What's new in Summer Cart 6.0 Anna

Thanks to the „Quick View“ and the „Hover View“ your e-shop will look like the world's leaders in e-commerce Victoria's Secret, La Redoute, H&M, La Perla, Reebok, Samsung.

• Hover view
  While watching the product page, just by pointing the mouse, Your clients will be able to see all the necessary information about each product – all the pictures, available sizes, colours, options, variants, and etc.
• Quick View
  In a Pop-Up window your clients will be able to see the basic information about each product such as name, pictures, price, and rating without having to open the product page. With the Quick View option your e-shop will look like the world's leaders in e-commerce like La Redoute, H&M, La Perla, Reebok, Samsung.

New hit functionality that is used by the leaders in the e-commerce world such as Sony, Samsung, Asus. How does it work? In a few words - QUICKLY and EFFECIENTLY. The visitor types 3-4 letters and in a matter of seconds, without clicking your Summer Cart shows all the products that match the search with their image, short description and price Besides that, the online merchant decides which products should be shown first: the cheapest, the most expensive, the newest, or the oldest.

Summer Cart 6.0 comes with 42 exquisite built-in skin templates with vivid colours and themes. Besides the thematically developed templates you will get many multipurpose skins suitable for each business. The powerful tool called Design Editor can still be used to customize the most flexible Chameleon template. With this magical functionality you can create your own unique design absolutely free. All 42 skins in Summer Cart 6.0 are developed upon HTML5.

The responsive design is the latest trend in developing mobile versions of sites and e-shops.
Now with Summer Cart 6.0 your shop has a responsive design, which means that:
- it will look GREAT on tablets and smartphones
- perfect for touch screen devices
- the design adapts automatically according to the resolution of the device
- always looks good

Now you can add small images to the product options

and provide a better choice for your customers.

If your products have different colours, variants, and specialties now you can present them to your clients with images instead of colours and text. Modernize the look of your shop, following the example of Victoria’s Secret, AMAZON, EBAY, La Redoute. With our new version you can show every little detail, following the best practices in the e-commerce world. Your clients would want to see a dress in both red and white, to see which one they like better.

Version 6.0 allows you to upload little images to the product options and show them in the „Quick View“ „Hover View“ and in the detailed product page.
- Intuitive, bidirectional link between images and variants of a product. (In the previous versions you had to choose the variant first and its image used to be displayd aftwrwards)
- Global Options now work as filters in the clients' area
- Mass update of variants in the admin area and indication which variants are linked with images and which are not

With the help of this tool you can crop out the unnecessary part of an image and thus direct the attention to a specific part of it . With an ease like never before, you can emphasize the details you want to stand out and to be seen by your clients. That's why we have decided that we should empower our clients with this great tool that gives them the ability to point the attention in the desired direction. And if they are different sizes the tool will automatically crop them identically.

For each of your products you can add special icons which grab attention and show some benefit like „Top offer“, „Hot“, „Free Shipping“, „Hit of the week“, „Most wanted“, „Recommended“, „New“, „Best deal“, „Special offer“, „Expiring offer“, „Outlet“. During the initial upload of your products you can mark them with special icons which can be displayed wherever you wish in the product image.

Mass Update of the products

We have decided to give you this powerful tool which gives you the unique opportunity for a mass product update. In a matter of seconds you can change the quantity, the price, the weight, the category and the brand/manufacturer of the chosen products. This novelty puts an end to the endless clicking product by product and gives you the ability to update multiple products in a matter of seconds.

Instant Edit of a product

You have a big list of products in you admin area, don't you? Now, while you are looking at the list of all the products, you edit them instantly. You can edit the name, price, quantity, SKU code of a product in a matter of seconds.

Version 6.0 provides you with one of the most beautiful, ultra flexible and easy-to-work-with sliders . Nivo slider is javascript based and provides you with 16 beautiful slider effects. Your banners will be displayed wherever you wish and are accessible from any device.
- Each tablet
- Each computer
- Each smartphone

Another advantage is that it automatically resizes the images according to the size predetermined by you. You don't have to do it manually – all of your photos will be unified in a matter of seconds.
Another improvement is that now you can create banners that don't lead to another page or product, but just inform your clients for present or future promos, news and events about your shop.

