Compare Awards Shopping Cart BizWizard ShopKart™ to AwardsCart®

Not all software applications are created equal. This includes shopping cart web site solutions. Before NetSoft Studio started development on an awards and recognition industry specific shopping cart solutions, we evaluated the possibility of tweaking already pre-made shopping cart software to retro-fit it for the awards industry. We evaluated several pre-made shopping cart software packages and we found that none of them would offer the features needed by the awards industry. For this reason, NetSoft Studio decided to start at ground zero to create an awards shopping cart solution that was 100% tailored to the awards and recognition industry. Development began in July of 2007, and released in December 2008, and continued development continues even today as new features are added to continually enhance and keep on top of the changes in search engine algorithms and customer needs. By providing a 100% complete awards shopping cart solution geared towards the awards and recognition industry we have the ability to provide more than just an awards shopping cart or web site. We can ensure this solution is ever-evolving to ensure your rankings in the major search engines are as high as possible. Thus BizWizard ShopKart™ is not just a web site that has a shopping cart. It is an awards industry solution that goes way beyond shopping carts. There are other shopping cart programs coming onto the market that are nothing more than pre-packaged e-commerce sites that have been given an awards related name and being marketed as an Awards and Recognition industry solution, even though it was not designed ground up for the awards and recognition industry. As a consumer, you deserve to be well informed of what is available. Let's examine the truth and facts behind some awards shopping cart solutions that are available. In the following table, we identify what we consider to be key and important features for an awards shopping cart software solution based upon years of experience and research, actual time spent in the the awards and recognition industry and feedback from over 50 award store owners that work on a day to day basis selling awards and recognition products online. On any of the features, simply click the [read more] link in the right hand column to get details and specifics on what the feature is discussing as well as examples of how the feature does or does not exist.		BizWizard BackOffice ™ Point of Sale/Order Management Software for Awards Industry Order Management Feature List Order Management Screen Shots Order Management System Requirements Order Management In Action Download BizWizard BackOffice™ BizWizard BackOffice™ Pricing (non-hosted) BizWizard BackOffice™ Pricing (hosted)   BizWizard ShopKart™ Awards Shopping Cart Software for the Awards and Recognition Industry Awards Shopping Cart Feature List Awards Shopping Cart Screen Shots Awards Shopping Cart Demonstration Awards Shopping Cart Search Engine Rankings Compare ShopKart™ to AwardsCart® Shopping Cart Pricing   Other Information IT HelpDesk Services Customer References November 2008 Recognition Review Article February 2010 Recognition Review Article July 2010 Recognition Review Article Upcoming Tradeshows   Click Here to Open an Authorize.Net Payment Gateway account and/or Merchant Account

