Verio offers three ShopSite E-commerce packages that allow your website to handle monetary transactions: ShopSite Starter, Shopsite Manager and ShopSite Pro. Please see the below comparison for detailed information on each solution.

This section lists the tools available to help you build your shopping cart. There is an easy-to-use Wizard that will walk you through all the steps to set up your customized cart, including editing the text with context-sensitive help so you have full control over the look and feel of your store.

This section lists what catalog management tools are available with each shopping cart level.

• Upload Wizard: Allows you to easily save thousands of products in a tab-delimited file (any database or spreadsheet will do this), and use the upload wizard to import the data into your store. Products & Pages XML Upload/Download: Helps ensure your data remains consistent no matter what program you use to view or edit the information.
• PowerEdit: Allows you to change the price on twenty products all at the same time versus changing pricing product by product.
• Global PowerEdit: Gives you the power to make multiple changes all at one time. For example, if you decide to run a sale on 70 different drills, instead of changing the price for each product individually, you can change the price of all of them at the same time.
• Searchable Products Database: Allows you to search through the names, SKUs, product descriptions, etc. in your store to find the one product you need.
• Searchable Pages Database: Makes finding the page you're looking for quick and easy.

This section lists the business tools offered with each shopping cart level.

• Order Download into QuickBooks: Lets you download order information in QuickBooks for Windows format (IIF file) so that you can track sales and profits right in your accounting system. Easy Order Printing: Lets you view and print orders quickly and easily.
• Searchable Orders Database: Lets you search the order database by keyword, based off criteria such as new orders, order number, customer email address, billing or shipping information, payment status, and even promotional information.
• Store Statistics: Gives you the ability to quickly evaluate and react to your store's traffic. You can get detailed reports on sales, page hits, traffic summaries, as well as reports on where customers are coming from as they enter your site.

This section lists all the features that make Verio's ecommerce plans secure, reliable and efficient.

• Visa CISP/PABP Compliant: ShopSite has been certified by VISA as a Payment Application Best Practices approved application. Merchants who configure ShopSite according to the PCI Security Practices guidelines can be confident that the credit card and order information is safe and secure.
• Page and Product Databases in SQL: Stores page and product data in an SQL database - a fast, efficient system for storing information.
• Written in Fast, Compiled C Code: This increases the speed of your site so your customers aren't stuck waiting.
• Orders Stored Encrypted on Server 5: Customer billing information such as credit card numbers are stored using modern data encryption techniques, including AES and Merchant (public/private) Keys. This helps prevent any unauthorized access to customer information.
• Order Access Tracking System: Keeps a log of activity in your Order System, including a computer ID cookie file so you know who has been looking at your orders and what has been done. Order tracking information is stored for a full year, using an automatically rotating log system.

This section lists the customer service tools offered with each shopping cart level.

• Customer Registration: Makes ordering quicker and easier because it remembers customers, including preferred payment methods and previous "ship to" addresses.
• Merchant Notification of Orders: Emails containing order information are sent to you every time a customer places an order.
• Automatic Customer Receipts: As soon as a customer places an order at your store, her or she receives a customizable email receipt for the order.

This section lists the shopping cart features offered with each shopping cart level.

• Order Total on First Cart Page: Allows customers to see the total cost of the order - including tax, shipping, and any surcharges - right on the first page of the shopping cart.
• Secure Order Capture: Makes it easy to view your orders securely from any computer- all you need is a browser.
• Real-time Credit Card Processing: Lets you easily configure ShopSite to work with any of several payment gateways, which means that your customers can pay quickly and easily. Minimum Order Value: Lets you set a minimum order value requirement for shopping carts.
• Shopping Cart Templates: Allow you to change the entire layout of the cart pages to completely match the "look" that you have for your store.

This section lists the merchandising tools offered with each shopping cart level.

• Add an Auction: Makes it easy to list products from your product database in an eBay auction. A selected product can be listed with just two clicks, or you can take the time to customize the product information.
• Customer Reward Program: Lets you rewards loyal customers and encourage new customers with special promotions (i.e. "buy 1 get 1 free"). Rewards can be set up per-order, or over time for registered customers.
• Tell a Friend Links: Draws new visitors to your store by letting customers tell their friends about your products through links placed on store and product pages.
• Gift Certificates: Lets customers buy and redeem gift certificates in your online store.
• Customer Registration: Makes ordering quicker and easier because it remembers customers, including preferred payment methods and previous "ship to" addresses.

This section lists the commerce tools offered with each shopping cart level.

• Dual Currency Support: Lets you display product prices in two currencies - you simply decide which currencies you want to use, what the exchange rate is, and we do the rest.
• Configurable Payment Types: Lets you accept a wide variety of payment methods, including major credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, etc.), several popular online payment methods (Google Checkout, PayPal, World Pay, NetBanx), or even your own customized payment method.
• Real-time Credit Card Processing: Lets you easily configure ShopSite to work with any of several payment gateways.
• Google Checkout: This online payment processing service from Google is already integrated so you can start taking Google Checkout payments immediately.
• PayPal Website Payments: If you have a PayPal account to accept credit card or PayPal payments, your customers can make PayPal payments without leaving the shopping cart.

This section lists the advanced developer tools offered with each shopping cart level.

• Page and Product Templates: Let you set the basic structure of the page and then determine what colors, graphics, or other objects are used for the different page elements.
• Shopping Cart Templates: Let you change the entire layout of the cart pages to completely match the "look" that you have for your store.
• Search Results Templates: Give you complete control over the way your search results are displayed to visitors to your site. The optional override templates for Products and Links makes it easy to customize the look of your search results without interfering with the normal presentation of your products and pages.
• Customer Registration Templates: Gives you total control over the look of each customer registration screen and email message.
• Gift Certificate Templates: Give you the ability to control the appearance of the gift certificate order page, as well as the look of gift certificates delivered electronically or via mail.

The Order Transfer into QuickBooks application works on your Windows PC to retrieve order information, then uses QuickBooks' qbXML to import the information directly into your QuickBooks records - no external downloading or conversion required!