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Data Center and Technical Features Information on our web servers, our technology platform and our connection to the Internet. - All our servers are Enterprise Class Compaq Proliant Quad Xeon Rack Mount Servers
- Our Disk sub-systems are Raid 5 - 72Gig Disk Arrays of 10K RPM 18.2Gig Hot Swap Drives
- We run Windows 2000 or Red Hat Linux Operating System
- MS SQL or MySQL database backends on all web sites
- Apache or IIS Web Servers
- The Cold Fusion Application Server runs the system
- All
our servers are housed in a Tier 1 24 hour manned data center with
redundant connections that guarantee 100% up time and unlimited
bandwidth.
System Features (top) All
of these features are managed using only your favorite web browser.
Login to your manager console and you’ll be able to perform the
following functions: - Company Information (Address, Phone Numbers, E-mail Address etc)
- Updating Your Password
– You can update your own password any time you want simply by entering
in your old password and choosing a new one. Confirm your new password
and its changed.
- E-mail Forwards Setup
– You can add your own email forwards simply by entering in the new
forward address you want – such as Info@Yourdomain.com and where you
want it to "Forward" to such as davesemail@cox.net and you’re done.
- Domain Registration Setup
– You can quickly register and add new domain names simply by checking
if its available and registering it. All our web sites come with a free
domain name registration.
- Dynamic Feedback Forms
– With our program you can quickly and easily create customer feedback
forms, just enter in the question you want on the form, what type of
answer you want – multiple choice, text box or select box and our
system does all the work. Change your forms whenever you want. Any info
sent back from the forms is automatically emailed to you.
- Join E-mail Lists
– We have a built in Email list manager, customers can join your email
lists and remove themselves at any time, you can also manually add
email addresses or remove email addresses from your lists.
- E-mail Reminder
– This is a service we offer to help you to capture email addresses,
when your customers use this service your web site will automatically
email them the reminder they have asked for – birthdays, important
meetings etc. Whenever somebody uses this service you capture their
email address for marketing purposes.
- Customer Profiles
– Whenever a customer buys something from your web site, our system
automatically creates a "Customer Profile" and emails the customer a
username and password so that they can login to your web site and check
the status of their order, review all prior purchases, update their
information and check how much money they have in their "Customer
Loyalty Program" They can also change their password.
- Secure "Members Only" or "B2B" Password Protected Area*
- We have a secure User Name / Password system within your web site
where you can flag products and sections of your web site for Members
Only – You can quickly and easily create users and passwords of who can
see what page as well as Flag Products that are only for sale to
"Members – Users that you have created passwords for". These products
will not show up for all visitors but will only appear after your
customers have Logged in. *You Administer the Login Accounts. Products
and/or Subpages are hidden until your customer has successfully logged
into your site. Customer Login is NOT the same as Members Only.
Managing Your Site (top) - Secure Password Protected Login – In order to manage your web site you must have a username and password to login.
- Adding, Renaming and Deleting of Pages
– Quickly and easily create new pages, rename pages and delete pages,
simply follow the on screen prompts to perform any of these functions.
- Choose the Order of Your Pages – You can modify the order in which your pages are displayed across the top of your web site and in your Site Map.
- Editing Page Content (Text & Pictures)
– With our easy to use WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) web page
editor you can format text, align text, bold, underline or italisize
your text, insert links, images and more, just follow the on screen
prompts.
- Dynamic Flash Headers
- Add your own messages to our dynamic flash headers, custom animations
and effects to match the theme. Upload your own flash or static headers
or just use ours.
- Image Library
- Manage all your images in one space, upload from your digital camera
or from the web, our libary shows you thumbnails, image size and lets
you add or delete images quickly and easily.
- Upload Your Pictures with only Your Web Browser (no FTP)
– Upload your pictures simply by clicking the Browse button in the
Image Library or page editing sections, locating the image on your
computer and quickly uploading to your image library. Once an image is
uploaded into your image library you can quickly and easily insert it
into any page on your web site.
- Turn On or Off Your Site Map
– Your site map is a text or drop down listing of all pages on your web
site, with our system you can have a text site map, a drop down site
map, both or not site map, simply choose which layout you want and hit
go.
- Turn On or Off Product Search
- Want to allow your customers to do text searches of all your products
at once – simply turn ON the product search, a text search box and a GO
graphic will appear on the top left portion of your web site allowing
your customers to search for your products.
- Manage Search results
– Want to control how many products are displayed, and how many
products are displayed per row, simply enter in the number of products
and the number per row and the system will now display exactly how you
specify.
