The Top 27 New SamCart Features From 2024

Selling your stuff on the internet is changing! That change is coming quick, fast, and in a hurry. As you look around the internet, you can see how ease & simplicity have become king. Every major brand on the planet has invested millions in making it easy for you to buy again and again. Thankfully, that's exactly what we delivered for you and more than 15,000 digital entrepreneurs who sell their digital products, services, and physical goods through SamCart.

When 2024 ends in a few weeks, SamCart Sellers will have sold just under $1 Billion of their own stuff this calendar year. You are building your dream, empowering your customers, and employing others. Team SamCart couldn't be happier to be helping you power that journey. This year, your SamCart Marketplace received dozens and dozens of software updates. In this post, we are counting down the 27 most impactful new features added this year.

The theme of these updates is "Simplicity". Simplicity for you. Simplicity for your customer. Your business deserves a smart, modern checkout. One that turns an overlooked part of your business into a profit-center filled with opportunities to grow your bottom line. As we look forward to 2025, we are thrilled to continue building the best ecommerce platform for digital entrepreneurs.

Let's start the countdown with #27...

27: Checkout Anywhere

We'll start with our biggest single update of the year. Your customers hate long, complicated buying experiences. Stop dragging them from one page, to the next, to the next, just to land on some basic, outdated “checkout page” (that’s not even part of your website) in order to buy. This study from Baymard shows that long, complicated buying processes are a huge reason visitors abandon their carts without buying.

Which is exactly why we built Checkout Anywhere. This suit of modern checkouts is built to make buying easy. It empowers you to securely add world-class checkouts directly to your own website. So you customers aren’t sent on a wild good chase just to buy your products. Checkout Anywhere lets you choose between 4 different experiences…

• Slide
• Express
• Embed
• Sales Pages

Each experience is packed with features that boost your checkout conversion, increase average order value, and simplify your entire business. Checkout Anywhere works with upgrades, payment plans, product bundles, taxes, shipping & handling, physical products, affiliate tracking, and everything else SamCart has to offer. Learn more about how Checkout Anywhere is powering new growth, watch the youtube video below.

“Checkout pages” are dinosaurs. Long live Checkout Anywhere.

26: Email Short Codes

Email Short codes allow you to make all of your communication personal. Use a short code to enter a customer’s first name dynamically into an order receipt. Or use them to get extra attention in your Cart Abandonment emails and win more lost sales. This year, we added a few new short codes, so you can dynamically pull in more customer information into any email SamCart’s system sends out…

• Customer Name
• Email
• Phone Number
• Product Name(s)
• Order ID
• Order Total
• Shipping + Billing Address
• Date + Time of Purchase
• And a lot more.

To learn more about which specific short codes SamCart offers, visit the Email Short Codes help article.

25. New Zapier Trigger Events

While SamCart’s integrations cover a lot of the bases, connecting with third party apps through Zapier provide you tons of flexibility. Connecting your tech stack together, and automating core tasks is easier than ever thanks to new updates to SamCart’s Zapier integration.

This year, you have a few new Zapier trigger events available. Use these events to segment your audience, send reminder text messages, add order data to your reporting, and more.

• New Order for anytime a customer buys something
• Prospect Created for capturing visitors who abandon without buying
• Subscription Charged for successful recurring payments
• Subscription Cancelled for customers who choose to stop paying
• New Refund for customers who ask for their money returned

24: Global Sales Tax Updates

Taxes are rapidly becoming a critical part of selling anything on the internet. Each passing year brings new legislation around the world that impact you and your company. If you are not currently collecting taxes, you could be blindsided by a huge tax bill at the end of the year. On the other hand, if you are collecting taxes incorrectly you can also be smacked with heavy fines.

SamCart’s global tax updates continue to work to keep your business compliant. So no matter where in the world you are, or where your customers are, you can rest easy knowing your checkout is applying accurate tax rates when they apply, and skipping them when they do not.

Whether you need to charge US Sales Tax, Canadian HST/GST, European VAT, or anything in-between, SamCart's built-in tax calculations keeps you compliant.

23: The SamCart App Marketplace

Seamlessly connect your entire tech stack with SamCart’s new App Marketplace. Automatically deliver your courses, collect reporting, ship out new products, fill up your memberships, and more with simple integration rules.

The new App Marketplace gives you granular control, without needing a coder or an engineer to connect all your favorite tools. Create rules for individual products, or create rules that cover every order across your SamCart Marketplace. The App Marketplace is like having a full time employee working 24/7 to keep your business running. Except you don’t have to pay them, and they can’t unionize.

