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e-Commerce Software STANDARD PRO ML
Pricing Structure
Software only pricing. Pricing Per Site
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General Features

     
Pricing Model, discounts available. Per Site Per Site Per Site
Store management  Web Based Web Based  Web Based
Provides complete web site solution, including shopping cart, content management, customer management etc...
Unlimited Products Allowed
Designed for Stores with < 50 Products

Designed for Stores with < 1000 Products

Designed for Stores up to 250,000 Products
Host Types Supported Shared Server*
VPS Server
Dedicated Server
Shared Server*
VPS Server
Dedicated Server
Shared Server*
VPS Server
Dedicated Server
Unlimited number of Content/HTML (topic) pages
Unlimited dynamic data driven pages via XmlPackages  
*Source code available (either C# or VB.NET)    
Installation Locales Supported U.S. U.S. Worldwide
Database Schema Included
Databases Supported MS SQL 2000
MS SQL 2005/
2005 Express
MS SQL 2000
MS SQL 2005/
2005 Express
MS SQL 2000
MS SQL 2005/
2005 Express
Product Categorization Features      
Unlimited Number Categories & Departments: Have as many categories as you want
Categories and Departments can also be fully nested to any level desired (e.g. sub-categories, sub-departments)  
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  
Products can be mapped to more than one category or department  
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
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).  
Disable buy buttons for specific products  
Supports Wholesale Only Sites (Prices not shown to general site customers)    
PayPal Features      
PayPal Website Payments Pro  
PayPal Express Checkout  
PayPal (standard)
Shipping Features      
Calculate Shipping By Order Total
Calculate Shipping By Order Weight
Calculate Shipping By Order Weight & Zip code Zone  
Calculate Shipping By Order Total & Zip code Zone  
Calculate Shipping By Fixed Item Shipping Costs
Calculate Shipping By Fixed Percent of Order Total
Specify All Orders As Free Shipping
Use Real Time Rates  
FedEx  
UPS  
DHL  
USPS  
Admin defined shipping methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day, Priority, etc)
Real Time Shipping carriers can vary based on Domestic or International shipping address    
Filter Real Time Rates You Want To Allow For Users To Select  
Add Shipping & Handling Extra Fee To Orders  
Shipping Methods Verified Against User Addresses During Checkout (this avoids the ground shipping to Hawaii situations!)    
Shipping Tracking #'s e-mailed to Customers  
Support for Download Products  
Batch Shipping Order Printing/Tracking Integration with UPS WorldShip, Endicia for USPS, and FedEx Shipping Mgr.    
Multiple ship-to addresses per order (a customer on one order can ship some items to address A, and other items to address B)    
Mark Customer Levels/Profiles as free shipping (or tax exempt)    
Bulk Product Import Features      
From Xml File  
From Excel File    
Web Services Automation Interface (WSI). Allows automated import, export, data updates and synchronization.      
Event Notification callbacks to external Web Service which you register, on storefront events (e.g. new order created, customer created, etc).      
Gift Registry Features      
 Gift Registry Supported    
 Gift Registry Can Be Anonymous (gift registry owner name and address is hidden)    
 Gift Card Support (E-mail and Physical Gift Cards supported)    
Wish List Features      
Customer Add To Wish List Supported (Persists over Customer Visits also)  
MaxMind Integration      
Integration of invaluable industry leading MaxMind fraud prevention/scoring technologies. Requires separate service agreement with MaxMind.com.    
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. Language packs sold separately.    
(Multi-Currency). Customer can select store currency to view at run-time. Allowed currencies are under control of store administrator. Support for various leading exchange rate feed suppliers will be supported (via XmlPackages). Sign-up for some exchange rate feeds is optional, through 3rd parties, and they may have fees associated with them (e.g. xe.com, x-rates.com, etc).    
 Store developer/admin has full control over all store site strings used (e.g. prompt used for SKU, Product, Color, Size, shopping cart, etc). Every string used in the storefront can be edited.    
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)...  
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.  
Google Xml Site Maps Supported: a direct Google search engine submission method sanctioned by Google  
Yahoo! Xml Site Maps Supported: a direct Yahoo! search engine submission method sanctioned by Yahoo!  
Fully dynamic page titles, and search engine meta-tags  
Google Analytics (Urchin) Site Metrics & E-Commerce Tracking Compatible
Product Capabilities & Features      
Support for 3 images sizes: icon, medium, large
Auto Image Resizing    
Supports multiple images per product (icon, medium, and large)  
Support for swatch color image changing  
Automatic image watermarking for protection    
Image Galleries Supported  
Restrict product quantities to preset values (e.g. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, ...)  
Enforce product minimum order quantities (i.e. must order at least 10, etc).  
Recurring products can have varying intervals (days, weeks, months, years)  
Subscription based products & content access  
Downloadable products supported, with automatic e-mail to customer with download instructions  
Text options on products (e.g. require initials for monogrammed products, require text name for product customization, etc)  
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.  
Multiple Attributes Per Product (e.g. Size/Color)
Inventory By Attribute (e.g. Size/Color)
Price can vary by size/color option chosen  
Prices can vary by customer or customer level (group)  
Handles multi-store pricing on one database      
Connect multiple web sites to one database. Show different products and prices on each site.      
Price can vary by attribute      
Sort products in any order desired (you can force popular products to the top of the pages)  
Fully dynamic site map (optimized for search engines)  
Second tree-form dynamic site map (optimized for users)    
Support for simple products (e.g. a book) or products with variants
Unlimited number of variants per each product
Each variant can have a different price
Each variant can have different attributes (e.g. size, color, etc)
Each variant can require a text option input (e.g. monogram)  
Each variant can have a separate SKU modifier, and price, description, etc
Tell store to locate product pictures by ID (icon, medium, large)
Tell store to locate product pictures by SKU (icon, medium, large)  
Tell store to use Image Filename Override for pictures (icon, medium, large)    
Support for sale prices
Vary product prices for each customer level (e.g. wholesale/retail)
Phone Order Entry Module  
Product Descriptions can include HTML formatting: We know that having complete control over each product description is important, and no two products are alike. You can use the administration site to enter product descriptions, or even link to fully custom external product description HTML files. Additionally, each product can have an inline or pop-up "specifications" window, providing more detail to the customer, without distracting them from making a purchase
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

