Experienced sellers know that ecommerce software that's hard to use or that lacks tools necessary to efficiently and effectively run their business, end up costing them valuable time. And when time is money, you can't afford to be stuck with ineffective tools. That's why we've taken great pains to ensure we're offering you the best all-around ecommerce foundation on which to build your business. Click the topics below to see how we can help you stay ahead of the game.
Hosting Features
- Free domain registration for 1 year ($15.00/yr thereafter)
- Free SSL setup
- Automatic dynamic web server clustering (cloud computing) to handle fluctuations in traffic
- Access to hosting control panel
- Contact phone and chat support 24x7x365
- Manage multiple websites under same account
- Track storage and bandwidth usage
- Manage email accounts
- Manage permissions
- Manage database access/settings
- Manage FTP access
- Manage scheduled tasks (cron jobs)
- Business email accounts with webmail services
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 w/ IIS 7
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008
- ASP.NET 3.5
- Linux hosting (optional)
- MySQL (optional)
- PHP (optional)
General Catalog Features
- Supports categories and manufacturers
- Categories can also be fully nested to any level desired (sub-categories)
- Products can be mapped to more than one category or manufacturer
- Anonymous checkout
- Support for kit products (e.g. Build your own computer)
- Multilingual support
- Multicurrency support
- Measure weights, measure dimensions
- Real-time currency exchange rates (ECB)
- SSL support
- Export to XML
- Fully 100% customizable design using templates
- Configurable list of allowed countries
- For registration
- For billing
- For shipping
Product Features
- Product attributes (e.g. color, size)
- Supports multiple images per product
- Auto image resizing
- Downloadable products supported
- Text options on products (e.g. require initials for monogrammed products, require text name for product customization, etc.)
- Support for simple products (e.g. a book) or products with variants
- Support for sale prices
- Product search
- Featured products, sale products or new products
- Inventory tracking
- Disable buy buttons for specific products
- Product specifications (e.g. processor, memory, graphic card)
- Compare product feature (if enabled)
- Breadcrumbs
Marketing & Promotions
- Ability to assign design on category, manufacturer or product (unique design per category/manufacturer/product)
- Supports related products
- Marketing manager (campaigns)
- Customer groups can be marked as free shipping
- Customer groups can be marked as tax exempt
- Supports discounts
- Supports coupons
- Discount amount can either be a fixed value or a percent off (e.g. $10.00 off or 20% off)
- You can specify a coupon start/end date
- Discounts can be assigned to products
- Discounts can be assigned to categories
- Discounts can be assigned to whole order
- Discounts can be filtered by a customer role
- Volume discounts (Tier prices)
- Recently added products page with RSS
- Recently viewed products page
- Free Shipping Option
- Customers can review & rate products (if enabled)
- Require administrator approval of product reviews for all reviews
- Product review helpfulness (“Was this review helpful for you?”)
- Search Engine Friendly URL's
- Automated URL Re-Writing
- Every product, category and manufacturer page can have their own custom search engine meta tags, page title
- Customize default SEO meta tags
- Store news items supported with RSS and comments
- Polls supported
- Store blog supported
- Forum supported
- Supports affiliate programs
- Froogle (google base) product feed
- Google XML site map
- Customizable email templates
- Completely customize the layout & appearance of any category, manufacturer, or product page
- Unlimited content pages
- Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation
- "Store is closed" feature
Shipping Features
- Integrated for real-time shipping rates from: UPS & USPS
- Calculate shipping by order total
- Calculate shipping by order weight
- Calculate shipping by country & total order weight
- Free shipping over a specified dollar amount
- Supports warehouses
- Additional shipping charges by product
- Specify all orders as free shipping
- Admin defined shipping methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day, etc.)
- Specify all orders as free shipping
- Support for downloadable products
- Support for "no shipping required" products (e.g. services)
- Admin defined shipping methods
- Customer groups can be marked as free shipping
Tax Features
- Apply tax by country
- Apply tax by state
- Apply tax by zip
- Strike Iron tax provider
- Individual products can be marked taxable or tax-exempt
- Tax classes supported by product (e.g. goods, services, alcohol, etc.)
- Customer groups can be marked as tax exempt
- VAT support
- Allow store owner to specify which tax based on: billing/shipping/default/shipping origin address
- Allow store owner to specify whether prices include tax
- Allow customer to choose tax display type (incl/excl tax)
- Allow store owner to specify tax display type (incl/excl tax)
- Allow store owner to specify whether shipping is taxable
- Allow store owner to specify whether shipping prices include tax
- Allow store owner to specify whether to hide zero tax
- Allow store owner to specify whether to hide tax in order summary when prices are shown tax inclusive
Payment Methods, Gateways
- Cash On Delivery payment method
- Accept Purchase Order
- Accept Checks / Money Order
- Accept all major credit and debit cards
- Store can be set to authorize only, or auth-capture credit card mode. You can then capture payment during fulfillment if desired
- Real-time or offline credit card processing
- Support for manual gateway (just collects order & payment information for offline processing)
- 2Checkout
- Authorize.NET
- CDGcommerce (Quantum Payment Gateway)
- eWay (Australia)
- eWay (UK)
- Google Checkout
- Moneybookers
- PayPal Standard
- PayPal Website Payments Pro (Direct and Express)
- Paypal PayFlow Pro
- PSI Gate
- Worldpay
Customer Service Features
- Allow customers to register/login by email or by username
- Support for wish lists
- Customers can view their order history and order statuses
- Customer has an address book
- Customizable order email templates
- Multiple billing and shipping addresses per customer
- Customer roles (groups)
- Time zone support
- Built-in forum
- Password recovery
- IP Blacklist
- Several account registration/activation types
- Automatic registration (no approving)
- Email validation during registration
- "Email a friend" feature
- Compare product feature (if enabled)
- News with RSS
- Recently added products with RSS
- Support for image CAPTCHA during login/registration
- Contact Us form
- Installation wizard
Administration
- Dashboard
- Order totals report by order status / today / this week / this month / this year / all time
- Best sellers report by product name / total count / total order amount
- Site search term ranking with total count
- Orders and sales report
- Assign administrator and/or forum moderator role to specific user accounts
- Easily apply a newly imported site theme
- Allow user avatars and signatures in forums
- System log captures errors experienced by customers by email address and IP address
- Message queue shows status of emails sent or awaiting delivery by the system to customers
Customization
- Design
- Store owner can import custom themes
- Store owner FTP access to raw web files for HTML/CSS/ASP.NET customization by web designers and developers
- Functionality
- Store owner can have custom features developed and added to their site by ASP.NET developers