'Stock Item' using default GL Accounts.
CartSpan recognizes the GL Sales accounts of individual inventory items.
Line-item creation of supplemental 'Handling' and 'Surcharges' (not all shopping carts).
Line-item creation of promotional discounts and coupons with clear reference to the coupon code (not all carts).
Option to assign sales representative for pre-existing customers (common for business-to-business field sales).
Field mapping of Purchase Order number (not all shopping carts).
Option to import items as 'Description Only' for complex make-to-order environments.
Selective exclusion of items from the order/invoice import.
Manage both Retail and Sales Pricing from within Peachtree.
GAAP compliant accounting for Gift Certificate sales and redemption.
Order pick-lists are auto-generated and emailed to designated addresses.
Email alerts to Administrator(s) for exceptions in order processing.
User sets desired order download frequency.
Order mapping utility may be used for order files not originating from a cart.
Global and Material-specific markup capability.
Manage both Retail and Sales pricing from within Peachtree.
Retail rounding rules for items subject to markup.
Optional check for open Purchase Orders to indicate backorder status.
Supplemental export to custom-mapped CSV file (if desired)
Security:
All credentials used to access the Shopping Cart are securely encrypted.
To support PCI compliance, CartSpan does not transmit or receive any credit card or sensitive financial information to/from the Shopping Cart.
Performance:
Order Download/Import: CartSpan has been stress-tested specifically against the AmeriCommerce platform and scales very well for large order volumes. A sample of 100 single-item orders (pre-existing item; same customer for all) resulted in a 2.4 MB XML download in approximately 60 seconds. All 100 orders were effectively processed during a continuous import in approximately 13 minutes on a Dell XPS M1730 workstation (Core 2 Duo @ 2.4 GHz). Expect slightly less than double import times on less-capable machines when a new customer record is being created for each order.
Item Price/Quantity/Status Upload: CartSpan has been stress-tested specifically against an implementation of Peachtree integrating with Zen Cart. Over 10,000 items were successfully exported from Peachtree and uploaded to Zen Cart using a single call to the Web Service.