Some other storefronts are charging nearly $1200 for adding a "build kit" feature on their storefronts...shame on them!

 
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  
Password Protected Products: Only allow registered customers to view certain portions of your store, expands capability of Customer Levels even further  
Disable buy buttons by product  
 Set Site to Wholesale Only (Prices not shown to general site customers)    
Inventory Features      
Inventory Tracking  
ERP class inventory tracking: FIFO, LIFO, Average Costing, Inventory Tracking, Multi-Warehouse, Drop-Ship, etc.      
Limit orders to quantity on hand inventory, or allow customers to place orders for items out of stock (admin configurable)  
Back-ordered product handling & order management      
Order Splitting and Editing (including split shipments from multiple warehouses)      
Inventory can go "negative"      
Manage Inventory by variant or attribute (e.g. size, color, etc)
Show inventory on hand status on product page to customer (optional)  
Coupon Features      
Order Based Coupons (apply to entire order)
Product Specific Coupons (apply to only specified product)    
Coupon discounts by amount or percent
Coupons can offer free shipping
Coupons can offer tax exception
Coupons have start date  
(planned)

(planned)
Coupons have expiration date
Coupons can be marked as use once per customer, use once by only one customer, use N times, etc.  
Coupons requires minimum order amount before it is valid  
Coupons can be excluded from sale products  
Customer specific coupons  
Skinning & Page Layout Customization      
Free Skins Included 2 2 5
You Can Design Custom Skins
Completely customize the layout & appearance of any category, section, manufacturer, or product page using XmlPackages (XML/XSL rendering engine)  
User defined skin replacement tokens, topic tokens, AppConfig tokens, etc. (e.g. skin Regular Expression token parser)  
Initially design skins in Dreamweaver or FrontPage
Web form controls can be used within skin template user control    
Integrated support for ComponentArt horizontal menu, vertical menu, site map, and tree view navigational controls  
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
Change skins in real-time. You can conceivably have 100+ skins for a single store if you need to.
You can link to the cart "pages" from your existing site pages, or use the storefront to run your entire site
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  
Use custom receipt formats & templates  
Use custom "your order has shipped" e-mail formats and templates  
Automatic e-mail notification to customer with receipt  
Receipt can be fully customized  
PDF Receipts Supported      
Automatic e-mail notification to store admin of new order received  
Notification to Cell Phone of new order received  
Mini-Cart (optional small box on every page showing cart summary contents and checkout link)  
Customer Accounts      
Customer can view Order History  
Customer has address book  
Customer one click re-order any prior order    
Integrated .NET Forms Authentication  
Multiple billing/shipping addresses per customer (similar to Amazon.com style checkout)  
Recurring orders (e.g. for auto ship products, monthly subscription fees, monthly service type products, etc)  
Skip account creation on checkout (Anonymous Checkout)    
"One Page" Checkout    
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
Check By Mail
e-Checks (Authorize.net and Itransact gateways)
C.O.D.  
Purchase Order  
PayPal
PayPal Express Checkout (see below for PayPal website Payments PRO)  
Request For Quote  
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