| With CommercePlus you get everything you need to run your online business in one simple, easy to use package. In fact, CommercePlus is so simple and easy that you'll find yourself spending your time where it belongs; growing your business.
CommercePlus features our award winning eStoreAdvanced program with all of the following features:
>>> eStoreAdvanced Easy Set-Up
Bulk Product/ Image Upload Wizard
Simply upload your product inventory and reference images from a .CVS file and build your store with the click of just one button. You will be up and running in no time flat.
Web Based Administration
You can work on your store from anywhere once you have access to the Internet. You can make changes in the backend and see those changes applied in real time.
WYSIWYG wizards (No Programming Knowledge Necessary)
You can create customized web pages using our cutting-edge WYSIWYG tools built right into your administration control panel. The professional results you get will surely impress your prospects and build credibility for your eStore.
Customizable Storefront
Anything that your customer sees can be customized by you. You can make changes to fit the theme of your website and make your pages more attractive to visitors. Whether it's the header graphics, footer or sides it can all be changed to your fancy.
No Product or Category Limits
You can sell thousands of products without worrying about overwhelming our system. There's really no limit to the number of items your store could list.
Creates Image Thumbnails Automatically
If you don't already have thumbnail images just upload the detailed images and our e-commerce software can create them for you automatically from the large images.
Visual User Manual
Manual will lead you step by step using illustrative pictures from the eStoreAdvanced software itself making it easy to follow and accomplish any task.
Help Features
You'll receive contextual help at every stage of your store setup. Our software was developed to make it as intuitive for you to use as possible and help is always just a click away.
Powerful Administration
You can create unlimited administrator accounts and restrict access to any user that you wish. For example, you may not want an employee who handles your newsletter to have access to the taxes and shipping rates or make changes to the sites graphics. You'll be able to control these administrator privileges.
>>> eStoreAdvanced Product Merchandising
Cross Category Product Listing
You can select products from your inventory to cross-promote and upsell related items. This is a proven marketing strategy that will help you to make more sales.
Dynamic Sale Pricing
Dynamic pricing allows online companies to adjust the prices of identical goods to correspond to a customer's willingness to pay. This simply means that you can charge different prices for the same item to different customers perhaps based on their estore loyalty or other factors.
Price Based Discounting
You can give discounts to customers who order above a certain quantity or price. Discounts can be given per item or per total order price. For example, if you want to give $5 discount per piece ordered for those who order 10 or more, the software can handle this for you. If you want to give $50 cashback for orders above $300, you can also do this.
Secondary Images
You can add other images to the thumbnail and full image to show different views of the same product or any other supporting pictures.
Refer a Friend Feature
Customers can send a direct email from your eStore to tell a friend about a special you may be running or about any item you are promoting.
Best Sellers Area
The software can automatically rate your sales and show those items that are hot sellers. Products that are listed as best sellers help to promote themselves from the bandwagon effect.
Promotional Codes and Gift Certificates
The software allows you to set promotional codes for any date range and minimum price purchase that they can be applied to. These can no longer be applied once the code date expires.
Easy To Use Search Feature
With the possibility of thousands of products listed in your store this feature will help customers to quickly locate what they are looking for. This search function will search the product names and descriptions.
Froogle Data Feeds
Froogle is a new service from Google that makes it easy to find information about products for sale online. By focusing entirely on product search, Froogle applies the power of Google's search technology to a very specific task: locating stores that sell the item you want to find and pointing you directly to the place where you can make a purchase.
>>> eStoreAdvanced Shipping Made Easy
Real-time Shipping Quotes
Retrieves all available shipping methods and rates, in real-time, directly from UPS, FedEx and USPS then adds them to the total at checkout time.
Set Custom Handling Fees
Add additional shipping costs per product for handling charges as a flat fee per order, percentage of total order or by order total range.
Create Custom Shipping Methods
You're not just limited to the major channels of shipment but can add another shipping method such as an airline freight or local shipping company.
Calculate Shipping by Weight, Price or Dimension
Allows the merchant to choose their preferred method of calculating shipping cost by total price, total weight and on a per-item basis. This gives some flexibility to both the business owner and the customer.
Offer Free Shipping
You can offer free shipping on items that you choose or for total orders over a set price.
Supports International Shipping
International shipping calculations gives you the option to ship packages around the world. These fees can be flat rate or real-time through UPS, USPS and FedEx.
>>> eStoreAdvanced Reporting Tools
eStoreAdvanced creates reports that are geared towards helping you to quickly and easily analyze trends. These will all help in your marketing and promotion efforts. These include ...
