Flexible Product Catalogue

• Explorer-style interface with drag and drop editing
• Unlimited sections and subsections
• Unlimited product variations, such as size and colour, and product components
• Product can appear more than once, and be a component of another product
• Built-in support for downloadable products such as mp3 music*
• Additional text or images can be added anywhere on any page, or in a pop-up window
• Multiple page layout options including list layout with single ‘add to cart’ button
• Optional home and additional information pages, which can include product links for ‘special offer’ and ‘best seller’ promotions
• Up to 20,000 products

Customiseable Design

• 'QuickStart Guide' wizard walks you through the initial site setup
• Real-time preview of your store as you build it
• More layout and colour scheme combinations than any other package
• 'Point and click' changes to add your own company style
• User-replaceable navigation buttons
• Open access to page templates for more advanced design work
• Integration with Macromedia Dreamweaver allowing easy access to HTML templates

Customer Friendly Stores

• Automated site navigation features including menu bar, section list, site map and 'breadcrumb trail’
• Lightning fast search
• Search on product attributes
• Cart content summary visible on every page
• Editable shopping cart can be saved for later completion
• Automatic email confirmation of order
• 'Remember me' option for returning visitors.
• Customer accounts and customer-specific store content for regular visitors*

Comprehensive Merchant Functionality

• Tamper-proof shopping cart with bank-approved security
• Built-in order-processing module is a complete application in its own right, dealing with orders by phone, fax and post as well as from the web.
• Accurately calculates shipping, handling and taxation costs.
• Monitors stock levels during order processing.
• Over 20 built in reports including printing of invoices and packing lists.
• Anti-fraud and anti-spam options
• Product import and export functions
• Prompted backup and restore feature
• Link to Sage Line 50 and QuickBooks accounts*

Powerful Marketing Features

• Generates search-engine-friendly web sites
• Email module supporting unlimited custom email templates.
• Order-level discounting
• Sophisticated product-level and customer-level discounting including ‘buy one get one free’, ‘% off orders over…’, date-expiring discounts, multiple-use coupons etc*
• Upsell opportunities through product bundling
• Discount promotion in the shopping cart

* marks features incremental to Actinic Catalog™

Minimum System Requirements

Vendor PC:

• Pentium PC (including 64-bit versions) running Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP or NT4; minimum 64MB memory, 128MB preferred
• 100MB free disk space
• recommend 65536 colour display
• Internet access
• Internet Explorer v5 (and higher)

Web site:

• NT or UNIX/Linux server
• Perl 5.004 or later; MD5 Perl module recommended
• user writeable CGI bin