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Featured Products Add On: It's a good sales practice to draw customers' attention to some particular products by putting them on the front counter for promotional purposes. Featured Product module is designed for this very purpose. You can define the featured products for the front page of your store and for the product categories. Featured products are displayed in a special showcase in the centre. It gives you better control over the customer's attention and therefore helps to provoke customer's interest.

Multi-Categories Add-On: Product categories tree is a convenient way to organize your products. By default this allows you to place a product in one product category. However, sometimes it is necessary to place the same product in several different categories. With Multi Categories add-on you can place one product to an unlimited number of categories. For example if one of your products fits several different categories or if you need to organize your products by several different criteria (e.g. by product type, by manufacturer, by alphabet etc.) you can just create an appropriate product categories tree and place your products in the necessary categories.

Showcase Organizer Add-On: This add-on is purposed for customizing the layout of your virtual showcase by placing your products in various patterns. You can organize your list of products in different ways as if you were laying out your merchandize on your regular counter. Three predefined layout schemas are available: list, icons and table. You can also organize your products in 1-5 columns and configure whether to show the product description and price in the product list or save it for product details page.

Flyout Categories Add-On: enhances navigation by introducing several new styles of categories menu, and makes browsing categories convenient for your customers. The module enables you to use four major menu styles: a horizontal menu, tree-style menu (Explorer), menu with buttons (Candy) and menu with icons (Icons). Each of the major menu styles includes several variants of menu design. You are welcome to use one of the pre-designed image sets bundled with the module or create images of your own. Skin based architecture allows you to create a unique design for your menus without modifying any PHP code.

Key features:

  • Explorer-like categories menu
  • Popup categories menu with buttons
  • Popup categories menu with icons
  • Several pre-designed templates for each menu type
  • Dynamic menu expansion on mouse-over (JavaScript required)
  • Optimized for smooth performance with up to 200 categories
  • Search Engine friendly navigation

 

Sales-n-Stats Add-On: Sales-n-Stats Live is a 3 in 1 package enabling you to provide quality online customer services at your e-commerce website, monitor the current business situation and analyse the efficiency of sales via website statistics. 

Featuring out-of-the-box integration with e-commerce software, Sales-n-Stats is sure to become a valuable addition to your e-commerce website.

Sales-n-Stats come in two commercial versions: Live edition and Enterprise edition. Whilst Live edition was designed to be used by one operator only, Enterprise edition is a multi-operator version designed for larger companies and enterprise corporations in which several staff members need to have simultaneous access to the gathered information and to be able to communicate with website visitors at the same time.

Key features:

  • Live Chat to communicate with your store visitors. Sales-n-Stats Live Help facility enables you to organize real-time interaction with your store visitors. Featuring text and voice (VoIP-based) chat, canned messages, proactive contact, push content and other essential features you would expect from Live Chat software.
  • Know what the customers are doing on your site. Observe how visitors move about your website on the Site Monitor. Get instant access to your visitors personal data. Mark important visitors. Recognize visitors e-commerce actions (add to cart, site search, login, order, fill contact form etc). Create custom actions. Display the most important actions on the Site Monitor.
  • Recognize existing customers and returning visitors. Review their history of past visits and communication. Focus on the most valuable prospects.
  • Get a better understanding of your business processes with comprehensive website and ecommerce statistics. Use pre-defined reports to get instant information about your store functioning. Create professionally looking custom reports using Sales-n-Stats Report Constructor.
  • Multiplatform install packages. Sales-n-Stats is a Java application that runs on you local computer with Windows, MacOS or Linux/FreeBSD and small PHP/MySQL script that runs on your server.

