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