Top Viewed Products
See the items that receive the greatest number of views by visitors. You can then compare this to the sales to determine how well the product is selling -- conversion rate.
Top Viewed Categories
See the categories that receive the greatest number of views by visitors. Again you can compare this to the sales in that category to determine the conversion factor.
Top Orders by Product
Quickly determine the product that receives the greatest number of orders. This will help with your inventory decision making.
Top Referring Sites
See where the traffic to your website is coming from. Knowing this you may want to adjust your sales pitch to target these visitors.
Top Sales by Customer
Quickly see the customer(s) that places the highest orders by price. You may want to add these to a special mailing list and send them special promotions.
Top Payment Types
What is the preferred method of payment by your customers:Credit card, eCheck or fax orders? You will see this at a glance.
Consolidated Orders by Date
This report shows overall statistics by dates from selected period. It includes subtotal, tax, shipping, discount, and total amounts for each day.
Individual Orders by Date
This report shows overall statistics by completed orders with received payment. It includes subtotal, tax, shipping, discount, and total amounts for orders.
Filter All Reports by Date Selection
Choose to run reports over a certain period of time such as a week, months or a particular date range.
Urchin web Stats
Get detailed traffic statistics to determine the source and behavior of your customers. This invaluable information will help you to fine-tune your website and your advertising dollars.
>>> eStoreAdvanced Order Management
Ability to "Status" Orders
After placing an order customer will be able to see the status of the order whether still processing, shipped or delivered.
Add / Edit / Delete Orders
You can make changes to orders manually to make any appropriate adjustment. This can be performed singly or in bulk.
Shows Both Order and Payment status
The software can show you each order along with what stage of the payment process the order is presently at.
Creates Professionally Printed Invoices
Create invoices with your logo and company name imprinted and ready to be shipped with your orders.
Tax
Performs Tax Calculation by State or County. You can choose a state in which you wish to charge tax in, then enter the appropriate rate for the taxes to be automatically calculated and added to total order.
Quickbooks Integration
The eStoreAdvanced e-commerce software is fully integrated with QuickBooks enabling you to import and export orders, inventory and other crucial data directly into QuickBooks.
>>> eStoreAdvanced Customer Relation Management
Automated Confirmation Email
Sends your customers an order confirmation e-mail to satisfy their need for instant gratification and reassurance that the order was completed successfully. If the order is shipped then the tracking information
Easy to use Newsletter Wizard
You can create newsletters directly within the eStoreAdvanced e-commerce software both as text or HTML format. You can send these email campaigns to leads who joined your mailing list, customers or both. This is a very powerful tool that will become a major part of your marketing efforts.
Newsletter List Export
You can segment your mailing list into categories and export those addresses to an external mailing application such as another autoresponder. Having the ability to export your mailing list means that you can provide backup to this important data and also use for other mailing campaigns.
Product Update Notifications
This allows you to select product updates date range and with one click of a button generate an email to send to customers to show new products added to your estore.
Full Customer Reporting
You'll have full access to your customer database and run reports on the orders that they placed. This data can also be conveniently exported to QuickBooks.
Create Affiliate Program
iDevAffiliate can be integrated so that you can set up your own affiliate program and build a network of websites promoting your products for a referral fee.
>>> eStoreAdvanced Customization Tools
Customizable Template Provided
You are provided with free templates that you can immediately use for your storefront. You can use these templates "as is" or change them individually or make site-wide changes using the built-in editor. Either way you can change the appearance of your site with a few clicks of the button from the administrative panel.
Upload Your Own Header and Footer
You may want to use your special store logo or footer graphics for your eStore. Just upload them using any FTP program or the built-in File Manager.
Set custom site colors
You can quickly and easily change the color scheme of your entire site. You can make changes to fit with different holiday seasons or for any other reason.
Create Custom Headers and Buttons
You can choose to use your very own "buy" buttons or replace any other button that comes with the eStoreAdvanced e-commerce software.
Unlimited Customizations through our File Manager
Basically anything that your customer sees can be changed to your like and fancy. You can use any HTML editor to create entirely new pages without affecting what happens 'behind the curtains'.
>>> eStoreAdvanced Technical Data
Application built using PHP
eStoreAdvanced e-commerce software is written in the popular PHP language ensuring speed of execution, stability, customizable code, and great security features. PHP is used by over 17 million domains worldwide and for good reasons. It's the perfect platform for web based administrative software.
MySQL Database
mySQL database has the advantages of being portable, scalable and very fast. It also allows for easy upgrades.
Resides on the ultra-stable UNIX platform
The UNIX language is the language of the Internet and allows for excellent stability, security and flexibility to work with other programs.
