Features in Detail

  • Powerful and Flexible Store Design and Layout
  • Full site customisation using an intuitive ‘point and click’ interface
  • Optional Wizards provided to speed up the initial site setup
  • Multiple preview modes provide easy navigation and instant access to any part of the site
  • Select from a range of pre-designed themes or mix and match elements to create a unique design
  • Complete flexibility to edit site colour scheme, product/sectionlayout and variables
  • Select from a ready-made library of design ‘snippets’ to be used in a creating a store design.
  • Create your own variables for product-specific data fields, design objects and many other functions
  • ‘Point and click’ HTML code editor enables quick and intuitive access to format web content.
  • Use of PHP code to generate static HTML pages based on the data provided in the content.
  • Real-time preview of the store as you build it
  • Create additional content and information pages – enabling development of a complete web site
  • Create conditions for specific content to appear on the web site
  • Integrates with Adobe Dreamweaver enabling design to take place in Dreamweaver
  • Create multiple sites from a single licence
  • Deploy the site with Catalog or Business Clients for store management and operation
  • Customise the client start up screen and product name to create a uniquely branded solution.
  • Create and configure tabs for the client interface
  • Specifying which tabs appear and restrict/allow choice of design in content.
  • 'Design Snapshot' enables design changes to be transferred easily to client sites.
  • Explorer ‘drag and drop’ style interface to access product items quickly and easily
  • Support for up to 20,000 products with product images
  • Create unlimited number of product sections and subsections
  • Multiple page layout options
  • Create links to external files or urls
  • Define product attributes and choices for each product and assign different prices to each product choice
  • Show product choices as radio buttons, drop downs or button grids
  • Define additional components for each product
  • Support for downloadable products such as mp3 music
  • Add additional text or images in a pop-up window
  • Specify shipping weights for each product
  • Add shopper definable fields for personalised products
  • Import and export product and section data
  • Hide products and information items from selected customers or customer groups
  • Built-in order-processing module processes orders from receipt to shipment (test mode only)
  • Handles both online and offline orders
  • One click order processing to allow fast processing of orders
  • Accurately calculates shipping, handling and taxation costs
  • Product prices can be both entered and displayed exclusive or inclusive of tax
  • Edit order details within the Actinic database
  • Real time stock control enables stock management for the merchant and up-to-date visibility of stock levels for the shopper.
  • Monitors stock levels during order processing, with alerts for low stock levels
  • Print invoices, packing lists and address labels
  • Associate actions and dates with orders
  • Create and view sales reports such as fastest selling items and best customers
  • Generate customer emails with support for unlimited custom email templates.
  • Prompted backup and restore feature
  • User logon for catalogue management
  • Single-page order entry form for 'phone, fax and mail orders
  • Direct credit card payment processing for 'phone, fax and mail orders (requires YesPay account)
  • Rearrange the fields in the Orders tab
  • Order completion using barcode scanning
  • Interface directly with Sage 50 Accounts software to transfer orders and import product and customer data
  • Interface directly to an Actinic EPOS application
  • Dynamically link products to an external database
  • Import customer account information
  • Credit Card Shredder for enhanced security by deleting the majority of credit card details from the order database leaving the last four digits for future card identification
  • Order filter speeds up loading of relevant orders by not loading the complete order database
  • Quick find on orders speeds up locating orders based on criteria
  • Queue order email sending for large volumes of order emails provides facility to send emails over a period of time to prevent them being marked as spam
  • Add order number to custom email so shopper has visibility of order number in subsequent email correspondence
  • Generates search-engine-friendly web sites
  • Create Best Sellers list for publication to the web site
  • Create Related Product lists to encourage additional purchases
  • Create Also Bought lists to show products other shoppers have purchased
  • Automatically generate a New Products list and publish to web site
  • Generate email lists and mailing lists including mailing labels, envelopes and reports
  • Create customer accounts to increase shopper loyalty
  • Apply discounts based on order value and display in the shopping cart
  • Advanced mailing list generation allowing filtering based on a variety of criteria
  • Set up a range of customer groups and apply specific criteria (discounts, messages, payment methods) to each group
  • Apply discounts based on quantity or specific products ordered
  • Apply merchandising discounts such as ‘buy one get one free’, date expiring discounts and multiple use coupons
  • Show Recently Viewed products so shoppers can easily return to products which are of interested
  • Display Customer Feedback to increases shopper trust and likelihood of purchase
  • ‘Condition’ Field for Google Product Feed. New, used or refurbished condition feed now added as standard.
  • Online shopping cart with industrial strength security
  • Fully integrated with all the leading online Payment Service Providers including Actinic Payments and PayPal
  • Support for secure offline payment processing
  • Automatic email confirmation of order
  • 'Remember me' option for returning visitors.
  • Cart content summary visible on every page
  • Google Checkout integration
  • Automated site navigation features including menu bar, section list, site map and 'breadcrumb trail’
  • High speed index-based online searching
  • Streamlined checkout improves the shopper experience by speeding up the checkout process.
  • Include product images in the checkout provides shopper visibility of products ordered

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 5.004 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