This table provides a summary of the E-Commerce features new to version 7, broken down by application
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Actinic
Express |
Actinic
Catalog |
Actinic
Business |
Actinic
Developer |
| General Features |
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| Windows-based application |
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| Compatible with the majority of standard
commercial web servers |
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Quick Start Tutorial to guide through web store
creation process |
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Create multiple sites from the same application
without purchasing additional licence keys |
x |
x |
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Enable multiple users to process orders from
multiple PCs |
x |
x |
x |
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| PRODUCTS |
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| Support for up to 20,000 products |
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| Create links to external files or URLs |
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| Write questions for customers to answer online |
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Hide products and sections on the website if you
do not want customers to view items |
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| Specify the shipping weight of each product |
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Use a different layout for each product in the
store |
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Create pop-up windows containing
supplementary information about a product |
x |
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| Specify minimum and maximum order quantities |
x |
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| Create links to other products or sections in the
store |
x |
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| Create user definable fields |
x |
x |
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| Specify digital files for customers to
download after purchasing the product
online |
x |
x |
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| Hide products from selected groups of
customers |
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| Support for quantity-based discounting |
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| The ability to categorise products in order to
set specific data only on that type of product |
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| SECTIONS |
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| Unlimited depth of sections and sub-sections |
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| Manually set the filename of each section page |
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| Manually set the HTML page title of each page |
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Set different meta content for each section page
in the store |
x |
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| Each store page can look different |
x |
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Select how products are added to the cart by
editing the ‘shopping mode’ |
x |
x |
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Set up a section to add multiple products to the
shopping cart in one go. |
x |
x |
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Customise the layout of each page of section
links |
x |
x |
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Change the way your section links appear in
your online store |
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| PRODUCT CHOICES |
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Define a range of attributes and choices for each
product |
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Assign a different price to each choice or
combination of choices |
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Generate radio-buttons, drop downs or button
grids for choice selection |
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Define which combination of choices is valid or
invalid |
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Define additional components that are supplied
with your products |
x |
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Associate these components with products in
your store |
x |
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| Set components as optional or mandatory |
x |
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Allow components to inherit key properties of an
associated product |
x |
x |
x |
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Display additional components within their own
separate line in the online cart |
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| IMPORT / EXPORT |
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Export products to MS Excel or Actinic Catalog
and Business |
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Import products and sections from a CSV
spreadsheet file |
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Import more sophisticated store information via a
hierarchical import file |
x |
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Export products, sections, customers and
shipping tables as a text file |
x |
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Import customer account information via a
hierarchical import file |
x |
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Import products and customers from Sage Line
50 with Actinic Link |
x |
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| EXTERNAL LINKING |
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| Create accounts for your regular customers |
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x |
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| Display different products, store content and prices to different customer groups |
x |
x |
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| Shopping cart and payment |
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| Online shopping card |
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| Process credit card transactions online |
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| Take credit card numbers securely online via a shared SSL server |
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| Import / export and linking |
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| Export products to MS Excel, Actinic Catalog or Actinic Business |
x |
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| Import and export data |
x |
x |
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| Integrate with Sage Line 50 and Quickbooks |
x |
x |
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| Dynamically link products to an external database |
x |
x |
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