Features

Our wealth of features and capabilities designed to help you launch powerful e-commerce solutions. This page provides you with a quick snapshot of its features and capabilities. We have included all the necessary tools required to build a successful e-commerce store. We’re always adding to the list of new features for our eCommerce platform.
The key to the feature of the our eCommerce is its pluggable modular/layered architecture which allows additional functionality and presentation elements to be dynamically added to the application at run-time. This pluggable modularized architecture makes it easy to create and manage your web sites.

Catalog Features

  • Unlimited number of products
  • Supports categories and manufacturers
  • Categories can also be fully nested to any level desired (sub-categories)
  • Products can be mapped to more than one category or manufacturer
  • Anonymous checkout
  • One-page Checkout
  • Gift Cards (Virtual and Physical)
  • Recurring Products
  • Support for kit products (e.g. Build your own computer)
  • Multilingual support
  • Multicurrency support
  • Measure weights, measure dimensions
  • Real-time currency exchange rates (ECB)
  • SSL support
  • Export/import (XML, Excel)
  • PDF order receipts
  • Fully 100% customizable design using templates
  • Phone order support
  • RMA (return management)
  • Configurable list of allowed countries
  • (For billing, For shipping)
  • ACL (Access control list)
  • Activity Log
  • Live chat integration
  • SMS notifications
  • Mini shopping cart
  • OpenID, Facebook and Twitter authentication
  • W3C compliance (XHTML)
  • Web Services API
  • RTL (right-to-left) support

Product Features

  • Product attributes (e.g. color, size)
  • Stock management by product attributes (such as, color and size)
  • Product tags
  • Configurable checkout attributes (such as «Gift Wrap» or «Enter custom message»)
  • Configurable customer attributes (such as «Date of birth», «Phone number»)
  • Individual prices can be specified for individual customer groups
  • Allow customers to enter product price (if enabled)
  • Allow store owner to hide prices for non-registered customers
  • Products can require that other products are added to the cart (Product X requires Product Y)
  • Downloadable products supported
  • Downloadable products. License file can be attached
  • Downloadable products can have an user agreement
  • Downloadable products. Configurable download activation type: ‘When order payment status is Paid’ or ‘Manual activation’
  • Text options on products (e.g. require initials for monogrammed products, require text name for product customization, etc)
  • Support for simple products (e.g. a book) or products with variants
  • Support for sale prices
  • Product search
  • Featured products, sale products or new products
  • Supports multiple images per product
  • Auto image resizing
  • Inventory tracking
  • Disable buy buttons for specific products
  • Product specifications (e.g. processor, memory, graphic card)
  • Compare products feature (if enabled)
  • ‘Call for price’ support
  • Cross-sells support
  • Backorder support
  • Display product stock availability option

Marketing & Promotions

  • Reward Points System
  • Ability to assign design on category, manufacturer or product (unique design per category/manufacturer/product)
  • Supports related products
  • Marketing manager (Email campaigns)
  • Customer groups can be marked as free shipping
  • Customer groups can be marked as tax exempt
  • Search Engine Friendly URL’s
  • Automated URL Re-Writing
  • Every product, category and manufacturer page can have their own custom search engine meta tags, page title
  • Customize default SEO meta tags
  • Store news items supported. News RSS. News comments
  • Require administrator approval of product reviews for all reviews (if enabled)
  • Product review helpfulness (“Was this review helpful for you?”)
  • Supports discounts
  • Supports coupons
  • Discount amount can either be a fixed value or a percent off. e.g. $10.00 off or 20% off
  • You can specify a start date and an end date when the coupon is valid
  • Discounts can be assigned to products
  • Discounts can be assigned to categories
  • Discounts can be assigned to whole order
  • Discounts can be filtered by a customer role
  • ‘Had purchased all of these product variants’ discount requirement
  • ‘Had purchased one of these product variants’ discount requirement
  • ‘One time only’ discounts
  • ‘One time per customer’ discounts
  • Discounts can be assigned to shipping fee
  • Discount Usage History
  • Volume discounts (Tier prices)
  • Customers can review & rate products (if enabled)
  • Recently added products page. RSS.
  • Recently viewed products page
  • Free Shipping Option
  • Polls supported
  • Store blog supported
  • Forums supported
  • Supports affiliate programs
  • Froogle (google base), PriceGrabber / Yahoo Shopping, become.com product feeds
  • Google XML site map
  • Customizable email templates
  • Completely customize the layout & appearance of any category, manufacturer, or product page
  • CMS Topics
  • Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation
  • “Store is closed” feature
  • QuickBooks integration
  • Google AdSense integration

Shipping Features

  • UPS
  • USPS
  • FedEx
  • Australia Post
  • Canada Post
  • Restrict Available Shipping Methods by Country
  • Calculate shipping by order total
  • Additional shipping charges by product
  • Specify all orders as free shipping
  • Admin defined shipping methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day, etc)
  • Calculate shipping by order weight
  • Calculate shipping by country & total order weight
  • Several Shipping Rate Computation Methods used Simultaneously (such as, FedEx and UPS)
  • Free shipping over $X
  • Specify all orders as free shipping
  • Packaging slips
  • Support for “no shipping required” products (e.g. services)
  • Admin defined shipping methods
  • Customer groups can be marked as free shipping
  • Shipping tracking number

Tax Features

  • Apply tax by country
  • Apply tax by state
  • Apply tax by zip
  • StrikeIron tax provider
  • Individual products can be marked taxable or tax-exempt
  • Tax classes supported by product (e.g. goods, services, alcohol, etc)
  • Customer groups can be marked as tax exempt
  • Allow store owner to specify whether shipping is taxable
  • The European Union Value Added Tax (EU VAT) support (Company VAT Number)
  • Allow store owner to specify which tax based on: billing/shipping/default/shipping origin address
  • Allow store owner to specify whether prices include tax
  • Allow customer to choose tax display type (incl/excl tax)
  • Allow store owner to specify tax display type (incl/excl tax)
  • Allow store owner to specify whether shipping prices include tax
  • Allow store owner to specify whether to hide zero tax
  • Allow store owner to specify whether to hide tax in order summary when prices are shown tax inclusive

Payment Methods, Gateways

  • Restrict Available Payment Methods by Country
  • Cash On Delivery payment method
  • Accept Purchase Order
  • Accept Checks / Money Order
  • Accept all major credit and debit cards
  • Refund (and partial refund) support
  • Store can be set to authorize only, or auth-capture credit card mode. You can then capture payment at shipment if desired
  • Void support
  • Real-time or offline credit card processing
  • Manual gateway (just collects order & payment information for offline processing)
  • Authorize.NET
  • Google Checkout
  • Pay in store
  • PayPal Standard
  • PayPal Website Payments Pro (Direct )
  • Purchase order
  • Other payment methods
  • PCI DSS compliant

Customer Service Features

  • Allow customers to register/login by email or by username
  • Wish list
  • Customers can view their order history and order statuses
  • Customer has an address book
  • Customizable Order Emails
  • Multiple billing and shipping addresses per customer
  • Customer roles (groups)
  • Time zone support
  • Built-in forum
  • Password recovery
  • Display Order Notes to Customers
  • Several account registration/activation types
  • Automatic registration (no approving)
  • Manual registration (Admin Approval)
  • Email validation during registration (optional)
  • “Email a friend” feature
  • Compare products feature (if enabled)
  • News RSS
  • Recently added products RSS
  • Image capture on login/registration
  • Contact Us form