| ♦
General Features |
| Store management
done by admin control panel on web site |
| Provides complete
web site solution, including shopping cart, content
management, customer management etc... |
| Unlimited
Products |
| Unlimited number
of Content/HTML (topic) pages |
| Unlimited Data
Driven Content/HTML (topic) pages via XmlPackages
(Patent-Pending) |
| All Source code
included (C# or Vb.NET) |
| All Database
Schema Included |
| ♦ Product
Categorization Features |
| Unlimited Number
Categories & Departments: We do not limit the number
of items in the database. |
| 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 |
| Set Site to
Wholesale Only (Prices not shown to general site
customers) |
| ♦
PayPal Features |
| PayPal Website
Payments PRO |
| PayPal Express
Checkout |
| PayPal (Regular
old-style method) |
| ♦
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 Allowed by Users |
| Add Shipping &
Handling Extra Fee To Orders |
| Shipping Methods
Verified Against User Addresses During Checkout (this
avoids those customers who always choose ground shipping
for instance, but live in Hawaii!) |
| Shipping tracking
#'s e-mailed to Customers |
| Support for
Download Products |
| batch Shipping
Order Printing/tracking Integration with UPS
WorldShip |
| Multiple ship-to
addresses per order (a customer on one order can ship
some items to address A, and other items to address
b) |
| Support for
ShipRush Server System (ShipRush server is a 3rd party
product) |
| ♦
Product Import Features |
| Import Products
From Xml File |
| Import Products
From Excel File |
| ♦
Gift Registry Features |
| Gift Registry
Supported |
| Gift Registry Can
be Anonymous (gift registry owner name and address is
hidden) |
| Gift Card
Support |
| ♦
Wish List Features |
| Customer Add To
Wish List Supported (Persists over Customer Visits
also) |
| ♦
Multi-Lingual Features |
| Store
site can support dynamic run-time language switching
(Multi-Lingual). Customer can select store language at
run-time |
| 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. |
| ♦
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 |
| ♦
Product Capabilities &
Features |
| Supports multiple
images per product |
| Support for swatch
color image changing |
| Support for 3
images sizes: icon, medium, large |
| 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. |
| Price can vary by
size/color option chosen |
| 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 |
| Unlimited number
of variants per each product |
| Each variant can
have a different price |
| Each variant can
have different sizes & color options |
| 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 (medium pics) |
| Support for sale
prices |
| Vary product
prices for each customer level |
| 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
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! |
| 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 for specific products |
| Set Site to
Wholesale Only (Prices not shown to general site
customers) |
| ♦ Inventory
Features |
| Inventory
tracking: Out of stock items can still be ordered, but
are shown back-ordered |
| Limit orders to
quantity on hand inventory |
| Advanced inventory
tracking (by product, variant, color, and size) |
| 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: $ discount, % discount |
| Coupons can offer
free shipping |
| Coupons can offer
tax exception |
| 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 |
| ♦ 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) |
| User defined skin
replacement tokens, topic tokens, AppConfig tokens, etc.
(e.g. skin Regular Expression token parser) |
| Design skins in
Dreamweaver or FrontPage |
| Web form controls
can be used within skin template user control |
| Integrated support
for ComponentArt horizontal menu, vertical menu, site
map, and tree view navigational controls |
| Integrated .NET
FormsAuthentication |
| 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 |
| Change skins in
real-time. You can conceivably have 100+ skins for a
single store if you need to. |
| You can link to
the cart "pages" from your existing site pages, or use
the storefront to run your entire site |
| 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 |
| Use custom receipt
formats & templates |
| Use custom "your
order has shipped" e-mail formats and templates |
| Automatic e-mail
notification to customer with receipt |
| Automatic e-mail
notification to store admin of new order received |
| Notification to
Cell Phone of new order received |
| Mini-Cart
(optional small box on every page showing cart summary
contents and checkout link) |
| ♦ Customer
Accounts |
| Customer can view
Order History |
| Customer has
address book |
| Customer can
easily re-order any prior order |
| Multiple
billing/shipping addresses per customer (similar to
Amazon.com style checkout) |
| Recurring orders
(e.g. for auto ship products, monthly subscription fees,
monthly service type products, etc) |
| Skip account
creation on checkout |
| ♦ 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) |
| Check by Mail |
| e-Checks
(Authorize.net and Itransact gateways) |
| C.O.D. |
| Purchase Order |
| PayPal |
| PayPal Express |
| Request For
Quote |
| 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 |
| Gift Cards |
|
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.
