International e-commerce
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Intrastat reports, customs invoices and TARIC codes
28 Nov 2025
Expanding your online shop to international markets requires handling customs and reporting requirements. Abicart's platform provides integrated features to help streamline these complex processes, making global sales easier for your business.Key functionalities supporting international trade include: Customs Documentation and Reporting HS Number (Harmonized System): You can activate and input the international standardized HS number for each product. This six- to ten-digit code is crucial for classifying goods traded worldwide, helping to determine correct tariffs and facilitating smooth customs clearance in importing and exporting countries. Customs Declarations: The integration with partners like nShift (formerly Unifaun) supports the export of shipments with customs declarations, such as CN22 and CN23 forms, which is essential for sending parcels outside the European Union (EU). Country of Origin: Maintain accurate records of where your products were manufactured by utilizing the specific attribute for country of origin. Intrastat Reports: While not explicitly mentioned in the general manual, a robust ERP integration is typically essential for generating complex reports like Intrastat, which track the movement of goods between EU member states. Abicart offers integrations with leading ERP systems like Fortnox, Visma, and Specter to manage such financial and reporting needs. TARIC Codes: Although not a direct feature, the necessity of TARIC codes (which define specific tariff and non-tariff measures for trade within the EU) is addressed through the ability to enter and manage product attributes like the HS number, ensuring you have the data structure to comply with specialized customs requirements when needed. Efficiency in ERP Integration By connecting your Abicart shop with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, you can centralize your business operations. This ensures that when an order is exported, all the necessary product, customer, and order details—including customs-related information like the HS number—are transferred to your ERP for correct accounting and legal reporting. Abicart allows you to focus on selling, while providing the technical foundation needed to comply with international regulations and customs procedures seamlessly through efficient system integrations.
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Local domains and language-based URLs
28 Nov 2025
Expand your business into new international markets with confidence. Abicart's platform makes it straightforward to manage multiple domains and tailor your website's URL structure to suit different languages and target regions.Global Presence, Local Feel Selling to a new country often requires localizing your online shop, and a key part of that is using a domain appropriate for that market (e.g., a .fi domain for Finland). Abicart allows you to connect multiple domains to your single store, offering your customers a professional and localized feel that builds trust. Smart Domain and Language Linking Once you've purchased your domain, you can easily connect it within the Abicart admin under Settings >> Domains and SEO. For shops supporting multiple languages, the platform offers flexible URL settings: Single Domain, Multiple Languages: If you use the same domain for several languages, you must use a language prefix (e.g., /en/ or /dk/) in the URL settings for the non-base languages. Domain per Language: You can link different domains to different languages, ensuring a fully localized experience. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Advantage Abicart allows you to control the folder structure of your URLs. By including the product groups in the articles' URLs (e.g., /clothes/ladies/pants/), you create a clear hierarchical structure that is beneficial for search engine optimization (SEO). This structural clarity helps search engines better understand and index your content, improving your store's visibility in search results. Furthermore, the system creates a redirect for old page addresses that change due to new settings, ensuring visitors are automatically sent to the new, correct page for a three-month period.
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Market-specific product pricing
28 Nov 2025
Abicart's pricing system offers the flexibility required to manage complex pricing strategies, allowing you to tailor your product offers for different markets, sales events, or customer segments. This functionality is essential for maximizing sales both domestically and internationally, as well as when running a B2B operation alongside a B2C store.The system is built around price lists, providing a powerful structure for all your product pricing needs. Targeted Pricing for Maximum Revenue Multiple Price Lists: You can create unlimited price lists to manage various pricing scenarios, including regular prices, special/extra prices, and tiered pricing. This feature is a core component of optimizing your sales strategy. Customer Group Pricing: For stores catering to different customer segments, such as private customers and retailers (B2B/B2C), you can create specific customer groups. Each group can be linked to its own unique price list, ensuring that logged-in members see customized pricing appropriate for their segment. Multi-Store Systems: When operating multiple online stores from a single platform (available with the PRO subscription), each sub-store can be independently connected to specific price lists. This allows for precise market-specific or brand-specific pricing across your business ecosystem. Efficient Price Management Managing prices across these different lists is designed to be streamlined and efficient: Scheduled Pricing: For sales events like Black Friday or seasonal promotions, you can schedule a price list to automatically activate and revert at specific dates and times, eliminating the need for manual updates during off-hours. Quantity-Based Pricing (Tiered Prices): Motivate customers to increase their average order value by setting up tiered pricing within a price list. The unit price decreases as the purchased quantity of a product increases, with the changes visible directly on the product page. Bulk Updates: Price lists can be updated manually directly in the administration interface or quickly via file import, making it simple to implement widespread price changes based on product groups or other criteria. This comprehensive approach to pricing ensures you maintain full control over your margins and offer competitive, market-relevant prices to every customer segment.