22: High Level CRM Integration

While we’re on the topic of integrations, let’s talk about our newest CRM integration with HighLevel. HighLevel is popular for their ability to segment, automate, and market to your contacts. Let HighLevel do what it does best, while SamCart takes care of all things checkout.

Now you can use SamCart’s world-class checkout to boost conversions, and automatically add each new customer to your HighLevel account. Create simple integrations rules and have SamCart send customer information, order data, and enroll contacts straight into your HighLevel automations. Get the bet of both world’s by integrating SamCart’s checkout and HighLevel CRM.

21: Circle.so Membership Integration

Automatically enroll your customers directly into your community spaces through our new integration with Circle. The popular membership platform is a great place to host digital content & engage with your community. SamCart integration rules can enroll your students directly into Circle “spaces”, segment then by adding tags, or even invite them to an upcoming event.

Make more money with SamCart’s conversion-boosting checkout features, while growing engaging memberships inside of Circle. All while providing a seamless experience to each and every customer.

20: Shopify Fulfillment Integration

Creators are expanding. You aren’t satisfied selling one online course anymore. Creators continue to push the boundaries, and expand their product lineups. That now includes physical products! This new integration with Shopify allows you to sell your digital products (likes courses, downloads, and services) right alongside physical products!

As your customers buy, SamCart automatically sends customer information over to Shopify so the physical products can be packaged & shipped. Seamless integration of physical and digital sales allows you to grow average order value, boost margins, and scale your business.

Visit the Shopify help article to learn more about how you can automate physical product fulfillment.

19: Physical Product Inventory

Along those same lines, your physical products are happier than ever inside of SamCart thanks to new Inventory Management. SamCart now enables you to track how many of a specific item you have left in stock.

Never have to turn away new orders with notifications when inventory is running low. Build excitement by collecting a wait list if you have to wait for a new shipment of products to come in.

18: Customizable Shipping Zones

Keep your margins in the black with new Shipping Zones. Decide exactly how much to charge for shipping & handling based on where your customer is buying from. Set specific shipping prices down to the specific state or province.

Control what countries or regions customers can purchase from, so you don’t get stuck shipping an order that eats away at all your profit. New shipping zones put you back in control, and ensure your business is operating with strong ROI.

17: Shipping Addresses for Digital Products

Just like I said above, the world of “digital products” is growing. Customers tell us all the time that old checkouts they use aren’t flexible enough to keep up with their business.

More creators are bringing physical products into their lineups. With that in mind, you can now collect a Shipping Address at checkout, even if you are only selling a digital product. Why collect a shipping address for a digital product order? Here’s a few reasons our customers wanted this feature…

• To ship physical materials for a online course
• To send physical mail about future events
• To more easily ship physical products that are sold later as upsells or upgrades

16: Auto-Complete Shipping Addresses

Last up on the “Tour de Physical Products”, there is nothing more annoying than typing out your shipping address at checkout. In fact, this study from Baymard confirms that long, complicated checkout processes are among the top reasons visitors leave without buying at all!

Limit confusion & boost conversions with new auto-complete addresses on SamCart checkouts. SamCart ties into Google’s worldwide database of verified addresses. Your customers start typing, and get instant auto-complete recommendations to cut down on typing and eliminate errors. Your customers will thank you. Your fulfillment team will thank you. And we thank you, for being a super swell person.

Each of the last 5 updates are all outlined in more detail in this video from the SamCart Youtube channel! If you are a physical product seller, this is your video.

15: Invisible reCAPTCHA

Protect your business from fraud and downtime with Invisible reCAPTCHA. Every month, the amount of bot & malicious traffic continues to rise. If your checkout isn’t actively protecting against bad actors, you can end up issuing refunds to criminals armed with a stockpile of stolen credit cards. Even worse, you can be shut down by payment processors like Stripe or PayPal for chargebacks that come from these fraudulent orders.

Security is a top priority here at SamCart. Nearly 4 out of 5 SamCart Sellers reference “reliability & security” as a main benefit of selling on our platform. Invisible reCAPTCHA protects you against bots & fraud, without ever forcing some ugly CAPTCHA in front of all your visitors. CAPTCHA forms cause friction, and can reduce your checkout conversion rates.

SamCart’s “Invisible CAPTCHA” works behind the scenes, only showing a reCAPTCHA test to the very small number of visitors who “trip the alarm” with weird activity. At last check, fewer than 1 out of 100 SamCart visitors are shown a reCAPTCHA at all. While 100% of SamCart checkouts are protected by this technology.

