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Shopping Cart Features:Product Options allow your customers to make choices when adding an item to their cart. You can use them for:
- Simple choices like "size" or "color"
- Gather text for engravings, gift cards, etc
- Completely customize an item (such as a computer system)
- Add optional extra items
- Options can be shown in storefront as text, text area, select, radio, and checkbox fields.
- Options can be marked as required (customer must choose an option in order to purchase item)
- Options can alter the price and weight of a product (add or subtract)
- Options can also set the price of an item (example: A recording offered on DVD for $19.95, or VHS for $14.95.)
- WebNet Interactive can add a link that will open a popup detail page describing an option, and it's choices. If you add images for your choices, they will appear in this page. It's a great way to show detailed information describing the option and it's choices.
- Our inventory control feature allows you to track your stock at the option level
Discounts
You can create just about any kind of discount you can come up with using our Discount feature and condition system.
- Apply discounts to 1 or more products, categories, or the entire order
- Discount can set, reduce, (or even increase) the price
- Quantity based discounts
- "Buy 2 get 1 free" type discounts
- Discounts can be applied to an order based on any combination of the following conditions: - Coupon Code
- You can combine the conditions above into complex formulas to fine tune your discounts. For example: offer discount when (Date is between 10/15/2006 - 11/15/2006 AND Product total is more than $50.00) OR Coupon Code is "ABGT5S29"
- Advertise your discounts on a product page
- Display discounts that customer is receiving below checkout form OR as a popup page.
- Date
- Number of products in order
- Ship to country or state/province
- Order product total
- Order weight total
- Number of a specific product in cart
- Number of products from a specific category
- Group membership
Storefront Components
There are too many features in the storefront to list them all there. This is a small subset of some of the components you'll find in the default storefront page.
- Product Catalog navigation block - displays categories for browsing.
- Account Options navigation block - when logged in, displays options for the customer. When logged out, displays the login form. User accounts can be configured so they are required, optional, or not present at all.
- Cart navigation block - displays break down of items currently in the cart
- Best Sellers navigation block - optionally display top ten items on homepage
- Category Preview navigation block - this is shown when you are viewing a product. It is a preview of other items in the category you currently are viewing. In the example, the category preview is seen on the right hand side of the page.
- Best Selling Item - optionally displayed on homepage
- Indicate products are new
- Display subset of new products on your homepage
- Simple and Advanced Search
- Keep track of your stock, for your products AND product options
- Fine control over what your customers see when an item is out of stock: - Display item as out of stock, and allow customer to purchase it
- Display item as out of stock, and do not allow customer to purchase it
- Display item normally, and allow customer to purchase it
- Do not display item
Completely Database Driven
- Customers, Products, Categories, Store Settings, Shipping Options, Payment Methods, and Orders are all stored in an fast and efficient MySQL database.
- Backup tool in control panel to backup your database
- DB History tool in control panel - to show changes made to your database during upgrades
- Query tool in control panel for direct queries (recommended for advanced users)
Email Features
- Email order confirmation to customer.
- Email order notification to merchant.
- Emails can be sent in both HTML and text format
- Customers can choose their email format preference
Shipping Features
- FedEx® Compatible - Lighthouse Development has completed the FedEx® Compatible Solutions Program. WebNet Interactive is certified to work with FedEx®. Click here for full details. - There is no additional fee to use the FedEx® tools
- UPS On-Line® Tools Built In. Click here for full details. - Your customers can track their packages in your store front
- USPS Web Tools - your customers can get live USPS rates from USPS.com without leaving your site
- Custom Shipping Couriers and Methods can be added
- Shipping is rule based, which allows you to offer 1 or more shipping methods, based on: - Weight of order
- Signing up is quick and easy through WebNet Interactive's control panel
- Customers can obtain live rate information for shipments during checkout
- Merchants can submit shipments directly to FedEx from WebNet Interactive's control panel
- Print labels for shipments directly from WebNet Interactive
- When a shipment is submitted, an email is automatically sent to the customer with
information to track the package.
- Customers and merchants can track shipments
- You can track packages in the administration interface
- Your customers can get Rates and Services selections via UPS in your store front
- You can get Rates and Services selections in the administration interface.
- Cost of order
- Number of items in order
- Country, State, or City order is shipping to
- State / Province based tax calculations - specify which states you charge tax in, and percentages associated with them
- Specify whether or not to tax products at the category, or individual product level
- VAT support for all 25 EU member states.
- Specify whether or not to tax products at the category, or individual product level
- Specify which rate type should be charged for a given product or category
- Support for VAT exemption - to allow exempt companies to not be charged VAT by entering their company name and VAT registration number at checkout.
- VAT registration number format validation - to ensure that the VAT registration number entered is formatted correctly
- Customers can view their order history in detail
- Merchant can specify status of order in control panel
- Merchant can customize entries for order status
- Order statistics - displays total number and amount of orders in admin interface
- Supports Secure Socket Layer. SSL is a communications protocol that enables WebNet Interactive to send order information in a secure manner to the payment gateway you are using.
- Information the cart needs in order to maintain the flow of the application is temporarily stored on the web server using sessions, not using cookies.
- Minimum username and password length is customizable User Friendly, Intuitive Administration Interface
- WebNet Interactive's back end administration section has been designed for ease of use. We have emulated the feel of a desktop application, to help ease the merchant into learning the details of the cart. Navigation is done via drop down menus that are very similar to those seen in non web-based applications. Many of the field names listed on the records in the DB are links that you can click on to get help for the particular field you are altering.
- Credit Card
- Electronic Check
- Check
- Money Order
- Custom

