Demo Shopping Cart Store Features

Modules
Latest Products
This module displays latest products added to the cart. Number of items to Display and Total number of items are set in administration. Image size can be adjusted in admin. Products to display are randomly chosen from the total set in admin.

Featured Products
This module displays featured products. The chosen products and the number of products to display are set in administration. If there are more products set than the number to display limit, products are randomly chosen for the display. Image size can be adjusted in admin.

Special Priced Products
This Module displays special priced products. The chosen products and the number of products to display are set in administration. If there are more products set than the number to display limit, products are randomly chosen for the display. Image size can be adjusted in admin.

Popular Products
This module displays the most viewed products. The number to Display and the Total number of items are set in Administration. Products are randomly chosen. Image size can be adjusted in admin.

Related Products.
This module displays products on the product page that are tagged as related to the product currently being viewed. The number of related products are set in administration and if the number available exceeds the display limit set, products are randomly chosen. Image size can be adjusted in admin.

Products by Manufacturer
This module displays products by manufaturer in category style layout. The display can be sorted by Item name or by price, ascending or descending order. Additional features are the ability to set the number of page rows, maximum number of records to return, and options of 1, 3, or 4 column display. The results can further be filtered by models.

Ajax Add to Cart Buttons
Add to cart buttons are included in all modules as well as the product page. These allow adding products to the cart without page refresh. The mini cart is updated with each product addition. The text on the button changes to * ADDED TO Cart * when a product is selected, now with animation from the Image of  selected item to the mini-cart . The quantity is selected from the drop menu and is subject to minimum quantity in effect for each individual product. The add to cart button is not available for products that have options because these will effect pricing. Product with options also display the price with options included. This price is updated in real time as different priced options are selected. The add to cart button feature can be Enabled or Disabled for individual controllers or modules.

Enable/Disable Countries and Zones
You are able to enable countries and zones to ship to in administration. By default, all countries are disabled and all zones are enabled. Zones are only available to Enabled countries. If you only enable one country, only the zones, provinces or states for that country are available.

Dated Special Pricing
Dated special pricing is available on all products in cart. Start date, end date, and special price for each product are set in administration. This price can either be an entered amount or a percentage of the regular price. Special pricing is displayed in cart and order confirm pages. Price updates in admin now update Dated Special price and Quantity discount based on percentage of regular price. The percentage or fixed price can still be over ridden by entering a new price in either Dated Special or Quantity Discounts.

Enhanced Product Search
This search allows searching by keywords that do not have to be in consecutive order. It also allows including hidden keywords that will not be displayed in product description. This allows you to include commonly misspelled words or phrases the might be used to describe a product. You can adjust the maximum number of results returned in admin. The user can also adjust the number of search results returned by entering a fixed amount or 0 (no limit) for unlimited results.

Dynamic Page Head Declarations
This feature allows declaring CSS and Javascript declarations in template files, which are pooled and only unique copies are declared in the Layout.tpl. This allows proper declarations that allow you to produce pages that conform to W3C standards with no HTML or CSS Errors. Meta Title, Meta Description, and Meta Keywords are now available to include in page head.
These are included in the product file with unique Meta tags for each product. Categories have meta information that can be included on the category pages for the current category being viewed.
These declarations can be delared either in the controller or the template (.tpl) files, which ever is your preference.

Alternate Product Description
Alternate product descriptions are available to allow the use of shorter descriptions to better enable formating of text in module displays.

Text Editor
This feature will allow displaying a controlled number of lines or character count such as product descriptions. If your product description contains 10 lines with formating, You can display 3 with the safety of not chopping a line in the middle the formating, which will create page errors. It also allows the use of hidden keywords that will not be displayed, but are searchable. It is designed to be used with the enhaned product search.
This is available in the controller file as well as the template (.tpl) file.

New Product Page
The product page now includes Short description, Quantity on Hand, Options, and Special Pricing if available in the main body with the Image. Includes a total price based on product price (or special price) plus any product options.
Located at the bottom of the page are Tabs for Main Description, Additional images, Additional information on this product such as (minimum quantity, weight, shipping, discounts, and manufacturer) , Any reviews on this product, and a tab to create a review.

Multiple Display Options
The Category, Search, and Manufacuter page allow the display to be toggeled from 1,2 or 3 column3.
There are also option to adjust number of results returned and number to display on each page.
Category and search include filter by Manufacturer and Filter by Model.

Currencies
Currencies are updated in real time whenever an alternate currency is selected. When currency is updated, it is date stamped and this rate will be used for 24 hours before updating again.
All currencies can be updated in admin. The current exchange source is Google Finance.