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HTML Catalogue Add-On: HTML catalogue is a powerful tool that helps you to make your site search engine friendly and achieve a better representation in such search engines as Google, Yahoo, etc. Modern search engines give a lower priority to script generated pages than to plain HTML pages, HTML catalogue will help you to avoid this disadvantage. Customer will browse your HTML catalogue, but when he decides to add a product to the cart, to do search, etc. he will be automatically redirected to the script version of the cart.

Newsletters Add-On: Be sure that your customers are timely informed about the most important events and offers of your online store. The add-on provides convenient tools for managing and sending newsletters to the subscribers. Multiple newsletter support gives subscriber an opportunity to request only the information that he is interested in. Double opt-in subscription technique (subscription with confirmation) ensures that the correct email address is entered and prevents possible abuse of the newsletter system. Visitors do not need to create a customer profile to subscribe for a newsletter. If you already have existing subscribers base this list can be easily imported via a text file to help you easily migrate from your old newsletter system. The most important newsletters selected by storeowner can also appear in the news section of the site so the newcomers will be able to browse them.

Froogle Export Add-On: This add-on generates specially formatted data feed, so you can easily list your products in Froogle. Froogle is a free service provided by Google that provides a convenient way to search products on the Web. In fact, Froogle is a big database where merchants list their goods so the potential customer can easily locate the store that offer particular products and compare offers from different stores. Listing your products in Froogle is a good idea, because it raises accessibility of your online store via Google, #1 search engine on the net.

Affiliate System Add-On: This module incorporates fully featured affiliate system into your online store helping you to promote your website and boost up sales. Implemented as add-on it is tightly integrated with E-Commerce software constituting one rock solid system. It does not relay on insecure methods of integration usually used by third party affiliate systems.

Key features:

  • Fully featured multi-tier affiliate system (up to 5 tiers).
  • Moderated and free partner signup.
  • Media rich banners support (including FLASH).
  • Product banners and links for focused sales.
  • User friendly HTML tag generator (JavaScript, IFrame and plain HTML formats available).
  • Configurable partner registration form.
  • Multiple affiliate plans support.
  • Export/Import of partner payments.
  • Minimum sum payable as a commission.
  • Comprehensive set of reports providing valuable information on affiliate program performance.

 

Promotion Tools Add-On: This versatile add-on module helps you to effectively promote your business in many ways. It can feature the sections and individual products at your store and brings multiple various means to make your store stand out stand out from your competitors. The three major mechanisms introduced by the module are: special offers, bonus points and discount coupons.

With the flexible special offer definition tool you can create all kinds of remarkable special offers to attract new customers and show your appreciation to existing customers, partners and holders of special memberships at your store. Special offers can be grant discounts or present gift items, free shipping, extra bonus points, and much more.

Bonus point’s mechanism is a tool you can use to establish your store's own bonus point system - the most effective way to show your customers that you value their continued interest in your store. Offer your customers to accumulate bonus points and use them to purchase products or receive special discounts, and promote your customers' loyalty.

Discount coupons management mechanism is another great online store marketing tool. It enables you to generate and manage discount coupons to help you increase the number of returning customers. Discount coupons can be applied to specific products, categories or order totals and offer fixed-value or percentage discounts, or free shipping. Detailed information on coupon usage is instantly available to the store administrator.

Key features:

  • 6 special offer conditions
  • The total of 21 kind of offers to choose from
  • Mechanism to effectively manage special offers
  • Completely confugurable bonus point rates
  • Possibility to allow customers to use their bonus points to pay their orders in part or in full
  • integration with the special offers tool
  • multitude of coupon options settings
  • easy and convenient coupon management

Auto Update Catalogue Add-On: When having hundreds of products in your shop it may be a problem keeping an HTML catalogue up to date because of frequent restocking and changes in assortment. Without Auto Update feature you need to regenerate the whole catalogue each time. This module will keep track on all inventory changes and update the necessary pages of HTML catalogue on the fly saving your time and CPU cycles.

 

Stock Management

Advanced Order Management Add-On: E-Commerce Advanced Order Management (AOM) add-on module provides your online store with a powerful and complete order management tool. The module brings unprecedented flexibility and convenience to order management process. Its numerous features will come handy for every store, big and small. Also, tight integration with the AOM add-on module adds new capabilities to Product Options, Wholesale Trading, Promotion Tools, Gift Certificates, Advanced Security and Real-time Shipping Quotes Package add-on modules.

Key features:

  • Creating new orders for offline customers.
  • Editing all aspects of orders placed.
  • Cloning and splitting existing orders into new ones.
  • Redefining order life cycle in order to meet your own business needs.

 

Inventory Tracking Add-On: This module adds a real time inventory tracking capability. With it you can perform inventory management tasks without purchasing a third party inventory management software. Inventory Tracking add-on is tightly integrated with other parts of E-Commerce software, for example when combined with Product Options add-on it can track inventory per each option, providing exact control over stock options. This add-on can also perform stock level monitoring and notify you if the stock drops below the definite limit, so you have time to restock your goods before they are completely sold out.

E-goods Add-On: This module introduces functionality for selling electronic content also known as e-goods. When using this add-on your customers will be able to experience the advantage of immediate electronic delivery of the products they ordered. You can sell both e-goods and regular goods in one online store.

This add-on is suitable for selling software, e-books, downloadable music, copyrighted content, phone cards, and shareware registration codes and can be used in many other applications that require electronic content distribution. E-goods can be delivered via email or can be downloaded via personalized key protected links from your website. For extra protection personalized links expire after certain period or the number of downloads.

For more flexibility PIN codes for serialized products like phone cards, registration keys, access information etc. can be stored in the database or generated by any external application. When combined with Wholesale Trading add-on E-goods add-on is also suitable for providing fee based periodic access to electronic re sources e.g. content subscription.

For better protection from online fraud it is recommended to use the "Egoods" add-on along with Antifraud Service that can be utilized with the help of free Antifraud add-on. The "Egoods" add-on comes with a free trial for the Antifraud Service.

Product Options Add-On: Product Options feature is highly recommended when selling products with optional parts (eg. phones with or without AC adapter, camera with an optional battery pack etc.) or products which differ by some characteristics (eg. size, colour for clothes, type of cover for books, lemon or pineapple flavour for candles, capacity for computer memory cards etc.). By using Product Options you can greatly decrease the number of products in your shop by avoiding repeating of similar products. So your customers do not have to browse through endless lists of products and can select all the necessary options in one dialog.