Product Data Sharing and Synchronization is a module that comes with Shopping Cart Elite. What it does is allows product data to be shared between different Shopping Cart Elite stores. However data sharing is not the only thing it does, it also has a synchronization engine which the data provider maintains and synchronizes to your store automatically.

Shopping Cart Elite Product Data Sharing and Synchronization module is unique in that you can still control the content after the data is shared. The synchronization can be set to synchronize the application data only and not the sales content. This gives you the ability for accepting the data while not modify your sales content. This means the sales content will be unique for the retail customers and the search engines.

Here are a few scenarios how you will benefit from data sharing:

Data Provider Partnership:: Companies like www.scedata.com that operates a business in data entry and maintenance will simplify your data entry. One of SCEdata's jobs is to collect excel sheets from manufacturers and map them into Shopping Cart Elite; once the data is mapped they can share it with any Shopping Cart Elite Store. They currently charge $49 per month for unlimited data brands, saving you literally thousands of hours of work.

You will never have to worry again about maintaining new products, discontinued products, prices, pictures, etc. All this will be maintained for you and updated automatically in your store daily.

Manufacturer Data Partnership: If you deal with a manufacturer who also operates on Shopping Cart Elite, they can share their data with your online store instantly. You will never have to worry about maintaining the manufacturer's new products, discontinued products, prices, pictures, etc. All this will be maintained for you and updated automatically in your store daily.

Store to Store Synchronization: If you decide to start another store to expand your company websites, you will be able re-use the data you already have with your original store and synchronize it with the next store. Synchronization will help you since you will only have to maintain one of your stores product application data, and it will automatically synchronize to the other stores that you share it with.