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Ecommerce Features

Below is a list of the features available in the ecommerce systems that we build using our 'out-of-the-box' systems. The list is not exhaustive, and you don't need to use all the features on your site. If you want a feature that you don't see here, please contact us to discuss what we can do for you.

General

  • Full multi-currency and multi-language support
  • Unlimited products, sections and sub-sections
  • Digital Download product support including optional registration details
  • Product personalisation with fields the customer can fill in against products
  • Import / export products and orders from spreadsheets
  • Full product and section searching for your store
  • Easy to turn features on or off
  • Gift certificates (either electronic or printed)
  • Create offer codes to give discounts on orders
  • Show associated products on the basket page

Web-based Administration

  • Quick and intuitive interface
  • Unlimited administration accounts
  • Includes full logging of actions on administration accounts, including failed login attempts
  • Administration accounts can be disabled at the click of a button (apart from administrator account)
  • Ability to restrict areas of administration and actions to certain accounts

Design

  • Fully template driven with easy to understand template directives (no PHP knowledge needed)
  • Completely customisable

Customer Accounts

  • Full order history
  • Address books
  • Wish List
  • Ability to setup customer types for site wide discounts or special discounts

Email

  • Fully customisable email templates for all emails sent from the system
  • Option HTML versions of all emails
  • Newsletter manager for sending emails to customers
  • Send newsletters to sub-sets of your full mailing list, e.g. only those with a certain account type
  • Emails use the same template language as the rest of your store giving you the same freedom of design

Affiliate System

  • Manage your affiliate program effortlessly
  • 2nd Tier Commission support
  • Setup different affiliate groups with different commission levels
  • Commissions either by percentage or fixed amount
  • Affiliates have access to administration system with statistics etc.

Supplier System

  • Assign suppliers to products along with supplier product codes
  • Automatically email suppliers for drop-shipping of orders
  • Use different email templates for different suppliers
  • Set when you want supplier emails to be sent (you don't have to send emails to all suppliers, this is selectable).