OVERVIEW

Here's just a small sample of some of our great features. Click on the links on the left to find out more about specific features.
Attract Buyers
InstanteStore provides a variety of SEO, marketing, and promotional tools that you can make use of to bring in traffic and customers. These features will help you reach your potential customer market and get them buying at your store.
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Wizard
Heard about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but don't know what it's all about? Or maybe you have an idea about what SEO is, but have no idea how to get started? Our SEO Wizard is built into your store administrator pages in order to help guide you as you create new categories, products, and information pages. The SEO Wizard provides recommendations and suggestions that you can use to improve the search engine rankings of your pages. Better rankings means more traffic, and more customers.
- Product Feeds
InstanteStore lets you download your store product feeds in formats that can be uploaded to shopping comparison sites like GoogleBase, BizRate, and Shop.com (to name a few). This wil go a long way towards increasing the chances of customers finding and viewing your products.
- Social Bookmarking
Social networking sites like Facebook, myspace, and twitter are extremely popular, with more and more people joining by the day. Our Social Bookmarking tool lets visitors to your store easily add bookmarks to your store products to their social site accounts, where they can be viewed by their online friends. This opens up a potentially huge new audience for your products.
- Affiliates
Get popular and related websites to help direct traffic and visitors to your store by offering them commission as Affiliates. Affiliates can make money from promoting and marketing your store on your behalf -- a win-win for both you and your affiliates.
Get Them Buying
- One-Page Easy Checkout
With InstanteStore's Easy Checkout, you can offer your customers a true one-page checkout. Customers can enter and complete the entire checkout process on a single page, without having to go through several pages, or having the page refresh repeatedly. Everything happens on one page, without page refreshes. This convenience can go a long way towards converting visitors to paying customers.
- Checkout Without Registration
There are online shoppers who are wary of registering for accounts before making purchases. You can make sure that you don't lose out on this group of buyers by offering them the option of checking out their orders without needing to register for an account at your store.
- Minicart
Easily enable a mini shopping cart at your store borders so that customers can track their shopping cart contents at any of your store pages, and click to checkout from any page once they're ready to buy.
- Easy Shopping Cart and Checkout Layouts
Get Them Buying More
- Automatically Cross-sell Discounted Products when Orders are Made
Customers who have just bought something at your store are the ones who are most likely to purchase more items. This means that the order confirmation / thank you page is the best place to cross-sell your products. Our Cross Sell on Final Payment Page feature lets you offer related products at discounted prices to customers who've just made purchases at your store. Making great exclusive offers to these customers who're likely to be more responsive to them is a great tool for increasing sales.
- Points System
Encourage customer loyalty and repeat purchases by offering points for buying products. Customers can use the points they've earned to redeem items later.
- Newsletter E-mail Broadcast
Your customers have the option of subscribing to your newsletter when they register or order at your store. Regular newsletters are a valuable tool for you to keep in touch with your customers so that when it comes time to make their next purchase, your store's fresh in their minds. You can use newsletters to inform them of updates and special offers at your store.
- Discount Coupons
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