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| General Features |
| Web Based Store Mangement |  | | | |
| Provides complete web site solution, including shopping cart, content management, customer management etc... | | | | |
| Designed for Stores with < 50 Products | | | | |
| Designed for Stores with < 1000 Products |  | | | |
| Designed for Stores up to 250,000 Products | | | | |
| All Server Types Supported | | | | |
| Unlimited number of Content/HTML (topic) pages | | | | |
| Unlimited dynamic data driven pages via XmlPackages | | | | |
| *Source code available (either C# or VB.NET) | | | | |
| USA Only Installation Locales Supported | | | | |
| World Wide Installation Locales Supported | | | | |
| Database Schema Included | | | | |
| Product Categorization Features |
| Unlimited Number Categories & Departments: Have as many categories as you want | | | | |
| Categories and Departments can also be fully nested to any level desired (e.g. sub-categories, sub-departments) | | | | |
| 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 | | | | |
| Products can be mapped to more than one category or department | | | | |
| 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 | | | | |
| 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). | | | | |
| Disable buy buttons for specific products | | | | |
| Supports Wholesale Only Sites (Prices not shown to general site customers) | | | | |
| PayPal Features |
| PayPal Website Payments Pro | | | | |
| PayPal Express Checkout | | | | |
| PayPal (standard) | | | | |
| Shipping Features |
| Calculate Shipping By Order Total | | | | |
| Calculate Shipping By Order Weight | | | | |
| Calculate Shipping By Order Weight & Zip code Zone | | | | |
| Calculate Shipping By Order Total & Zip code Zone | | | | |
| Calculate Shipping By Fixed Item Shipping Costs | | | | |
| Calculate Shipping By Fixed Percent of Order Total | | | | |
| Specify All Orders As Free Shipping | | | | |
| Use Real Time Rates: FedEx, UPS, DHL, USPS | | | | |
| Admin defined shipping methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day, Priority, etc) | | | | |
| Real Time Shipping carriers can vary based on Domestic or International shipping address | | | | |
| Filter Real Time Rates You Want To Allow For Users To Select | | | | |
| Add Shipping & Handling Extra Fee To Orders | | | | |
| Shipping Methods Verified Against User Addresses During Checkout (this avoids the ground shipping to Hawaii situations!) | | | | |
| Shipping Tracking #'s e-mailed to Customers | | | | |
| Support for Download Products | | | | |
| Batch Shipping Order Printing/Tracking Integration with UPS WorldShip, Endicia for USPS, and FedEx Shipping Mgr. | | | | |
| Multiple ship-to addresses per order (a customer on one order can ship some items to address A, and other items to address B) | | | | |
| Mark Customer Levels/Profiles as free shipping (or tax exempt) | | | | |
| Bulk Product Import Features |
| From Xml File | | | | |
| From Excel File | | | | |
| Web Services Automation Interface (WSI). Allows automated import, export, data updates and synchronization. | | | | |
| Event Notification callbacks to external Web Service which you register, on storefront events (e.g. new order created, customer created, etc). | | | | |
| Gift Registry Features |
| Gift Registry Supported | | | | |
| Gift Registry Can Be Anonymous (gift registry owner name and address is hidden) | | | | |
| Gift Card Support (E-mail and Physical Gift Cards supported) | | | | |
| Wish List Features |
| Customer Add To Wish List Supported (Persists over Customer Visits also) | | | | |
| MaxMind Integration |
| Integration of invaluable industry leading MaxMind fraud prevention/scoring technologies. Requires separate service agreement with MaxMind.com. | | | | |
| Multi-Lingual Features |
| (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. | | | | |
| (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). | | | | |
| Store developer/admin has full control over all store site strings used (e.g. prompt used for SKU, Product, Color, Size, shopping cart, etc). Every string used in the storefront can be edited. | | | | |
| 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)... | | | | |
| 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. | | | | |
| Google Xml Site Maps Supported: a direct Google search engine submission method sanctioned by Google | | | | |
| Yahoo! Xml Site Maps Supported: a direct Yahoo! search engine submission method sanctioned by Yahoo! | | | | |
