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Special Price on Complete Site Development Packs.
Purchase the Actinic Developer Pack with Actinic Designer software, 1 year's subscription + 1 day's training for £499. Call today for details.
(Software only price £350).
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Actinic
Designer is a powerful, low cost application that can help
web designers build ecommerce sites more quickly and easily.
Actinic Designer features an intuitive design interface enabling
complete site customisation combined
with sophisticated functionality in marketing, product catalogue
and store management. This means that ecommerce sites can
be developed quickly,
easily and more economically, and without compromise. In
addition, access to a range of customisable deployment options
provides flexibility for
both the web designer and the client.
RRP £350 + VAT
Deployed sites require either Actinic Catalog Client or Actinic Business Client
Additional Services
Actinic
Developer Subscription - Premier
technical support, free software
upgrades and other benefits
Web
Hosting for your Actinic sites
Shared SSL - the golden padlock
for every customer
Key Features and Benefits
- Easy to use and intuitive Windows interface.
- Complete design and store layout flexibility to create a unique and customised web store.
- Flexible and customisable deployment options to provide a unique and bespoke solution tailored to the client’s requirements.
- Macromedia Dreamweaver Design Module enables the sitedesign to be prepared in Dreamweaver and integrated with Actinic Designer.
- Built-in marketing, merchandising and customer management features to provide sophisticated functionality to the client.
- Extensive store management functionality providing testing capabilities for the web designer and maximum productivity for the client.
- Based on a flexible product catalogue supporting up to 20,000 products including digital products.
- Independence to integrate with all the leading online payment gateways and commercial hosting providers.
Features in Detail
Powerful and Flexible Store Design and Layout
- Full site customisation using an intuitive ‘point and click’ interface
- 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 of 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.
- ‘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 – enablingdevelopment of a complete web site
- Create conditions for specific content to appear on the web site
- Integrates with Macromedia Dreamweaver enabling design to take place in Dreamweaver
Site Deployment and Client Control
- 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.
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 (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
- 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 shoppingcart
- 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 Store Development
- 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
Comprehensive Support
- Free email support
- 30 days free telephone support
- Online Knowledge Base
- Actinic Community forums
Minimum System Requirements
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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

