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| ♦ General Ecommerce Features |
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| Store management via admin control panel on separate secured web site application node |
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| Provides complete web site solution for any ecommerce site. Includes: shopping cart, content management, customer management, reporting etc... |
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| Unlimited number of products can be added to product catalog / inventory |
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| Unlimited number of Content (topic) pages w/ HTML capable WYSIWYG content management interface |
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| Unlimited Data Driven Content (topic) pages via HTML rendered XmlPackages (Patent-Pending) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) All Source code is included with site (C#) |
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| Database Schema is included with site (MS-SQL) |
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| ♦ Product Catalog Organization Features |
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| Unlimited Number of Categories & Departments: We never limit the number of items in the database. |
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| Multi-level Categories and Departments. Categories and departments can have as many sub-categories & sub-departments as necessary |
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| Supports cross-matrix of products by category and department. E.g. a product can be mapped to the shoe category, in the women's department |
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| Products can be included in multiple categories or departments |
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| Paged browsing for categories and sections (page 1, 2, 3, 4) keeps page size small, and optimizes user experience. Customers also have the option to "view all" on any page |
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| Category, Department, and Manufacturer "names" can be renamed (e.g. "Brochures", "Products", "Car Parts", whatever you need that is appropriate for your unique store site products). |
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| Disable buy buttons for specific products |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Set Site to Wholesale Only (Prices not shown to general site customers) |
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| ♦ PayPal Payment Features |
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| PayPal Website Payments PRO |
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| PayPal Express Checkout |
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| PayPal (Regular old-style method) |
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| ♦ Shipping & Handling Features |
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| Calculate Shipping By Order Total |
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| Calculate Shipping By Order Weight |
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| Calculate Shipping By Order Weight & Zip code Zone |
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| Calculate Shipping By Order Total & Zip code Zone |
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| Calculate Shipping By Fixed Item Shipping Costs |
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| Calculate Shipping By Fixed Percent of Order Total |
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| Specify All Orders As Free Shipping |
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Use real time rates from the shipping carrier. This feature provides actual shipping costs from the carrier based on shipment weight, destination, shipping method, etc. All prices returned from that shipping carrier can be manipulated to suit the store owners shipping cost needs. (EX: Store owner may elect to add 15% of carrier shipping cost to the total prior to showing the shipping prices to the customer)
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| Shipping methods can be defined in the control panel (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day, Priority, etc) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Real Time Shipping carriers can vary based on Domestic or International shipping address |
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| Filter Real Time Rates Allowed By Users (Choose if customers can select Ground, Air, etc) |
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| Add shipping & handling extra fee to any order with shipping cost |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Shipping Methods can be verified against the user address during checkout (this avoids those customers who always choose ground shipping for instance, but live in Hawaii!) |
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| Shipping tracking #'s e-mailed to Customers |
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| Support for downloadable products |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Batch shipping order printing/tracking Integration with UPS WorldShip |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Multiple ship-to addresses for a single order (a customer on one order can ship some items to address A, and other items to address B - if store owner enables this feature) |
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| ♦ Product Database Import Features |
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| Import Products From XML File |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Import Products From Excel File |
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| ♦ Gift Registry Features (Bridal Registry, Baby Registry etc.) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Gift Registry Supported (Bridal, Baby etc.) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Gift Registry Can Be Anonymous (gift registry owner name and address is hidden) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Gift Card Support (E-mail currently). certificates and physical serialized gift card support comming soon! |
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| ♦ Wish List Features (Add to wish list) |
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| Customer Add To Wish List Supported (Store saves this info for future return visits) |
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| ♦ MaxMind Fraud Prevention Integration |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Integration of invaluable industry leading MaxMind fraud prevention/scoring technologies. Requires separate service agreement with MaxMind.com also. It prevents about 10 fraud orders per week (!) on our own production site, so we are very very pleased with this service, and the price is very reasonable. |