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Market-specific payment and shipping methods
28 Nov 2025
Successfully expanding your e-commerce business into new markets requires offering local customers the payment and shipping options they know and trust. Abicart provides the flexibility to tailor your checkout experience to meet the precise needs of each country and customer segment.Customized Payment Experience With Abicart, you gain granular control over which payment methods are available based on the customer's location and preferred currency. This capability is essential for maximizing conversion rates in international sales. Per-Country Restriction: For every payment solution you implement, such as Stripe, Nets Easy, or various checkout providers like Klarna and Svea, you can specify the exact countries where it should be offered (or explicitly excluded). This ensures, for example, that country-specific payment options like Swish are only shown to customers in Sweden. Currency Control: If your shop supports multiple currencies, you can restrict a payment method to only be available when a specific currency is selected. This allows you to manage different payment provider agreements effectively. Multi-Channel Providers: Certain payment solutions (e.g., Klarna Checkout, Nets Easy, Svea Checkout) are flexible enough to be set up multiple times within your Abicart admin, using the same account keys but limiting each instance to a specific country and currency combination. This provides a clean, localized look in the checkout. By only presenting relevant payment choices, you reduce friction at checkout, increase trust, and improve the likelihood of a completed purchase. Flexible Shipping Configuration Delivery options are just as critical as payment methods. Abicart allows you to create detailed shipping methods and tariffs that adapt based on the final shipping destination. Country-Specific Tariffs: When you create a shipping method, you define tariffs (rates) that specify the cost based on weight ranges. You can then link these individual tariffs to specific countries, country blocks (like EU countries), or even specific postal codes. Integration with TMS: Integrations with Transport Management Systems (TMS) such as nShift, Postnord TA, or Shipmondo further enhance this capability by allowing for flexible rate calculation and label creation. For instance, Shipmondo supports the creation of shipping templates that factor in sender country, delivery country, weight ranges, and package dimensions. Advanced Delivery Options: For seamless local delivery point selection, services like Klarna Shipping Assistant (KSA) can display external TMS delivery options directly in the checkout window, complete with tracking and service point selection for customers in supported markets. Customizing your payment and shipping offerings is essential for international success. Abicart's platform offers the tools you need to ensure your store feels local to every customer, no matter where they are shopping from.
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Advanced pricing: customer-specific, contract and tiered prices
28 Nov 2025
Abicart offers flexible and advanced pricing features that go beyond standard retail rates, allowing you to tailor your pricing strategy for maximum business control and customer conversion.Price Lists for Flexibility and Control The system utilizes price lists, giving you the power to prepare and manage various price changes in advance. Instead of manually updating individual product prices, you can manage an entire list and easily schedule its activation. You can link different price lists to various components of your shop: Base Pricing: Use lists for your regular prices, extra prices (special offers shown as discounts on the product page), and internal purchase prices. Customer-Specific Pricing: Assign unique price lists to individual customer groups, enabling you to offer customized prices to retailers, loyalty members, or B2B partners. This ensures that when a qualified customer logs in, they automatically see their correct, contracted prices. The ability to create and manage unlimited price lists (available in Plus and Pro subscriptions) allows you to confidently manage complex pricing scenarios, such as seasonal sales (like Black Friday) or specific wholesale agreements, without risking mistakes on your main product data. Price lists can be updated quickly and efficiently via manual entry, bulk actions on the product listing, or a streamlined text file import. Tiered Prices: Incentivize Volume To encourage customers to purchase larger quantities of a single product, you can implement tiered pricing. This feature allows you to set increasingly favorable unit prices as the ordered quantity increases. For example, a single item might cost $220, but buying three or more items reduces the unit price to $120. Once set, this price step functionality can be displayed on the product page to clearly communicate the savings to your customer, maximizing the incentive for a higher average order value. Through these advanced pricing options, Abicart provides the tools necessary to manage a versatile e-commerce business, whether you cater to B2C, B2B, or a mix of both, ensuring that your pricing always aligns with your business goals and customer segments.
