CRE Loaded Review

CRE Loaded is a full ecommerce system that provides your customers a comprehensive set of shopping cart tools.  Not only does CRE Loaded have a great catalog function, it also allows users to post their own reviews of your products, research articles related to your products, and get answers to their questions.  CRE Loaded is a great choice if you want to create a shopping experience that will bring customers back again and again.

Features:

CRE Loaded allows you to customize and control its features with user-friendly administration tools.   Here are a few of the CRE Loaded most popular features:

  • Customer Reviews – Allowing customers to post their own reviews of products has proved to be one of the best ways to keep potential customers at your site.


  • FAQ Manager – CRE Loaded provides a very simple means to catalog your frequently asked questions and display them on the home page. 


  • Article Manager – With CRE Loaded, you can easily add articles related to your products in a simple WYSIWYG editor that provides full customizable features.

  • Article Reviews – In the same manner that a customer can place a review of a product on the site, CRE Loaded allows the customer to post a review or comments for articles.


  • Cross-Sell – You also have the ability to create multiple links in your articles.  When an article discussed several products, you simply set up the link to the product in the catalog and the image of that product will appear below the article.


  • Information Manager – Available with CRE Loaded 6.3 Professional and Professional B2B, the Content Director System will fully integrate your content and allow you to create your add on  pages.

  • Event Manager – With CRE Loaded you also have the choice to set up a calendar to let your customers know about upcoming sales and promotions.

Installation and Administration

CRE Loaded downloads easily and has all the tools you need to configure your pages, manage your sales, and safely accept credit card transactions.  And, they’ve made it easy to decide which package you need.

  • The standard package is PCI Community Edition Shopping Cart.  It’s an Open Source solution that is free to download and provides the basic shopping cart features to organize, manage and ship your products.


  • CRE Loaded PCI Pro 6.4 provides a complete package of ecommerce functionality including marketing, sales, design and administration features, along with customer used tools such as the product review feature.

  • CRE Loaded PCI B2B 6.4 gives you all the functions of Pro 6.4 along with added B2B features that allow you to set up customized “per customer” pricing and displays, multi-vendor shipping, and affiliate programs.

Support

CRE Loaded comes with one year of full support for the Pro or B2B package.  Additional support is offered starting at $145.00 per year.  Free support is also available through their community forum.

Summary

CRE Loaded is a good choice for a growing business and one of the best choices for your business.  The packages offer scalability and pricing for every level of ecommerce. With its price point, features integrated, very active community, availability of programmers, and with its cross platform compatibility. The Cre Loaded version of Oscommerce is really one of your best options for a shopping cart. It's definitely worth a look!