| ♦ General
Features |
| Web Based Store management |
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| Provides complete web site solution, including shopping cart,
content management, customer management etc... |
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| Designed For Max Capacity. Designed for Stores up to 100,000
Products |
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| Up to 1000 Content/HTML (topic) pages |
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| Dynamic data driven pages via Xml Packages |
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| ♦ Product
Categorization Features |
| Up to 2000 Categories, Departments or Manufacturers |
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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. |
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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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| ♦ 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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| ♦ 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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| Google Analytics (Urchin) Site Metrics & E-Commerce Tracking
Compatible |
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| ♦ Product
Capabilities & Features |
| Support for 3 images sizes: icon, medium, large |
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| 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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| "Zoomify" Images Supported (requires separate service
from Zoomify.com) |
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| Donation Products (e.g. Customer Enters Price) |
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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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| Two 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 |
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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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| Setup variants within 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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| Phone Order Entry Module |
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| Product Descriptions can include HTML formatting |
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| Support for Kits (build to order products). |
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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. |
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| Disable buy buttons by product |
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| ♦ Inventory
Features |
| Inventory Tracking Capabilities |
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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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| Coupons can offer free shipping |
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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 they are valid
(e.g. save $10 if you order $100 or more, etc) |
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| Coupons can be excluded from sale products |
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| Customer specific coupons |
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| ♦ Skinning & Page
Layout Customization |
| Free Skins Included (six total) |
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| You Can Design Custom Skins |
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| Completely customize the layout & appearance of any category,
section, manufacturer, or product page using XmlPackages (XML/XSL rendering engine) |
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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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| Initially design skins in Dreamweaver or Expressions Web |
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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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| 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 multiple
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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| Receipt can be fully customized |
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| HTML Formatted Receipts |
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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, subscription
sites, monthly service type products, etc) |
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Recurring Gateway AutoBill Products Supported |
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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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| MyECheck |
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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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Fraud Protection. Support
for Verified By Visa/MasterCard Secure initiatives. |
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| ♦ Customer
Level Features |
| Customer levels supported, which you can define (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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| ♦ PayPal
Features |
| PayPal Website Payments Pro |
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| PayPal Express Checkout |
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| PayPal (standard) |
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| ♦ Bulk
Product Import Features |
| From Xml File |
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| From Excel File |
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| Web
Services Automation Interface (WSI). Allows automated import, export, data updates and
synchronization. |
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| Event
Notification callbacks to external Web Service which you register, on storefront events
(e.g. new order created, customer created, etc). |
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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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| ♦ Operational
Features |
| Easy, Web Based Store Management |
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| Once installed, all operational store tasks
can be performed via easy to use control panel |
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| Handles Back-Ordered Products |
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| You can configure products, prices, taxes,
shipping, etc all from the administration site |
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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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Customer & Order
Reports, Compatible with Google Analystics -w- E-Commerce ROI Conversion tracking:
- Easily integrate with your Google Analytics account
- Tax Reports by Month/State
- Total Customers by Date/Trend
- 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 of 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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| ♦ Payment
Gateways Supported |
| MANUAL Gateway (just collects order & payment information
for offline processing) |
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| Authorize.net |
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| Central Payments |
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| Cardia Services (Norway) |
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| Chase Paymentech Salem and Orbital (Certified) |
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| CyberSource |
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| ECX QuickCommerce |
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| EFSNet |
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| eProcesssingNetwork |
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| eWay (Australia) |
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| eSELECT Plus (US, Moneris) |
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| eSELECT Plus (Canada, Moneris) |
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| Google
Checkout |
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| HSBC |
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| IATS TicketMaster (Non Profit Gateway) |
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| iDeposit |
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| Innovative Merchant Services (QuickBooks QBMS) |
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| ITransact |
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| JetPay |
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| Linkpoint Select API |
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| Merchant Anywhere |
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| Moneris eSELECT Plus (US) |
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| Moneris eSELECT Plus (Canada) |
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| MyECheck (added in ML v7.0.2.5) |
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| NetBilling |
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| OGONE Gateway |
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| Paymentech Salem and Orbital Certified (Now Chase Paymentech) |
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| PayFuse |
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| PayJunction |
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| PayPal Website Payments Pro |
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| PayPal Express Checkout |
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| PayPal |
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| Pinnacle Payments |
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| PlugNPay |
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| QuickBooks Merchant Services (Innovative) |
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| QuickBooks Batch Mode, Non Real Time (Requires T-HUB Add-On
from Marketplace) |
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| QuickCommerce |
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| SecureNet |
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| Transaction Central (i.e. Merchant Anywhere) Gateway Supported |
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| USA ePay (certified) |
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| Verisign Payflo PRO (Now PayPal Payflow PRO) |
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| Worldpay Junior |
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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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| Hide all references to "shipping" (e.g. useful for
software, or download sites) |
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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
(e.g. must purchase over $100) |
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| Automatically create drop-ship and special order/purchase order
to vendor |
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| Multi-level pricing list |
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| ♦ Wish
List Features |
| Customer Add To Wish List Supported (Persists over Customer
Visits also) |
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| ♦ MaxMind
Integration |
| Integration of invaluable industry leading MaxMind fraud prevention/scoring
technologies. Requires separate service agreement with MaxMind.com. |
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| ♦ buySAFE
Integration (now in BETA) |
| Integration with buySAFE buyer protection service |
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| ♦ 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. |
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| (Multi-Currency). Customer can select store currency to view
at run-time. |
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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 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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| 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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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 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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| Import data from ML to Interprise Suite |
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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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| Tax Classes Supported By Product (e.g. Goods, Services, Alcohol,
etc) |
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| ♦ Product/Pricing
Feed & Comparision Shopping Support Features |
| GoogleBase Feed (formerly called Froogle) 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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| ♦ Product
Ratings & Reviews |
| Customers can review & rate products (if enabled) |
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| Administrator can moderate product review comments |
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| Profanity checking provided on product review comment entry |
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| User Polls (find out what your customers are thinking!) |
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| ♦ Security
Features |
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. We have worked with one of the best independent
VISA/MasterCard approved auditing firms for our certification. |
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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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Medium Trust
Hosted Servers fully supported |
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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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| Integrated MaxMind Geolocation Fraud Detection (requires optional
MaxMind account) |
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| Require periodic password changes (PABP) |
