Beanbasket Announces New Gift Modules: Online Retailers Can Give Consumers More Choices with Easier Setup with Gift Certificates, Gift Guide, Gift Reminders, and Flexible Gift Wrapping tools

Just in time for the holidays...or at least all of the holidays after this month and into 2008!

I always love it when shopping cart platforms expand their offerings to better leverage what consumers and online merchants are clamoring for everyday. 

Just this week, eTaildTail friends over at Beanbasket introduced some excellent new features to help differentiate their online merchant offerings to customers from other shopping cart technology platforms. 

These new features are excellent for site functionality, site "stickiness," better service offerings, and up selling opportunities. 

Also, online merchants can market some of these new features into many online marketing channels, as shopping desintation sites, comparison shopping engines, and marketplaces to encourage and entice customers to come to their online storefront to shop! 

If you need help doing this give MerchantAdvantage a shout. We can help and yes, I am a co-founder of MerchantAdvantage, so I am a little bias on how we can, help but seeing how we can help is FREE so you have nothing to lose and everything to gain!

So....some please check out some great upgrades from Bean Basket and thank you Beanbasket for sharing them with the eTaildTail community.

-- Chip

From my fiends at Beanbasket -- and call Jim O'Neill at 920-954-0807 ext 204 if you have any questions or are interested in their products -- tell Jim, "Chip sent you!" 

(getting to be a familiar phrase! Isn't it? LOL)

"Beanbasket.com, a leading e-commerce service provider, announces the new, enhanced gift modules with its latest software release.  These modules include gift certificates, gift guides, gift reminders, and flexible gift wrapping options.  With the gift giving season upon us, merchants will be able to offer consumers more options when buying gifts online.  Says Mike Harper, Beanbasket’s president, "This new gift module suite is focused on putting more tools in our merchant's hands to help increase conversions and create a deeper relationship between our merchants and their target audience."

Gift Certificates, a proven money maker for retailers, make it easy for consumers to choose a sure-to-satisfy option.  Gift certificates create loyalty, repeat business, and are almost always redeemed in excess of the original purchase.  Consumers may redeem the certificate in whole, partially, or in combination with other credit card check-out and options like PayPal.

With the Gift Guide, consumers can receive suggestions regarding gift ideas based on budget and number of recipients.  Merchants can preselect options to ensure hot sellers and/or overstocked items are promoted.  Corporate buyers will especially appreciate this useful and time saving tool.   

Gift Reminders offer another way to encourage loyalty.  Consumers can quickly and easily save important dates like birthdays and anniversaries and an email from the merchant will make sure that the consumer avoids an embarrassing oversight and that the merchant's products are top of mind. 

Flexible gift wrapping options allow busy consumers an easy way to save time.  Merchants can predetermine which items can be gift wrapped and whether or not a charge will apply.  Consumers can also enter gift messages for added personalization. 

The combination of options with the new enhanced gift modules allow merchants to easily offer their customers a way to set reminders, select multiple gifts, have them wrapped, and checkout with their own gift certificate.  Or make gift giving super easy by choosing to add Gift Certificates to their gift list!

About Beanbasket:  Beanbasket.com provides a high performance, extremely flexible, search-optimized eCommerce platform to fit almost any business model.  Serving retailers in almost every industry, Beanbasket.com offers two platforms for merchants of almost any size to maximize their sales potential. 

Beanbasket Business Builder:   Built upon reliable, enterprise-class servers, Beanbasket BB is the right solution for businesses looking to provide an attractive, efficient, and functional web store. Beanbasket.com's store model allows seamless integration into your new site design - easy to manage and update - with high-level product administration, inventory reporting and tracking, shipping options, customer notification, affiliate tracking and much more. Plus it is backed by 128bit SSL security and 24X7X365 support.

Beanbasket Enterprise:   All the features of Business builder but with Multi-Channel Order Management System for web stores, call centers, direct mail, and demand TV.  Incredible flexibility allows profit center management, call center scripting, campaign management, multiple warehouse fulfillment, and "every touch" CRM system and much more.  Beanbasket Enterprise is designed to take you to the next level of eCommerce sales."