Actinic Business presents a familiar and easy to use Windows interface with Start Up and Design Wizards to get you up and running quickly.

Managing your product catalogue is made easy with the Explorer-style ‘drag and drop’ interface. Select from a number of product page layout options to display up to 20,000 products with further flexibility to create unlimited sections and subsections, product variations and components. Give each product its own site page. Actinic Business also supports downloadable, digital products such as mp3 music files.

The design module provides complete flexibility to design your store in the way you want to. Select and amend from a range of pre-designed themes, mix and match elements from the design library and edit colour schemes, fonts and layouts to create your own unique, customised store. Preview your site in real-time as you go.

Actinic Business provides all the functionality included in Actinic Catalog together with enhancements to improve customer service and order processing efficiency, particularly for businesses taking orders through online and mail or telephone channels. The mail order/telephone order (MOTO) screen enables the input of orders directly into Actinic.Dealing with other businesses or customers on a regular basis is made easier by setting up customer accounts or groups, and applying specific criteria such as discounts, messages and payment methods. Automatically create accounts for your customers, and enable them to view and track their orders online.

Actinic Business provides all the marketing and merchandising features included in Actinic Catalog together with some significant enhancements to assist in growing your online business.

Use sophisticated merchandising techniques to increase sales including single and multiple use coupons, ‘buy one get one free’, discounts based on quantity or specific products ordered and ‘Also Bought’ lists to show products others have purchased.

Actinic Business Plus supports integrations with Sage 50 Accounts software and Actinic EPOS for businesses with a physical retail shop. These facilities allow the transfer of orders and other data between the systems to assist in improving operation of your business.

Vendor PC

• Windows 7, Vista or XP (service pack 2)
• 1GB RAM (2GB for Windows 7 and Vista)
• Minimum 1 GHz processor recommended (2 GHz or faster for sites with over 5000 products)
• Internet Explorer 6 or higher
• 120MB available hard disk space
• 65536 colour display recommended

Web site

• Windows, UNIX, or Linux Server
• Perl 5.006001 or later (MD5 Perl module recommended)
• User-writable CGI bin
• CGI and main FTP users should be the same
• Min. 20MB process memory recommended

Optional Bar Code Readers

If bar codes are to be used Actinic Business requires a bar code reader. Actinic Business outputs letters read from the bar codes in uppercase only. The font used is ID Automation font at a size of 14pt. The bar code format is code 39.

The following models are recommended*:

• WASP 633808501051 Symbol Technologies LS 2208
• The DataLogic DLC6065-MO is not recommended

*For the scanning of bar codes, a laser printer set to 360dpi or greater is recommended.