StorePhront - Generation Two

• Affiliate Program
  • Track dollars amounts sold
  • Track on first sale to referred person or all sales
  • Affiliates can see their own stats in real-time
  • Automatically constructs 'how to' pages to tell affiliates how to code their links.
• Integrated Content Management
  • Build custom pages with simple text input
  • HTML can be used, but is not needed
  • Replace images across site directly from admin interface
  • Replace headers, footers, meta tags, and other content site-wide from simply interface
  • Re-order page elements without having to retype or cut/paste
• Easy Site Configuration
  • Install scripts autodetect settings
  • Powerful configuration tool let's you override all settings as needed
  • Install takes less than 5 minutes on a compatible webserver
  • Wizards guide you through configuration the most important parts of your site
  • Be up and selling in minutes, not days!
• FAST!
  • Engineered for speed
  • Customized caching engine speeds up content delivery
• Amazing Customization of Look and Feel
  • Integrated "theme" management
  • Pick an entire look and feel from a menu, then customize to fit
  • Themes are an open specification - download a third-party theme, or build your own
  • Customize color scheme from a menu
  • Customize all images
• Cart, wishlist functionality
  • Persistent carts for logged in users
  • Temporary carts for visiting users
  • Temporary carts automatically convert to permanent carts on login
  • Wishlists
  • Easy transfer back and forth between cart and wishlist
  • Wishlists searchable for gift-buying
  • Customers can set their wishlist to be searchable or not
• Many options for Checkout
  • PayPal with IPN automatic processing
  • Credit card processing with merchant accounts: authorize.net, IONGATE
  • Cart automatically prompts user regarding handling of out-of-stock items
    • Ship when all are available
    • Ship as they become available
    • Remove out-of-stock-items from cart
    • Move out-of-stock items to wishlist
    • Remove/Move options can do e-mail notifications when the item becomes available again
• Enterprise-Class Order Management Engine
  • Configurable and optional automatic customer notifications
    • Order confirmations
    • Payment processed notification
    • Refund notication
    • Order filled/complete notification
    • Order cancelled noticiation
  • Orders have many status settings; open, processing, cancelled, filled, backordered
  • Admins can alter all the parts of the order
    • Item prices and quantities
    • Payment information
    • Shipping and billing addresses
    • Tax and Shipping charges
    • Manually add coupons to an order
  • Process payments manually or through your Credit Card Payment Gateway
  • Split orders in two; can split partial quantities
• Coupon System
  • Flexible coupon system
  • Coupons can be assigned to users or claimable using a code
  • Restrict coupons by category, item, expiration date, minimum order
  • Apply dollar discounts, percentage discounts, free shipping
• Customer Rewards Program - Automatic system can reward frequent buyers
• Sales
  • Add sales by item, by category, or by groups you create
  • Specify discount percentages and expiration dates
  • Item displays show original price and sale price, along with sale expiration
• Tiered Category System
  • Create category trees with categories and subcategories
  • Categories can be arbitrary number of layers deep
  • A navigation bar shows your customer their position in your category tree to allow easy navigation up and down
  • Create 'hidden' categories that generate new menus from them
  • Prioritize order of category display
  • You can select categories for an item from the item menu, or items for a category from the category menu
• Item Management System
  • Use fixed pricing or dynamic markups based on cost
  • Specify infinite quantity on an item or track your quantities in real time
  • Quantities fluctuate when orders are placed or cancelled
  • Inventory adjustment system for reconciliation
  • Flags for clearance items (cannot be sold beyond quantity in stock)
  • Third party vendor notification for fulfillment requests
  • active/inactive flag can hide items
  • taxable flag
  • sku numbers
  • Item import/export to and from spreadsheet programs
  • Have multiple categories per item (so customers can shop by item type, by vendor, by theme, etc)
  • Related/Required items allow for easy upselling and cross-selling
  • Have items share a single image for very-similar items
  • Group items easily during browsing
    • Allows displaying many similar items as one
    • Allows separate tracking/reporting for each item while making it transparent to the customer
  • Grouped items: sell sets of items as a single group at a different price
  • Get low-stock notifications when a certain quantity is reached
  • Inventory/sales analysis to predict future sales or to identify slow-sellers for possible clearance.
    • Maximize your inventory turnover
• Dynamic Bestseller Tracking
  • Automatic generation of lists of bestselling items
  • Bestseller list can ignore or track based on quantity ordered per item
  • Related-items bestsellers ("People who bought this, also bought...")
• E-Delivery System
  • Allows automatic download priveleges after an order is paid for
  • Associate any number of files with any given item purchase
  • Associate a number of downloads or period of time access is permitted (or both)
  • Support for renewing subscriptions (requires optional Secure Credit Card option)
• Customer Contact Management
  • Automatic double-opt-in list management
  • Tracks who requested and confirmed any account; you have an audit trail
  • Supports different email list preferences (newsletter, specials, etc)
  • Emails can be sent directly from the web mailing interface.
  • Handles unsubscription/subscription automatically
  • Automates e-mail address change requests
• Search
  • Items are automatically searchable by name, description, or (optional) keywords
  • System provides more-relevant results first
  • Optionally set search results to order by purchase popularity
• Configurable Display - You have full control over the order categories appear, and the order items appear in categories.
• Gift Certificates - Build in support for gift certificates, claimable by number, and work just like cash!
• Community Package - Enhance your site with polls, a link database, and forums, all fully integrated in a single-sign-on fashion with the store.
• Stats - View your sales, gross profits, visitor counts, and referrals to your site at a glance in 7/15/30 day totals or in a month-by-month chart.
• Track Advertising Effectiveness - Track referral counts and sales to you from any source
• Scaleable - Powerful engine can handle thousands of daily sales and tens of thousands of daily visitors on a single server
• Environment Neutral - Available as both stand-alone software and a managed application. Go from shared server, to virtual dedicated server, to your own server farm, without ever changing applications or risking data loss.
• Extensible - Developer API allows for extensibility. Themes allow for easy and portable look and feel changes. Vertical-market specific add-ons can be plugged in in minutes.
  
  This is simply the best software you can get at any price, whether you're starting off and budget-conscious, or you're an E-commerce powerhouse and you need advanced features to increase sales.
  
  Demos are now available. http://demofarm.storephront.com
  
  View the verion feature list.
  
  Screenshots:
• The Admin View of the default 'Clean' theme
• The same site, converted to the Grey Scheme theme with one click
• A short of configuration manager showing some of the functionality toggles
• A view of the content manager, where you can create, edit, and delete custom pages on your site right through the web interface
  
  If you need this kind of power, you don't need to pay thousands of dollars. Email us for more information. We can get you started for $50/mo including hosting, and refer you to people who can offer site-building services that work with the software. If you need custom development, we have a wide array of rapidly-deployable objects that can be integrated into the store with very little time and cost.