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Showing or hiding prices and buy buttons by customer group
28 Nov 2025
Abicart provides extensive flexibility for managing your product visibility and pricing based on different customer segments. This capability is essential for businesses operating in both B2C (Business-to-Consumer) and B2B (Business-to-Business) sectors, or for running exclusive customer clubs.By utilizing the Customer Groups feature, you gain granular control over what information customers see when they visit your shop. You can configure your store so that certain groups—such as non-logged-in visitors or wholesale accounts—experience a tailored display of products and prices. Key possibilities with Customer Groups: Restrict Product Visibility: You can choose to display all or only a selected part of your product assortment to a specific customer group. This allows you to create private catalogs exclusively for B2B partners or loyalty members. Implement Custom Pricing: Each customer group can be linked to its own unique price list. This means wholesale customers can see their negotiated prices, while general consumers see the standard retail price. The modern price list feature simplifies scheduling and bulk updates of custom prices. Hide Pricing and Purchase Options: For non-logged-in customers, particularly in a B2B model, you can enforce a login requirement to view prices and place orders. Furthermore, by leaving the price field empty in a price list linked to a specific group, the product becomes non-purchasable for that segment, effectively hiding the price and the buy button, and encouraging a "Request a Quote" interaction instead. This level of customization ensures that you can meet the unique needs of all your customer segments, offering an optimized and professional shopping experience for each one.
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Price comparison with Pricerunner and Prisjakt
28 Nov 2025
In today's competitive e-commerce landscape, making sure your products are easily found by price-conscious consumers is essential. Abicart provides a streamlined way to integrate your product catalog with leading price comparison services such as Pricerunner and Prisjakt.Expand Your Reach Instantly Price comparison sites act as powerful marketing channels, bringing shoppers actively looking for products directly to your store. By listing your items on these platforms, you leverage their high traffic and reputation as independent comparison services. Abicart simplifies this process by allowing you to generate a product feed, which is a special data file (typically a CSV or XML file) that contains all the necessary information about your products, such as: Product Name and Description Price Item Number Images Shipping Information Instead of manually updating your product listings across multiple sites, Abicart generates a unique URL for this product feed. You simply take this URL and enter it into the administration area of the price comparison service. Automated and Accurate Data Once configured, Abicart ensures that the feed is regularly updated. This means customers viewing your products on Pricerunner or Prisjakt will always see your current prices and inventory information (provided the necessary product details are entered in your shop). To ensure your products are accurately listed and categorized on these external platforms, the system allows you to easily include essential data like the item number and your chosen shipping method and fee. For a product to be included in the feed, basic information such as the item number, product name, description, group, and price must be filled in. By utilizing this feature, you can effectively market your competitive pricing and quality products to a massive audience of conscious consumers, increasing traffic and sales opportunities for your online shop.
