Published on April 28, 2011 Australian shopping cart software for Australian business
The Australian business environment is a lot different from America. Does your shopping cart software come pre-configured for Australia?
Australia and America have many similarities but many differences too. The differences can cost you a lot of setup time if you don’t have someone doing the legwork for you when you set up your website with shopping cart online.
For example, both Australia and the US speak English, but we have some spelling differences. We both use dollars, but they’re worth different amounts. We both have states, but America has more. We both have taxes, but Australia’s is called GST and is one flat rate across the entire country. We both have privacy laws, but the specifics are different. We both have banks and merchants, but the ones they use are different and have different legal and reporting rules. Is your head around all of these differences? Have you tried making an American cart ATO invoice compliant? It can be done, but from what we have both tried and read, in many cases all you can say afterwards is “bring me the Panadol”!
Ozcart makes it easy for Australians to start an online store:
Out of the box, Ozcart Ecommerce is already configured for the Australian business environment. As we also personalise the design for you, that means when you receive your store you can start setting up your payments, loading your products and images, setting prices, testing and start selling online!
- Messages to your customers use Australian spelling.
- Currency is in Australian Dollars, not USD or UK Pounds. Nonetheless, you can use any currency you want – it’s easy to add your own as they come integrated with Ozcart shopping cart.
- Australian 10% GST is pre-configured in the cart before you get it. Easily change it to your country’s tax system.
- Your invoices comply with the ATO’s reporting rules.
- Your website’s technology meets Australia’s security and privacy standards.
- You have a full suite of choice of Australian shipping and payment methods: you are not left to choose from just the two or three biggest providers. Some of them work in other countries worldwide as well.
- There are live freight calculators for Australian shipping providers who offer these services like Australia Post (including satchels and Express Network delivery time estimations), Fastway, Smartsend, Transdirect and eGo.
- For those on the Diamond or Enterprise packages and using our drop ship shipping system (i.e. Multi Vendor, Multi Warehouse or Per-Product-Group shipping), commonly used International shipping methods that ship to Australia are also available for your overseas shipping points (e.g., FedEx, UPS, USPS).
- Weights are in kilos, not pounds. Nonetheless, you can manage the weight units easily in Ozcart.
- Measurements are in cm, not inches.
- A note for kiwis – we do pre-configuration for New Zealand too: Yes, we personalise Ozcart for New Zealand business too – that means the MYOB customer and sales exporter is more compatible with the kiwi version of MYOB, that NZ’s GST rate is set up, that NZ Bank deposit and NZ Payment gateways (e.g., Windcave (previously DPS), Paystation) are all available. For NZ carts, the default currency is configured as NZ, and so are other region-specific settings. And your invoices are IRD compliant.
Get your business online with Ozcart Shopping Cart Software solution today.
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Ozcart has been in business since 2006 and is an online, hosted shopping cart that you can use for your current or new online store. We offer so many features for the same low price. In fact, we are addicted to adding new ones to ensure that we remain one of the best choices for a shopping cart.
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