| Fully dynamic page titles, and search engine meta-tags | | | | |
| Google Analytics (Urchin) Site Metrics & E-Commerce Tracking Compatible | | | | |
| Product Capabilities & Features |
| Support for 3 images sizes: icon, medium, large | | | | |
| Auto Image Resizing | | | | |
| Supports multiple images per product (icon, medium, and large) | | | | |
| Support for swatch color image changing | | | | |
| Automatic image watermarking for protection | | | | |
| Image Galleries Supported | | | | |
| Restrict product quantities to preset values (e.g. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, ...) | | | | |
| Enforce product minimum order quantities (i.e. must order at least 10, etc). | | | | |
| Recurring products can have varying intervals (days, weeks, months, years) | | | | |
| Subscription based products & content access | | | | |
| Downloadable products supported, with automatic e-mail to customer with download instructions | | | | |
| Text options on products (e.g. require initials for monogrammed products, require text name for product customization, etc) | | | | |
| 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. | | | | |
| Multiple Attributes Per Product (e.g. Size/Color) | | | | |
| Inventory By Attribute (e.g. Size/Color) | | | | |
| Price can vary by size/color option chosen | | | | |
| Prices can vary by customer or customer level (group) | | | | |
| Handles multi-store pricing on one database | | | | |
| Connect multiple web sites to one database. Show different products and prices on each site. | | | | |
| Price can vary by attribute | | | | |
| Sort products in any order desired (you can force popular products to the top of the pages) | | | | |
| Fully dynamic site map (optimized for search engines) | | | | |
| Second tree-form dynamic site map (optimized for users) | | | | |
| Support for simple products (e.g. a book) or products with variants | | | | |
| Support for simple products (e.g. a book) or products with variants | | | | |
| Unlimited number of variants per each product | | | | |
| Each variant can have a different price | | | | |
| Each variant can have different attributes (e.g. size, color, etc) | | | | |
| Each variant can require a text option input (e.g. monogram) | | | | |
| Each variant can have a separate SKU modifier, and price, description, etc | | | | |
| Tell store to locate product pictures by ID (icon, medium, large) | | | | |
| Tell store to locate product pictures by SKU (icon, medium, large) | | | | |
| Tell store to use Image Filename Override for pictures (icon, medium, large) | | | | |
| Support for sale prices | | | | |
| Vary product prices for each customer level (e.g. wholesale/retail) | | | | |
| Phone Order Entry Module | | | | |
| 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 | | | | |
| 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 | | | | |
| 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 | | | | |
| Password Protected Products: Only allow registered customers to view certain portions of your store, expands capability of Customer Levels even further | | | | |
| Disable buy buttons by product | | | | |
| Set Site to Wholesale Only (Prices not shown to general site customers) | | | | |
| Inventory Features |
| Inventory Tracking | | | | |
| ERP class inventory tracking: FIFO, LIFO, Average Costing, Inventory Tracking, Multi-Warehouse, Drop-Ship, etc. | | | | |
| Limit orders to quantity on hand inventory, or allow customers to place orders for items out of stock (admin configurable) | | | | |
| Back-ordered product handling & order management | | | | |
| Order Splitting and Editing (including split shipments from multiple warehouses) | | | | |
| Inventory can go "negative" | | | | |
| Manage Inventory by variant or attribute (e.g. size, color, etc) | | | | |
| Show inventory on hand status on product page to customer (optional) | | | | |
| Coupon Features |
| Order Based Coupons (apply to entire order) | | | | |
| Product Specific Coupons (apply to only specified product) | | | | |
| Coupon discounts by amount or percent | | | | |
| Coupons can offer free shipping | | | | |
| Coupons can offer tax exception | | | | |
| Coupons have start date | | | | |
| Coupons have expiration date | | | | |
| Coupons can be marked as use once per customer, use once by only one customer, use N times, etc. | | | | |
| Coupons requires minimum order amount before it is valid | | | | |
| Coupons can be excluded from sale products | | | | |
| Customer specific coupons | | | | |
| Customer Accounts |
| Customer can view Order History | | |