Features in Detail

  • Built-in order-processing module processes orders from receipt to shipment for orders placed online, by phone or fax
  • Accurately calculates shipping, handling, taxation costs
  • Monitor stock levels
  • Display prices in two currencies simultaneously, using a fixed exchange rate
  • Full range of payment options for online orders, including support for Actinic Payments and PayPal
  • Over 20 reports for print invoices, packing lists, address labels, sales reports such as fastest selling items and best customers
  • One click order completion to allow fast order processing
  • Generate customer emails with support for unlimited custom email templates
  • Prompted backup and restore feature
  • MOTO order entry form for telephone, fax and mail orders
  • Integration with other systems
  • Links to Actinic EPOS systems providing synchronisation of stock levels between your retail and online shop
  • Links to Sage 50 Accounts software - transfer orders and import product and customer data.
  • Automated site navigation features including menu bar, site search, section list, site map and 'breadcrumb trail'
  • Automatic email confirmation of order
  • 'Remember me' option for returning visitors.
  • Editable shopping cart can be saved for later completion, or as a 'wish list'
  • Fast product search
  • Postcode lookup on the web site for online orders (Requires Postcode Anywhere account)
  • Create customer accounts to increase shopper loyalty
  • Generates search-engine-friendly web pages from the designs created by Actinic Designer
  • Google Analytics integration provides comprehensive monitoring of site performance and ROI (requires free Google Account)
  • Create Best Sellers list for publication to the web site
  • Create Related Product lists to encourage additional purchases
  • Automatically generate a New Products list and publish to web site
  • "Also Bought" lists to show products other shoppers have purchased.
  • Apply discounts based on order value and display in the shopping cart
  • Apply customer specific pricing and products
  • Generate email and mailing lists based on selection of criteria
  • Create 'buy one get one free', date-expiring and multiple use promotional coupons and quantity discounts based on specific products ordered
  • Support for up to 20,000 products in unlimited sections and subsections
  • Unlimited product variations such as size and colour, and product components
  • Add additional text or images in a supplementary page, or a pop-up window
  • Specify shipping weights for each product
  • Set up different shipping zones with different tariffs
  • Add shopper definable fields for personalised products
  • Export and Import product and section data
  • Explorer-style 'drag and drop' style interface
  • Multiple page layout options, including product list with single 'add to cart' button
  • Show product choices as radio buttons, drop downs or button grids
  • Define additional components for each product
  • Product can appear more than once and as a component of another
  • Wizards to help you or your clients to easily set up their store for example to configure Actinic for their web space or product options etc
  • Create conditions for specific content to appear on the web site
  • Independence to integrate with hosting provider of choice or Actinic's own hosting services

Vendor PC

  • Windows 7, Vista, Windows XP (service pack 2)
  • 1GB RAM (2GB for 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

Web site

  • Windows, UNIX, or Linux Server
  • Perl 5.004 or later (MD5 Perl module recommended; Perl 5.10.0 is not supported)
  • User-writable CGI bin
  • CGI and main FTP users should be the same
  • Min. 20MB process memory recommended