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| ♦ Multi-Language Features |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) (Multi-Lingual) Store site can support dynamic run-time language switching. Customer can select store language at run-time. Store administrator controls allowed languages. Language packs sold separately. |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) (Multi-Currency). Customer can select store currency to view at run-time. Allowed currencies are under control of store administrator. Support for various leading exchange rate feed suppliers will be supported (via XmlPackages). Sign-up for some exchange rate feeds is optional, through 3rd parties, and they may have fees associated with them (e.g. xe.com, x-rates.com, etc). |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Store developer/admin has full control over all store site strings used (e.g. prompt used for SKU, Product, Color, Size, shopping cart, etc). Basically, every string used in the storefront can be edited using an Excel file, and then uploaded via the store admin site. |
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| ♦ Search Engine Features (Website wide) |
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| EVERY topic, product, category, and department page can have their own custom search engine meta tags (title, keywords, description, no script blocks, etc)... |
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| Static Product & Category Pages: Designed to allow search engines to fully crawl and index EVERY product & category page in your store. This can have a dramatic increase in site traffic from search engines. |
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| Google XML Site Maps Supported: a direct Google search engine submission method sanctioned by Google |
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| Yahoo! XML Site Maps Supported: a direct Yahoo! search engine submission method sanctioned by Yahoo! |
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| Fully dynamic page titles, and search engine meta-tags |
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| ♦ Product Display Capabilities & Features |
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| Supports multiple images per product |
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| Support for swatch color image changing |
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| Support for 3 images sizes: icon, medium, large |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Automatic image watermarking for protection |
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| Image Galleries Supported |
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| Restrict product quantities to preset values (e.g. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, ...) |
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| Enforce product minimum order quantities (i.e. must order at least 10, etc). |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Recurring products can have varying intervals (days, weeks, months, years) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Subscription based products & Content access |
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| Downloadable products supported, with automatic e-mail to customer with download instructions |
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| Text options on products (e.g. require initials for monogrammed products, require text name for product customization, etc) |
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| Support for sizes & colors. All color/size site "prompts" can be customized in admin site, so you could rename those two options to have completely different meaning. |
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| Price can vary by size/color option chosen |
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| Sort products in any order desired (you can force popular products to the top of the pages) |
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| Fully dynamic site map (optimized for search engines) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Second tree-form dynamic site map (optimized for users) |
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| Support for simple products (e.g. a book) or products with variants |
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| Unlimited number of variants per each product |
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| Each variant can have a different price |
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| Each variant can have different sizes & color options |
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| Each variant can require a text option input (e.g. monogram) |
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| Each variant can have a separate SKU modifier, and price, description, etc |
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| Tell store to locate product pictures by ID (icon, medium, large) |
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| Tell store to locate product pictures by SKU (icon, medium, large) |
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| Tell store to use Image Filename Override for pictures (medium pics) |
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| Support for sale prices |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Vary product prices for each customer level |
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| Product Descriptions can include HTML formatting: We know that having complete control over each product description is important, and no two products are alike. You can use the administration site to enter product descriptions, or even link to fully custom external product description HTML files. Additionally, each product can have an inline or pop-up "specifications" window, providing more detail to the customer, without distracting them from making a purchase |
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| Support for Kits (build to order products). Kits can have dynamic pricing and component selection (e.g. build your own PC) and more specification as to what items can be added, whether they are required, etc... Kit Items cannot be ordered separately
NOTE: We have noticed that some of our competitors are charging nearly $1200 for adding a "build kit" feature on their storefronts...shame on them! |
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| Support for Packs. A pack is a product with a fixed price that can hold up to N other arbitrary products. When the pack is full, it can be added to the cart and purchased. Pack items are products themselves, which could be ordered separately |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Password Protected Products: Only allow registered customers to view certain portions of your store, expands capability of Customer Levels even further |
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| Disable buy buttons for specific products |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Set Site to Wholesale Only (Prices not shown to general site customers) |
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| ♦ Inventory Tracking & Management Features |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Inventory Tracking |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Limit orders to quantity on hand inventory, or allow customers to place orders for items out of stock (admin configurable) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Advanced inventory tracking (by product, variant, color, and size) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Show inventory on hand status on product page to customer (optional) |