Ecommerce Reports Add-On: An experienced storeowner knows that there is still much work to do beyond order fulfilment. Sales analysis is a good business practice that provides solid base for making the right management and marketing decisions. E-commerce reports add-on provides a set of multipurpose reporting tools for analyzing your online sales and customer base:

Key features:

  • General Statistics: Provides general aggregate stats about online store operation.
  • Product Sales: Analyses sales for the period by product categories.
  • Sales Dynamics: Displays bar chart for sales of selected product categories for the specified period.
  • Sales by Geography: Splits your sales by geographical locations.
  • Shipping/Payment Stats: Points out the most frequent shipping and payment options and their correlation.
  • Focused Audience: Convenient tool for filtering your customer base according to the specified criteria (products purchased, geographic location, sum of orders etc.) If newsletters module is installed, promotional email (special offer, discount coupons, etc.) can be immediately sent to the focused group.

All reports have configurable parameters and several forms of data presentation providing functional tool set for flexible e-commerce analysis.

Gift Certificates Add-On: It is always a dilemma to choose the right present that is why many online customers prefer to leave the final choice up to the addressee. Gift certificate is a way to show care and attention while keeping everyone satisfied. Gift certificate add-on allows customers to purchase gift certificate for a certain sum that later can be used for purchasing goods from this store. When the addressee receives gift certificate he/she can visit the shop anytime to redeem it. Gift certificate can be redeemed partially or combined with other payment methods if gift certificate amount is not sufficient for the purchase.

The customers can send their gift certificates as an e-card or as a postcard. Several sample e-cards for most common events are bundled with this add-on however a shop owner can create his own e-cards.

Wholesale Trading Add-On: This add-on was designed to give storeowners the ability to define flexible pricing/discount schemas for their merchandize and provide special pricing or access policies for customers with different membership levels. The functionality of this add-on is useful for wholesale trading companies, distributors, spare parts stores or any online store with vast product catalogue or stores with average orders containing more than 2-3 items.

Key features:

  • Flexible wholesale pricing feature allows defining various pricing schemas based on the quantity of purchased products and customers membership level.
  • Global discounts flat or percentage discounts based on the order subtotal.
  • Product or categories access you can permit to view the product, view its price or purchase the product only for registered customers or customers with particular membership on a per product basis.
  • Membership trading possibility to sell memberships to your customers, you can provide special members pricing or access to particular product or categories for a limited period or perpetually.
  • Bulk shopping feature makes online shopping easy for the customers who are placing big orders consisting of many products. When the category is in a bulk shopping mode it is possible to check items that you are going to order, select necessary quantity and add them to cart with a single mouse click.
  • Printable price list generates brief printable version of your product catalogue for reference and promotion purposes.
  • Additional fields for the registration form additional fields that allows wholesale purchasers to provide necessary taxation information like federal tax ID, VAT/GST/PST registration numbers etc. 

Bestsellers Add-On: This add-on generates the list of the best selling products based on the history of purchases informing customers about the most popular products and, as a result, stimulates chained sales. Bestsellers list is context dependent and is generated for the category that a customer is browsing. The size of bestsellers list and its location can be configured from the E-Commerce settings menu.

Layout Organizer Add-On: Have you ever felt that your online store's design was too limiting and lacked the capabilities to customize appearance of certain categories and/or products? Not any longer! Layout Organizer add-on module was designed specifically to address this issue. With this module installed your online store catalogue presentation becomes fully customizable. You can create and modify design schemes using a WYSIWYG editor of your preference and apply those template schemes to specific categories and individual products. And this is not all: the module comes supplied with three custom designs to get you started right away. Using this module, you can make your store truly unique and more appealing to customers.

Flyout Categories enhances E-Commerce navigation system by introducing several new styles of categories menu, and makes browsing categories convenient for your customers. The module enables you to use four major menu styles: a horizontal menu, tree-style menu (Explorer), menu with buttons (Candy) and menu with icons (Icons). Each of the major menu styles includes several variants of menu design. You are welcome to use one of the pre-designed image sets bundled with the module or create images of your own. Skin based architecture allows you to create a unique design for your menus without modifying any PHP code.