We realize that the features list is fairly long, so grab a cup of jo and stay here for a while.
An effective e-commerce shopping cart must provide a wide range of features to allow you to effectively manage your online business. If you don't see a feature that you need on this list, please contact us. Nearly 10,000 customer sites and over 5,000 developers are using AspDotNetStorefront.
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ML/64 |
ML/DNN |
IS eBusiness Edition |
| AspDotNetStorefront Price |
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$1495 |
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$1995 |
| ♦ Architecture support |
| x86 (32 bit OS support) |
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| ♦ General Features |
| Pricing Model, Reseller discounts available (click here) |
Per Site |
Per Site |
Per Portal |
Per Site |
| Store management |
Web Based |
Web Based |
Web Based
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Windows Smart Client |
| Provides complete web site solution, including shopping cart, content management, customer management etc... |
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| Fully Integrated with DotNetNuke platform |
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| Fully Integrated Accounting, CRM, ERP, Accounting, Point Of Sale (POS), E-Commerce |
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| Designed For Max Capacity |
Designed for Stores up to 250,000 Products |
Designed for Stores up to 250,000 Products |
Designed for Stores up to 250,000 Products |
Designed for Stores up to 250,000 Products |
| Host Types Supported |
Shared Server
VPS Server
Dedicated Server |
Shared Server
VPS Server
Dedicated Server |
Shared Server
VPS Server
Dedicated Server |
Dedicated Server |
| Up to 5,000 Content/HTML (topic) pages |
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| Dynamic data driven pages via XmlPackages |
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| *Source code option available (either C# or VB.NET) |
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| Installation Locales Supported |
Worldwide |
Worldwide |
Worldwide |
Worldwide |
| Database Schema Included |
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| Databases Supported |
MS SQL 2000
MS SQL 2005/
2005 Express |
MS SQL 2000
MS SQL 2005/
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MS SQL 2005/
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MS SQL 2000
MS SQL 2005 |
| ♦ Product Categorization Features |
| Up to 2000 Categories, Departments or Manufacturers |
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| Categories and Departments can also be fully nested to any level desired (e.g. sub-categories, sub-departments) |
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| Supports cross-matrix of products by category and department. E.g. a product can be mapped to the shoe category, in the women's department |
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| Products can be mapped to more than one category or department |
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| Paged browsing for categories and sections: Keeps page size small, and optimizes user experience. |
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| Category, Department, and Manufacturer "names" can be renamed (e.g. "Brochures", "Products", "Car Parts", whatever you need that is appropriate for your unique store site products). |
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| Disable buy buttons for specific products |
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| Supports Wholesale Only Sites (Prices not shown to general site customers) |
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| ♦ PayPal Features |
| PayPal Website Payments Pro |
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| PayPal Express Checkout |
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| PayPal (standard) |
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♦ Shipping Features |
| Calculate Shipping By Order Total |
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| Calculate Shipping By Order Weight |
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| Calculate Shipping By Order Weight & Zip code Zone |
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| Calculate Shipping By Order Total & Zip code Zone |
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| Calculate Shipping By Fixed Item Shipping Costs (e.g. Shipping Cost By Product) |
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| Calculate Shipping By Fixed Percent of Order Total |
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| Specify All Orders As Free Shipping |
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| Real Time Shipping Rates |
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| ♦ FedEx |
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| ♦ UPS |
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| ♦ DHL |
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| ♦ DHL International |
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| ♦ USPS |
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| ♦ Australia Post |
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| ♦ Canada Post |
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| Admin defined shipping methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day, Priority, etc) |
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| Real Time Shipping carriers can vary based on Domestic or International shipping address |
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| Filter Real Time Shipping Rates You Want To Allow |
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| Add Shipping & Handling Extra Fee To Orders |
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| Shipping Methods Verified Against User Addresses During Checkout (this avoids the ground shipping to Hawaii situations!) |
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| Shipping Tracking #'s e-mailed to Customers |
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Via 3rd Party Plug-In (optional) |
| Support for Download Products |
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| Support for "No Shipping Required" Products (e.g. services) |
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| Allow "Free shipping over $X" for site |
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| Batch Shipping Order Printing/Tracking Integration with UPS WorldShip and FedEx Shipping Mgr. |
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Via 3rd Party Plug-In (optional) |
| Multiple ship-to addresses per order (a customer on one order can ship some items to address A, and other items to address B) |
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| Mark Customer Levels/Profiles as free shipping (or tax exempt) |
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| ShipWire Interface Supported |
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| ♦ Bulk Product Import Features |
| From Xml File |
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| From Excel File |
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 Web Services Automation Interface (WSI). Allows automated import, export, data updates and synchronization. |
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| Event Notification callbacks to external Web Service which you register, on storefront events (e.g. new order created, customer created, etc). |
