GoECart Satisfies Food And Beverage Industry's Hearty Appetite For Unified Commerce

'GoECart 360' Helps Retailers Capitalize on $600B Market Opportunity for Food and Drink

GoECart, the leading unified commerce platform provider, announced recently that several features of its all-in-one commerce suite are an ideal fit for the Food and Beverage industry. The features enable merchants in this lucrative retail category to capitalize on the growing trend that fuses online and offline commerce.

GoECart’s CEO, Manish Chowdhary said, “GoECart 360 is the ultimate solution for Food and Beverage merchants, because it enables retailers with innovative features on the storefront that are truly unique for this industry plus the robust backend functionality merchants need to rival their larger competitors. The Food and Beverage category has unique needs and merchants now can deliver a truly differentiated customer shopping experience rather than trying to fit into existing packaged software.”

According to a recent report from Business Insider, the $600B dollar a year Food and Beverage industry is the largest retail category in the U.S. by a wide margin, and another study from research portal Statista shows growth of Food and Beverage online commerce sales alone more than doubling from $5.3B in 2012 to a projected $10.9B in 2018.

The GoECart 360 unified commerce suite provides a host of features that are a real coup for Food and Beverage retailers. These include:

• Mobile Optimized Ecommerce – GoECart’s highly intuitive mobile commerce user experience was designed from the bottom up to help ensure conversations. This is good news for Food and Beverage retailers, since half of online retail traffic now originates from mobile devices.
• Flexible Kit, Bundle, and Gift Basket Options – Merchants can choose to assemble multiple products into kits/bundles/baskets and offer them as unique entities for sale as a part of a package or individually (for example, wine, cheese, and chocolates could be offered as part of a single gift basket or a la carte as separate items on the site).
• One Page Bulk Order Upload – A spreadsheet option allows for the upload of orders in bulk—merchants can upload a single spreadsheet with hundreds of line items and addresses in record time minimizing errors and inconsistencies.
• Advanced Multi-Destination Ordering – Multi-destination ordering facilitates placement of large orders to multiple locations on specific delivery dates. This can be a boon for a customer wanting to send a box of chocolates to multiple friends for Christmas or a company wanting to order supplies for all its franchise locations quickly with a single payment transaction.
• Advanced Support for Perishable Goods – For retailers who offer perishable items, GoECart provides the flexibility to the account for items that can only stay in transit for X number of days. The fulfillment system intelligently suggests the best shipping options by examining the date and time of delivery and stock across multiple warehouses.
• Branded Delivery Email Confirmation – Confirmation emails can be customized with the merchants brand and sent from the merchant rather than the shipping carrier. Customers can see exactly when their package was delivered, who signed for it, and where it was left.
• Personalized & Automated Abandoned Cart Reminder Emails –Three different email formats can be customized and triggers set to send the reminder minutes, hours, or days after an abandonment occurs. Incentive discounts can be included along with the email to entice customers back to the site.
• Intelligent Calendar Picker for Delivery – Customers select delivery dates from a pre-populated calendar showing what dates are available. The system computes the cut off time and delivery date so that the order reaches the customer when expected.
• Address Verification with Auto-Correction – Residential and commercial shipping addresses are automatically verified by the system.
• Enhanced Gifting Functionality – Online shoppers can opt to send an order as a gift and include a gift note and even gift wrap with their purchase. Stock sample messages for many occasions make it easy for customers to add a meaningful gift message.
• Enhanced Streamlined Back-Office Fulfillment – The suite provides outstanding filtering and sorting capabilities to aid fulfillment. This is critical to reduce overhead and optimize time to meet next day and same day shipping cut-offs.

Since implementing GoECart, Texas-based food and beverage retailer Goode Company has seen their ecommerce conversion rates skyrocket. Revenues are up 12.5 percent over last year. In addition, GoECart’s improved back office functionality increased productivity by 50 percent, and the company took more orders during the 2014 holiday season with just half the staff. Perhaps best of all, the company’s average Order Value (AOV) has climbed 11 percent.

Rudy Fernandez, CFO of Goode Company, said, “GoECart is more than just a software vendor to us. They are innovators and problem solvers. GoECart has quickly become our trusted ecommerce advisor. They deliver on-time, within budget and with incredible passion and leadership. It’s rare to find such a combination of technology talent and business acumen.”

In addition to the Food and Beverage industry, some of the other top industries that GoECart supports include Apparel and Accessories, Business to Business (B2B), Flowers and Gifts, Furniture, Housewares and Home Furnishings, Mass Merchant, Office supplies, and Sporting Goods.

About GoECart
GoECart provides a complete commerce platform, GoECart 360, which enables emerging brands and established merchants to manage all aspects of unified commerce—from ecommerce, multi-channel order and inventory management, and in-store POS, to marketing, merchandising, e-marketplaces, fulfillment, and customer service. GoECart eliminates technology and integration hassles, allowing businesses to run better and grow faster. Additionally, GoECart’s cloud-based delivery model delivers on the rewards of software-as-a-service (SaaS). These include zero investment in infrastructure, no integration headaches, free upgrades, and affordable, pay-as-you-go pricing. For more information, visit GoECart.com.