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Merchant Advantage |
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Personal E-Business Consultant
Experienced online business analysts offer oversight of your order and
provide insight and assistance. |
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Optimized Development Environment
To help you start building your online business as quickly as possible, we have created a staging site for you on our optimized StoreFront hosting platform. |
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24/7 Support Services
Unlimited live support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Support is available free of charge for 30 days. |
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| Site Creation Tools |
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Flexible Design Controls
Fully customizable web design allows for implementation of advanced site
designs or integration with the look and feel of an existing site. |
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FrontPage and Dreamweaver Integration
StoreFront site creation and design tools are available from the Microsoft
FrontPage
and Macromedia Dreamweaver menus. |
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Technology Platform
ASP.NET - The newest web development language pioneered by Microsoft. Building
on-line stores in .Net increases performance and gives you the framework for
a more robust, extensible web application. |
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ASP.NET |
Developer APIs
Published interfaces for modules such as shipping, tax, inventory, order
tracking, etc. allow for full customization of the StoreFront application.
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Access or SQL Server Database Support
In addition to support for Microsoft Access,
StoreFront provides full support for a robust, high performance SQL Server backend. |
Access or SQL |
Access or SQL |
Secure Online Operations
Ensure the security of customer and business data using StoreFront's
sophisticated support for SSL and credit card encoding. |
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Advanced Encryption
Industry leading Triple DES encryption offers state-of-the-art
encryption technology to protect the integrity of credit card data. |
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| Product Management |
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Number of Products
Catalog a virtually unlimited number of products. Shoppers can browse
product pages or use the advanced search utility to find specific items.
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Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Product Import and Batch Update Utility
Easy information exchange! Add products to a web store or complete batch
updates by simply importing data from an existing database or delimited
file.
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Catalog and Product Page Templates
Catalog and product page design just got a lot easier. StoreFront lets
you choose from a number of fully customizable templates without having to
modify the html.
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Multiple Customizable Templates |
Multiple Customizable Templates |
Unlimited Sub-Categories
Build unlimited levels of categories and subcategories so that merchants
can easily manage products and support drill down product searches.
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Price and Weight Sensitive Product
Attributes
Easily manage product and shipping costs for product attributes, such as
size. For example, merchants can charge more for a large bag of dog food
and have accurate shipping costs that take into account the increased
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Price & Weight |
Price & Weight |
Customer Defined Attributes
Provide shoppers with a field to input product specific special
instructions or information. Great for personalized merchandise, such as
invitations!
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Inventory Tracking With Backorder
Advanced inventory tracking features allow merchants 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 |
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Integrated 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. |
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Merchant Account/Gateway Integration
StoreFront has built-in integration with most of the leading merchant
account and gateway service providers (click
here to view a list of integrated gateways). We also offer our own
gateway service (click
here for more information about StoreFront Payment Solutions). |
Paymentech
Versign
StoreFront
Wells Fargo
and More |
Paymentech
Versign
StoreFront
Wells Fargo
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Automated Tax Calculations
Local, state/province, and country tax region options can be used to
calculate Tax rates during checkout. |
Local
State
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Local
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Real
Time Shipping Rates
Get accurate shipping costs real time from leading carriers. Customers can
shop prices from a list of supported methods and choose an option that
meets their timeline and budget. Merchants can also figure shipping
costs based on the order total or products ordered. |
UPS
USPS
FedEx
CanadaPost |
UPS
USPS
FedEx
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Multiple Payment Options
Accept electronic checks, purchase orders, COD, credit card, and phone/fax
orders
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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.
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Automated Drop Shipping
Merchants can identify unique vendors for each product, so that when an
order comes in, the vendor can ship the product to the customer from their
warehouse. |
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| Marketing and Promotions |
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Promotional Mail Utility
Send product announcements and special offers to customers with html e-mails - and add graphics and
dynamic data for real impact.
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HTML & Text |
HTML & Text |
Search Engine Submission
Type in your own site-specific key words, meta-tags and descriptions, and
StoreFront will automatically place them on your web store pages. |
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E-Coupons
Now its easy to use coupons as sales incentives. Specify when and how the
coupon will expire and what items the coupon can be applied to.
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Product or Storewide Sales
Launch sales for specific products, product categories, vendors or
manufacturers or implement a storewide
sale. Ex: All widgets on sale, 10% off all Acme products, everything on sale.
You have the ability to accelerate sales where you want.
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Storewide or By Category, Mfg., Vendor, or Product |
Storewide or By Category, Mfg., Vendor, or Product |
Extended Affiliate Programs
Build referral sales with StoreFront's fully
automated affiliate program. Powerful affiliate management tools allow affiliates
to securely track referral sales. |
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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. |
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Related Items
Encourage add-on sales by displaying related items at the bottom of
product pages. |
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Volume Pricing
Promote bulk purchases by offering volume purchase discounts.
Set up to seven separate levels and offer a percentage or fixed amount off
of base the base price. |
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| Shopper Features |
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Running Cart Total
Lets customers keep track of their order with a cart summary on every page.
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Customer Address Book
Shoppers can store an unlimited number of addresses in a personal address
book. We make it easy for shoppers every step of the way. |
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Multiple Ship-to 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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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. |
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E-Mail to a Friend
Drive site traffic by giving shoppers the ability to email product information
to a friend or associate. |
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Gift Wrap
Shoppers can choose to have items gift wrapped when checkout out. |
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Gift Messages
Personalized message can be associated with a gift item. |
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Simple Search Utility
Let shoppers search for items from any page. A great feature! |
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Gift Certificates
StoreFront 6 lets web stores to accept gift certificates as payment. Any
leftover amount can be saved for later.
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Customer-Specific Pricing
Allows merchants to set up multiple tiered pricing specific to classes of
customers, allowing "frequent shopper" programs or multi-level
distribution systems. |
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| Merchant Management |
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Sales Reports
Monitor sales activity using detailed sales reporting tools. Generate
sales summary, sales detail and product sales reports. |
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Order Fulfillment
Merchants can manage incoming orders with StoreFront's order
fulfillment tools. They can track which orders have been paid and/or
shipped, print packing slips, and enter shipping tracking numbers. |
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Web Based Merchant Tools
Easily update product information, run sales, and manage store settings
through a set of web based store administration tools. |
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E-Mail Confirmations
Merchants and shoppers receive instant e-mail notification when an order
has been placed. Customize the content, add images, etc to your
confirmation e-mails. |
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QuickBooks
Integration
Streamline your accounting operations
with the integrated QuickBooks export tool. Automatically extract orders and
customer data into QuickBooks. |
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