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Key Benefits
High value:
with its low cost of investment, Actinic Catalog
reduces business risk and releases funds for the
hosting, design and marketing services required
to make an e-commerce site successful.
Secure:
integrated bank-approved 128-bit security.
Alternatively, supports SSL and integrates with
market leading payment gateways for real time
credit card processing. Security approved by
Which? WebTrader and leading shopping portals.
Easy to use:
Windows user-interface provides a familiar
environment. Updates are made easily from your
PC and customer data is always available. There
are no monthly rental charges for your software,
and no price increases for additional products.
Complete:
integrates all elements of the business process,
from site generation to the printing of
invoices. Direct Order Delivery ensures that
orders arrive at their destinations and not in a
black hole in cyberspace.
 RRP:
£349 + VAT
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full
list of features below:
General
Features
- Windows-based
user interface
- Uses
standard commercial Web space
- Run
multiple web stores from one PC
- Upload
and maintain store from one PC and
process orders from another
Site
design
- IMPROVED:
Choice of site themes
- NEW: 'Colourising'
feature
- Theme
manager enabling full custom design
- Export
and import of custom themes
- Configuration
wizard self-configures site to
commercial Web space
- NEW:
Navigator guides through web store
creation process
- All
fields and messages fully customisable
- IMPROVED:
Better support for installing on new
servers
Product
Entry
- Supports
10,000 products with product images
- Tree
control with drag-and-drop
manipulation
- Unlimited
depth of sections and sub-sections
- NEW:
Unlimited user-definable product
attributes and components
- NEW:
Offline stock monitoring generates
alerts to low stock levels and
suppresses out of stock items
- Import
of product data via CSV files
Business
settings
- Vendor
defined terms and conditions
- Shipping
charge calculations based on quantity,
order value or weight
- NEW:
Separate handling charges
- NEW:
Pricing in any two currencies
- Unlimited
tax rates
- IMPROVED:
Automatic tax calculations based on
geography
- Display
tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive prices,
or both
Marketing
and Promotion
- Search-engine
friendly
- Up-sell
using product bundling
- Site
referrer programme support
- Which?
Web Trader approved security
- Accepted
by leading portal sites
Site
features
- NEW:
High speed searching on text and price
using dynamic indexing
- Site
map
- Support
of frames
Order
processing
- Integral
electronic shopping cart
- NEW:
Customers can receive email
confirmation of order
- NEW:
Use of cookie to remember customer
details
- Offline
order processing with full encryption
of orders until downloaded to your PC
- Email
alert when a batch of orders is
waiting
- Manual
adjustment of order details
- NEW:
Back-ordering enables processing and
shipping of a single order as part
orders
- Print
packing lists and invoices
- Export
orders as CSV file
- Production
of data entry reports and credit card
schedule
- Recording
of payments and tracking against
orders
Security
and payment
- All
conventional currencies supported
- Integrated,
Java-based 128-bit encryption
- Supports
SSL
- Supports
all market-leading
payment
service providers
- NEW:
Comprehensive 'snapshot' site backup
Support
- Comprehensive
user guide and on-screen help, with
full telephone technical support
Award
winning
- Voted
best e-commerce solution by leading
Internet and PC magazines.
Limited
version available
- Actinic
Catalog LE hosts up to 25 products (£150
+ VAT) and retains full product
functionality. Upgradeable to the full
version of Catalog.
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Security
and online payment
- Optional
online credit card processing
- Integrated,
bank approved security
- Optional
support for SSL (as an alternative to
Actinic encryption)
Catalogue
design options
- Automatic
calculation of delivery charges based
on geography, weight, shipping method
and other factors
- Design
flexibility including ability to
produce web sites in languages other
than English
- Complete
control over every message produced by
the software at the web site
- HTML
design templates, including support
for frames, with unique template 'colourise'
feature
- Automatic
generation of buttons and drop-down
lists for product variants and
components
- The
ability to support a catalogue with a
hierarchy of sections including
optional generation of site maps and
navigation links
Order
processing
- Data
entry report for companies that wish
to re-key orders into another system
- Export
orders option to interface Catalog
into order processing systems
- Payments
can be recorded and tracked against
orders
- Back
ordering facility allows shipping of a
single order as part orders
- Stock
monitoring feature generates alerts on
low stock levels and removes out of
stock products
- Online
address book and 'Remember Me' feature
- Ability
to run multiple Catalog instances from
a single PC
- Ability
to upload and maintain the catalogue
from one PC and process orders on
another
- Pricing
in any two currencies, comprehensive
taxation options
Speed
and ubiquity
- Wide
browser support, and simple operation
with services such as Compuserve
- Faster
download time and a switch to Java
only for Actinic encryption
- Better
support for installing on new servers
- Enhanced
proxy support
- High
speed indexed searching on products
and price bands, including multiple
words
- The
ability to support catalogues with up
to 10,000 items
Visibility
- Catalog
sites are produced in static HTML and
are viewable by search engines
Support
- Comprehensive
user guide and on-screen help, with
full telephone technical support
Award
winning
- Voted
best e-commerce solution by leading
Internet and PC magazines.
Limited
version available
- Actinic
Catalog LE hosts up to 25 products and
retains full product functionality.
Upgradeable to the full version of
Catalog.
Minimum
system requirements:
Vendor
PC: Pentium
PC running Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT4;
minimum 32MB memory, 64MB preferred; 60MB
free disk space; recommend 65536 colour
display; Internet access |
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Xhost are pleased to announce
it's support for Actinic Catalog on all it's hosting plans. As an
easy to use, entry level E-Commerce system, Actinic catalog is the
ideal solution for your web shop.