POWERFUL HOSTING eSTORE FEATURES

 

Powerful Hosting's dynamic content template technology offers significant advantages over static HTML models like YahooStore and others. For example, with dynamic templates different content can be provided to users based on who they are or what group the belong to. Configuring a site that displays products without prices and "Add to Cart" buttons to retail customers - and then, on login, displays prices with a 40% discount to anyone in "Group A Wholesalers" - and a 50% discount to anyone in "Group B Wholesalers" is a simple matter.

Another example is real-time inventory. Current inventory can be displayed in several ways directly on the product page, such as "12 In Stock" or "In Stock/Out of Stock" - and the store can be set to dynamically hide items that are out of stock when the last item is ordered.

And Powerfulhosting's dynamic templates are search engine friendly and will be spidered by all search engines, just like any static HTML site.

STORE BUILDING

• Easy-to-use, intuitive, WYSIWYG store builder. Design your own store including custom layout, colors, fonts, logo.  Add individual items in minutes or upload thousands of products in seconds from a database
• Manage the store from anywhere with the easily accessed web-based store manager
• No software to install
• Online, printable User Manual and Tutorial Mode - step-by-step "How To"
• Dynamic, Database Back-ended Structure
• Graphics style editor
• choose backgrounds and buttons from extensive library
• upload custom buttons/backgrounds
• choose fonts from library
• upload additional fonts

• Secure shopping cart included in estore software (no additional cost)
• Shopping cart and checkout completely customizable, maintaining store appearance and integrity
• Unlimited products (subject to disk space limitation based on plan)
• Unlimited product options - dropdowns, radio buttons, text input
• Unlimited non-catalog content pages with built-in HTML editor to create non-catalog content (PC required w/Internet Explorer)
• Easy image upload for products as well as for editable content blocks
• Thumbnail and mini-thumbnail image creator
• Product manager administrator (View/edit Product List)
• Image manager
• Editable content blocks with built-in HTML generator or direct HTML input
• Unlimited, nestable hierarchal categories/departments and sub-departments
• Sort categories/departments
• Sort feature for product display
• Create navigation buttons/links to any URL
• Site index create
• Search engine recognizable dynamic pages
• Pre-configured template library provides wide variety of styles and functionality
• Customizable templates - unlimited design flexibility
• Web-based template edit - no FTP required
• Mix html and itml templates
• Full service SEM (search engine marketing).

 

 

MERCHANDISING FEATURES

• Cross-selling - offer related products on product page, shopping cart or checkout
• Up selling - offer product upgrade
• Flexible special pricing - discounts based on order amount, number of items, etc. A few examples:
• Buy 1 for $10, buy 3 for $25
• Buy product A - get product B free or at a % discount
• Buy 3 of product A, get the 4^th free or at a % discount
• Special pricing based on customer groups
• Members of group A get 20% on any product, all products, etc.
• Any pricing method can apply to groups
• Gift certificates 
• Discount coupons
• Create sale and featured items in seconds - place them anywhere in the store
• Retail/wholesale capability in single store
• Real-time inventory - hide out-of-stock items or display real time inventory directly on product page
• Real-time inventory in options dropdown - display Out or N/A directly in option dropdown for individual options real time
• Product searching
• Advanced Boolean search supported (use logical operators AND, OR, and NOT)
• Store-wide options at checkout - allow customers to choose options that apply to all products, i.e. choose gift wrapping, etc.
• Multiple payment methods - credit card, check, C.O.D.,purchase order, custom payment method configurable
• Key words/description generator of meta-tags by homepage, department or individual product
• Use your own domain i.e. www.yourstorename.com (domain registration fee add'l)
• Multiple domains sharing common shopping cart (add'l fee per domain applies)

 

 

DATABASE MANAGEMENT

• Complete control of data
• Create any number of additional fields for product data 
• expand Boolean search based on custom fields
• Secure shopping cart included in estore software (no additional cost)
• Catalog import from tab or comma delimited file
• ODBC link directly to store's mySQL database
• Real time data export to fulfillment houses
• Direct import of Yahoo store product data and images (complex department structures may require manual configuration.
• Export direct to Quickbooks in IIF format
• Export direct to MOM (Mail Order Manager)
• Export direct to PC Charge
• Export direct to UPS Worldship
• Export direct to FexEx Quickship

 

 

CREDIT CARD PROCESSING

• Set-up of merchant account and processing gateway included at no extra cost through USAePay (Visa/Mastercard processing and bank statement fees apply)
• SECURE SSL transactions
  with Payment Info Encryption
• Real-time online credit card authorization and fraud protection
• Built-in link to USAePay, AuthorizeNet, Verisign PayFlow, PSIgate, IONgate
• Secure encrypted email notification of orders
• Duplicate notification of orders to any email address w/o credit card

 

 

REPORTING

• Store statistics 
• sales by day,month,year
• sales by product
• sales product options
• sales by department
• sales by payment type
• sales by customer
• graphs of monthly sales
• carts opened vs. orders
• Site traffic statistics - Webalizer
• Raw log files available for download on hourly basis
• Event manager - set "Debug" level to log events
• all events
• critical errors
• debug
• info

 

TAX TABLES

• Charge tax by state, country, excise tax

 

CURRENCY

Choose foreign currency symbol - eg. GB pounds

SHIPPING MANAGEMENT

• UPS or FedEx real-time zone shipping
• Flexible shipping options - calculates shipping
• by weight
• number of items
• total order amount
• create custom shipping modules for advanced functionality

 

ORDER MANAGEMENT

• Order manager
• move orders to and from categories
• new
• processing
• on hold
• cancelled
• shipped
• archived
• credit processing 
• Edit/modify orders easily
• Charge/credit/void orders directly from order manager
• Create custom email receipts, status emails
• Create custom shipping labels, pull tickets or other documents from editable templates
• Multiple order receipts available to vendors or fulfillment providers
• Export orders
• Export to Quickbooks in IIF format
• Track Order Referral (referring URL) feature

 

CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT

• Create list
• Create users and groups
• Customer log-in
• Customer account creation
• Create orders from order manager
• View open shopping carts

 

HOSTING INFRASTRUCTURE

• Rock solid LINUX/mySQL opensource platform
• Multiple OC-48 connections to WorldCom and Verio backbones
• Your own domain i.e.  www.joanconsulting.com (domain registration additional fee)
• Unlimited POP email accounts
• Unlimited email account aliasing
• Unlimited domain aliasing (multiple domain names pointing to single site)
• Excellent customer support
• Toll-free phone support during business hours
• Email support tech paging 24x7 for emergencies