Shopping Cart Features and Services	BizWizard ShopKart™	AwardsCart®	More Details
Awards Shopping Cart Designed 100% ground up for Awards and Recognition Industry?			[Read More]
Awards Shopping Cart has Built-In Trophy Builder Technology?			[Read More]
Mass Product Change to Easily Modify Your Awards Shopping Cart Catalog?			[Read More]
Supplier Rankings to Control Exposure Levels by Supplier in your Awards Shopping Cart?			[Read More]
Unlimited Multiple Awards Shopping Cart Web Stores and Company Stores for Free?			[Read More]
Integration with Payment Gateways?
Integration to UPS for Real Time Shipping Charge Calculations?
Multiple Award and Trophy Product Details for a Single Product Image?			[Read More]
Support for Multiple Images per Award and Trophy product?
Browse and Select Support for 360 Degree Award and Trophy Product Images?			[Read More]
Browse and Select Support for Award and Trophy Product Design Templates?			[Read More]
Offers Award and Trophy Product Imaging Service for Both Photography and 360 Degree Images?			[Read More]
Easy Single Image Upload for Award and Trophy Products, No Need to create Thumbnails and Larger Images?			[Read More]
PCI Compliant (Payment Card Industry)?
Compliance with Google Search Engine Optimization Guide?			[Read More]
ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) Compliant?			[Read More]
WYSIWYG Editing of Awards Shopping Cart web page content?
WYSIWYG Editing of Award and Trophy Product Description Content, Category Descriptions?			[Read More]
Unlimited Award and Trophy Product Categorization for each Award and Trophy Product?
Web Based Awards Shopping Cart Administration?
Multiple Awards Shopping Cart Catalog View Options?
Ability for Awards Shopping Cart Buyer to Edit an Item after adding the item to the Shopping Cart basket?			[Read More]
Ability to Specify Award and Trophy Product Lead Days, Minimum Order Quantities, Ordering Increments?			[Read More]
Change Text anywhere on your site?
Checkout process to Upload other Files such as Excel Spreadsheets, Word Documents, CorelDraw Files, etc.?			[Read More]
Includes Data Feeds to Third Party Shopping Networks?
Proven Rankings in Search Engines for Awards Shopping Cart sites?			[Read More]
Supports Online Chat Software for Awards Shopping Cart web site?
Internet Web Server Features
Private Awards Shopping Cart Web and E-Mail Server Not Shared Web and E-Mail Server?			[Read More]
Web Based, POP3 and iMAP E-Mail Access, aliases and auto-responders for your Awards Shopping Cart?			[Read More]
Built-In Awards Shopping Cart E-Mail Anti-Spam configurable on a user by user basis?			[Read More]
Built-In Awards Shopping Cart E-Mail Anti-Virus Scanning with ClamAV configurable on a user by user basis?			[Read More]
Free Awards Shopping Cart Server Secure Certificate?
Awards Shopping Cart Servers Directly on NTT/Verio Worldwide Tier I Backbone, not a few hops away?			[Read More]
Domain Transfer Assistance for your Awards Shopping Cart Domain Name?
Quadruple Data Backup (Mirrored Hard Drives, OnSite Data Backup and Offsite Tape Backups, On Demand Backup)?			[Read More]
Company Staff Information
Company Owners with Linked In References in the Awards and Recognition Industry?			[Read More]
Design Staff that are Not only Developers, but Also Managed and Owned Awards Stores?			[Read More]
Full-Time Staff dedicating 100% of working hours to Awards Software Products?			[Read More]
30 Day Money Back Guarantee on Awards Shopping Cart software?			[Read More]
Telephone Technical Support for your Awards Shopping Cart?			[Read More]
How has the General Public Rated Each Companies Awards Shopping Cart and Services and/or read what customers and industry articles indicate about each company as the case may be.	NetSoft Studio References On Linked In NetSoft Studio Customer Kudos Recognition Review November 2008 Recognition Review February 2010 Recognition Review July 2010 SD Trophy, a BizWizard ShopKart™ Site, Won 2nd Place for Retailer Web Site Contest at ARA Las Vegas 2010	Watch the Video on How the General Public Rated Various Pages On the AwardsCart® Web Site. Video Produced on 6/26/2010
Number of Awards Shopping Cart Sites Live and Active?	Over 60 ShopKart Sites as of 5/14/2010 and over 100 Retailer and Supplier Clients Total	2 Customer Sites as of 5/14/2010, mvptrophy.com, awardsproonline.com found in Google Search	[Read More]
Monthly Cost for Main Awards Shopping Cart Web Store and 5 company Stores	$200/mo	$262.50/mo
Monthly Cost for Main Awards Shopping Cart Web Store and 10 Company Stores	$200/mo	$450/mo
Monthly Cost for Main Awards Shopping Cart Web Store and 25 Company Stores	$200/mo	$1,012.50/mo

IMPORTANT NOTE: Netsoft Studio has documented 7 other comparisons that relate to SEO and search engine rankings, network mis-configurations effecting search engine rankings, html coding violations that will effect search engine rankings, and other issues that are not listed in this comparison that will effect search engine rankings with competitor sofware offerings.. If you would like to see these additional comparisions, simply contact us, and we will be happy to provide those comparisons to you.

Wheras you have a choice when it comes to whom you partner with for your awards shopping cart web site, please take the time to investigate the company you do work with, including NetSoft Studio, we are happy to answer any questions you may have.. Talk to each companies current clients. Read each companies references on LinkedIn. Look at each companies previous products they have developed for the awards industry and see how well they performed. Ask these questions of each company:

• Did their previous awards shopping cart or trophy builder solutions perform poorly with search engine rankings?
• Why did they try to create a new shopping cart solution if the old one was good?
• Can I expect the same thing from their new products if the old products didnt perform good?
• Does their information they present in references and resumes all line up to public record, or even line up within thier own claims and postings to the public?
• Is the awards shopping cart they offer actually designed and developed ground up for the Awards and Recognition industry?
• What is the proven track record?

Just as you would interview an employee, you should interview those you partner up with. Check them out.

Legend:

= Feature exists. We were able to find documentation on the companies web site for the shopping cart indicated, whereby the company indicates their shopping cart software supports, or performs the feature indicated.

= We could not find any documentation on the companies web site to indicate this feature existed and/or was a service provided as the case may be. This does not mean the feature does not exist, as the company in question may have simply not posted on their web site that the feature exists. It is important when doing your own comparisons to perform due diligence and research each companies features and make your own decisions.

= We found some evidence via some form of verbiage on the companies web site that eluded that this feature might exist, but the information the company provided wasn't enough for us to make a determination as to whether the feature did indeed exist or not. In Some cases, the feature partially existed, but not 100%.

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