Solid Cactus is known for its eCommerce innovation.
The Solid Cactus Development Laboratory is continually building cutting-edge solutions to improve the online shopping experience and in turn, provide store owners the opportunity to continually grow their online stores. A few times per year, we release features that build customer confidence, improve the user experience, and increase order size and conversions.
More than 50% of online shoppers will use site search to look for items on your store.
The new Advanced Search from Solid Cactus is smart, robust, and will give your customers better results — which also means better results for your bottom line.
Solid Cactus’ Advanced Search helps your users drill down to find exactly what they are looking for, which enhances the user experience and increases conversions. A built-in tracking and reporting tool shows what people are looking for, as well as terms that yielded no results. This valuable information can help you make sure your product descriptions and keywords are on par, as well as assist with your marketing efforts. Another report of interest is search terms with no results, which can help you expand your product line or change your product titles so the items do appear.
Solid Cactus Advanced Search is power-packed with features:
Auto-Suggest feature dynamically displays top-ranking items in a pop-in as user is typing
Item image shown in search results
Narrows search to specific criteria (such as, price range, size) and displays number of results found within each matching category
Ability to sort review by price and relevancy, with dynamic paging
Built-in spell checker (”Did you Mean?”) and stemming feature find misspellings and variations of search terms
“More Like This” cross-sell
Search term highlighted in results
Advanced tracking and reporting helps you monitor search terms, which helps with marketing efforts
What questions do you customers have most often? Do you have anything pressing that you need to share with your shoppers? Give your customers access to that information instantly with Fly Out Assistant from Solid Cactus.
This expanding and retracting tab, labeled “Quick Info”, appears on the right-hand side of your Yahoo! Store. As users scroll down your pages, the tab will follow, making it always easy to find. When customers click this tab, a window will slide out revealing pertinent information, such as a special message, contact information, shipping policy, an FAQ, or even video.
This feature is easy to set up and edit, too with open HTML fields that give you versatility with what information you’d like to feature. Fly Out Assistant is perfect for important announcements and holiday ship times, too.
Liven up your eCommerce store with Rotating Graphics from Solid Cactus.
Call attention to items, special offers, featured brands, a value statement, your blog, and much more as this feature rotates through your graphics, fading from one to the next. The graphics are linkable as well so this feature can send customers to the pages you want.
Solid Cactus will program an area in the size you specify on your shell or homepage (we recommend shell so your customers can see them, no matter what page they are on). Then, you just upload your graphics and choose how much time you’d like between fades. Or, you can choose to turn off the rotation and instead, let your images change with each new refresh. And, this feature is ready to go right away, as two banner designs are included.
Rotating Graphics for your Yahoo! Store will
Call attention to items or offers
Save space by showcasing multiple graphics from one location
Homepage getting a little stale? Solid Cactus’ Sequence Banners for Yahoo! Store allow you to keep things fresh and exciting all the time. Liven up the user experience by adding some movement to your homepage, and most importantly call attention to special sales, promotions, or key areas of your store. Think of Sequence Banners as a window into your store. With every transition, a new image appears.
Use these JavaScript-based banners to promote holiday sales, timely promotions, shipping offers, or create evergreen banners focusing on mainstays, such as featured brands or a value proposition. You’ll have full control over the transition speed of the banners, and your shoppers can play, pause, or rotate through them, too.
Solid Cactus Sequence Banners replaces a previous version of this feature, Flash Sequence Banners. This enhanced version is JavaScript-based and rather than using images, users instead have more freedom with open HTML areas where store owners can easily create, edit, and manage slides. This flexibility yields plenty of opportunities for unique slides, including incorporating video.
Solid Cactus will implement Sequence Banners prominently on your homepage in a size that fits your store. And, since we include the custom design of two banners, the feature is ready to go as soon as its implemented.
The new Tabbed Information Display from Solid Cactus replaces Tabbed Product Information. The enhancements to this feature are that Tabbed Information is now global, meaning it can also be used on the homepage. Also, this version is compatible with Star Product Reviews by Solid Cactus.
Plentiful product detail pages increase conversions. After all, the item page is where the buying decision is made so having compelling content and product details is a must. But, there can be overkill. Big blocks of text often hide pertinent information. Big selling points could be missed and a sale could be lost. If your item pages require scrolling, Tabbed Information Display from Solid Cactus is the answer to a more organized item page: organize product details and vital information within a set of neatly organized tabs.
You can choose which tab you’d like to be the default open tab (usually item description) and visitors then can click on additional tabs for more information such as directions, ingredients, care instructions, warranty information, sizing chart, specs, videos, and more. You can also put downloadable specs, product reviews, sell corresponding accessories within a tab.
On the homepage, Tabbed Information Display can be utilized to save space and house information, videos, or multiple featured sections, such as sale items, new items, featured brands, or top category pages.
Tabbed Information Display is styled to match your store. If a tab is not populated, it will not display on your item page so nothing will ever appear empty on your item page.
Tabbed Information for your Yahoo! store key benefits are
Clean up the clutter on your item page and homepage
Provide more information to support buying decision
Enhance the user experience
Incorporate other Yahoo! Store features within tabs
IDEA: Features that go well with Tabbed Product Information:
Simple Text Information Pop-up from Solid Cactus allows your customers to access needed information right at their fingertips.
This versatile text link feature can be placed anywhere on your site, such as your item page, beneath a contact form, or within your item pages’ product information table. When clicked, a pop-in window, containing a paragraph of simple text will appear. No longer will users have to navigate away from the task at hand to view your important details, and instead, remain focused on the task at hand.
The Simple Text Information Pop-up can be used in many ways:
Privacy policy
Return and exchange policy
Item options or clarifications
Special promotions
Warm weather shipping alerts
Important notices
“What does this mean?” for further explanation
Warnings, terms, conditions
… and more!
As an example, many customers, when signing up for a newsletter or providing their contact information, often wonder how their e-mail address will be used. Give those users peace of mind with one click by using the Simple Text Information Pop-up to showcase your store’s privacy policy.
When you add a Simple Text Information Pop-up to your Yahoo! Store you can