FREE Upgrades
There is no software for you to install and no upgrade fees to pay. Everything resides on our secure server and continual upgrades of additional features are worked seamlessly into the program.
>>> Web Hosting Features
Lot's of Space, Speed and Bandwidth
Unlimited Storage Space
You'll have more than ample space to host your e-commerce website with room for growth. This will be your virtual mall where you own all the space!
Multiple Internet Connections Ensure Lightning Speed
The more highways you have leading to a city the less traffic jams and the faster people can get there. It's the same for your website. Multiple connection to your website host means redundancy and speed.
99.8% Up Time
The network that hosts your website is guaranteed to be up 99.8% of the time. A less reliable network can mean great loss to your online estore.
UNIX Servers for Fast and Reliable Web Hosting
These are the most popular and stable type of servers in the hosting industry today. Don't trust your important estore in anything less.
Unlimited Throughput
You'll get all the bandwidth your site can possibly need.
FTP Account For Easy Upload of Web Files
The simplest way to access your website and make updates as necessary.
Easy Control Panel
This will give you easy access to administrative functions for your website. No need to learn UNIX commands to make changes to your website.
Multiple E-Mail Accounts Included
You get 25 POP3 accounts meaning that you have 25 email addresses to use within your company, attached to your domain name.
AutoResponders
A very important tool in your marketing arsenal and the backbone of your email campaign.
Automatic Forwarding
You can forward a URL to another domain just as in call-forwarding for a telephone number.
Web Mail
Access your email from anywhere you have Internet access straight from your browser. No need to use a desktop email application.
>>> Other Advantages
There is no software for you to install and no upgrade fees to pay. Everything resides on our secure server and continual upgrades of additional features are worked seamlessly into the program.
>>> With our Merchant Account you get:
Multiple Processors
This gives us the scope to approve over 98% of all applicants increasing your chances to secure a Merchant Account.
In House Customer Service
You get outstanding support from knowledgeable Account Managers which allows you to have just one point of contact. Many of our competition outsource this service leading to another link in the chain of communication. Having all of our support personnel under one roof means that your concerns can be addressed more quickly and effectively.
>>> Features of the Included NTPNow Virtual Terminal And Payment Gateway:
Easy to use
You just log into a website and enter your customer's information. Authorizations take less than 5 seconds so you won't be waiting around 'forever' for the transactions to go through.
Repeat transactions
Repeat transactions can be re-submitted without having to re-enter all customer information for a second time - a real time saver.
Seperate forms
Separate forms for consumer cards and business cards help reduce non-qualified surcharges
Quick deposits
100% of your sales are deposited to your checking account within 72 hours. No long waiting periods to have access to your money!
Easy reconciliation
Discount fees are billed the following month for easy reconciliation. This will keep your accountant organized and happy.
Recurring billing
Recurring Billing ("Subscriptions") for merchants who charge customers on a periodic basis. You simply add customers to the recurring billing database and NTPNow will bill them automatically on any of the following intervals: weekly, bi-monthly, monthly, semi-annually or annually.
There are three recurring billing options to choose from
1. Bill once or twice per month until the account is manually deleted from the database - great for 'bill until cancellation of service' type payments
2. Bill until a balance has been paid off - great for installment style payments
3. Bill for a certain number of months - great for partial monthly payments
>>> Advanced Transaction Reporting
Easy bookkeeping
You can view transaction reports from any date range, search the database by customer or card number if you so choose. You can view history reports for easy bookkeeping.
Sorting
You can sort transactions by customer name or transaction date saving you a lot of research time in the process and help keep your business organized.
>>> Advanced Security
Data encryption
All credit card data is encrypted to protect against unauthorized use. So even in the unlikely event that hackers were able to break into our "Fort Knox" servers all they'll see is garbage, unreadable data!
Rock solid security
NTPNow Gateway is fully compliant with (and exceeds!) the security initiatives put forward by the major credit card providers, including the Visa Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP), MasterCard Site Data Protection (SDP), and Discover Information Security and Compliance (DISC). All critical data stored on Firewall protected servers.
Fraud prevention
Support for fraud prevention tools including Address Verification (AVS), which compares the customer's delivery address with the address on file at the card-issuing bank, and CVV2, the three-digit security number appearing on the back of VISA, MasterCard, and Discover Card credit cards (a four-digit number on the front of AMEX cards). Fraud Auto-Void System catches fraudulent transactions and voids them without you having to log into your account and do this manually saving you time and chargeback headaches.
>>> Other Features ...
Email notifications
Daily batch notification by email so you get your sales for the day all sent to an email address that you choose.
Electronic checks
E-Check interface so you can accept electronics checks which is becoming a more popular form of payment.
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