Extended recent research by Summer Cart shows that 65% of the online customers abandon their cart when they see high shipping cost at the end and would describe their experience in this e-shop as rather „disappointing“. You don't like unexpected surprises either, do you?
Hit novelty in Summer Cart 6.0 is showing the estimated shipping cost in the product page, before the customer has even added the product in his basket. This is a great way to spare your clients the bitter taste of the unknown and gain their trust The estiomated shipping cost works with the Speedy, Econt, and In Time couriers and with the „Table based“ and „Flat-rate“ shipping modules.

In Summer Cart 6.0 we have integrated more payment modules
- Bulgaria – new payment module is Cellum, which makes the total count of Bulgarian payment modules 13;
- Turkey – 9 new Turkish banks ING bank, CitiBank, Kuveyt Türk Bank, Limasol Türk Kooperatif Bankası, Creditwest Bank, Asbank, Kıbrıs Vakıflar Bankası, Near East Bank, Akfinans Bank; that makes the total count of Turkish payment modules 19
- Romania – Rom Card is a new payment module, which completes the existing 4 modules PayU.ro, Mobilpay.ro, EuPlatesc.ro, PlatiOnline.ro ;
- International – We have integrated Gate2Shop, Card Save, Payment Sense, Secure Trading и PayEx, which makes the total count of international payment modules 25.

Summer Cart 6.0 has integrated module for In Time courier. Software integration between Summer Cart and In Time allows real-time calculating of the shipping cost, generating a way-bill, and requesting a courier without leaving your Summer Cart. This is the first e-commerce integration of In Time and its exclusively made for Summer Cart

Summer Cart 6.0 supports Schema.org microformat tags for HTML5. All serach engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing use the information from these tags to improve the positioning of your site in the search results, displaying more specific information for your products such as name, description, price, image

• What is Schema.org?
  Schema.org is a joint project of Google, Yahoo и Bing.
• Why do Google, Bing, Yandex и Yahoo cooperate? Aren't they rivals?
  The goal of these companies is to create and maintain a general standard, that can be used by them for finding structured information and showing exact results in the search.

The good news for the Summer Cart merchants is that they get integrated support for schema.org and therefore excellent SEO

As advanced as they are the Search Engines still cannot describe an image with words. But you can – you can write text for each of your product images directly from the admin area. Your text can be used by Google for better positioning of your site in a standard search by key words and in a Google image search.

Another improvement is that now you can choose the number of news displayed on your home page. Our previous versions used to display only three. But we have decided that the more is always better.  

You probably like it when you shop in Amazon and after adding a product in your basket, you see suggestions that perfectly complete your choice. Clients often tend to like these suggestions and imperceptibly buy more products. Depending on the market particularities these can increase the total count of your sells With 30% to 50%.

Now you can create additional fields, which your clients can fill in during the registration and order. If you wish, these fields can be displayed in the invoice and the way-bill also. These fields can be:
- For Bulgaria – UIC, Identity Card number, additional information
- For Romania – client's bank account number, specific address format
- For Turkey – tax branch, tax nuber, Turkish Identity Card number
Moreover, these fields can be used as a successful marketing strategy – you can ask your clients for their birthday, interests, how they have found you and etc.

• „Backup and Restore“ is a huge advantage in case you make a mistake in a setting that can lead to a server problem, or if your employee causes an irreversible damage to your shop and you can't fix it. For you safety and comfort in Summer Cart 6.0 you can archivate your fully set online shop with no technical knowledge required. This archive can be downloaded anytime in case you unwittingly make an unintentional error. Anytime you wish you can restore your shop to its state at the moment of the Backup. .
• „Emergency Restore“ is a tool our Support Professionals can use to restore your shop to a working condition. „Emerency restore“ is your life belt in case you are unable to access the admin area of your shop. It can only be used in case a Backup was previously made.

Do you know that Summer Cart has new mini versions each month with nice little Add Ons, speed improvement and patches. Twice or three times a year we launch new modules and serious renewals. You can get all of this with the Auto Updater tool. Quickly and easily, and with no technical knowledge required you will get the newest version of Summer Cart. Online merchants update their stores manually only when they decide to do so.

If you have any knowledge in HTML and CSS now you can make changes in the design template of your shop directly from the admin area. Even if something goes wrong you can restore the initial code. No matter if you want to develop exclusive design or just make slight changes in the existing template you can easily learn to manage the template structure of Summer Cart.