- Turn On or Off Auto or Real Estate Listings Search
– Selling Real Estate or Cars, or products of these, don’t’ want the
listings searchable, simply turn on or off the search boxes.
- Select or Change Your Pages to a Specific Page Types
- Did you create your page as a regular web page but now want to add a
join email, feedback form or secure page? Simply change the "Page Type"
by clicking on the change page type link and you can recreate the whole
page as another type.
- Change Your Theme
– The theme is the look and feel of your site, we have more than 80
themes and more coming weekly, want to try something new, simply choose
a new theme and hit enter, 90 images, colors and styles will change
automatically, don’t worry, if somebody is shopping on your site during
your change, their shopping carts are saved and they might not even
know the difference. Change your theme monthly to keep your site fresh!
- Change Background Colors, Link Colors and more
– Want complete control over the colors within the theme, want to add a
background image or change your text colors, simply use our color
picker to try all the colors, find one you like and hit update.
- Upload Your Own Music/Sound Clips (WAV or MIDI)
– Always wondered how some web sites got sound – all our sites are
sound enabled, simply choose from one our default sounds or add your
own, you can even listen to the sounds before activating.
- Manage Your Meta Tags (Title, Keywords, Description)
– Getting ready for the search engines, want to control your key words
and meta tags, our system has a meta tag editor that automatically
creates all your keywords and titles, simply enter in your info and our
system will create all the tags automatically.
- Change Your Site's Resolution (640x480, 800x600 etc)
– Want your site to fill more or less of the browser?, think you should
be at a certain resolution, our dynamic resolution selector lets you
set and/or change your resolution whenever you want, simply choose one
and hit enter.
Online Site Promotion (top) - Direct Links to Top ADD URL sites
– We’ve created the list of all the search engines your site should be
on, simply follow the links to the sites and submit your site. Some
such as Yahoo charge a few to be listed, the only one we suggest paying
is Yahoo.
- Meta Tag Manager (Title, Keywords, Description, Author etc)
– Search engines organize and search their engines based on Key Words –
words that describe your service or product and your web sites Title,
using our tool you can quickly, easily and as often as you want, update
your search keywords and page titles.
- E-mail List Manager (Add/Delete E-mail Addresses and E-mail Groups etc)
– Manage all your customers and potential customers email addresses all
in one spot, know how many email addresses you have an even break down
your email addresses into groups such as customers and potential
customers – get creative, you can have as many lists as you want.
- Compose & Save Newsletters
– With this tool you can create and manage all your email topics, such
as your holiday sale, your spring sale and your members update email,
write it once and save it for reuse at your leisure.
- Send Newsletters to All or Specific Groups
– When you’re ready to do some marketing you can send your email
message to everybody all at once with a click of the mouse, send to
just specific groups or everybody. Send as often as you like but don’t
offend your customers as they may decide to remove themselves from your
list, you should only send email to customer once or twice a month at
most and give them a reason to read the email, a special offer or trial
is best.
E-Commerce Options (top) - Secure Checkout – All our servers use Verisign 1024 BIT ENCRYPTED Secure Keys ensuring that your transaction is done securely.
- Returning Customer Login
– As part of our customer profile we also store cookies on your buyers
computers, so your web site will immediately welcome them back by name
as a returning customer and Pre-Fill their customer info to save them
time. We don’t’ pre-fill any credit card info for security reasons.
- Add, Edit, Delete Products
– Quickly add your products, part number, Inventory quantity, price,
retail price – shows the amount they save buy buying online, add
related products – customers who bought this product also bough this
product – dynamic up-sell feature, add options to the product and even
pricing for options if needed. Edit the product at any time, change the
related products and set your inventory. Your web site will
automatically email you when your inventory gets low, and if you run
out of inventory our system will automatically display a sold out – or
call to backorder message for your visitors.
- Specify Page for Product to be Displayed
– Want to move your products around on the web site, no problem, you
can set what pages you want the product to appear on! Of course using
the product search feature will display the product no matter what page
it is on, unless you have flagged the product as a "password protected"
product, which means it does not exist unless you have logged in with a
username and password.
- Dynamic Resizing of Product Images
– Upload any size picture and our system will automatically size it to
as large as it can be but still display properly on the web site, our
system even creates three other images of the product image you upload
– one for the search results, one for the product detail, one for the
related products and one for the shopping cat contents page.
- Edit Products to be Displayed by Row and Page
– Control the results of your product search by number or products to
be displayed per row and number displayed per page before our system
automatically creates a list of product pages.
