PXM SHOPPING CART FEATURES
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 FEATURE/VERSION MATRIX |
STANDARD |
PRO |
CORP |
Price
(Cart and installation included)
(Custom Flash, Custom Graphics and product input extra)
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$2295 |
$3395 |
$6995 |
| Store
management |
Web
Based |
Web Based |
Web
Based |
| Provides complete web site
solution, including shopping cart, content management, customer
management etc... |
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| Host Types Supported |
Shared Server MS*
Dedicated Server |
Shared ServerMS*
Dedicated Server |
Shared ServerMS*
Dedicated Server |
| Databases Supported, Database Schema Included |
MS SQL 2000
MS SQL 2005/
2005 Express |
MS SQL 2000
MS SQL 2005/
2005 Express |
MS SQL 2000
MS SQL 2005/
2005 Express |
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Product Categorization Features |
| Unlimited Number
Categories & Departments |
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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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| Supports Wholesale Only
Sites (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 (standard) |
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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 You
Want To Allow For Users To Select |
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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 the ground
shipping to Hawaii situations!) |
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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, Endicia for USPS,
and FedEx Shipping Mgr. |
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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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| Mark Customer Levels/Profiles as
free shipping (or tax exempt) |
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Product Import Features |
| From Xml
File |
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| 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
(E-mail and Physical Gift Cards supported) |
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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 |
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(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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(Multi-Currency). Customer can select store currency to view at
run-time. |
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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 |
| Auto Image Resizing |
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| Supports multiple images
per product (icon, medium, and large) |
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| Support for swatch color
image changing |
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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. |
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| Multiple Attributes Per Product (e.g. Size/Color) |
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| Inventory By Attribute (e.g. Size/Color) |
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| Price can vary by
size/color option chosen |
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| Prices can vary by
customer or customer level (group) |
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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 attributes (e.g. size, color, etc) |
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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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| Support for sale prices |
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| Vary product prices for
each customer level (e.g. wholesale/retail) |
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| Product Descriptions can
include HTML formatting |
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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 by
product |
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| Set Site to Wholesale Only
(Prices not shown to general site customers) |
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Inventory Features |
| Inventory Tracking |
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| Limit orders to quantity
on hand inventory, or allow customers to place orders for items out
of stock (admin configurable) |
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| Manage Inventory by
variant or attribute (e.g. size, color, etc) |
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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 amount
or percent |
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Customization |
| 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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| Receipt can be fully
customized |
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| PDF Receipts Supported |
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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 one click 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 (Anonymous Checkout) |
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| "One Page" 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 Checkout
(see below for PayPal website Payments PRO) |
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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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Many Payment Gateways Supported |
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Transaction Features |
| 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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| Partial Refund and Add-Hoc
Charges Supported |
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| Mark Transactions As Fraud |
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| Ban Fraud Users from Site |
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| Support for recurring
orders/payments (auto-ship products) |
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| Support for CV2 (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). Storage can be disabled by both store admin and customers if the choose. |
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| Disable storing of credit cards
if desired (we recommend that you don't store credit cards on your
site...it is almost never needed anymore) |
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| Don't require account
signup on checkout (e.g. skip registration on checkout or anon
checkout) |
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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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| Multi-level pricing list |
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Additional 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 & Customer & Product 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 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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Export to QuickBooks
Requires optional
QuickBooks Windows Exporter Client Utility |
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| Quantity
discounts on products (tiered Pricing) |
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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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| Unlimited Tax
Classes (e.g. Goods, Services, Alcohol, etc) |
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Pricing Feed Support Features |
| Froogle Feed (now called
GoogleBase) Supported -w-
automatic generation and FTP upload to your Froogle account |
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| Add other product feeds
(e.g. ShopZilla, shopper.com, etc) |
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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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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 |
| Once installed, all
operational store tasks can be performed via easy to use control
panel (e.g. no need to know databases, etc) |
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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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| SQL Database
initialization script provided |
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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
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Tax 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 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 |
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PABP VISA/MasterCard Certified PABP certification indicates adherence to strict security
policy and procedural guidelines outlined by VISA/MasterCard to help
ensure PCI compliance in your installation. |
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PABP release fully tested in PCI compliant environment for
VISA/MasterCard Certification |
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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 (PABP) |
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| AVS (Address Verification)
reporting from gateways in all orders |
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| Require periodic password
changes (PABP) |
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| Password
Salting + Hashing (PABP) |
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| Store Admin can lock out
any customer account for security/fraud reasons (PABP) |
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| Any order can be marked as
fraud for later forensics (PABP) |
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| CAPTCHA Image login
protection (protects against automated BOT login attacks (PABP) |
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| Give individual admin
operations permissions to view full credit cards or not (PABP) |
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| Allow Customers to
individually select if they want their credit card information
stored (overrides by store admin possible) (PABP) |
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| All Password Change
Operations Logged (PABP) |
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| RegEx AppConfig
control over strength of passwords required for store logins and
admin logins (PABP) |
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| Support for dynamic
encryption key changes via admin site (PABP) |
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| Store Admin specified
encryption salting so every order record contains a separate
encryption key (PABP) |
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| Encrypted database
connection strings in web.config files (PABP) |
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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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Notification Features |
| Order receipts
automatically e-mailed to customer |
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| Distributor Pic Lists
automatically e-mailed to Distributors for Drop Shipping |
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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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