The end result is a secure checkout for your customers, protection from chargebacks for you, and the “highest uptime in the west” for SamCart. Skip to the 5:10 mark of the video below to see more.

14: Subscription Completed Integration Trigger

The myths are true. Your business can run on autopilot. SamCart’s App Marketplace acts as the quarterback of your entire operation. Setting simple rules that automatically deliver products, enroll in courses, segment new customers, and more. This year, we added a few new integration triggers. The new Subscription Completed trigger allows you to run integration rules anytime the final payment of a subscription is paid.

This trigger is useful for any seller with payment plans, services, or physical products. Here are some ways our sellers are using this trigger…

• Services: Text the customer asking if they want to re-up their services
• Digital: Email the customer with a congrats & offer a discount on buying the next course in your lineup
• Physical: Add customer to email sequence giving a coupon code to re-order their product

13: Purchase Custom Domains In SamCart

No one wants their visitors to have to leave their website to make a purchase. If your checkout is still on some other website URL, then you should check out SamCart’s in-app Custom Domains.

You can search for, and buy, new Domain Names from right inside of your SamCart Marketplace. Seamlessly add those domains to cover any SamCart Sales Pages you have. Keep your visitors on your domain, and close more sales because of it.

12: Customizable Reports

As a digital entrepreneur, data is your lifeblood. Without it, you are left wondering where sales are coming from & what is actually working. With it, your business can be a finely tuned machine that grows like clockwork.

SamCart’s built-in reports are one of the biggest reasons top sellers choose to sell on our platform. This year, every report was upgraded with some new tools to help you pinpoint what is working, and what isn’t.

Each report is now customizable. Choose what columns to display. Apply filters to locate exactly what you need, and exclude the noise. New reports around subscriptions, cart abandonment, customer lifetime value, and more provide valuable insight into how you can continue to scale your revenue.

Skip to the 2:15 mark of this video to see these new customizable reports in action.

11: Global Branding

One place to rule them all. The new Global Branding area allows you to edit the fonts, buttons, colors, terms & conditions, & more for every one of your SamCart checkouts. Change your look & feel in one simple place.

Your visitors never have to click through to an unbranded checkout that looks nothing like your website did. Keep your checkout on brand, every single time. If you ever want a specific checkout to have unique settings, you can override these new global brand settings for any individual product.

See a full demo of this new Global Brand area at the 4:45 mark of the same video as above.

10: Simplified Upsells

The One-Click Upsell is the single most powerful eCommerce tool at your disposal. Like buying extra items on Amazon using your card on file, SamCart’s One-Click Upsells put that power in your hands. When you make it easy for your best customers to buy more, that’s exactly what they do.

SamCart’s Database shows that adding a single one-click upsell increases average order value by a whopping +68%! Which is why earlier this year, we launched new Simplified Upsells. Get the profit-boosting power of upsells, without the work it takes to create one.

Simplified Upsells allow you to add an upsell to your checkout flow with just a few clicks. Create an upsell, pick a product, and SamCart will serve it to your customers. No designing. No copywriting. Just the game-changing power made simple enough for any busy entrepreneur to get it live.

9: Simplified Upsell Templates

To make launching your first (or next) one-click upsell even easier, use this new Upsell Template. This new template beautifully showcases your product to each buyer. Give your best customers the shot to add extra items to their order, without you needing to lift a finger.

Each aspect of this new default template is automatically pulled in by SamCart. So all you need to do is pick which product you want to offer as an upsell, and SamCart does the rest. The product’s image, description, and discount all are automatically generated into this clean, minimal layout.

Each customer gets this quick pitch to add an extra course, service, physical good, or anything in-between to their order. SamCart Sellers who utilize upsells make 5x more than those that do not. This new default upsell template is the quickest path to joining that crowd.

8: Self-Cancel Subscriptions

What if you could eliminate half your customer support work? The SamCart Customer Hub did exactly that earlier this year with the release of Self-Cancelling Subscriptions. Now, your customers can manage their own subscriptions, without needing any assistance from your support team.

Customers are happier. Your team is happier. And you get to reinvest those resources into something more valuable to your bottom line. Just another way that SamCart helps to automate your core business tasks, so you can stop wrangling your business and get back to growing it.

7: Multiple User Roles

You are not a lone wolf. Whether you have full time employees, or hire hourly help with bookkeeping, design, or customer support, you need control over your team. SamCart’s new User Roles allow you to assign specific permissions to each member of your team.

