Hosted Shopping Cart:

Hosted shopping carts are cloud based services which is a quick and easy way to set up and sell your products. Service providers will manage the shopping cart software. Some managed shopping carts are available for free, but most of the managed shopping carts will charge your customer a monthly fee. The advantage is that you don’t have to do any code maintenance. You can just pay a small monthly fee and start using within a day. You can cancel anytime you like. The limitation is that you have to use the standard features offered. Customization as per their requirement is not possible. Each shopping cart has its own pros and cons. Some have better marketing tools and some don’t. Some has better features like shipping methods based on weight, quantity, direct UPS, USPS & FedEx API, some shopping carts only offers flat shipping cost. Tell your customers to do their research and sign up with the shopping carts that fits their need.

Some of the managed shopping carts are shopify, bigcommerce, woocommerce.

Self Hosted Shopping Cart:

Self Hosted shopping cart softwares has to be managed by you. Softwares are available to download for free or for a one time cost. You have to install in your website hosting server and manage it. The advantage of self hosted solution is that there is no monthly fee. These softwares comes with complete access to the database. You can add / modify these database tables as needed. They also come with open source code which you can customize as per their requirement. However the maintenance cost is high. You should buy a shared or dedicated hosting server. It takes a dedicated developer to maintain this software with constant updates. If your requirement need customization than the regular standard shopping cart feature or if they like to manage the website themselves then this is the ideal way to go.

Some of the self hosted shopping carts are Cube Cart, OSCommerce, Open Cart.

Integration made easy:

Most of the shopping cart in today’s world has API or webhooks that we can use to automate and get the order from shopping carts to your system

Usually it takes about 4 to 6 weeks for a developer to integrate with any shopping cart. There are 100s of shopping carts available. It may take years for your company to integrate with all these shopping carts. The worst part is that these shopping carts makes changes on monthly basis which mean that your developer have to update their code every time these shopping carts make any changes. Fulfillment companies end up spending 100s of 1000s of dollars in integration and maintenance.

ZoneFunnel made the integration easy and seamless. You can use our platform and integrate with ANY e-commerce API within a day without writing any code. We are already integrated with many shopping carts. Even if the shopping cart you are looking for is not found in our platform, we can add the shopping cart within a day provided the shopping cart has API.

We are not only saving you money, but we are also saving the most valuable time.

Considering the Footprint

There is a phenomenal amount of warehouse space available in this country and that volume just keeps growing. 215 million square feet of industrial space was absorbed nationwide last year. More than half of that space–over 16 billion sq foot is found in the Midwest and South. Vacancy in those warehouses has gone down 7.9%. As a country, we’re building new space every day, increasing our capacity to store raw materials and goods. As our storage capacity grows, so too does our infrastructure to keep what we store organized.

Organizing the Flow

TAccording to a study by the Georgia Institute of Technology, less than 30% of the warehouses in the U.S. are operating efficiently. The solution to these inefficiencies may lie with the implementation of WMS, or warehouse management systems. These systems are constantly developing and improving the ability to fulfill orders more efficiently.

On The Road

Once orders are processed and packed at a warehouse location, they move across the country with amazing speed–consumer goods are often available next day in most of the country. USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL often coming up with new ways to make the delivery fast, reliable and competitive. The more you do business with these carriers the more discounts and savings. Retail distribution centers continue to spring up all around the country, creating greater access to goods, widening the network that connects products to their destinations, and increasing our capacity to efficiently organize the flow of goods across the country.

Looking for warehouse space in more than one location - domestic and international?

If you are fulfillment company warehouse space becomes significant. However most of the fulfillment companies cannot afford to have multiple location because of the cost factor. Typically a startup fulfillment company has only 30,000 sq ft to 50,000 sq ft. When their business starts growing, warehouse space becomes a big issue and lose business opportunities.. Don’t worry. Our platform can help you solve this issue. We are connected and connecting with companies that has millions of sq ft of warehouse space. Simply join our platform and become partner with these companies. We make the integration easy.

Have more space but looking for additional business revenue?

IIf you are a fulfillment company with millions of sq ft warehouse space and finding difficulty to fill the space, don’t worry. We are here to help you. Lot of small companies are losing sales opportunity due to the lack of warehouse space. These small companies can use your warehouse space and service. They can refer business to you. We are connected and connecting with these small fulfillment companies. Join our platform and become partner with these companies and offer your service. We make the integration easy.

If you’re a logistics company and need a partner to help you with logistics in different location or would like to offer your service to other logistics company, ZoneFunnel acts as a bridge and help you connect and benefit one another.