- Edit "Thank You" Message for E-mailed Receipt
– Your web site will automatically send out a receipt with a unique
invoice number / time and date stamp along with all the other important
information from the order, you can customize this email simply by
editing your "Thank you message"
- Setup Shipping by Flat Rate, Total Amount, Weight, Quantity or By Product
– Want to have different shipping schemes, no problem, charge by Item,
by weight, number of items, per product or flat rate, you can even mix
and max shipping methods and charges, unlimited number of shippers.
- Setup Multiple State's Tax Rates
– Need to charge sales tax in different states, no problem with our
program you can change a different tax rate in all 50 states, the
system then automatically calculates all sales tax on checkout.
- Customer Loyalty Program
– Want to setup a customer loyalty program, no problem its already
integrated, simply enter in a savings rate and our system will set
aside the % of money as an incentive for your customers to come back
and shop again, completely automated simply tell the system how much
rewards you want to give back and the system will auto debit the
percentage of savings on the next purchase.
- Select Credit Cards You Accept –
Setup and edit the credit cards you accept as payment, Visa,
MasterCard, American Express etc. simply choose the ones you accept and
they will automatically appear on your check out forms.
- Select & Configure Real-Time Processor (AuthorizeNet, Cybercash etc)
– Want to run the credit cards in real time, no problem, our systems
are fully and automatically integrated into all the top payment
gateways such as Link Point, Pay Pal, Authorize.net, Cybercash,
Iongate, Pay by Web, iBill and more.
- Select Required Fields
– Configure your own required fields, make any field optional or
mandatory, our system will automatically create the pop up boxes
telling your customers which fields they must fill in and which ones
they can skip.
- Add B2B/Member Only Products (Accessible Only by Logging In*)
– You can hide sections of your web site and some products from normal
visitors and restrict them to Members of your web site – for example
you can sell Wholesale AND Retail from the same web site.
- *You Administer the Login Accounts
– Quickly and easily manage all your users and passwords simply by
typing in names and passwords. Restrict or grant access with no
problems.
- Built-in Affiliate Program (Manage Accounts, Upload Banners etc)
– Want to create an affiliate network and pay people to send customers
to you. No problem, simply add the Affiliate Sub System, tell the
system how much you are going to pay affiliates, upload a banner that
your affiliates can put on their web site and our system does the rest,
automated signup and link creation. You can check on all your
affiliates, how much traffic and sales their driving to you and they
can do the same with their password protected login.
Statistics and Customers (top) - View Visitors per Month, Week, Day or Hour
– Want to know who is visiting your site, where they came from, what
they did when they were there? How much time did they spend? Our real
time tracking system gives you all this information and more 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week, easy to read graphs and data.
- 1st Hit records the Date, Time, Operating System, IP Address and Referrer
- Logs include the above plus Time Spent on Site and Pages Viewed
- View
Orders by New, Pending, Archived etc – View orders by status, customer,
date etc. print them out or manage them on screen its up to you.
- Change Status of Order – Update and archive orders for easy retrieval.
- Enter and Send Out Tracking # - Automatically send out tracking numbers and "We’ve shipped your product" emails.
- View # of Sales for the Month or Day – View sales by day, week, month etc. quick and easy graphs.
- Read, Respond and Archive Submitted Forms
– Our dynamic form management system not only emails you the results of
any forms submitted on your site but it even keeps a record of them so
you can make notes, revisit them and archive all communications from
your customers.
- View and Edit Customer Database
– Sort all your customers by number of sales, dollar value of their
orders, view, edit and manage all their information, view entire
transaction history and actual invoices from the tranactions.
Additional Features (top) - Multi-Language Manager Console
– Our tools are currently available in 8 languages – English, Spanish,
French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and German. We are working
on our language system and will soon have our system available in every
major language.
- Multi-Language Themes
– The system will accept any language but we even have graphic themes
in several languages including: English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and
French.
- LOGOFF Button
– Think somebody might access your computer to get to your manager
console? Simply logoff and force anyone getting on your computer to
re-login to access your manager console.
- Online Help, Live Chat, Email Support, Phone Support
– All of our sites come with an online help system to show you how to
manage the sites and use all of these features, need more help? No
program our highly trained tech support people are here to help you.
- Link to Preview Site – Preview your site at any time right from your manager console, simply click on the link to preview your site.
- Dynamically Pass the ID from Page to Page (more info required) – Create internal links while still maintaining the session varibles.
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