Features

Shopblocks is a hosted ecommerce platform that provides everything a business needs to run an online shop.
The key features include:

Shopblocks is a hosted ecommerce platform that provides everything a business needs to run an online shop.

The key features include:

Design & BlockLab

• Quickly update the design of your site without writing code via our unique BlockLab tool
• Restyle your site at any time without being restricted by rigid themes and templates
• Roll back your design to previous versions
• Manage your company logo, brand colours, fonts and other styles via BlockLab’s intuitive Branding area
• Add text, images, products, videos and other content easily to any page
• Everything in BlockLab is automatically made ‘responsive’ to work correctly on mobile, tablet and desktop computers in an effective way
• Optionally restrict specific pieces of content to mobile, tablet or desktop
• Optionally add custom HTML to your pages

• Quickly update the design of your site without writing code via our unique BlockLab tool
• Restyle your site at any time without being restricted by rigid themes and templates
• Roll back your design to previous versions
• Manage your company logo, brand colours, fonts and other styles via BlockLab’s intuitive Branding area
• Add text, images, products, videos and other content easily to any page
• Everything in BlockLab is automatically made ‘responsive’ to work correctly on mobile, tablet and desktop computers in an effective way
• Optionally restrict specific pieces of content to mobile, tablet or desktop
• Optionally add custom HTML to your pages

Payment Methods

• Accept credit and debit cards via Stripe, SagePay, WorldPay and many other providers
• Accept PayPal payments
• Accept Bitcoin payments via Coinbase and other providers
• New merchants can start accepting card payments the same day without setting up a separate merchant account or speaking to their bank!

• Accept credit and debit cards via Stripe, SagePay, WorldPay and many other providers
• Accept PayPal payments
• Accept Bitcoin payments via Coinbase and other providers
• New merchants can start accepting card payments the same day without setting up a separate merchant account or speaking to their bank!

Products

• Add unlimited products to your shop
• Upload unlimited images to your products
• Add your own SKUs, barcodes and other details to track your inventory
• Track the weight of products for use in delivery cost calculations
• Add standard VAT, reduced rate or zero rated products
• Configure your products with unlimited ‘options’ such as Colour, Size or any other variable your products options need
• Create ‘swatches’ for your your products’ colour options to enable customers to clearly see colour options rather than reading a list of colour names
• Link specific images to specific product options for a better customer experience
• Schedule products to go live at specific dates and times
• Add ‘customisable’ products where customers can supply personalised information during the order process
• Improve average order values by creating ‘product add-ons’ to cross-sell/up-sell related products in a customer-friendly way
• Show prices with or without VAT

• Add unlimited products to your shop
• Upload unlimited images to your products
• Add your own SKUs, barcodes and other details to track your inventory
• Track the weight of products for use in delivery cost calculations
• Add standard VAT, reduced rate or zero rated products
• Configure your products with unlimited ‘options’ such as Colour, Size or any other variable your products options need
• Create ‘swatches’ for your your products’ colour options to enable customers to clearly see colour options rather than reading a list of colour names
• Link specific images to specific product options for a better customer experience
• Schedule products to go live at specific dates and times
• Add ‘customisable’ products where customers can supply personalised information during the order process
• Improve average order values by creating ‘product add-ons’ to cross-sell/up-sell related products in a customer-friendly way
• Show prices with or without VAT

Categories

• Create unlimited categories with unlimited levels in your hierarchy
• Add category images

• Create unlimited categories with unlimited levels in your hierarchy
• Add category images

Product Search

• Shopblocks product search is powered by Elastic Search which provides all Shopblocks merchants with “Google quality” search. Read more about our search here.
• Search handles mis-spellings gracefully
• Fast loading speed even for complex, filtered searches across huge product databases
• Customers can filter products by brand, category, option and price

• Shopblocks product search is powered by Elastic Search which provides all Shopblocks merchants with “Google quality” search. Read more about our search here.
• Search handles mis-spellings gracefully
• Fast loading speed even for complex, filtered searches across huge product databases
• Customers can filter products by brand, category, option and price

Discounts

• Easily add discount codes to reduce order totals by a fixed-price or percentage
• Restrict discounts codes to a specific date range
• Restrict discounts to a limited number of uses
• Restrict discounts to specific products, brands, categories and many other criteria