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| ♦ Coupon & Promo Code Features |
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| Order Based Coupons (apply to entire order) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Product Specific Coupons (apply to only specified product) |
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| Coupon discounts by: $ discount, % discount |
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| Coupons can offer free shipping |
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| Coupons can offer tax exception |
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| Coupons have expiration date |
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| Coupons can be marked as use once per customer, use once by only one customer, use N times, etc. |
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| Coupons requires minimum order amount before it is valid |
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| ♦ Customer Accounts & Information |
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| Customer can view Order History |
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| Customer has address book |
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| Customer can easily re-order any prior order |
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| Multiple billing/shipping addresses per customer (similar to Amazon.com style checkout) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Recurring orders (e.g. for auto ship products, monthly subscription fees, monthly service type products, etc) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Skip account creation on checkout (if enabled by store owner) |
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| ♦ Payment Methods/Types Supported |
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| Credit Cards (Accept Credit Cards in Real Time: Cards can be processed & verified in real-time, or you can delay processing until a later time) |
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| Check By Mail |
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| e-Checks (Authorize.net and Itransact gateways) |
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| C.O.D. |
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| Purchase Order |
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| PayPal |
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| PayPal Express |
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| Request For Quote |
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| MicroPay (this is also referred to as a Purse). Customer can put money in an account, and then purchase against it, or add to their balance |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Gift Cards |
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The Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode initiatives are designed to eliminate fraudulent transactions and protect merchants from chargebacks. Support for these initiatives will be required in shopping carts sometime in 2005. AspDotNetStorefront already supports these initiatives, to help provide a state of the art shopping system, which helps eliminate damaging fraud and chargebacks. Integrates directly with your Authorize.net or Verisign payment gateway. Requires Cardinal Commerce account. |
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| ♦ Payment Processing Gateways Supported (Credit Card Merchant Accounts) |
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| MANUAL Gateway (just collects order & payment information for offline processing) |
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| Authorize.net Gateway (RECOMMENDED!) |
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| 2Checkout Gateway |
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| CentralPayments Gateway |
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| eProcesssingNetwork Gateway |
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| EFSNET Gateway |
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| JetPay Gateway |
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| ITransact Gateway |
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| Linkpoint Select Gateway |
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| NetBilling Gateway |
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| Paymentech Gateway |
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| PayFuse Gateway |
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| PayJunction Gateway |
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| PayPal Website Payments Pro Gateway |
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| PayPal Express Checkout |
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| PayPal (old style) |
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| PlugNPay Gateway |
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| QuickBooks Merchant Services Gateway (real time) |
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QuickBooks Merchant Gateway (Batch Non Real Time)
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| Transaction Central (i.e. Merchant Anywhere) Gateway Supported |
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| Verisign Payflo Pro Gateway |
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| Worldpay Junior |
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| YourPay Gateway |
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| ♦ Transaction Processing Features |
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| Integrates with your own merchant account |
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| Store can be set to authorize only, or auth-capture credit card mode. You can then capture payment at shipment if desired |
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| Void & Refund supported |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Partial Refund and Add-Hoc Charges Supported |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Support for recurring orders/payments (auto-ship products) |
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| Support for CVV2 (credit card security code) entry and checking (fraud prevention) |
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| Address Verification codes reported to administrator with order |
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| Credit card numbers never displayed on site, but remembered for user in an encrypted state (shown as ****1111 on site) (You can disable storing of credit card #'s in the db if desired) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Don't require account signup on checkout (optional) |
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| Force billing address to be the same as shipping address |
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| Set a minimum order total threshold for proceed to checkout |
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| ♦ Miscellaneous Features |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Customer Subscriptions for protected content |
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| Mini-Cart display, so add to cart action leaves user on same page, and updates mini-cart display in left or right column of page |