|
| ♦ Payment
Gateways Supported |
| MANUAL Gateway
(just collects order & payment information for
offline processing) |
| Authorize.net
Gateway (highly recommended!) |
| 2Checkout Gateway |
| eProcesssingNetwork Gateway |
| Cybersource
Gateway (requires some work to install on the server,
and only supported under asp.net 1.1, not asp.net
2.0) |
| EFSNET Gateway |
| JetPay Gateway |
| Itransact Gateway |
| 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) |
| Netbilling Gateway |
| Paymentech Gateway |
| PayFuse Gateway |
| PayJunction
Gateway (more info) |
| PayPal Website
Payments Pro Gateway |
| PayPal Express
Checkout |
| PayPal (old
style) |
| PlugNPay Gateway |
Quickbooks
Merchant Gateway
Requires optional Quickbooks
Windows Exporter Client Utility, $199 |
| transaction
Central (i.e. Merchant Anywhere) Gateway Supported
(Recommended) |
| Verisign Payflo
Pro Gateway (uses an old-style COM interface, but it is
actually fairly easy to install and use) |
| Worldpay Junior |
| YourPay Gateway
(This gateway is the same as Linkpoint and can be
difficult to install, as they use a very outdated COM
interface technology!) |
| |
| ♦ transaction
Features |
| Integrates with
your own merchant account |
| Store can be set
to authorize only, or auth-capture credit card mode. You
can then capture payment at shipment if desired |
| Void & Refund
supported |
| Partial Refund and
Add-Hoc Charges Supported |
| Support for
recurring orders/payments (auto-ship products) |
| Support for CVV2
(credit card security code) entry and checking (fraud
prevention) |
| Address
Verification codes reported to administrator with
order |
| 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) |
| Don't require
account signup on checkout (optional) |
| Force billing
address to be the same as shipping address |
| Set a minimum
order total threshold for proceed to checkout |
| ♦ Misc
Features |
| Customer
Subscriptions for protected content |
| 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 |
| Password Protected
HTML Pages (password protected topics) |
| General Site
Disclaimer Message (Agree before Entering) supported |
| Can set a minimum
order total threshold for proceed to checkout |
| Can set minimum
order product quantities before allowing checkout |
| 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. |
| Order Export to
Xml |
| Customer Record
Export to Xml |
| Customer e-mail
lists to XML (i.e. produce list of all registered
customer e-mails for your mailing manager) |
| 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 |
| Recent Products
Page |
| best-Seller
Products Page |
| Shopping cart can
persist over visits |
| Shopping cart can
be told to age in N days |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
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 |
| Password protected
topic (html content) pages |
| Order notes can be
entered by customer with special instructions |
| Each cart item can
also have notes entered by the customer |
| Shopping "cart"
can be renamed (e.g. Shopping bag) |
| Can require
customer to agree to Terms and Conditions block (user
defined) before proceeding with payment |
| Support for
subscription products. Each product can add N months to
a customer subscription. Administration control panel
allows override of subscription expiration date |
| External Product
HTML description files supported (e.g. product
descriptions can be stored in external HTML files) |
| External Product
Specifications/Details Supported (e.g. product "specs"
can be stored in external PDF or HTML file, and linked
into product page) |
| Hide products,
categories or departments (publish or un-publish
capability) |
| Integrated Product
Search |
| Advanced Product
Search Page (by category, section, manufacturer, price
range, SKU, etc) |
Full Export to
Quickbooks
Requires optional Quickbooks
Windows Exporter Client Utility, $199 |
| Quantity
discounts on products |
| E-Mail
Product To A Friend: Product pages can be e-mailed to
friends by site visitors |
| ♦ Tax
Features |
| Apply Tax by
State |
| Apply Tax by
ZipCode |
| Apply Tax by
Country |
| Tax can be applied
to shipping costs |
| Individual
Products can be marked Taxable or tax-exempt |
| Customer Levels
can be tax-exempt (e.g. wholesale) |
| ♦ Pricing
Feed Support Features |
| Froogle Feed
Supported -w- automatic generation and FTP upload to
your Froogle account |
| 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. |
| ♦ Upsell
Product Features |
| Related Products:
Entice additional sales by listing related
products/accessories on each product page |
| Show Upsell
Products Directly On Cart Page |
| Product prices can
be set to "Call for Price' |
| Product prices can
be hidden until product added to cart |
| Products can
require that other products are added to the cart (e.g.