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| ♦ Gift Registry Features |
| Gift Registry Supported |
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| Gift Registry Can Be Anonymous (gift registry owner name and address is hidden) |
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| Gift Card Support (E-mail and Physical Gift Cards supported) |
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| ♦ Wish List Features |
| Customer Add To Wish List Supported (Persists over Customer Visits also) |
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| ♦ MaxMind Integration |
| Integration of invaluable industry leading MaxMind fraud prevention/scoring technologies. Requires separate service agreement with MaxMind.com. |
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| ♦ buySAFE Integration |
| Integration with buySAFE buyer protection service |
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♦ Multi-Lingual Features |
| (Multi-Lingual) Store site can support dynamic run-time language switching. Customer can select store language at run-time. Store administrator controls allowed languages. |
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| (Multi-Currency). Customer can select store currency to view at run-time. Allowed currencies are under control of store administrator. Support for various leading exchange rate feed suppliers will be supported (via XmlPackages). Sign-up for some exchange rate feeds is optional, through 3rd parties, and they may have fees associated with them (e.g. xe.com, x-rates.com, etc). |
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Price By Product
By Currency Supported |
| Store developer/admin has full control over all store site strings used (e.g. prompt used for SKU, Product, Color, Size, shopping cart, etc). Every string used in the storefront can be edited. |
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| ♦ Search Engine Features |
| EVERY product, category, and department page can have their own custom search engine meta tags (title, keywords, description, no script blocks, etc)... |
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| Static Product & Category Pages: Designed to allow search engines to fully crawl and index EVERY product & category page in your store. This can have a dramatic increase in site traffic from search engines. |
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| Google Xml Site Maps Supported: a direct Google search engine submission method sanctioned by Google |
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| Yahoo! Xml Site Maps Supported: a direct Yahoo! search engine submission method sanctioned by Yahoo! |
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| Fully dynamic page titles, and search engine meta-tags |
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| Google Analytics (Urchin) Site Metrics & E-Commerce Tracking Compatible |
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| ♦ Product Capabilities & Features |
| Support for 3 images sizes: icon, medium, large |
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| Auto Image Resizing |
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| Supports multiple images per product (icon, medium, and large) |
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| Support for swatch color image changing |
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| Automatic image watermarking for protection |
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| Image Galleries Supported |
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| "Zoomify" Images Supported (requires separate service from Zoomify.com) |
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| Donation Products (e.g. Customer Enters Price) |
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| Restrict product quantities to preset values (e.g. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, ...) |
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| Enforce product minimum order quantities (i.e. must order at least 10, etc). |
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| Recurring products can have varying intervals (days, weeks, months, years) |
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| Subscription based products & content access |
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| Downloadable products supported, with automatic e-mail to customer with download instructions |
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| Text options on products (e.g. require initials for monogrammed products, require text name for product customization, etc) |
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| Support for sizes & colors. All color/size site "prompts" can be customized in admin site, so you could rename those two options to have completely different meaning. |
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| Two Attributes Per Product (e.g. Size/Color) |
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| Inventory By Attribute (e.g. Size/Color) |
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| Price can vary by size/color option chosen |
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| Prices can vary by customer or customer level (group) |
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| Handles multi-store pricing on one database |
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| Connect multiple web sites to one database. |
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| Price can vary by attribute |
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| Sort products in any order desired |
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| Fully dynamic site map (optimized for search engines) |
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| Second tree-form dynamic site map (optimized for users) |
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| Support for simple products (e.g. a book) or products with variants |
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| Setup variants within each product |
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| Each variant can have a different price |
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| Each variant can have different attributes (e.g. size, color, etc) |
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| Each variant can require a text option input (e.g. monogram) |
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| Each variant can have a separate SKU modifier, and price, description, etc |
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| Tell store to locate product pictures by ID (icon, medium, large) |
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| Tell store to locate product pictures by SKU (icon, medium, large) |
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| Tell store to use Image Filename Override for pictures (icon, medium, large), Allows you to link to corporate image server or pre-existing images already available |
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| Support for sale prices |
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| Vary product prices for each customer level (e.g. wholesale/retail) |
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| Phone Order Entry Module |