• Easily add discount codes to reduce order totals by a fixed-price or percentage
• Restrict discounts codes to a specific date range
• Restrict discounts to a limited number of uses
• Restrict discounts to specific products, brands, categories and many other criteria

Delivery Options

• Set up unlimited delivery options
• Create variable rate delivery tariffs based on order weight
• Restrict delivery options to specific products, brands, categories and many other criteria
• Provide delivery option

• Set up unlimited delivery options
• Create variable rate delivery tariffs based on order weight
• Restrict delivery options to specific products, brands, categories and many other criteria
• Provide delivery option

Order Management

• Manage website orders as well as manually-created in-person or telephone orders with
  the Shopblocks admin system
• Take payments online, in-person and over the phone by debit and credit card
• Use barcodes to quickly scan packing slips and find orders
• Dispatch orders with courier tracking codes
• Add notes that are private or visible to your customers
• Add custom discounts to orders at any time
• Quickly create one-off custom products and add to an order

• Manage website orders as well as manually-created in-person or telephone orders with
  the Shopblocks admin system
• Take payments online, in-person and over the phone by debit and credit card
• Use barcodes to quickly scan packing slips and find orders
• Dispatch orders with courier tracking codes
• Add notes that are private or visible to your customers
• Add custom discounts to orders at any time
• Quickly create one-off custom products and add to an order

Stock Control

• Track stock on products sold
• Update stock and prices via CSV import
• Control whether customers can buy out-of-stock products

• Track stock on products sold
• Update stock and prices via CSV import
• Control whether customers can buy out-of-stock products

Reports

• Generate reports across specific date ranges with filter options.
• Create income, payment or stock based reports

• Generate reports across specific date ranges with filter options.
• Create income, payment or stock based reports

Notifications

• Control which events (e.g. New Order, Order Dispatched etc.) send emails to you and your customers
• Send notification emails to third-parties such as drop-shipping partners

• Control which events (e.g. New Order, Order Dispatched etc.) send emails to you and your customers
• Send notification emails to third-parties such as drop-shipping partners

Pages & Blog Posts

• Create unlimited content pages and blog posts
• Customise the design of individual pages in BlockLab (such as creating unique landing pages
  for advertising campaigns)
• Optimise pages with unique meta titles and description tags

• Create unlimited content pages and blog posts
• Customise the design of individual pages in BlockLab (such as creating unique landing pages
  for advertising campaigns)
• Optimise pages with unique meta titles and description tags

Users

• Add unlimited users to access the Shopblocks control panel to manage the shop

• Add unlimited users to access the Shopblocks control panel to manage the shop

Tax Rates

• When necessary, set up multiple tax rates and choose which products/categories apply to each tax rate

• When necessary, set up multiple tax rates and choose which products/categories apply to each tax rate

Navigation Menus

• Create unlimited menus with sub-menus and drop-downs as necessary
• Reorder menu items
• Hide menu items on your mobile website
• Add menus to any page via BlockLab

• Create unlimited menus with sub-menus and drop-downs as necessary
• Reorder menu items
• Hide menu items on your mobile website
• Add menus to any page via BlockLab

Multi-currency

• Allow customers to display prices in a currency of their choice
• Exchange rates updated hourly via the European Central Bank

• Allow customers to display prices in a currency of their choice
• Exchange rates updated hourly via the European Central Bank

Multi-language

• Instantly translate your entire website by adding Google Translate
• Optionally add third-party translation tools such as localizejs.com

• Instantly translate your entire website by adding Google Translate
• Optionally add third-party translation tools such as localizejs.com

Search Engine Optimisation

• Manage the page titles and meta descriptions of all pages without altering product names
• Customise the URL of products and other pages

• Manage the page titles and meta descriptions of all pages without altering product names
• Customise the URL of products and other pages

Analytics

• Rapid integration with Google Analytics with full ecommerce tracking included
• Add your own third-party tracking systems

• Rapid integration with Google Analytics with full ecommerce tracking included
• Add your own third-party tracking systems

Password-protection

• Lock down your shop, allowing only authorised users to view. This is useful during the set up phase,
  or for private/exclusive stores

• Lock down your shop, allowing only authorised users to view. This is useful during the set up phase,
  or for private/exclusive stores