Convert to SearchFit Shopping Cart Software

We understand converting to SearchFit is not just a business exercise…You want to boost your traffic, revenue and conversion rates! Convert to SearchFit and enjoy site improvements such as:

• Increase conversion rate thanks to easy to implement, advanced features such as product reviews, compare products, advanced search and filterable menus.
• Optimize your entire website according to the most reliable and current SEO practices.
• Enable an automated system of delivering your product feed to Google Base.
• Improve your product and category displays throughout your website using SearchFit's advanced template system.
• Use our in-house development team to help convert your website
• Get a game plan from our marketing team and launch an improved campaign.

1. Adding Your Product Information To SearchFit

Whether you store product information in your own database, or use another shopping cart, there is almost always a way to export your product data. If you are able to export your product data into a comma separated value or tab separated format, then you can import that data into SearchFit. The fastest way to add product information to SearchFit is to use the product import feature.

SearchFit's Web Services feature makes it possible to use your own database with your new SearchFit store. For example, SearchFit is able to connect to your external database and display product prices and stock levels. This powerful feature allows you to display dynamic data on static pages.

Once you have exported product information, you will be able to make modifications using a spread sheet application, such as Microsoft Excel. It's possible to store your product information on several spreadsheets; however, it is less complicated to list everything on one sheet. Your spreadsheet will display one product per row and have multiple columns to contain the different types of data per product. For example, if you have 50 products, you will have 50 rows of product information. You will have enough columns of information to contain all the different kinds of information that you would like to display per product such as: name, price, options, images, descriptions, etc.

2. Adding Your Design

Aside from adding products, another large phase of your site development is adding design. SearchFit has a very flexible template system. The templates are HTML based. A SearchFit design template is an HTML document that is modified by SearchFit keywords. These keywords are added to instruct the SearchFit system where to automatically place items on a per page basis. These items include a page's inner content, search boxes, headings, metatags, menus, etc. Since a SearchFit template closely resembles a standard HTML website template, any design is possible, including the use of CSS, Flash and JavaScript. The bottom line is you can use your existing design in SearchFit! Any developer that knows HTML well should be able to successfully create templates and pages within SearchFit. See the SearchFit QuickStart Guide for more information about adding templates.

3. Adding Your Informational Pages

The rest of your pages, such as your Home Page, About Us, Contact Us and Testimonials can be easily added to your SearchFit site in the "Custom Pages" area. Simply copy and paste the HTML for a given page into a field within the Custom Links area. From there the page will be stored within the SearchFit Control Panel. Images, JavaScript Files and .SWF's related to these pages are all stored in the Control Panel as well.

4. Adjust Settings

Another step in bringing existing sites into SearchFit is adjusting the SearchFit cart settings. This is a very robust system that allows you to change shipping methods, payment methods, taxes, languages, currencies and many other important options. Our team is here to assist you with configuring these settings to ensure your site is working perfectly on launch.

Contact us today if you have any questions about how your website can benefit from the revolutionary SearchFit v8.0 eCommerce Platform.