CS Cart, Enstore, ASecureCart… there’s no end to the list of shopping carts you could add to your online store, in a bid to give customers a superior shopping experience. But not all of them come with the advanced tracking features provided by MerchantTribe. This new company lets you analyze your every sale, and put it in the right context for understanding where did that customer come from and why did he actually make a purchase.
And MerchantTribe looks at everything from a social angle. Instead of analyzing individual stores, it looks at thousand of retailers in order to realize what an “ideal” store should look like. When it figures that out, it delivers customized reports to the “members of the tribe” (IE, the ones who are using the service) explaining how to improve their sales.
MerchantTribe is both available as a free download and as a paid service. They have mostly the same features, but only the commercial version of MerchantTribe comes with support 24/7. A one-year subscription will cost you $499.
And if you’re interested, a hosted version of MerchantTribe is also available. You can have the company take care of the hosting itself and all the technical bits. These include setting up the service for you, and updating everything when a new version of MerchantTribe has become available. You can get started for $49 per month, and there’s three other plans to choose from if your store’s already big and you have to deal with a large number of items and customers. And you can upgrade your plan as you go along, too.
MerchantTribe.com In Their Own Words
The free, open-source shopping cart that makes merchants smarter.
Some Questions About MerchantTribe.com
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