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| Product Descriptions can include HTML formatting: We know that having complete control over each product description is important, and no two products are alike. You can use the administration site to enter product descriptions, or even link to fully custom external product description HTML files. Additionally, each product can have an inline or pop-up "specifications" window, providing more detail to the customer, without distracting them from making a purchase |
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| Support for Kits (build to order products). Kits can have dynamic pricing and component selection (e.g. build your own PC) and more specification as to what items can be added, whether they are required, etc... Kit Items cannot be ordered separately Other storefronts are charging nearly $1200 for adding a "build kit" feature on their storefronts. |
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| Support for Packs. A pack is a product with a fixed price that can hold up to N other arbitrary products. When the pack is full, it can be added to the cart and purchased. Pack items are products themselves, which could be ordered separately |
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| Disable buy buttons by product |
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| Set Site to Wholesale Only (Prices not shown to general site customers) |
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| ♦ Inventory Features |
| Inventory Tracking |
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| ERP class inventory tracking: FIFO, LIFO, Average Costing, Inventory Tracking, Multi-Warehouse, Drop-Ship, etc. |
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| Limit orders to quantity on hand inventory, or allow customers to place orders for items out of stock (admin configurable) |
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| Back-ordered product handling & order management |
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| Order Splitting and Editing (including split shipments from multiple warehouses) |
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| Inventory can go "negative" |
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| Manage Inventory by variant or attribute (e.g. size, color, etc) |
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| Show inventory on hand status on product page to customer (optional) |
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♦ Coupon Features |
| Order Based Coupons (apply to entire order) |
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| Product Specific Coupons (apply to only specified product) |
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| Coupon discounts by amount or percent |
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| Coupons can offer free shipping |
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| Coupons have expiration date |
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| Coupons can be marked as use once per customer, use once by only one customer, use N times,
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| Coupons requires minimum order amount before they are valid (e.g. save $10 if you order $100 or more, etc) |
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| Coupons can be excluded from sale products |
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| Customer specific coupons |
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♦ Skinning & Page Layout Customization |
| Free Skins Included |
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| You Can Design Custom Skins |
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| Completely customize the layout & appearance of any category, section, manufacturer, or product page using XmlPackages (XML/XSL rendering engine) |
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| User defined skin replacement tokens, topic tokens, AppConfig tokens, etc. (e.g. skin Regular Expression token parser) |
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| Initially design skins in Dreamweaver or Expressions Web |
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| Web form controls can be used within skin template user control |
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| Integrated support for ComponentArt horizontal menu, vertical menu, site map, and tree view navigational controls |
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| Skin Based UI Customization: Store site styles and web design can be completely customized by external HTML skin template and style sheets. See some of our sample client sites to see how different each store can look |
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| Change skins in real-time. You can conceivably have multiple skins for a single store if you need to. |
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| You can link to the cart "pages" from your existing site pages, or use the storefront to run your entire site |
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| Add page header/footer HTML blocks to cart page, and all checkout and order confirmation pages, to provide special notes/text specific to your store or business |
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| Use custom receipt formats & templates |
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| Use custom "your order has shipped" e-mail formats and templates |
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| Automatic e-mail notification to customer with receipt |
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| Receipt can be fully customized |
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| Receipt Formats Supported |
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PDF, MHT, XLS, TXT, RTF, HTML, CSV |
| Automatic e-mail notification to store admin of new order received |
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| Notification to Cell Phone of new order received |
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| Mini-Cart (optional small box on every page showing cart summary contents and checkout link) |
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| ♦ Customer Accounts |
| Customer can view Order History |
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| Customer has address book |
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| Customer one click re-order any prior order |
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| Multiple billing/shipping addresses per customer (similar to Amazon.com style checkout) |
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| Recurring orders (e.g. for auto ship products, subscription sites, monthly service type products, etc) |
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Recurring Gateway AutoBill Products Supported (gateway stores credit cards). Gateways supported for this feature are Authorize.net and PayPal Payflow Pro (used to be Verisign Payflow PRO)
This feature enables direct gateway recurring autobill processing, for Authorize.net and PayPal Payflow Pro (used to be Verisign Payflow PRO). This feature is used in combination with recurring or auto-ship products or subscription sites to perform repeated billing at specified intervals (daily, weekly, monthly, annually, etc). This feature expands on our prior support for recurring products, and eliminates the need to store credit cards on your storefront in order to do recurring products. With the new system, you do not have to store any credit card information, the gateways store them for you, and send billing status reports every day to the storefront, which then turns the approvals into new orders by customer.
