LiveCart Feature Summary - LiveCart - Shopping Cart Software

General

Application files reside outside web root
User passwords are encrypted
Secure connection used for checkout, payment, user area and backend pages (configurable)
Credit card numbers are not stored in database
Secure connection is always used when communicating with payment gateway servers
Secured from possible XSS (cross-site scripting) attacks

Unlimited number of products
Unlimited number of categories and category levels
Sell tangible (shippable) and digital products within the same store
A digital product can contain multiple files
Create custom product attributes per category
Attribute based layered navigation (filters)
Manufacturer and price range filters
Products can be displayed as a list or as a grid
Products can be designated as featured to improve their visibility
Product list can be sorted by name, price or by time of addition
Upload unlimited number of images for every product
Image thumbnails are generated automatically
Search by keyword
Display related products at product detail page
Display list of recommended products, based on previous purchases, at detail page

Absolute control over every part of your store
AJAX-based and interactive
Unlimited administrators with customizable access permissions
WYSIWYG product description editor
Powerful data searching and filtering capabilities (for product, order and customer data)
Effective mass data management
Drag & drop management wherever applicable
Extensive help documentation

Unlimited number of currencies can be active at the same time
Customers can switch to a different currency at any time
Product prices can be defined either for each currency separately or calculated automatically using defined currency rates

Secure (SSL) connection for all checkout pages (configurable)
No registration is required for customer - the account is created automatically
Easy 2-3 step wizard - address entry, shipping selection (if applicable) and payment
Customer can always return to a previous step without losing entered information
Customer can enter separate billing and shipping addresses
Customer can select addresses from previously entered addresses (addressbook)

Multiple shipments per order are supported
Administrator can modify and rearrange the shipments by adding or removing products, changing quantities, splitting the order into multiple shipments, etc.
Every aspect (items, shipping, addresses, etc.) of an order can be modified from admin back-end
Administrator can update order status.
Administrator can restrict minimum or maximum order totals and a maximum quantity of products per order.

Real time shipping rate lookups
Define custom delivery zones down to country, state, city or even street level
Different shipping rates per delivery zone
Shipping rates can be based either on shipment weight or subtotal
Certain products (oversized, fragile, etc) can be designated to require separate shipment

Automated inventory tracking for all products
Items that are out of stock can be either disabled automatically or stay visible and accept back-orders

Smarty templates - HTML knowledge is enough to customize the design
Point and click template editor - locate source templates for any page fragment in seconds
Integrated template code editor - implements source highlighting, search, replace, etc.
Support for themes
Every page can be configured to have it's own theme
Flexible layout/block configuration
Excellent CSS coverage - most changes can be made only by modifying CSS stylesheet file

Written in PHP 5 and uses MySQL for the database backend
MVC-based architecture
Comes with full source code
Powerful plugin system, that allows to extend and change functionality without modifying the core code
Valid XHTML and CSS
Extensive developer documentation is available