Actinic Catalog

Actinic Catalog® is the most comprehensive low-cost ecommerce package available today. It includes everything a small business needs to design, build and manage its own secure web store. Actinic Catalog offers great value, ease of use, flexibility and a wide range of features to deliver a powerful ecommerce store. Backed up by comprehensive support options and a ready-made upgrade path to more advanced functionality, Actinic Catalog provides a platform to build a successful online store.

Key Features and Benefits

• Easy to use and intuitive Windows interface
• Complete design and store layout flexibility to create your own unique, customised store
• Powerful marketing and merchandising features to assist in growing your online business
• Extensive store management functionality for easy and efficient store operation
• Flexible product catalogue supports up to 20,000 products including digital products
• Independence to integrate with all the leading online payment gateways and commercial hosting providers

Detailed Features

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

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

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

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

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/shopping-cart-software.htm

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