Ecommerce - Additional features

Features offered by include:

  • Unlimited categories, products and versions
  • Unlimited category levels
  • Unlimited currencies (UK pounds, US dollars, Euros, etc.)
  • Multi-language capability
  • Use MS Access, MS SQL Server or MySQL (v5+, for Windows) databases
  • Shopping cart: cookieless sessions with cookie backup
  • Shopping cart: aggregates identical items to same row
  • Shopping cart: calculates promotions, discounts and coupons while shopping
  • Shopping cart: mini basket summary on each page
  • Shopping cart: clears out of stock and non-live items dynamically
  • Shopping cart: reduces quantity added to basket to remaining stock level
  • Subcategories can have multiple parent categories
  • Products can have multiple parent categories
  • Stock level tracking
  • Multiple display formats for products and categories
  • Extensive CSS implementation
  • Categories have normal and large images
  • Products have normal and large images
  • Versions have normal and large images
  • Customer reviews
  • Cross-selling: "customers who bought this also bought"
  • Cross-selling: "related products"
  • Cross-selling: "see also"
  • Home page: "top selling items" list
  • Home page: "most recent items" list
  • Home page: configurable news items
  • Home page: feature selected products
  • Home page "most recent items" list
  • Shipping: UPS real-time rates support
  • Shipping: by order value or weight
  • Shipping: unlimited shipping methods
  • Shipping: unlimited shipping zones (UK, EU, etc.)
  • Shipping: unlimited shipping price/weight bands
  • Shipping: free shipping option per item
  • Shipping: bypass in checkout if free
  • Unlimited product attributes (ISBN, author, etc.)
  • Product comparison
  • Customer account section
  • Save basket
  • Wish list
  • Coupons (fixed price or %)
  • Promotions
    • Buy X of Version A, Get Y of Version B for free
    • Buy X of Version A, Get £Y off
    • Buy X of Version A, Get Y% off product B
    • Spend £X, Get Y of Version B for free
    • Spend £X, Get £Y off
    • Spend £X, Get Y% off product B
  • Customer discount (%)
  • Customer groups
  • Limit access to store to registered customers only
  • Customer group discounts
  • Quantity discounts (price breaks)
  • Powerful shopping cart search
  • Search by price range, keywords and category
  • Search by attributes (ISBN, author, etc.)
  • Speed order versions
  • SEO: friendly URLs (URL rewriting)
  • SEO: static page generator
  • SEO: Google sitemaps
  • SEO: sitemap page
  • SEO: optimized XHTML code
  • SEO: configurable page title and meta tags for products
  • Affiliate programme with viewable statistics for affiliates
  • Mailing list management (with opt-in confirmation)
  • Full order history for customers
  • Printable invoice for customer
  • Full international address block allowing handling of addresses from all countries (including long addresses and those from USA, Canada, UK and mainland Europe)
  • Full UK / EU VAT handling
    • Display prices including VAT
    • Display prices excluding VAT
    • Display prices including and excluding VAT
    • Zero rate order if EU VAT number supplied
    • Basic EU VAT number format check for all 25 countries
    • Zero VAT for non-EU orders
    • Handle VAT correctly for discounts, promotions and coupons
    • VAT based on shipping or billing address (switchable)
    • Show VAT during checkout and on confirmation and invoice
    • Terms and conditions checkbox prior to payment (switchable)
  • Order confirmation shown to customer after payment
  • Unlimited store logins
  • Automated "to do" task list
  • Comprehensive database driven configuration system
  • Restrict login privileges
  • Comprehensive cross-data keyword search
  • Basic CMS to add new text pages
  • Currency rate feed (if valid support cover active, most common currencies such as UK pound, US dollar, Euros, etc.)
  • Export customer/order data
  • View statistical data
  • Price markup tool
  • Approve customer reviews
  • Approve affiliate programme applications
  • Approve downloadable item orders
  • Offline payment (purchase order)

Online payment gateways

For details see Ecommerce - Payment gateways