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Maximize sales in your webshop with Abicart's multi-store and multi-shop system
28 Nov 2025
One click away from becoming the e-commerce king of your industry? Time to put the spotlight on your success with Abicart's multi-store system! Dream big, aim high and let your online empire expand to new horizons. Plunge into the digital landscape with our cost-effective, flexible and powerful platform that allows you to successfully navigate multiple online stores under the same umbrella. Imagine a centralized administration, tailored branding and a world of opportunities for both consumers and retailers. Get on the e-commerce throne and start building webshops with Abicart!Do you dream of expanding your online business, reaching multiple audiences and optimizing your business processes? Abicart's multi-store system is the perfect solution for you! With this powerful and flexible tool, you can easily run multiple online stores under one roof, while streamlining administration and minimizing costs.Click here and start your webshop - Free demo! Abicart's multi-store system / multi-shop is included in Abicart PRO and each subshop costs as Plus. Read more about Abicart PRO Why choose Abicart's multi-shop system? Cost efficiency: Run multiple online stores within the same system, reducing costs compared to having separate PRO subscriptions for each store. Centralized administration: By using the multi-store system, you can easily manage all orders from your different online stores in one place. This saves you time and effort, as you don't have to manage multiple separate systems. Flexibility and customization: The multi-store system allows you to choose whether a sub-store uses all or part of the range, as well as customize payment and delivery methods for each individual sub-store. This gives you full control over the products and services offered in each store and how they are presented to customers. International sales: If you sell to several different countries, you can create a sub-store for each country to customize the range, languages and currencies according to their specific needs. This makes it easier to offer a localized shopping experience for your international customers. Retailers and private customers: The multi-store system is great for businesses that sell to both private individuals and retailers. You can create your own sub-store for retailers with customized prices, offers and terms. Personalized branding and design: Each sub-store can have its own unique look, theme, and domain name, giving you the ability to create a tailored and professional presence for each store and brand. Scalability: Abicart's multi-store system is designed to grow with your business. As your business expands and evolves, you can easily add more sub-stores to reach new markets and target groups. Click here to start your online shop - Free demo! Note that the multi-store system is designed for a business that wants to have several different stores under the same organization. If you have several separate companies and want to have different stores for each company, it is not recommended to use the multi-store system. Instead, you should consider creating individual stores for each company. Things to consider before activating the multi-store system: Revocation: once the multi-store system is activated, there is no way to undo it and revert to a single store. Make sure you are absolutely sure that you want to use the multi-store system before activating it. If you are unsure, you can create a demo shop and test the multi-store system first, at no extra cost. Merging existing stores: Please note that you cannot merge existing stores into a multi-store system. You need to activate the feature in one store and then create all new stores in this multi-store system. You can hide sub-stores that should no longer be active, but you cannot delete them. To activate the multi-store system, contact Abicart support and we will help you with the activation.With Abicart's multi-store system, you get a powerful, flexible and cost-effective solution that allows you to run multiple online stores simultaneously and effectively manage your online business. It gives you full control over your business and the ability to customize each store to your specific needs and target audiences. Invest in Abicart's multi-store system today and take your online business to the next level!Read more in the multi-store system manual:https:// www.abicart.se/om-abicart/manual/flerbutikssystem/flerbutikssystem-oversikt Example:Merch-Ants Sthlm AB (same backend and multiple stores) PC Gamer Hellacopters Backyard Babies Erik Grönwall Super 8 Skid Row - Official European Store Apocalypse Orchestra The Unguided Hardcore Superstar True Metal Merch Multiple online stores under one roof - Try it for free!If you haven't started an online store with Abicart yet, it's time to discover the amazing possibilities that await you. With Abicart's user-friendly and powerful platform, it's easy to get started and create a successful online business. You can start by trying Abicart for free and exploring the various features, including our unique multi-store system that allows you to run multiple online stores under one roof. Don't hesitate - take the plunge today and experience how Abicart can help you reach new heights in your online sales and grow your business. Remember, trying Abicart is completely free and there is no risk in testing. We are confident that you will love our platform and the opportunities it gives you to create a successful online store. Click here and start your webshop - Free demo!
