Actinic Business

Actinic Business® provides a range of options for small and medium sized companies to develop and manage sophisticated, high volume ecommerce sites. All Actinic Business applications build on the comprehensive features in Catalog with additional advanced functionality in the areas of marketing, customer management and back-office integration designed to provide enhanced value and service for customers and greater efficiency for the merchant. Includes Link to Sage Line 50 and QuickBooks.

RRP 799 + VAT

Actinic Business Multi-Site Version

Actinic Business Multi-Site Version provides all the powerful features of Actinic Business with the additional benefit of managing an unlimited number of online stores with a single licence. Actinic Business also provides advanced design configuration and site deployment options.

RRP 1249 + VAT

Actinic Business Multi-User Version

Actinic Business Multi-User Version provides all the powerful features of Actinic Business Multi-Site; with the additional benefit of simultaneous order processing on multiple networked PCs, and catalogue update from any PC on the network. This provides greater flexibility and enhances efficiency for very high volume sites.

RRP 1549 + VAT (2-user system)

Key Features and Benefits

• Easy to use and intuitive Windows interface.
• Complete design and store layout flexibility to create your own unique, customised store.
• Sophisticated marketing, merchandising and customer management functionality, including advanced discounting features and customer specific pricing to build loyalty and assist in growing your online business
• Extensive store management functionality including order processing features to maximise productivity in a high-volume order environment
• Flexible product catalogue supports up to 20,000 products including digital products
• Multi-Site and Multi-User upgrade options for high volume and multiple sites
• Integration with accounting and back-office systems to enhance productivity
• Independence to integrate with all the leading online payment gateways and commercial hosting providers

Features in Detail

Bold text indicates features incremental to Actinic Catalog

Flexible Product Catalogue

• Explorer 'drag and drop' style interface to access product items quickly and easily
• Support for up to 20,000 products with product images
• Create unlimited number of product sections and subsections
• Multiple page layout options
• Create links to external files or urls
• Define product attributes and choices for each product and assign different prices to each product choice
• Show product choices as radio buttons, drop downs or button grids
• Define additional components for each product
• Support for downloadable products such as mp3 music
• Add additional text or images in a pop-up window
• Specify shipping weights for each product
• Add shopper definable fields for personalised products
• Import and export product and section data
• Hide products and information items from selected customers or customer groups

Customisable Store Design and Layout

• 'QuickStart Guide' wizard walks you through the initial site set up
• Full site customisation using an intuitive 'point and click' interface
• Multiple preview modes provide easy navigation and instant access to any part of your store
• Select from a range of pre-designed themes or mix and match elements to create a unique design
• Complete flexibility to edit of site colour scheme, product/section layout and variables
• Library of design snippets to be used in creating a design
• Real-time preview of your store as you build it
• Create additional content and information pages - build a complete web site
• Easy to use 'point and click' HTML code editor for text formatting
• Create conditions for specific content to appear on the web site
• Integrates with Macromedia Dreamweaver enabling design to take place in Dreamweaver
• Create multiple sites from the same application (Multi-Site and Multi-User only)
• Advanced site deployment options (Multi-Site and Multi-User only)

Comprehensive Store Management Functionality

• Built-in order-processing module processes orders from receipt to shipment
• Handles both online and offline orders
• One click order processing to allow fast processing of orders
• Accurately calculates shipping, handling and taxation costs
• Edit order details within the Actinic database
• Monitors stock levels during order processing, with alerts for low stock levels
• Print invoices, packing lists and address labels
• Create and view sales reports such as fastest selling items and best customers
• Generate customer emails with support for unlimited custom email templates
• Prompted backup and restore feature
• User logon for catalogue management
• Order completion using barcode scanning
• Interface directly with Sage Line 50 and Quickbooks accounting systems to transfer orders and import product and customer data
• Dynamically link products to an external database
• Import customer account information
• Enable multiple users to process orders from multiple PCs (Multi-User only)

Powerful Marketing Features

• Generates search-engine-friendly web sites
• Create Best Sellers list for publication to the web site
• Create Related Product lists to encourage additional purchases
• Automatically generate a New Products list and publish to web site
• Generate email lists and mailing lists including mailing labels, envelopes and reports
• Create customer accounts to increase shopper loyalty
• Apply discounts based on order value and display in the shopping cart
• Advanced mailing list generation allowing filtering based on a variety of criteria
• Set up a range of customer groups and apply specific criteria (discounts, messages, payment methods) to each group
• Apply discounts based on quantity or specific products ordered
• Apply merchandising discounts such as 'buy one get one free', date expiring discounts and multiple use coupons

Customer Friendly Stores

• Online shopping cart with industrial strength security
• Fully integrated with all the leading online Payment Service Providers
• Support for secure offline payment processing
• Automatic email confirmation of order
• 'Remember me' option for returning visitors
• Cart content summary visible on every page
• Automated site navigation features including menu bar, section list, site map and 'breadcrumb trail'
• High speed index-based online searching

Comprehensive Support

• Free email support
• 30 days free telephone support
• Online Knowledge Base
• Actinic Community forums

For a comprehensive feature list, visit http://actinic.co.uk/products/ecommerce-software.htm

Minimum System Requirements

Vendor PC	Website
500 MHz Processor	NT or UNIX/LINUX server
Windows XP, 2000 (service pack 2) or 2003	Perl 5.004 or Later
512MB RAM	MD5 Perl module
120MB free disk space	User Writeable CGI
Internet access
Internet Explorer v6 (and higher)