PowerShop E-Commerce Platform

Get your store online, quickly and easily

The importance of selling online has never been more apparent than during the current circumstances with COVID-19, affecting the world and small businesses. For businesses that plan to sell more online, or plan to sell beyond their local community, PowerShop’s expanded capabilities answer the need.

With PowerShop you can be selling from your online store in a matter of hours, schedule curbside pickup and manage it from your mobile device.

Key features of ShopCity.com’s PowerShop full e-commerce solution:

Payment Options: Merchants can select to accept payments from a wide range of payment gateways or integrate with a long list of POS systems, including Stripe, Square, PayPal, Moneris, and a host more. With Stripe, Square and PayPal, merchants can compare transaction fees and payment types accepted by each gateway before selecting. 

Merchants can also set up Email Transfer, COD, cash in-store and other manual payment options so that consumers receive instructions upon making the selection, and manual payment options are noted in the purchase order when selected.

Zero Transaction Fees: Your customers may be staying home, but that doesn’t mean they stopped shopping. With PowerShop, whenever your customer places an order online for pick-up or delivery you pay only your payment gateway, PowerShop collects no transaction fees – you keep 100% of the profits.

Automatic Taxation: Shopping cart automatically taxes at checkout according to the store and customer locations. Manual tax management available.

Shipping Calculator: Merchants who will be shipping products using a courier or other delivery service can set single or multiple options for consumers including US and Canada Post, FedEx and UPS, and shipping charges will automatically be calculated at checkout based on the sizes and weights entered by the merchant in building the catalog item. There’s a Local Delivery Service option where the merchant can work with their local provider to set weight ranges and pricing. Merchants can set up handling/packing fees, regular or curb-side pickup rules.

Easy Installation on your Website: If you have a ShopThunderBay.com custom website, we’ll migrate your existing catalog to PowerShop* and install your new PowerShop on your website for you, all at no extra charge! If you have a third-party website, PowerShop provides you with easy installation instructions and code to install yourself.

Social Marketplace Integration: Easy integration with marketplaces like Google Shopping, Facebook Marketplace, and more. Create low-cost ads that drive the right shoppers to your store in minutes.

Mobile Store Management and POS Apps: Easily manage your store and orders from your smart phone, and sell on the go at street markets, fairs and shows.

Flexible Catalog Design: Merchants can easily change the layout, display information and image size and shape for catalog items, and control the image shape and size for category buttons.

Inventory control: When building the item, the merchant enters the number of items or number of each size in stock. Shoppers will see the remaining inventory, and will not be able buy in excess of availability. Merchant can set a notification to themselves when stock reaches a selected number of items remaining (Pro and Max plans). You can even have your online and bricks-and-mortar stores’ inventory synchronized in our Max plan, using Square POS.

Abandoned Cart Management: Reporting and automated emails for abandoned carts (Pro and Max Plans).

Customer Grouping: Assign existing customers to Groups, and easily create automatic discounts or offers to their future purchases, or track group activity (Pro and Max plans).

Bonus App Catalog: Merchants can download and apply free and paid apps to add to their store, such as Checkout Notices, Scratch & Win Promotions, Loyalty & Referral Rewards, and more.

Your Own Mobile App: Offer your customers a branded mobile shopping app for iPhone or Android (Max annual plans).

Want to learn more? Visit our PowerShop website for all the details and to get started. Or, contact your local Thunder Bay representative, [email protected] or 807-472-7228.