Tools & Training to Build & Maintain Your eCommerce Site
How Soon Would You Like To Be Open for Business?
You don’t have to take a crash course in html or call in a team of experts. All the tools you need to open the doors of your online business and keep it operating efficiently are here in Sprout Commerce.
The templates that are the core of our solution guide you through every step. You just “fill in the blanks” to populate your home page and product pages with the necessary information.
What about the complicated logistics of taxes, payment and shipping? We’ve taken care of it with tools that simplify the way you run your back-office.
Because we’ve already done the hard work—and eliminated the guesswork—you can concentrate on growing your business. And no matter how big you become, you’ll never pay extra to add products and pages, or to make changes. Our Web-based interface gets it taken care of automatically.
Training—Not Just How-to, But the Best How-to
To give you a solid foundation for launching and managing a successful online business, we’ve produced training videos of best practices. They make learning easy and enjoyable. You go at your own speed—no worry about paying someone by the hour to teach you—and there’s no final exam to sweat!
Unlimited Products & Pages
Start off with as many products and pages as you want. As your business grows, you can quickly add more products and pages at no extra cost. Thanks to the easy-to-use templates, you can even add several products at one time with fewer clicks and clutter. Really, it’s as simple as filling out a form.
Exciting Features
Sprout Commerce allows for automatic image resizing (you don’t have to get involved with graphics software) as well as inventory synchronization (you’ll always know what’s been sold and what’s on hand). And the bulk upload feature will come in handy down the road when you’ve become a very large operation.
Customers Will Love Shopping at Your Store
As you observe the way visitors are navigating through the pages of your web site and how your store structure is working for them, you’ll probably want to alter the placements of some of your products. Sprout Commerce allows you to arrange them into sub-categories, reassign them from one category to another or to multiple categories, and create duplicate categories—all with very little effort. This makes it easy for your customers to find the products that really interest them—with no frustrating detours or dead ends.
Customize Your Site To Optimize Search Engine Results
Aha! At last you’ve discovered which keywords and phrases are working so well they should rocket your site to the top of the results pages. Our solution gives you the flexibility to improve and update key SEO tags—meta title, meta description, ALT and H1—at will. You can use those magic words to define a file name for every page, category and product on your site.
And isn’t it nice to know you have the ability to make these changes by yourself, even if inspiration has struck—as it often does—in the middle of the night? Even better, you can make changes with no danger of losing any ranking you’ve achieved and no chance of a page going dead. Your customers will still be able to find the page they want.
And—hang onto your hat!—not only is your site map published to Google, which is now aware of your new products and pages, you’ll also have exposure through the Froogle database, which is automatically hooked up through your back-office.
Maximize Merchandising Features & Boost Sales
People like to get in on a good deal—a sale, dollars off coupons, two-for-one offers, free shipping. Top retailers traditionally run promotions to stimulate sales, and you can, too.
Sprout Commerce lets you generate coupon codes and offer specials—even set up a rewards program. You can do this from the back office, all by yourself and whenever you want, without having to call in a webmaster.
Bring Order To Order Management
Satisfied customers are the life blood of merchants everywhere, and making sure that the ordering experience runs smoothly is key to customer satisfaction. The order management system, built into your back-office, helps guarantee that no one drops the ball.
When the system receives an order from the web site, it automatically sends email confirmations to the customer and to the merchant. This information can then be imported into your accounting system and relayed to whoever does your order fulfillment. The back office also generates a packing slip, which details the order and shipping information but keeps credit card and bank numbers confidential.
Share The Workload
Though Sprout Commerce gives you the freedom to build and manage a store by yourself, it also makes it easy to outsource work to others. Because our interface is Web-based, there’s no software to install, and multiple users can be logged in at the same time.
Let’s say you have a bulk import of 100 products—you can outsource the content work using an Excel spreadsheet to upload product or page information, even outsource the creation of spreadsheets.
As your business grows, you have the comfort of knowing that you don’t have to be an expert in everything and you don’t have to work 24/7. So when would you like to be open for business? Next month? Next week? When Sprout Commerce makes it so easy and economical to get your Web business going, why wait?
“Sprout Commerce gets you off to the right start so something good can grow.”