| MegaSTORE e-Commerce Platform Features: |
| * General Features |
| Store
management done by admin control panel on web site |
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| Provides
complete web site solution, including shopping cart, content management, customer
management etc... |
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| Unlimited
Products - Optimized for Stores up to 100,000 Products |
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| Unlimited
number of Content/HTML (topic) pages |
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| * Product Categorization Features |
| Unlimited
Number Categories & Departments: We do not limit the number of items in the database. |
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| Categories
and Departments can also be fully nested to any level desired (e.g. sub-categories,
sub-departments) |
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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 mapped to more than one category or department |
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| Paged
browsing for categories and sections: 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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| Set Site to
Wholesale Only (Prices not shown to general site customers) |
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| * PayPal Features |
| 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 Features |
| 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 |
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* FedEx |
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* UPS |
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* DHL |
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* USPS |
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| Admin
defined shipping methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day, Priority, etc) |
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| Real Time
Shipping carriers can vary based on Domestic or International shipping address |
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| Filter Real
Time Rates Allowed By Users |
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| Add Shipping
& Handling Extra Fee To Orders |
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| Shipping
Methods Verified Against User Addresses 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
Download Products |
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| Batch
Shipping Order Printing/Tracking Integration with UPS WorldShip |
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| Multiple
ship-to addresses per order (a customer on one order can ship some items to address A, and
other items to address B) |
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| Support for
ShipRush Server System (ShipRush server is a 3rd party product) |
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| * Product Import Features |
| Import
Products From Xml File |
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| Import
Products From Excel File |
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| * Gift Registry Features |
| Gift
Registry Supported |
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| Gift
Registry Can Be Anonymous (gift registry owner name and address is hidden) |
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| Gift Card
Support |
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| * Wish List Features |
| Customer Add
To Wish List Supported (Persists over Customer Visits also) |
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| * Multi-Lingual Features |
| Store
site can support dynamic run-time language switching (Multi-Lingual). Customer can select
store language at run-time |
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| 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 |
| EVERY
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 Capabilities & Features |
| 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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| 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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| Recurring
products can have varying intervals (days, weeks, months, years) |
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| 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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| 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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| 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 |
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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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| 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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| Set Site to
Wholesale Only (Prices not shown to general site customers) |
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| * Inventory Features |
| Inventory
Tracking: Out of stock items can still be ordered, but are shown back-ordered |
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| Limit orders
to quantity on hand inventory |
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| Advanced
inventory tracking (by product, variant, color, and size) |
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| Show
inventory on hand status on product page to customer (optional) |
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| * Coupon Features |
| Order Based
Coupons (apply to entire order) |
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| 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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| * Skinning & Page Layout Customization |
| Completely
customize the layout & appearance of any category, section, manufacturer, or product
page. XmlPackage support: XML/XSL rendering
engine (developer defined home page, category, section, manufacturer, and product page
format layouts) |
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| User defined
skin replacement tokens, topic tokens, AppConfig tokens, etc. (e.g. skin Regular
Expression token parser) |
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| Design skins
in Dreamweaver or FrontPage |
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| Web form
controls can be used within skin template user control |
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| Integrated
support for ComponentArt horizontal menu, vertical menu, site map, and tree view
navigational controls |
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| Integrated
.NET FormsAuthentication |
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| Skin Based
UI Customization: Store site styles and web design can be completely customized by
external HTML skin template and style sheets. See some of our sample client sites to see
how different each store can look |
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| Change skins
in real-time. You can conceivably have 100+ skins for a single store if you need to. |
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| You can link
to the cart "pages" from your existing site pages, or use the storefront to run
your entire site |
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| Add page
header/footer HTML blocks to cart page, and all checkout and order confirmation pages, to
provide special notes/text specific to your store or business |
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| Use custom
receipt formats & templates |
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| Use custom
"your order has shipped" e-mail formats and templates |
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| Automatic
e-mail notification to customer with receipt |
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| Automatic
e-mail notification to store admin of new order received |
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| Notification
to Cell Phone of new order received |
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| Mini-Cart
(optional small box on every page showing cart summary contents and checkout link) |
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| * Customer Accounts |
| 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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| Recurring
orders (e.g. for auto ship products, monthly subscription fees, monthly service type
products, etc) |
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| Skip account
creation on checkout |
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| * Payment Methods Supported (types of payment) |
| 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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| Gift Cards |
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Support for Verified By
Visa/MasterCard Secure initiatives. Now, you can have the same fraud protection available
to all retail stores. Eliminate your fraud liability. Guaranteed Payments. Reduce
chargebacks by up to 70%. These authentication initiatives make Internet commerce
safe and secure, for both buyers and sellers. Integrates directly with your Authorize.net
or Verisign payment gateway. Integration is seamless into the storefront for merchants,
and easy to use for consumers.
