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ACTINIC CATALOG v9

Actinic Catalog® is the most comprehensive low-cost ecommerce package available today. It includes everything a smalActinic Catalog l 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.

Price £399 (excluding VAT)

Choose the Digital Delivery option to receive your software digitally and your licence key by email, and save shipping charges of £10 (UK orders) or £50 (overseas orders)

Key Features

  • Easy to use and intuitive Windows interface.
  • Complete design and layout flexibility to create your own unique, customised store.
  • Sophisticated marketing, merchandising and customer management functionality, including advanced discounting features and customer specific pricing to build loyalty and assist in growing your online business.
  • Extensive store management functionality including order processing features to maximise productivity in a high-volume order environment
  • Flexible product catalogue supports up to 20,000 products including digital products.
  • Multi-site and multi-user upgrade (Actinic Business Plus) for high volume and multiple sites.
  • Integration with accounting and back-office systems to enhance productivity.
  • Independence to integrate with all the leading online payment gateways and commercial hosting providers.

Features in detail

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

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
  • Direct credit card payment processing for 'phone, fax and mail orders (requires Actinic Payments account; available mid-April)

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
  • Google Analytics integration provides comprehensive monitoring of site performance and ROI (requires free Google Account)

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 Anywhere account required - annual fee applies)

Comprehensive Support

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

Minimum System Requirements


Vendor PC

  • Windows XP (service pack 2) or Vista
  • 1GB RAM (2GB for Vista)
  • Minimum 1 GHz processor recommended (2 GHz or faster for sites with over 5000 products)
  • Internet Explorer 6
  • 120MB available hard disk space

Web site

  • Windows, UNIX, or Linux Server
  • Perl 5.004 or later (MD5 Perl module recommended)
  • User-writable CGI bin
  • Min. 20MB process memory recommended

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