Actinic Business Client provides a powerful and sophisticated store management tool for use
with ecommerce sites developed using Actinic Designer. Based on the award winning features of Actinic Business the Business Client provides ease of use and advanced functionality in the areas of order processing, product catalogue management, marketing, customer management and back-office integration, whilst leaving the site design in the hands of the professional web designer. Includes Link to Sage Line 50 and QuickBooks.

May be used only in conjunction with Actinic Designer.

Price on application

Key Features and Benefits

• Easy to use and intuitive Windows interface.
• Sophisticated marketing, merchandising and customer management functionality, including advanced discounting features and customer specific pricing to build loyalty and assist in growing your online business.
• Extensive store management functionality including order processing features to maximise productivity in a high-volume order environment
• Flexible product catalogue supports up to 20,000 products including digital products.
• Integration with accounting and back-office systems to enhance productivity.
• Independence to integrate with all the leading online payment gateways and commercial hosting providers.
  

Features in Detail

Highlighted text * indicates features incremental to Catalog Client

Flexible Product Catalogue

• 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

Comprehensive Store Management Functionality

• Built-in order-processing module processes orders from receipt to shipment
• Handles both online and offline orders
• One click order processing to allow fast processing of orders
• Accurately calculates shipping, handling and taxation costs
• Edit order details within the Actinic database
• Monitors stock levels during order processing, with alerts for low stock levels
• Print invoices, packing lists and address labels
• 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
• Order completion using barcode scanning *
• Interface directly with Sage Line 50 and Quickbooks accounting systems to transfer orders and import product and customer data *
• Dynamically link products to an external database *
• Import customer account information

Powerful Marketing Features

• 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

Customer Friendly Stores

• Online shopping cart with industrial strength security
• Fully integrated with all the leading online Payment Service Providers
• Support for secure offline payment processing
• Automatic email confirmation of order
• 'Remember me' option for returning visitors.
• Cart content summary visible on every page
• Automated site navigation features including menu bar, section list, site map and 'breadcrumb trail’
• High speed index-based online searching

Minimum System Requirements

Additional Services

Actinic Hosting - dedicated web hosting for your Actinic sites
Shared SSL - the golden padlock for every customer
Training - save time and get a head start with developing online stores

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