Product X requires Product Y) |
| ♦ Affiliate
tracking Features |
| Affiliate
sign-up/account pages provided in store and admin site |
| Customers can be
tracked to affiliates |
| Orders can be
tracked to affiliates |
| Products visible
on the site can be filtered by affiliate source id |
|
Real-Time
skin changing based on URL/invocation/affiliate
id |
| ♦ Customer
Level Features |
| Unlimited number
of customer levels (e.g. wholesale, retail, or gold,
silver, platinum, etc..) |
| Customers can be
tracked to customer levels |
| Customer levels
can have special product pricing, can offer percent
discounts, free shipping, tax exception, etc. |
| Products visible
on the site can be filtered by customer level |
| ♦ Operational
Features |
| Manage your store
via easy to use Administration control panel web site |
| Once installed,
all operational store tasks can be performed via the web
based control panel |
| Can be installed
on any Windows NT server or Hosted Server (except
GoDaddy and 1and1 servers) |
| Does not require
any special components on the server (Gateway COM
objects may be needed) |
| You can configure
products, prices, taxes, shipping, news items, etc all
from the administration site |
| You do not need to
understand SQL databases, etc to use your storefront
(just to install it) |
| 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 |
|
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::
|
| 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 |
| Customer can
define multiple billing/shipping addresses and select
during checkout |
| Remember me option
for returning users |
| Order History
Pages: Customers can get their prior order histories,
check order status, etc all online |
| 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 |
| Customer can view
all their prior orders |
| Administrators can
edit customer profiles, delete customers, update their
address books, billing information, etc. |
| Administrator can
edit/enter service notes visible by customer regarding
order status, special notes, etc |
| |
| ♦ Product
Ratings & Reviews |
| Customers can
review & rate products (if enabled) |
| User Polls (find
out what your customers are thinking!) |
| Administrator can
moderate comments |
| Profanity checking
provided on comment entry |
| ♦ 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. |
| IP Address
tracking: For safety and auditing, IP addresses are
logged. |
| Database
Encryption For Card Numbers, Passwords, and other
sensitive data (You can also tell the cart not to store
credit card numbers anywhere) |
| Secured password
protected Store Administrator Control Panel |
| Can store
encryption keys in Windows Registry or Machine.config
file |
| Integrated .net
security roles and support |
|
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 |
| ♦
Notification Features |
| Order receipts
automatically e-mailed to customer |
| Customizable
Receipt Formats: Customize the format and layout of your
store receipts by using a simple HTML template |
| E-mail
notification sent to store Administrator when new order
arrives |
| 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 |
| "Order Has
Shipped" e-mail notifications sent to customers with
tracking numbers |
| "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 |
| Delayed Downloads
(gives you time to verify buyer before sending download
files) |