Is ClearCart right for you?

We want to share where ClearCart shines and the types of products and businesses it was designed for.

We also know that we can’t be everything to everyone, and comparing solutions is part of making an informed decision. We want you to find the right solution for you, even if it’s not us. We believe in win-win.

Style/Type of Products

ClearCart is a robust platform that can sell a variety of products. It excels selling products that are beautiful, specialty, boutique, or high-end products, where the presentation of the products is a crucial aspect of the sales process. It is often used to target female shoppers.

Our clean, elegant aesthetic supports photographers, artists, and people selling tactile products such as lotions, soaps, yarns, or fabric that people literally would like to touch in order to purchase: your photographs take center stage against an uncluttered backdrop. Products that ClearCart is not as well suited for include ones with a high degree of configuration, such as custom computer setups. There are also better solutions if you are exclusively selling music – we recommend checking out CD Baby and Easybe.com.

Scale/Size

ClearCart is a robust e-commerce platform with advanced features. Many of our customers come to us after outgrowing their current cart, or have an established retail business that they are ready to take online.

To fully utilize ClearCart and make it easier for us to support you, we recommend having a designer or IT person be the point person at your organization in charge of updating content and understanding how the cart works.

If you are just starting a micro-biz venture, you may want to test the waters with marketplace systems like Etsy or eBay . Likewise, if you are only selling one product, a simpler solution like PayPal buttons may suffice, as a shopping cart is not necessary.

Hosted/Managed

Perhaps you’ve tried Zen Cart or osCommerce. Free, can’t beat that? Until you need support. Many of our customers started with free solutions and became tired spending hours poring over support forums looking for answers and frustrated with the lack of consistently available support or. As your business matures, the hidden costs of “free” may become apparent to you. With ClearCart, you are paying for expert service you can rely on.

We provide both the hosting and the code, so if your site is not working, we will fix it. If you have ever gotten in a debate with your host over whose responsibility a problem is – theirs or “an issue with your code– which we don’t touch”, you will appreciate the fully managed solution ClearCart provides. Our servers are optimized to run ClearCart exclusively, and we know the code and the servers so we can solve problems quickly and efficiently.

If you want the full source code to modify, or you want to host your own cart, we are not a good fit for you.

Top 10 Reasons to Switch to ClearCart

1. You are embarrassed to send people to your site.
2. You vaguely recall that computers were supposed to make life easier and more efficient, but it seems like a dim, cruel memory.
3. You realize your business could grow a lot more if your store was actually functional.
4. You wish your cart would support your marketing and SEO efforts instead of getting in the way.
5. You are tired of bugging your programmer or vendor to fix bugs.
6. You spend hours on the phone with your customers explaining how to order your product because they can’t figure out how your site works. And apologizing.
7. You are not sure if your vendor’s phones are answered by people or robots.
8. Your vendor hasn’t released any new features since 1984.
9. You long for a cart that just works, and a vendor who knows and supports your business.
10. That loving feeling is gone, gone, gone….and you want it back!