General Functionality

• Object oriented back-end (MS3)
• Completely multilingual with English, German and Spanish (more languages will be added in the future).
• User Modifiable Interface - allows full control over adding products, categories and images.

Administration / Back-end Functionality

• Supports unlimited products and categories
  • Products-to-categories structure
  • Categories-to-categories structure
• Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, vendors, customers and product reviews
• Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
• Administration area secured with a username and password
• Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
• Easily backup and restore the database
• Print invoices and packing slips from the order screen
• Statistics for products and customers
• Multilingual support
• Multicurrency support
  • Automatically update currency exchange rates
• Select what to display, and in what order, in the product catalog page
• Support for static and dynamic ad banners with full statistics (so you can offer advertising banners on your website for a fee in addition to adding your own)

Customer / Front-end Functionality

• All orders stored in an individual MySQL database for fast and efficient retrieval
• Customers can view their order history and order status
• Customers can maintain their own accounts
  • Address book for multiple shipping and billing addresses
• Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
• Optional integration with our website internal search engine with advanced search features
• Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience
• Forseen 'smart' checkout procedure (based on previous customer order history)
• Secure transactions with SSL (included with your web hosting services)
• Number of products available in each category can be displayed or hidden
• Global and per category 'bestseller' lists
• Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown
• 'Breadcrumb' trail for easy site navigation

Product Functionality

• Dynamic product attributes relationship
• HTML based product descriptions
• Automated display of specials
• Control over whether out of stock products can still be displayed and/or still available for purchase
• Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters

Payment Functionality

• Accepts offline payment processing (check, money orders, offline credit care processing)
• Accepts online payment processing (2CheckOut, PayPal, CSI, NOVA, Authorize.net, iPayment, etc.)
• Disable certain payment services based on a zone (say... if you want to not allow payments with International credit cards for instance)

Shipping Functionality

• Weight, price and destination based shipping module
• Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx)
• Free shipping option based on amount and destination (this is the number one reason why more and more people are shopping online - it levels the playing field with shopping malls)
• Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis (if you only want to use.. say... UPS to ship to.. say.. Pocatello, Idaho)

Tax Functionality

• Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis
• Set different tax rates for different products
• Charge tax on shipping on a per shipping service basis