A bundle of features!

Here's a host of great features which make setting up a shopping cart simple and managing orders a breeze.

No product restrictions

You can have as many Buy Now buttons on your website as you like so you can sell as many (or as few) products as you wish. Your products can have as many product options as you need, options can be on any form type: drop down list, radio buttons or even a text box. The only limitation is your imagination!

Accept credit cards online

The free cart supports payments via PayPal, Braintree, Nochex, Skrill and Paymate. We do not process cards ourselves.

Upgrade to Premium and you can hook up the cart directly to your merchant account via one of the payment gateways we support.

Recruit affiliates

One of the best ways to increase sales is to recruit other websites to send you customers. mTracker is a free affiliate program built into the cart which provides the basic functionality required to log click-through from those websites and calculate their commission.

Third Party addons

Several of our members of our community have written scripts or provide services that extend the built-in features of the shopping cart. Some of them are free and others cost a little money.

Gift and discount coupons

Gift certificates and discount vouchers 
are great way to improve customer loyalty. Rewarding loyal customers and encouraging repeat business by issuing discount vouchers has been shown to be one of the most effective ways to 
increase sales.

Charity/Donate buttons

Charities are an important part of the Mal's e-commerce community, they can setup a Donate button where someone can enter the amount they want to donate.

Comparison chart

Here is a glance of the most important features of the cart service. It's not a complete list of course, ten years of continual development has led to a very comprehensive system but these are the features most people ask about.

Calculating orders Free Premium
Shipping calculator - 8 different methods
Tax calculator - 4 different methods
Sell your own gift vouchers, accept them for payment
Discounts tables
Integrated UPS, Fedex, USPS and Australia Post rate services
Advanced shipping: 20 zones, 6 options per zones, rate tables with up to 26 bands
Unlimited product options that don't change the price
Quantity discounts for individual products
     
Payment processing
PayPal, Nochex, Braintree and Paymate
Define your own payment methods
Postal payment; MO and check
Third-party card processors (Linkpoint, Trustcommerce, Authorizenet, PayPal Pro, etc)
     
Promote
Issue your own discount coupons
Bulk upload of up to 5,000 discount coupons (for Groupon.com type promos)
Built-in tracking code for Google, Shopping.com, Bizrate, Miva, Overture and more
Built-in FREE mTracker affiliate program
Third-party affiliate programs
Google analytics
     
International
29 different languages
Setup up to 5 currencies
Three different numeric formats
     
     
Customise
Responsive design which automatically adapts to mobile devices
Upload your own logo
Upload your own style sheet
Upload your own template for cart pages
Your own template for HTML email customer receipts
     
     
Order processing
Batch download of new orders
Quickbooks integration with Traxian
Quickbooks integration with Webgility.com
Remote HTTP callback to your site when an order is received
Customized email customer receipts
Merchant order notifications to up to two addresses
Restricted Admin just for picking up orders
     
     
Order processing
Mobile webstores
No adverts
Unlimited products (excluding the downloadable goods)
Products sold for download on the internet 50 3500
Number orders per day up to: 30 150
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More than 99.9% up-time over more than 15 years
     
Cost Free $8 p/m

145,000 accounts online across 120 countries

Trusted by customers across the globe, Mal’s ecommerce powers 1000’s of successful ecommerce stores

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