Actinic Ecommerce solutions for business

 
 
 
 
 

It's midnight. Your customers want to buy... With Actinic Catalog you can be open for business.

Feature Summary

  1. Key Features
  2. Actinic Catalog Features and Benefits
  3. Limited Version Available
  4. The Benefits Of Net Sales
  5. FREE Trial

Key Features

High value By keeping set-up costs to a minimum, Actinic software reduces business risk and releases valuable funds for the hosting, design and marketing services required to make an e-commerce site successful.
Secure Bank-approved 128-bit security and support of industry standards, such as SSL, provides peace of mind for both retailers and their customers. Meanwhile integration with payment gateways, such as NetBanx, WorldPay, Datacash, Secure Trading and Secpay provides a wide variety of options.
Easy to use Windows user-interfaces provide a familiar environment to designers and resellers. There are no clunky browser interfaces (except where appropriate), and client/server architectures means that there are no leased-lines or huge telephone bills.
Complete Actinic software integrates all elements of the business process, from site generation to the printing of invoices. Direct Order Delivery ensures that orders arrive at their destinations and not in a black hole in cyberspace.
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Actinic Catalog Features and Benefits

Actinic Catalog V6 full features list:

General Features

  • Windows-based user interface
  • Uses standard commercial Web space
  • Run multiple web stores from one PC
  • Upload and maintain store from one PC and process orders from another

Site design

  • IMPROVED: Choice of site themes
  • NEW: 'Colourising' feature
  • Theme manager enabling full custom design
  • Export and import of custom themes
  • Configuration wizard self-configures site to commercial Web space
  • NEW: Navigator guides through web store creation process
  • All fields and messages fully customisable
  • IMPROVED: Better support for installing on new servers

Product Entry

  • Supports 10,000 products with product images
  • Tree control with drag-and-drop manipulation
  • Unlimited depth of sections and sub-sections
  • NEW: Unlimited user-definable product attributes and components
  • NEW: Offline stock monitoring generates alerts to low stock levels and suppresses out of stock items
  • Import of product data via CSV files

Business settings

  • Vendor defined terms and conditions
  • Shipping charge calculations based on quantity, order value or weight
  • NEW: Separate handling charges
  • NEW: Pricing in any two currencies
  • Unlimited tax rates
  • IMPROVED: Automatic tax calculations based on geography
  • Display tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive prices, or both

Marketing and Promotion

  • Search-engine friendly
  • Up-sell using product bundling
  • Site referrer programme support
  • Which? Web Trader approved security
  • Accepted by leading portal sites

Site features

  • NEW: High speed searching on text and price using dynamic indexing
  • Site map
  • Support of frames

Order processing

  • Integral electronic shopping cart
  • NEW: Customers can receive email confirmation of order
  • NEW: Use of cookie to remember customer details
  • Offline order processing with full encryption of orders until downloaded to your PC
  • Email alert when a batch of orders is waiting
  • Manual adjustment of order details
  • NEW: Back-ordering enables processing and shipping of a single order as part orders
  • Print packing lists and invoices
  • Export orders as CSV file
  • Production of data entry reports and credit card schedule
  • Recording of payments and tracking against orders

Security and payment

  • All conventional currencies supported
  • Integrated, Java-based 128-bit encryption
  • Supports SSL
  • Supports all market-leading payment service providers
  • NEW: Comprehensive 'snapshot' site backup

Support

  • Comprehensive user guide and on-screen help, with full telephone technical support

Award winning

  • Voted best e-commerce solution by leading Internet and PC magazines.

Limited Version Available

Actinic Catalog LE hosts up to 25 products (RRP: £170 + VAT) and retains full product functionality. Upgradeable to the full version of Catalog.

Security and online payment

  • Optional online credit card processing
  • Integrated, bank approved security
  • Optional support for SSL (as an alternative to Actinic encryption)

Catalogue design options

  • Automatic calculation of delivery charges based on geography, weight, shipping method and other factors
  • Design flexibility including ability to produce web sites in languages other than English
  • Complete control over every message produced by the software at the web site
  • HTML design templates, including support for frames, with unique template 'colourise' feature
  • Automatic generation of buttons and drop-down lists for product variants and components
  • The ability to support a catalogue with a hierarchy of sections including optional generation of site maps and navigation links

Order processing

  • Data entry report for companies that wish to re-key orders into another system
  • Export orders option to interface Catalog into order processing systems
  • Payments can be recorded and tracked against orders
  • Back ordering facility allows shipping of a single order as part orders
  • Stock monitoring feature generates alerts on low stock levels and removes out of stock products
  • Online address book and 'Remember Me' feature
  • Versatility [PC vs Server article]
  • Ability to run multiple Catalog instances from a single PC
  • Ability to upload and maintain the catalogue from one PC and process orders on another
  • Pricing in any two currencies, comprehensive taxation options

Speed and ubiquity

  • Wide browser support, and simple operation with services such as Compuserve
  • Faster download time and a switch to Java only for Actinic encryption
  • Better support for installing on new servers
  • Enhanced proxy support
  • High speed indexed searching on products and price bands, including multiple words
  • The ability to support catalogues with up to 10,000 items

Visibility

  • Catalog sites are produced in static HTML and are viewable by search engines

Support

  • Comprehensive user guide and on-screen help, with full telephone technical support

Award winning

  • Voted best e-commerce solution by leading Internet and PC magazines.

The Benefits Of Net Sales

The Internet offers many benefits as a channel for sales and marketing. Probably the most well-publicised of these is that an Internet store is open for business 24 hours a day, 365 days-a-year in a global market with many millions of prospects.

There are other reasons why doing business on the Internet makes sense. Internet sales are less costly to fulfil; they do not tie up sales staff on the phone and automated order entry means there are fewer errors. Also you can process Internet sales efficiently at your convenience.

A number of big companies have already proved that the Internet is a healthy place to do business. However, the belief that Internet commerce is complex, expensive and insecure, still prevents other organisations from benefiting.

Actinic Catalog sweeps aside these obstacles, providing a simple solution which makes web sites pay.

 

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