1. Administrator for true partners
2. Support for your customer-facing help
3. Contractor for designers & integrators
4. Analyst for reports and bookkeeping
5. Read-Only for exporting reports and tables

Your team doesn’t need to see everything. Get the help you need, without opening your entire book of secrets with these unique User Roles.

6: Dynamic Coupons

Want to boost your checkout conversion? Use coupons. Our database shows that orders where a coupon code is applied are converting +296% higher than those without one. Coupons are a powerful tool in your tool belt to increase urgency, inject real scarcity, and make more money.

Which is why we took “regular” coupons and added a ton of new features. These aren’t just coupons, these are Dynamic Coupons. Spoiler Alert, two of our top 5 new features of the year are related to new Dynamic Coupons. But here’s a quick breakdown of how these new updates can make you more money…

• Apply coupons to all products, a specific product, or a select group of products
• Coupons can apply one time, or include recurring discounts for subscriptions & payment plans
• Supercharge your next sale by giving your coupons a start date and/or end date

5: Single Use Coupons

For #5 we stick with the new Dynamic Coupon updates. One update in particular is the ability to have a coupon work as “single use”. Which means any coupon you create can be set to work exactly one time, for one customer. Or it can be set to work once per customer.

The real value here is your ability to use coupons to strategically boost conversions in your ad campaigns, launches, and sales. James Wedmore strategically uses coupon discounts to convert over 30% of all checkout visitors for his Conversion Cards offer to new email subscribers.

4: Auto-Discounting

Coupons take conversions to the moon. It’s why Amazon constantly has crossed out “retail prices”, on your favorite products. The feeling of getting a discount is a huge driver for new sales. Which is why we built Auto-Discounting into SamCart’s Dynamic Coupons.

Auto-discounting allows you to automatically apply coupon codes to any checkout by adding a simple URL parameter to your checkout links. Your customers click a link from their email, or open Slide Checkout on a landing page, and the coupon is pre-applied to their cart. SamCart’s database shows that orders where a coupon is applied convert +296% higher than those without. Use Auto-Discounting to boost conversions for your next campaign.

3: One-Click Upgrades

The phrase “Would you like fries with that” build a fast-food empire. Now, give your best customers the chance to upgrade their order with just one click. SamCart’s new Order Upgrades can multiply the profit you make from each order. Present each customer with an option to upgrade their order to a higher tier, while SamCart takes care of the tech behind the scenes.

1. Upgrade monthly membership customers to an annual plan
2. Upgrade course buyers to purchase a bundle of products
3. Upgrade basic service customers to your premium services

Any customer who upgrades will have their charges automatically prorated, so they are never overcharged. SamCart also automatically delivers the right products, tags, and emails so your customer never gets confused or delivered to the wrong product.

This new Upgrades feature help Vanessa Santos collect more than double the revenue from her recent membership launch. It also helped one SamCart seller in the music niche brand

2: Smart Conversion Tracking

If you can’t measure, you can’t grow. Take control of your ad campaigns by tracking each and every sale back to the ad campaign, email sequence, or social post that created it. Smart Conversion Tracking lets you know exactly where your sales are coming from, without needing to spend a huge pile of money hiring some outsourced team.

Just plug in your unique ID numbers from Meta, Google Analytics, or Google Tag Manager, and SamCart takes care of the rest. Sales attribution is the biggest hurdle to scaling your ad spend, and growing your business. SamCart’s Smart Conversion Tracking clears that hurdle with a simple copy & paste.

1: Slide Checkout

Friction is the killer of sales. Slide Checkout is the killer of friction. SamCart’s newest checkout experience allows you to drop our world-class checkout directly onto any page on your website. Launch a beautiful slide checkout directly from any button, image, or hyperlink on your landing pages.

Slide Checkout is loaded with features that make you more money, integrate with your favorite tools, and custom-fit your checkout to your business needs. The SamCart Database shows that our latest checkouts convert +51% higher than legacy SamCart checkouts. When you make it easy for customers to buy, that’s exactly what they do.

Best of all, you can add Slide Checkout by simple copy & pasting one simple line of code. No designers, no coders, no problems. Test Slide Checkout on your landing pages today.

Boost Your Checkout Conversions With SamCart

Replace your basic, outdated checkout with SamCart and start making If you want to put these features to work selling your products, goods, and services, then head over to the SamCart Pricing Page and start a free trial today.

Acquire more customers with higher checkout conversions. Watch your margins soar as you tap into the power of Expansion Revenue. Simplify your entire business with an ecommerce platform built for you.

Team SamCart is grateful for you being a part of our community! We look forward to delivering more innovative tools to power your growth in 2025.

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