This feature works nicely in combination with our subscription topic content protection, to enable subscription web sites providing data to customers during their subscription. It also works with recurring auto-bill types of sites, such as wine of the month club, etc. Any recurring product can be used with the new AutoBill gateway feature.
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| Skip account creation on checkout (Anonymous Checkout) |
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| "One Page" Checkout |
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| ♦ Payment Methods Supported (types of payment) |
| Credit Cards: Accept Credit Cards in Real Time: Cards can be processed & verified in real-time, or you can delay processing until a later time |
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| Check By Mail |
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| e-Checks (Authorize.net and Itransact gateways) |
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| MyECheck (added in ML v7.0.2.5) |
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| C.O.D. |
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| Purchase Order |
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| PayPal |
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| PayPal Express Checkout (see below for PayPal website Payments PRO) |
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| Request For Quote |
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| MicroPay (this is also referred to as a Purse). Customer can put money in an account, and then purchase against it, or add to their balance |
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| Gift Cards |
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Support for Verified By Visa/MasterCard Secure initiatives. Now, you can have the same fraud protection available to all retail stores. Eliminate your fraud liability. Guaranteed Payments. Reduce chargebacks by up to 70%. These authentication initiatives make Internet commerce safe and secure, for both buyers and sellers. Integrates directly with your Authorize.net, Verisign, Paymentech, or CyberSource payment gateways. Integration is seamless into the storefront for merchants, and easy to use for consumers. Click here for more information. Requires separate service from Cardinal Commerce. |
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| ♦ Payment Gateways Supported (see bottom for Verified By Visa/3D Secure Notes) |
| MANUAL Gateway (just collects order & payment information for offline processing) |
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| Authorize.net |
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| Bank Of America (via Cybersource) |
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| Central Payments |
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| Cardia Services (Norway) |
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| Chase Paymentech Salem and Orbital (Certified) |
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| CyberSource |
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| ECX QuickCommerce |
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| EFSNet |
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| eProcesssingNetwork |
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| eWay (Australia) |
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| eSELECT Plus (US, Moneris) |
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| eSELECT Plus (Canada, Moneris) |
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 Google Checkout |
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| IATS TicketMaster (Non Profit Gateway) |
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| iDeposit |
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| Innovative Merchant Services (QuickBooks QBMS) |
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| ITransact |
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| JetPay |
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| Merchant Anywhere |
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| Moneris eSELECT Plus (US) |
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| Moneris eSELECT Plus (Canada) |
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| MyECheck (added in ML v7.0.2.5) |
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| NetBilling |
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| OGONE Gateway |
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| Orbital.NET |
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| Paymentech Salem and Orbital Certified (Now Chase Paymentech) |
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| PayFuse |
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| PayJunction |
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| PayPal Website Payments Pro |
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| PayPal Express Checkout |
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| PayPal |
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| Pinnacle Payments |
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| PlugNPay |
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ProtX (U.K. Stores Only)  |
With 3D Secure |
With 3D Secure |
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| QuickBooks Merchant Services (Innovative) |
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| QuickBooks Batch Mode, Non Real Time (Requires T-HUB Add-On from Marketplace) |
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| QuickCommerce |
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| SecureNet |
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| S-InternetKasse (German Gateway), supported via our reseller in Germany |
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| Transaction Central (i.e. Merchant Anywhere) Gateway Supported |
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| USA ePay (certified) |
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