StoreFront Features

Developer:	StoreFront.net
License:	Free Demo
User Rating:	(3 votes)
Official Website:	www.storefront.net
Platform:	Web-based

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StoreFront is a flexible, feature-rich shopping cart software. StoreFront is a product of StoreFront.net. The software provides solutions for user to build storefront, manage product and inventory, process order, market and promote their store, manage store, and much more. User can view the demo of StoreFront from this shopping cart software website.

StoreFront has eight main features: Store Building, Product Management, Order Processing, Marketing and Promotions, Shopper, Store Management, Superior Services and Support, and Developers.

Store Building Highlight Features:

• Store Designs – Offers flexible design options, include web design templates, complete store design services by StoreFront’s team of professional designers, and easy to use tools to allow user to create their own design.
• HTML Editor – User can create custom pages with the built-in HTML editor.
• Secure Online Operations – Ensures the security of customer and business data using StoreFront’s sophisticated support for SSL and credit card encoding.
• Advanced Encryption – Comes with industry leading Triple DES encryption offers state-of-the-art encryption technology to protect the integrity of credit card data.

Product Management Highlight Features:

• Unlimited Number of Products – User can catalog a virtually unlimited number of products. Shoppers can browse product pages or use the advanced search utility to find specific items.
• Product Import and Batch Update Utility – Lets user add products to a web store or complete batch updates by simply importing data from an existing database or delimited file.
• Catalog and Product Page Templates – Lets user choose from a number of fully customizable templates without having to modify the html.
• Unlimited Categories & Sub-Categories – User can build unlimited levels of categories and subcategories so that they can easily manage products and support drill down product searches.
• Price and Weight Sensitive Product Attributes – Lets user easily manage product and shipping costs for product attributes, such as size.
• Customer Defined Attributes – Provides shoppers with a field to input product specific special instructions or information.
• Inventory Tracking With Backorder – Allow user to keep track of inventory and communicate that to customers.

Order Processing Highlight Features:

• Integrated Shipment Tracking – Tracking information is pulled real-time from the shipper and displayed on user’s site for their customer. Lets user provide customers with the ease of tracking shipments without having to leave the site.
• Automated Tax Calculations – Local, state/province, and country tax region options can be used to calculate Tax rates during checkout.
• Real Time Shipping Rates – Gets accurate shipping costs real time from leading carriers, including UPS, FedEx, USPS, and CanadaPost. Customers can shop prices from a list of supported methods and choose an option that meets their timeline and budget. Merchants can also figure shipping costs based on the order total or products ordered.
• Multiple Payment Options – Lets user accept electronic checks, purchase orders, COD, credit card, and phone/fax orders.
• Download Delivery – Offers user automated delivery of soft goods, such as music, software, graphics, etc. User can specify when the download is made available and for how long.
• eCommerce Dropship Integration – Generates an e-mail to the shipper/vendor when an order is placed to ensure seamless communication and quick fulfillment.

Marketing and Promotion Highlight Features:

• Price Levels – Offers alternative pricing for particular customers/resellers.
• Clearance Pricing – Helps manage supply and generate revenue.
• URL Rewriter – Improves user’s search-engine results by dynamically changing their URLs.
• Google Analytics – Lets user understand where their site traffic is going, improve conversion rates and increase the amount of time on the site with Google Analytics. Google
• Search Engine Submission – Lets user type in the site-specific key words, meta-tags and descriptions, and StoreFront will automatically place them on user’s web store pages.
• E-Coupons – Lets user specify when and how the coupon will expire and what items the coupon can be applied to.
• E-Coupon Code Tracking – User can determine which marketing efforts have been the most successful by tracking coupon codes.
• Product or Storewide Sales – User can launch sales for specific products, product categories, vendors or manufacturers or implement a storewide sale.
• Extended Affiliate Programs – Lets user build referral sales with StoreFront’s fully automated affiliate program. Powerful affiliate management tools allow affiliates to securely track referral sales.
• Suggested Selling – User can link add-on products to customers’ choices several times during the buying process.
• Cross Selling (Related Items) – User can encourage add-on sales by displaying related item/services at the bottom of product detail pages.
• Quantuty Discounts (Volume Pricing) – User can promote bulk purchases by offering quantity discounts to customers.

Shopper Highlight Features:

• Dynamic Imaging Suite – Improves customer satisfaction and relieve uncertainty by providing detailed, accurate product images. Customers also can view product details by using the zoom feature. Images change automatically when a particular color or pattern (thumb nail image) is chosen.
• Shopping Cart Thumbnail with Attribute Image – Customers will see a thumbnail image of exactly what they ordered, eliminating doubt or confusion.
• Anonymous Check-Out Option – Lets customers buy without having to sign-in.
• Simple Search Utility – Lets shoppers search for items from any page.
• Site Search Page Filters – Allows customers to quickly search for a particular need; reveals available items.
• Running Cart Total – Lets customers keep track of their order with a cart summary on every page.
• Customer Address Book – Shoppers can store an unlimited number of addresses in a personal address book.
• Multiple Ship-to Addresses – A customer can do holiday shopping and send gifts to multiple people within in a single order.
• Wish Lists – Allows customers to add items to a wish list and e-mail that list to friends and family. A great tool for holiday, wedding or special occasion shopping.
• E-Mail to a Friend – Drives site traffic by giving shoppers the ability to email product information to a friend or associate.
• Gift Wrap – Shoppers can choose to have items gift wrapped when checkout out.
• Gift Messages – Personalized message can be associated with a gift item.
• Gift Certificates – Lets web stores accept gift certificates as payment. Any leftover amount can be saved for later.
• Customer-Specific Pricing – Allows user to set up multiple tiered pricing specific to classes of customers, allowing “frequent shopper” programs or multi-level distribution systems.

Store Management Highlight Features:

• Sales Reports – User can monitor sales activity using detailed sales reporting tools. Generate sales summary, sales detail and product sales reports.
• Order Fulfillment – User can manage incoming orders with StoreFront’s order fulfillment tools. They can track which orders have been paid and/or shipped, print packing slips, and enter shipping tracking numbers.
• Merchant Tools with User Accounts – Lets user easily update product information, run sales, and manage store settings through a set of web based store administration tools. User can can even extend permission levels across your organization to alter price, add promotions, etc.
• E-Mail Confirmations – Merchants and shoppers receive instant e-mail notification when an order has been placed. User can customize the content, add images, etc to their confirmation e-mails.
• QuickBooks Integration – Lets user automatically extract orders and customer data into QuickBooks.

Superior Services and Support Highlight Features:

• Personal E-Business Consultant – The experienced online business analysts will offer oversight of user’s order and provide insight and assistance.
• Payment Processing with Authorize.Net – Built on the industry leading Authorize.Net Payment Gateway; StoreFront can help user accept credit card and electronic check payments quickly and affordably.
• Support Services – Has live support via phone, e-mail, and live chat.

Developers Highlight Features:

• Visual Studio .NET Project – Lets user customize business logic and more with the full Visual Studio .NET project files.
• Developer APIs – The published interfaces for modules such as shipping, tax, inventory, order tracking, etc. allow for full customization of the StoreFront application.
• Technology Platform – ASP.NET – The newest web development language pioneered by Microsoft. Building on-line stores in .Net increases performance and gives you the framework for a more robust, extensible web application.
• Access or SQL Server Database Support – In addition to support for Microsoft Access, StoreFront provides full support for a robust, high performance SQL Server backend.

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