10-second breakdown:
PinnacleCart gives beginners the confidence they need to start a store with all of the basics, but will also allow them to grow into a rich set of advanced features. There are other options that are easy, but this software really seems to grow with it’s users and help them learn along the way to success.
The good:
PinnacleCart has some very impressive SEO features that can help your shop be found by more people naturally. Taking advantage of those searching for the things you sell is like free marketing that can last a long time and make you a large profit-margin. You’ll still have to do a lot of work (SEO can be tough), but it’s a great start.
Designing your site is one of the easiest experiences of all the other ecommerce platforms (except maybe Shopify). Templates and easy-to-find elements will help you to create the look and feel that you wanted; maybe even better.
The dashboard is clean and clear to keep you in the know about how your shop is performing. You can have multiple administrators which is a bonus for larger operations with multiple back-end staffers.
The bad:
PinnacleCart doesn’t have it’s own payment gateway, so you’ll have to get a third-party solution (they support 30 different ones).
Certain other limitations include limits on storage resources and bandwidth (could be a bummer for high-traffic stores).
How it works:
PinnacleCart is a scalable all-in-one commerce solution. They identify as a small business themselves and feel like they can relate to and help small businesses better that other ecommerce solutions. PinnacleCart offers four different hosted pricing plans. All plans include unlimited products, daily backups, US based support, PCI/PA-DSS Compliant, Zero transaction fees, free migration, and free Doba integration. The rest of the plan specifics are as follow:
Start Up: This basic plan offers 1GB Website Storage and 2GB Website Traffic. Those resources should be enough to get you several dozen products and around 4,000-5,000 visitors a month.
Small Biz: This plan offers 3GB Website Storage, 8GB Website Traffic, and Quickbooks Auto Sync. At this level, you’ll be at several hundred products and around 20,000 visitors a month.
Entrepreneur: This is PinnacleCart’s most popular plan. It offers 10GB Website Storage, 20GB Website Traffic, and Quickbooks Auto Sync. Up to a couple thousand products and 50,000+ visitors a month.
Enterprise: This is the largest and therefore most expensive plan made for large companies and corporations. This plan offers 50GB Website Storage, 100GB Website Traffic, and Quickbooks Auto Sync. You’re probably not going to need to worry about storage or traffic levels with these resources unless you are a drop shipper with tens of thousands of products or have a very large amount of traffic.
PinnacleCart also offers two VPS options for their enterprise level customers.
VPS1: With this plan you get 50GB disk space, 200GB Bandwidth, and includes 2 virtual stores. More can be added at an additional cost.
VPS2: With this plan you get 100GB disk space, 400GB Bandwidth, and includes 5 virtual stores. More can be added at an additional cost.
With both VPS accounts you get unlimited email accounts and an unlimited number of databases.
The hosted plans all offer a 14 day free trial. This is a truly free trial, no credit card is needed to start. If you decide PinnacleCart isn’t for you after you’ve made a purchase, you can cancel anytime without fees or penalties.
Once you decide to buy there is a quick start guide to get you started. The control panel and dashboard are simple and easy to use. The only other things you need to get started are a reliable internet connection and an updated web browser.
PinnacleCart is also mobile friendly, they integrate with iPad, iPhone, Blackberry and Android devices. They also help you with your social media presence. The PinnacleCart Social Media Commerce Platform allows customers to like and share your products to their friends using Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and more. This add-on is free to all PinnacleCart’s customers.
Setting up your store is fairly stress-free. PinnacleCart offers you 30 different free templates to get started. No worries if you don’t like it later, you can easily switch it out. “Design Mode” let you fully customize your store, their drag and drop functionality makes it easy. PinnacleCart let’s you have unlimited products listed on your site. This includes physical products, digital products, and gift certificates.
As far as functionality, PinnacleCart offers just about everything you could need for your virtual storefront. They help you handle everything from printing packing slips and invoices, accepting credit cards, inventory tracking, currency converting, and the list goes on.
They also help you understand how business is going by integrating with Google Analytics and Adwords. You can view numerous reports that break down customer flow, revenue, top viewed products, and see how customers are finding your site.
PinnacleCart support a variety of payment processors but Chase Paymentech is their preferred payment gateway. You can contact their customer service rep to see how you can integrate other services or processors. Customer Service is available by phone, web ticket, and email. They also have a decent knowledgebase to help you get through any questions you may have.
PinnacleCart offers clear pricing and their setup is straightforward. For those that have some online storefront experience this should prove to be a quick start and a clear winner. Any large or high volume retailers should check out their VPS options.
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