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Export / import of languages
28 Nov 2025
Will you be selling in several countries and to different markets? In Abicart you have great opportunities to build a multilingual webshop. Read more about languages here Export language files If you need to translate large amounts of content, you can choose to export all content to a csv file. This allows you to work with texts in multiple languages in a very efficient way. With language files you can work with localization services like te.x POEditor. Read more about this here: How to translate .csv filesRead more about Exporting/importing texts in multiple languages in the manual
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Automatic exchange rate updates via the European Central Bank
28 Nov 2025
When you run an e-commerce and multi-currency webshop, it's important to keep track of exchange rates. That's why we've built in an integration with the European Central Bank that keeps all the exchange rates in your webshop updated automatically. (You can of course set your own exchange rates if you want.) Read more about the ECB: Euro foreign exchange reference rates Read more about currencies in the manual
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Integration with Mailchimp
28 Nov 2025
The Mailchimp integration simplifies your email marketing efforts by synchronizing essential store data directly from Abicart.This feature is a valuable tool for effective customer relationship management and promotion, included at no extra cost in the Abicart Plus and Pro subscriptions. What Synchronizes with Mailchimp? The connection ensures that your Mailchimp lists and campaigns are always working with the most current data from your webshop: Customer Data: New customer registrations and updates to existing customer cards in your Abicart customer register are automatically exported to Mailchimp. Product List: New products and updates to existing items are sent to Mailchimp, ensuring your campaigns feature the correct product information. Order Data: New, completed orders and changes to orders (such as being marked as shipped or paid, or if they are canceled) are transferred. This allows for targeted campaigns like abandoned cart recovery, purchase follow-ups, and segmentation based on buying behavior. Getting Started To establish the connection, you must first have an account with Mailchimp and ensure that your store information (email, address, country, postal code) is correctly filled out in the Abicart admin under Settings > Store information, as this is required for secure mailings. The setup involves linking your Mailchimp account in Abicart under Settings > External Connections > Mailchimp and configuring which data events (customers, products, orders) should trigger an immediate update to Mailchimp. You can then begin leveraging Mailchimp's campaign tools using your synced data.
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Multiple languages
28 Nov 2025
With built-in support for multiple languages, you can reach an international market. All versions of Abicart support multiple languages. Right from the start (we created Sweden's first e-commerce platform Textalk Webshop back in the 1990s), we have been keen to make it easy to sell worldwide, in different markets, with different languages and multiple currencies. It's very easy to add support for multiple languages to your webshop from Abicart. Watch a short video here showing how to do it. It actually takes less than a minute! Abicart Pro also allows you to import and export languages - a feature that simplifies your translation work with localization tools such as https://poeditor.com/ Read more in the manual about multiple languages in your webshop Read more about importing and exporting languages here
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Multiple currencies in your webshop
28 Nov 2025
Sell worldwide and charge in any currency you want. As natural as having multi-language support in your webshop, it's just as natural to be able to charge in different currencies. Multi-currency support is available in all versions of Abicart. And with the automatic exchange rates from the European Central Bank, you can always keep your exchange rates up to date. Read more about currencies in the manualCurrently we support the following currencies in Abicart:AUD: Australian Dollar THB: Baht BRL: Brazilian Real BGN: Bulgarian LEV CAD: Canadian Dollar CZK: Czech Koruna DKK: Danish Krone EUR: Euro HUF: Forint HKD: Hong Kong Dollar ISK: Iceland Krona INR: Indian Rupee IRR: Iranian Rial HRK: Kuna MGA: Malagasy Ariary MYR: Malaysian Ringgit MZN: Malaysian Ringgit MZN: Metical MXN: Mexican Peso ILS: New Israeli Sheqel TWD: New Taiwan Dollar NZD: New Zealand Dollar NOK: Norwegian Krone PHP: Philippine Peso GBP: Pound Sterling ZAR: Rand IDR: Rupiah RUB: Russian Ruble SGD: Singapore Dollar LKR: Sri Lanka Rupee CHF: Swiss Franc TRY: Turkish Lira USD: US Dollar KRW: Won JPY: Yen CNY: Yuan Renminbi PLN: Polish Zloty RGB: Russian Ruble