Shopping for Shopping Carts: CreLoaded

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While I was looking for a shopping cart software that gives me access to expanded functionality with multi-lingual features, I was impressed to see what Creloaded software. Tantalized by the promising features of a software aimed to help my e-commerce business become much easier, I immediately tried it for myself. Considering that I get to choose among free and paid versions, I could actually try the software without paying and then upgrade later for more powerful and paid versions.

What I like about Creloaded is the fact that aside from the wide array of functionality, it offers me add-on modules. Aside from that, it’s very convenient because it has a free online module and customer supports through phone, email and chat. Thus, I did not have problems looking for help when I needed one. The software is also well-supported thus reliability is not an issue.

They also have a report of my customer statistics and reports on my products’ monthly sales and taxes which helps me track everything efficiently. I can also easily upload new product database in one batch without having to worry about impending problems that follow afterwards when I do the same thing using other shopping cart software. The Creloaded shopping software also has meta-tags controller and has a template system that is very graphic. Systems for managing content and file distributions are also fully integrated. And, controlling downloads for management sales is also a breeze.

As for my customers, convenience is also not an issue. They could see multiple images of each product. Thus, they do not have to endure countless clicking and waiting for windows to open just to have a glimpse of what I am selling. Security is also a top-most priority and the modules for payment and shipping are also integrated. Calculating shipping rates are also done in real time. Moreover, Creloaded shopping cart software also has B2B tools such as volume discounts, customers groups, among others.

The software also has a migrating system. Entries such as the order, status of the order, customers, products, categories and attributes of products, images of the products and categories, manufacturers and currencies can be migrated. Information of the customers (shipping addresses and billing) can also be migrated, however each customer’s credit card information is not.

However, all good things come with some set backs. Since it is with osCommerce, some of the osCommerce contributions are difficult to install and the codes used in Creloaded is not so easy to understand owing to the fact that it is somehow messy. And since it has a lot of features, the interface for the administration is a bit crowded.