Award-Winning Features of Actinic Catalog

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
  • Option to add 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

Customisable 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.

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

Powerful Marketing Features

  • Generates search-engine-friendly web sites
  • Email module supporting unlimited custom email templates.
  • Order-level discounting
  • Upsell opportunities through product bundling
  • Discount promotion in the shopping cart


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