ACTINIC BUSINESS PLUS v9

Key Features

• Simultaneous order processing on up to 10 networked PCs
• Simultaneous multi-user catalogue content management on multiple networked PCs.
• Flexibility to maintain your Catalog from any PC
• Manage multiple online stores with one licence
• All the power, flexibility and features of Actinic Business
  

Features in detail

Highlighted text * indicates features incremental to Actinic Business

Flexible Product Catalogue

• Explorer-style ‘drag and drop’ 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 options 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
• Simultaneous product catalogue updating on multiple networked PCs *
• Unlimited multiple site building and management from a single licence *

Customisable Store Design and Layout

• Use Wizards to help you set up your store; configure Actinic for your web space; change the site design; and set up product options.
• Full site customisation using an intuitive ‘point and click’ interface
• Multiple preview modes provide easy navigation and instant access to anypart 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 Vesions only)
• Advanced site deployment options (Multi-Site and Multi-User Vesions 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
• Product prices can be both entered and displayed exclusive or inclusive of tax
• 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
• Associate actions and dates with orders
• 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
• Single-page order entry form for 'phone, fax and mail orders
• Direct credit card payment processing for 'phone, fax and mail orders (requires YesPay account)
• Rearrange the fields in the Orders tab
• Order completion using barcode scanning
• Interface directly with Sage Line 50 and Quickbooks accounting systems to transfer orders and import product and customer data
• Interface directly to an Actinic EPOS application
• Enable multiple users to process orders from multiple PCs *
• Simultaneous processing of both online and offline orders on up to 9 (4 with Windows XP Home Edition) networked PCs *

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
• Create Also Bought lists to show products other shoppers have purchased
• 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
• Google Analytics integration provides comprehensive monitoring of site performance and ROI

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
• Postcode lookup on the web site for online orders
• Postcode lookup on the desktop for offline orders

Comprehensive Support

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

Hardware Requirements

Pentium PC running Windows Vista, XP Pro, 2003 or 2000; minimum 512MB memory. 100MB free disk space. Recommend 65536 colour display.

Network Requirements

100 Mbps or greater Local Area Network. Not recommended for use on a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or wireless solutions.

Multi-user requires access to a shared database. This database must be located on a shared drive that has 'Full Control' permissions available to all installations of Multi-user on the network.

Operating System and Environment

Windows 2000, 2003 or XP. Administrative access to the PC is required for all installations and operation of Multi-user. Internet access. Internet Explorer v5 (and higher).

To increase performance, Actinic recommends the shared database is stored on the machine that is used most frequently for accessing Multi-user, in particular the machine that is used to upload the site.

Each installation of Multi-user requires a separate licence key. Contact us for additional keys. No more than ten installations of Actinic Multi-user are recommended for performance reasons.

Web site

• NT or UNIX/Linux server
• Perl 5.004 or later; MD5 Perl module recommended
• user writeable CGI bin

Optional Bar Code Readers If Bar Codes Are To Be Used

Multi-user can be used with an optional bar code reader. Multi-user outputs letters read from the bar codes in uppercase only. The font used is ID Automation font at a size of 14pt. The bar code format is code 39.

The following models are recommended*

WASP 633808501051 Symbol Technologies LS 2208

The DataLogic DLC6065-MO is not recommended

*For the scanning of bar codes, a laser printer set to 360dpi or greater is recommended.

Additional Services

Actinic Cover - one year's 'phone support, free upgrades and other benefits
Actinic Hosting - specialist web hosting for your Actinic site
SSL - your own SSL certificate
Shared SSL - the golden padlock for all your customers

Note: please check for the last details regarding the software and requirements with us. Subject to updates and revisions.
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