Click here for more information. |
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| * Payment Gateways Supported |
| MANUAL
Gateway (just collects order & payment information for offline processing) |
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| Authorize.net
Gateway |
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| 2Checkout
Gateway |
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| eProcesssingNetwork
Gateway |
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| Cybersource
Gateway (requires some work to install on the server, and only supported under asp.net
1.1, not asp.net 2.0) |
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| EFSNET
Gateway |
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| JetPay
Gateway |
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| ICompliant
Gateway (highly recommended) |
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| ITransact
Gateway |
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| Linkpoint
Select Gateway (this gateway can be EXTREMELY difficult to install and get working, as
they use a very outdated COM interface technology, and their customer support is almost
non-existent. It is supported, but will almost always take some "fiddling" to
get working, although we have no idea why it is not the same for all clients) |
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| NetBilling
Gateway |
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| Paymentech
Gateway |
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| PayFuse
Gateway |
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| PayJunction
Gateway (more info) |
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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 Gateway |
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| Transaction
Central (i.e. Merchant Anywhere) Gateway Supported (Recommended) |
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| Verisign
Payflo Pro Gateway (uses an old-style COM interface, but it is actually fairly easy to
install and use) |
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| Worldpay
Junior |
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| YourPay
Gateway (This gateway is the same as Linkpoint and can be difficult to install, as they
use a very outdated COM interface technology!) |
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| * Transaction Features |
| Integrates
with your own merchant account (click here for
information on obtaining a merchant account if you do not have one) |
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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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| Partial
Refund and Add-Hoc Charges Supported |
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| 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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| 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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| * Misc Features |
| 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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| 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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| Order Export
to Xml |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Full Export
to QuickBooks - (Optional with additional fees required) |
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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 Features |
| Apply Tax by
State |
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| Apply Tax by
ZipCode |
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| 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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| Customer
Levels can be tax-exempt (e.g. wholesale) |
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| * Pricing Feed Support Features |
| Froogle Feed
Supported -w- automatic generation and FTP upload to your Froogle account |
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| Pricegrabber
Feed Supported -w- automatic generation NOTE:
Apparently, PriceGrabber has recently been acquired, and it would appear that because of
this, they appear to be unresponsive to ALL of our calls, e-mails, and our customer calls,
e-mails, etc, and they are rejecting all feeds at this time. Until they can respond to us,
we are considering PriceGrabber to be DOA at this time. Sorry, but it's not on our end. We
are doing exactly what they last instructed feed suppliers to do, but....PG, hello* anyone
there* Did they fire everyone over at PG* We are considering this feature
"discontinued" until PG responds to us, or anyone. |
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| * Upsell Product Features |
| Related
Products: Entice additional sales by listing related products/accessories on each product
page |
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| Show Upsell
Products Directly On Cart Page |
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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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| Products can
require that other products are added to the cart (e.g. Product X requires Product Y) |
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| * Affiliate Tracking Features |
| Affiliate
sign-up/account pages provided in store and admin site |
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| Customers
can be tracked to affiliates |
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| Orders can
be tracked to affiliates |
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| 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 |
| Unlimited
number of customer levels (e.g. wholesale, retail, or gold, silver, platinum, etc..) |
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| Customers
can be tracked to customer levels |
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| Customer
levels can have special product pricing, can offer percent discounts, free shipping, tax
exception, etc. |
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| Products
visible on the site can be filtered by customer level |
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| * Operational Features |
| Manage your
store via easy to use Administration control panel web site |
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| Once
installed, all operational store tasks can be performed via the web based control panel |
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| Can be
installed on any Windows NT server or Hosted Server (except GoDaddy and 1and1 servers) |
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| Does not
require any special components on the server (Gateway COM objects may be needed) |
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| You can
configure products, prices, taxes, shipping, news items, etc all from the administration
site |
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| You do not
need to understand SQL databases, etc to use your storefront (just to install it) |
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| 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!):
Tax Reports by Month/State
Affiliate Revenue Reports by Month/State
Total Customers by Date/Trend
Customer to Purchase Stats (% of visitors that convert, etc)
Visitor Trends (actual customer trends). An example of one
customer report is shown below::
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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 wanted 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 |
| Customers
can review & rate products (if enabled) |
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| User Polls
(find out what your customers are thinking!) |
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| Administrator
can moderate comments |
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| Profanity
checking provided on comment entry |
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| * Security Features |
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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| Can store
encryption keys in Windows Registry or Machine.config file |
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| Integrated
.net security roles and support |
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Independent Security Audit Performed. Assessment included
checks for:
Secure
Coding Practices and Encryption
Validating
Parameter length that could lead to a Buffer Overflow
Various
Buffer Overflows
Cookie
manipulation / Cookie Poisoning
SQL
Injections
Cross
Site Scripting
Mis-Configured
Servers
Man
In The Middle Attacks using a Web Proxy
SSL
Version Hacking
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| * Notification Features |
| Order
receipts automatically e-mailed to customer |
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| Customizable
Receipt Formats: Customize the format and layout of your store receipts by using a simple
HTML template |
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| E-mail
notification sent to store Administrator when new order arrives |
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| 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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Compatible
with most Windows NT hosting companies, except the following hosting companies:
GoDaddy:
We do not support using GoDaddy hosting with our shopping cart, or any of the other
"$7.95/month" hosting plans either for that matter. Why* They refuse to make a
server site setting that we require on the admin site for increased security. Please again
do not ask us if we work with GoDaddy...we have contacted them, they are right down the
street from our office, and they have told us they have no interest in supporting us or
our storefront. Why this long explanation: despite having this notice on our site, we
still get asked 5 times a day if we can work on GoDaddy hosted servers...the answer is no.
1and1:
We are now adding 1and1.com as another hosting company that we will not work with. Their
server settings appear to be incompatible with our software, for an as yet unknown reason.
NetworkSolutions:
They are a no-go also.
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