DUBLIN, California (July 25, 2001).  One large overlooked problem with E-commerce and shared by a majority of Internet merchants is customer retention in their shopping cart.  ComCity® Corp., the makers of the first FrontPage-based E-commerce Solution, announced today the release of SalesCart™ Pro 3.0 (http://www.salescart.com) to help solve this problem.  A recent study by BizRate.com shows that 52% of online consumers leave online shopping carts without even making a purchase and prior to checking out. SalesCart has attributed this “Step-out during Checkout” problem to the fact that the largest majority of shopping cart checkout systems are completely outside of the control of the web site designer.  What could be more frightening to an on-line shopper than to suddenly see the entire look of the site change, or worse yet, to see the web site address change to some other company they have no relationship with? 

The release of SalesCart PRO 3.0 helps to solve these issues by permitting merchants 100% control over look-and-feel of the checkout system while still maintaining ease-of-use.  In SalesCart PRO, a step-by-step wizard allows the complete removal of shipping, payment or taxation calculations, thereby accommodating distinct basic merchant types, with the click of a single button.  The new shopping cart solution also boasts over 60 new features including:  online auction capabilities; support for over 7 different shipping modes; payload delivery of products after purchase;  International Real-time currency conversion and Real-time Chat; and 3-tier taxation to name just a few.  Using Microsoft FrontPage and standardized Active Server Page scripting, the web designer maintains complete control over the entire look and feel of the checkout pages to match the rest of their Web site.  The checkout system even permits customers to return and add to a new order, reorder all, or even part of, a previous order.  Would-be merchants can also completely translate the checkout system to any language they want, ultimately giving every company, small or large, the capability to provide multi-language checkout system support for worldwide product distribution.

“SalesCart PRO 3.0 allows even the smallest company to create an online web checkout system, that will give most large Multi-National operations, a run for their money.”  states Michael Barber, President and CEO of ComCity.

SalesCart is a wholly owned subsidiary of ComCity ® (http://www.comcity.com). SalesCart was the first shopping cart program developed fully for Microsoft ® FrontPage ®. SalesCart is an International E-commerce solution. SalesCart is located on the Internet via the World Wide Web at http://www.salescart.com. 

Information can be obtained by sending email to contact us here or by calling (925) 556-6940. 

For SalesCart product information contact: Suzanne Palmini; ComCity; 6690 Amador Plaza Rd., Suite #115, Dublin CA 94568; (925) 556-6940 x106. 

ComCity is a registered trademark. SalesCart and SalesCart PRO are trademarks of ComCity. All other product or company names are trademarks of their respective companies.