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| Password Protected HTML Pages (password protected topics) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) General Site Disclaimer Message (Agree Before Entering) supported |
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| Can set a minimum order total threshold for proceed to checkout |
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| Can set minimum order product quantities before allowing checkout |
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| Order options supported (e.g. gift wrapping, ship in unmarked box, etc). Additionally, each order option can have a price associated with it. User can optionally select order options during checkout. |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Order Export to Xml |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Customer Record Export to Xml |
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| Customer e-mail lists to XML (i.e. produce list of all registered customer e-mails for your mailing manager) |
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| Product & Site Photo Galleries: Create photo galleries of products, activities or other important corporate or store fun events. Showing prospective customers more than just a "store facade" is VITAL in creating brand loyalty |
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| Recent Products Page |
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| Best-Seller Products Page |
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| Shopping cart can persist over visits |
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| Shopping cart can be told to age in N days |
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| Built in support for the most common display formats: grid, table expanded, table condensed, simple form, right variant bars, and you can completely customize the product pages by altering the output code HTML |
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| Catalog Only Sites (e.g. turn buy buttons off)
Support for Informational Catalog Only Sites: A simple configuration setting removes all "buy" buttons from the site, in effect turning your site into an informational site, still complete with categories, subcategories, sections, product info, product photos, etc |
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Store News Items Supported (editable via Admin Site): Add real-time news announcements, and items to the site. Inform customers about important new items, or promotions |
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| Password protected topic (html content) pages |
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| Order notes can be entered by customer with special instructions |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Each cart item can also have notes entered by the customer |
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| Shopping "cart" can be renamed (e.g. Shopping Bag) |
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| Can require customer to agree to Terms and Conditions block (user defined) before proceeding with payment |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Support for subscription products. Each product can add N months to a customer subscription. Administration control panel allows override of subscription expiration date |
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| External Product HTML description files supported (e.g. product descriptions can be stored in external HTML files) |
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| External Product Specifications/Details Supported (e.g. product "specs" can be stored in external PDF or HTML file, and linked into product page) |
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| Hide products, categories or departments (publish or un-publish capability) |
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| Integrated Product Search |
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| Advanced Product Search Page (by category, section, manufacturer, price range, SKU, etc) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Full Export to QuickBooks |
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| Quantity discounts on products |
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| E-Mail Product To A Friend: Product pages can be e-mailed to friends by site visitors |
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| ♦ Tax Collection Features |
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| Apply Tax by State |
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| Apply Tax by ZipCode |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Apply Tax by Country |
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| Tax can be applied to shipping costs |
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| Individual Products can be marked Taxable or tax-exempt |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Customer Levels can be tax-exempt (e.g. wholesale) |
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| ♦ Pricing Feed Support Features |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Froogle Feed Supported -w- automatic generation and FTP upload to your Froogle account |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Pricegrabber Feed Supported -w- automatic generation |
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| ♦ Product Upsell Features |
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| Related Products: Entice additional sales by listing related products/accessories on each product page |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Show Upsell Products Directly On Product & Cart Pages. Includes option to offer upsell products at a discount |
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| Product prices can be set to "Call for Price' |
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| Product prices can be hidden until product added to cart |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Products can require that other products are added to the cart (e.g. Product X requires Product Y) |
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| ♦ Integrated Affiliate Tracking System Features |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Affiliate sign-up/account pages provided in store and admin site |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Customers can be tracked to affiliates |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Orders can be tracked to affiliates |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Products visible on the site can be filtered by affiliate source id |
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Real-Time skin changing based on URL/invocation/affiliate id |
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| ♦ Customer Level Features |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Unlimited number of customer levels (e.g. wholesale, retail, or gold, silver, platinum, etc..) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Customers can be tracked to customer levels |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Customer levels can have special product pricing, can offer percent discounts, free shipping, tax exception, etc. |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Products visible on the site can be filtered by customer level |
