The software package we utilise is an Open Source program, very well respected, fully featured and used by thousands of businesses worldwide.

eCommerce Shopping Cart Program provides:

Customers: (often called the Front End)

• All orders are stored in the sites database for fast and efficient retrieval
• Customers can view their order history and the status of their orders
• Customers can interact and maintain their own accounts
• Address book available for multiple shipping and billing addresses 
  (Perfect for sending someone that "special" gift)
• Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
• Fast and friendly quick search facility plus advanced search features facility
• Product reviews can be left and viewed for an interactive shopping experience
• Simple easy to follow checkout procedure
• Secure transactions with SSL
• Number of products in each category can be shown or hidden
• Size chart section
• Shipping section with local (Australian) and International charges
• Printable Catalogue (please note this is quite large)
• Global bestseller lists
• Category bestseller lists
• Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown
• Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation and backtracking
• Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default

Products:

• Dynamic product attributes relationship
• HTML can be used to enhance the product descriptions (HTML knowledge not necessary - we provide tutorials in HTML if required)
• Automated display of specials
• Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase
• Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters

Administration: (Often called the Back End)

• Easy to use browser based interface (control your store through your web browser)
• Supports unlimited categories and products
• Add, edit or remove categories
• Add, edit or remove products
• Descriptions
• Colours
• Sizes
• Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
• Add, edit, remove manufacturers
• Add, edit, remove customers
• Add, edit, remove reviews
• Support for physical (shippable) products and virtual (downloadable) products like your catalogue
• Secure Administration area
• Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
• Easily backup and restore the database
• Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
• Statistics for products and customers
• Multilingual support
• Multi-currency support
• The site currently has AUD, US, EURO
• Automatically update currency exchange rates
• Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics
• Backup to your web space or backup to your computer
• Bonus - E-way installed (You can use this is you have a merchant account with your bank)
• Paymate Installed (Australian online payment system like Pay Pal)
• Pay Pal Installed
• Australian Currency (You can easily update this daily from the admin section)
  Commonwealth Bank module installed (You need a SSL certificate for secure transactions)
• ANZ Bank module installed (You need a SSL certificate for secure transactions)
• Bpay module installed (You need a SSL certificate for secure transactions)
  Australian Bank Transfer Installed (Gives customers BSB and bank account number)

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