Includes Merchant Account

No

Yes

Reliable Hosting

Not Applicable - So hosting has to be arranged with some hosting company at an extra charge

Yes, included. GoECart offers Tier 1 Ecommerce Hosting

24/7 Technical Support

Only 90-Day premium Technical Support included with initial license purchase; after 90-Days support is available at an extra charge

Yes, available free of cost.

One-Page Check Out

No, PDG Shopping cart does not offer a one-page checkout.

Yes

Marketing and Promotion Tools?

Yes, offers built-in promotion tools for Affiliate marketing, Emailing marketing, Cross Sell and Up Sell options.

Yes, Integrated Affiliate Program Manager, Cross Sell and Up Sell options, Newsletter Management, Bulk E-mailing System.

Extensive reporting

Limited – reports on performance on sales, product, Store performance.

Yes, extensive reporting including Sales report, SKU Report, Store activity report, inventory report. Also offers Executive Dashboards for graphical display of the store’s key performance indicators.

Gift Certificate Option?

No

Yes, extensive and advanced support for online and paper gift certificates.

Search Engine Optimization

Allows adding unique page titles, meta content, visible text on pages. Software can be used in to deliver dynamic content via static "looking" URLs using URL rewrite modules.

Makes the entire website search engine friendly, without using URL rewrite or duplicate content. Full support for adding Title, Meta tags and user defined file names for product, category and custom pages.

Mail and Phone orders?

No

Yes, accept and Charge orders over phone and through email.

Address book functionality to store multiple addresses of each customer

No

Yes

Integrated CRM functionality to communicate with customers?

No

Yes, provides a built-in email client to send and receive email right in the administration panel.

Web statistics?

Not Applicable

All clients get access to Free basic web statistics data. Advanced web analytics option also available.

Integration with Comparison search engines?

Limited. Only provides feed creation for Froogle and Yahoo shopping.

Integration with the all leading shopping search engines including shop.com and Shopping.com. Advanced support for fully automated feeds management also available.

Includes EMail Accounts

Depends upon the hosting company with which the contract is signed at an extra charge.

Yes, with spam filters and virus protection. Up to 50 included with the plan.

Ability to personalize the administration panel?

No.

Yes, unique feature of “My Favorites” allows each admin to create a custom navigation shortcuts.

Dropship module?

Not Available

Extensive support for drop-ship inventory/product distribution model

Import Customer information

Does not support importing of customer information.

Allows importing customer information using CSV.

No-Risk, FREE 30-Day Trial

Yes

Experience fully functional online store Free for 30 days.