The eCommerce industry has been growing at a fast pace ever since its inception and even during the pandemic it saw a huge jump in adoption. To keep up with changing eCommerce shopping trends and driven by our mission to continuously evolve, we have worked round the clock to release this new version. Yo!Kart V9.3 introduces an abundance of new features and enhancements to enable a personalized shopping experience, automate the fulfillment process, and increase the performance of your marketplace.
Every entrepreneur’s first priority is to capture the market; automating business operations and streamlining the process comes later. In Yo!Kart V9.3, our development team focused on adding features/functionalities to automate payouts, taxes, shipping management and streamline the work for marketplace business owners.
ShipStation API – One of the biggest pain points of the admin/seller is to manage the logistics and post-order process. Though the shipment is managed by third-party vendors; the logistics support flow is a difficult task to manage for the admin. To make the process easy for sellers as well as admin, ShipStation Shipping API has been integrated into the Yo!Kart system allowing eCommerce marketplace website to:
AfterShip Tracking API – Another woe for an eCommerce marketplace owner is to provide tracking information to the end-users. Consumer trends have changed and people like to stay updated about the whereabouts of their order. Your eCommerce marketplace must be equipped to provide tracking information to the customers. AfterShip Tracking API is now integrated with Yo!Kart, which will allow admin & buyers to:
Stripe Connect for Split Payments – For an online marketplace owner, managing the payment process manually such as withdrawal requests, seller payouts, & refunds is a time & effort consuming task especially if you are operating globally. To make online payments & seller payouts facile, Stripe Connect is integrated with Yo!Kart multi-vendor platform. Stripe connect allows an online marketplace to:
*If the admin chooses Stripe Connect as the preferred payment gateway, wallet & other payment gateways will be automatically disabled.
Tax Management API – TaxJar API/ Avalara API – If your eCommerce marketplace is catering to the global audience or multi regions, then assigning taxes to different states according to their tax rules and then assigning products to the tax bracket is strenuous. TaxJar API and Avalara API are essential integration for global business owners. With pre-integration of TaxJar & Avalara APIs, Yo!Kart is now capable of:
*Through API the process is automated, we do have a manual tax module integrated into the system.
Location services – Personalization has become the first priority to attract customers, entrepreneurs have been struggling to provide personalization with the features integrated into Yo!Kart. With these location services, the admin can ensure personalization by:
– List/Search products by delivery address
– List/Search products by radius in kilometers
– List/Search products based on pickup/current location
Pickup – BOPIS (Buy Online & Pick in store) became a popular way of receiving online orders during the pandemic when essential products were bought online. We understood the growing trends and evolved our solution to reach market demand. Following functionalities are incorporated into Yo!Kart:
*With Yo!kart platform, you can enable your customers to pay at the store for pickup orders
Invoicing Module – One reason why the majority of the population did not prefer shopping online was because of the transparency of the transaction involved. Invoicing provides transparency to the customers about the order they have placed. Invoicing modules are especially important for b2b eCommerce marketplaces. Yo!Kart is integrated with the Invoicing module which has:
– Invoice number
– Management to display tax categories on the invoice
– Management to add mandatory government information on invoices
Engaging Checkout Experience – The checkout process has to be seamless to reduce the number of abandoned carts. The checkout must be optimized according to the user’s journey. Our team has analyzed the online shopping behavior trends to get a hold of the perfect checkout module that will minimize the abandoned cart rate. Yo!Kart has added these additional features to the checkout module:
Payment Gateway Integrations – Yo!Kart in its endeavor to reach global entrepreneurs has integrated 3 new payment gateways to serve clients from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Yo!Kart is now pre-integrated with mPesa, Paynow & DPO payment gateways along with other 17 payment gateways.
Even though the team has added new features/modules to automate the processes, the earlier manual processes like the tax modules and shipping modules are still available in the system. We have enhanced the existing features to make them upgraded according to the trends.
2020 has been the year for transformation in consumer behavior and trends, due to the pandemic, people have adopted digital much faster than predicted. We are dedicated to providing the best thus incorporating the changes to our system for automation. With Yo!Kart V9.3 a multivendor marketplace software, we are looking forward to more success for our clients.
In case you have a feature upgrade suggestion for us to include in YoKart, feel free to mention that in the comment section below.