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| ♦ Site Operation Features |
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| Manage your store via easy to use Administration control panel web site |
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| All operational store tasks can be performed via the web based control panel |
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| You can configure products, prices, taxes, shipping, news items, etc all from the administration site |
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| Non-technical operation. You do not have to be a programmer or system engineer to operate |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Customer Service Web Administration: Comprehensive administrative reports, including revenue trends & graphs, visitor trends & graphs, customer order percentages, affiliate revenue reports, tax reports, etc. You can also search for order by almost any customer record criteria to assist with customer support calls |
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Administration Customer, order, traffic, reports (yes, and graphical!):
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Tax Reports by Month/State
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(PREMIUM ONLY) Affiliate Revenue Reports by Month/State
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Total Customers by Date/Trend
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Customer to Purchase Stats (% of visitors that convert, etc)
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| Built In Customer Mailing Manager: Send e-mails or HTML newsletters to registered customers. Design your newsletter in FrontPage or DreamWeaver and send to registered customers, or send to only customer with orders |
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| Customer can define multiple billing/shipping addresses and select during checkout |
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| Remember me option for returning users |
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| Order History Pages: Customers can get their prior order histories, check order status, etc all online |
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| Shopping Cart items can persist over time (even months if desired). Great for return customers, who later want to order a product, but forgot which one they wanted |
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| Customer can view all their prior orders |
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| Administrators can edit customer profiles, delete customers, update their address books, billing information, etc. |
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| Administrator can edit/enter service notes visible by customer regarding order status, special notes, etc |
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| ♦ Product Ratings & Reviews |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Customers can review & rate products (if enabled) |
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| User Polls (find out what your customers are thinking!) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Administrator can moderate comments in reviews and rankings |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Profanity checking provided on review comments entry |
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| ♦ Security Features |
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Supports SSL Encryption for secure ordering. Cart automatically switches into secure mode appropriately. Supports any brand SSL certificate. (Contact your hosting company for certificates). Dedicated SSL certificate required. |
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| IP Address Tracking: For safety and auditing, IP addresses are logged. |
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| Database Encryption For Card Numbers, Passwords, and other sensitive data (You can also tell the cart not to store credit card numbers anywhere) |
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| Secured password protected Store Administrator Control Panel |
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| Integrated .net security roles and support |
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Independent Security Audit Performed. Assessment included checks for:
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Secure Coding Practices and Encryption
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Validating Parameter length that could lead to a Buffer Overflow
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Various Buffer Overflows
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Cookie manipulation / Cookie Poisoning
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SQL Injections
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Cross Site Scripting
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Mis-Configured Servers
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Man In The Middle Attacks using a Web Proxy
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SSL Version Hacking |
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| ♦ Notification Features |
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| Order receipts automatically e-mailed to customer |
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| Customizable Receipt Formats |
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| E-mail notification sent to store Administrator when new order arrives |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Cell-Phone SMS Messages sent to store Administrator when new order arrives. Stop wondering how your site is doing while you are at the gym, at lunch or on vacation...don't miss that big next-day shipping order again! You can even customize notifications with an order amount threshold, if you only want to be notified when an order exceeds a certain dollar amount |
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| "Order Has Shipped" e-mail notifications sent to customers with tracking numbers |
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| "Order Has Download Items" e-mail notifications sent to customers for orders with download components. This e-mail can be sent on time of payment clearance or delayed |
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| Delayed Downloads (gives you time to verify buyer before sending download files) |
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| ♦ System Performance Features |
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| Database Platform |
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| FAST SQL option on queries (increased performance) |
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| Web Server Farm Compatible |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Support for SQL Server locale different than Web Server Locale (important for international sites on us hosted servers) |
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| (PREMIUM ONLY) Support for non U.S. locales (e.g. en-GB, sv-SE, etc). Support for foreign date-time formats (non US locales) |
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| Built in page and data caching (optional enabled) |
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