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Website Design & Development:

E-commerce Website Features

We are excited to offer such an extensive shopping cart program at affordable rates.  

 

We include the purchase and implementation of an SSL certificate for secure online transactions and three month's free hosting with every e-commerce design. (Over $300 value!)

 

Shopper Features:

Wish Lists  -
Allow customers to add items to a wish list and e-mail that list to friends and family. A great tool for holiday, wedding or special occasion shopping. Saving a cart full of products for later is also a great tool for the corporate shopper. 

 

E-Mail A Friend -
Drive site traffic by giving shoppers the ability to email product information to a friend or associate.

 

Gift Wrap with Messages -
Shoppers can have items gift wrapped and include a personalized message with multiple gifts - all within one transaction.

 

Simple Search -
Let shoppers search for items from any page. A great feature!

 

Advanced Search -
Allow shoppers to search by many variables including manufacturer, category, price range, sale items, new items and more. 

 

Running Cart Total -
Lets customers keep track of their order with a cart summary on every page.

 

Gift Certificates -
Lets web stores to accept gift certificates as payment. Any leftover amount can be saved for later. 

 

Customer Address Book -
Shoppers can store an unlimited number of addresses in a personal address book. This allows their forms to be auto-filled when returning and checking out. We make it easy for your shoppers.

 

Multiple Shipping Addresses -
Just like it sounds. A customer can do holiday shopping and send gifts to multiple people within in a single order.

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Merchant Management Tools:

Web Based Merchant Tools-
Merchant Tools enable you to manage your store remotely through their web browser. With merchant tools, we can hand off store administration, sales reporting, product management, promotional functions, and other day-to-day management functions to you, saving you money.

 

Sales Reports -
Monitor sales activity using detailed sales reporting tools. Generate sales summary, sales detail and product sales reports.

 

Order Fulfillment -
Manage incoming orders with order fulfillment tools. Keep track of which orders have been paid and/or shipped, print packing slips, and enter shipping tracking numbers.
 

 

E-mail Confirmations -
You'll receive instant e-mail notification when an order has been placed. Customize the content of the e-mail to contain just the information you need.

 

Customer Specific Pricing -
Allows you to set up multiple tiered pricing specific to classes of customers, allowing "frequent shopper" programs or multi-level distribution systems. 

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Product Management:

Our websites manage over 40 key elements of product data to meet all your business needs including unlimited attributes and categories, taxable – non-taxable, shipped or not shipped, in-stock or out-of-stock, on sale and volume pricing schedules, back-order, gift wrap, inventory level, drop ship vendor notification and more.

 

Customer Defined Attributes -
Provide shoppers with a field to input product specific special instructions or information. This is a powerful feature for merchants who offer personalized merchandise!

 

Inventory Tracking with Backorder - 
Advanced inventory tracking features allow you to keep track of inventory and communicate that to customers. Allow or disallow backorders, display quantity in stock on product pages, receive e-mail notification of low stock levels and more.
  

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Order Processing:

Save orders for later and re-order from previous orders.

 

Automated Drop Shipping  -
Merchants can identify unique vendors with each product, so that when an order comes in, the product can ship right to the customer without the middle-stop at the merchant's location - zero hassle for the merchant. And faster service for the shopper!

 

Shipment Tracking -
Bring customers back to the web store to track delivery status. Get the same information returned from the shipping carrier's own web site while promoting repeat purchases.

Merchant Accounts/Gateway Integration -
Our websites have built-in integration with most of the leading merchant account and gateway service providers so that you can enable your store for real-time credit card validation and processing.

 

Third Tax Tier -
Local tax region options
can be added to the basic state/province and country tax.

 

Multiple Payment Options-
Accept electronic checks, purchase orders, COD, credit card, phone/fax orders, and Internet Cash.

Download Delivery  -
Offer merchants automated delivery of soft goods, such as music, software, graphics, etc. Specify when the download is made available and for how long. 

 

Real-Time Shipping Rates-
Accurately manage shipping charges with integrated support for real-time shipping costs directly from UPS, FedEx and USPS rate servers.

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Marketing and Promotion:

Offer gift certificates, special sale prices, storewide discounts or free shipping as customer incentives.

 

Suggested Selling-
The easiest time to add on a sale is when a customer is buying. With suggested selling you can link add-on products to customers' choices several times during the buying process. Related items can appear at the bottom of a catalogue page. "Do you want fries with that?"

 

Product, Category or Storewide Sales-
You have the flexibility to launch sales for specific products or categories or implement a storewide sale. All widgets on sale, 10% off all Acme products, everything on sale. You have the ability to accelerate sales where you want.

 

E-Coupons -
Now its easy to use coupons as sales incentives. Specify when the coupon will expire and what items the coupon can be applied to. 

Volume Pricing  -
Encourage bulk purchases from customers by offering volume purchase discounts. Set up to seven separate levels and offer a percentage or fixed amount off of base the base price (e.g., order three or more get 5% off. Order 10 or more and get 15% off). 

 

Promotional Mail Utility - HTML E-Mails -
Now, you can send html e-mails to customers - and add graphics and dynamic data for real impact.

 

Publish Products to Auctions and Marketplaces -
Automatically market products on popular auctions sites like eBay, Yahoo!Auctions, Ubid, etc. and shopping portals like Dealtime.
 

 

Extended Affiliate Programs-
Build referral sales with our fully automated affiliate program. Powerful affiliate management tools allow affiliates to securely track referral sales.

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Site Creation Tools:

Access or SQL Server - 
In addition to support for Microsoft Access, we provide full support for a SQL Server backend. For sites with extensive inventory and higher traffic, SQL Server offers support for robust database performance under even the most heavy traffic loads.

 

Secure Online Operations -
Ensure the security of customer and business data using our sophisticated support for SSL, credit card encoding, and customer data management. All e-commerce stores come with your own SSL Certificate for your website. (A $150 value, free)

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Accounting Integration:

Optional Account Sync Tools For QuickBooks Users -
Streamline your accounting operations with the integrated QuickBooks export tool. Quickly and easily extract data from your web store and import it into QuickBooks accounting software for a truly complete end to end e-business solution.  (additional fee applies for this service) 

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