Features

Store Design

Unlimited number and level of categories	×
Feature articles for creating site content pages	×
Categorize your features to create an online magazine!	×
Products, features and subcategories at any level
Create custom palettes and layouts that can be used for category or store pages	×
Use of style sheets for even more design control
Edit and add store content pages and custom menus	×
Wide variety of custom tags you can easily use in your layouts for menus, shopping cart summary, store discounts, etc.
Create custom page templates (for more advanced users)	×

Product Management

Unlimited number of products
Unlimited number of product options (selections)
Assign products to multiple categories
Options can adjust product price, weight, SKU and number in stock	×
Product addons for additional items that can be added or entered for a product	×
Can create an addon that calculates price separate from product quantity (perfect for setup fees!)	×
Addons can adjust product price and weight	×
Turn addons, options or option choices on and off
Automatic display of price with option or addon	×
Can make an option or addon required or not	×
Create standard options and addons to use with multiple products	×
Optional layouts for products and options	×
Mark products as "New", "On Sale" or "Hot"	×
Assign product to a manufacturer, and display their logo on the product detail page	×
Assign product to a vendor for drop-shipping	×
Inventory control available to remove products from store if out-of-stock or allow backorders to be placed	×
Require a minimum quantity purchase of a product	×
Can send email notification when stock is below a certain level
Product import function for adding items from an existing database	×
Product copy feature makes adding similar products quick and easy
Add any number of custom product fields for additional information	×
Custom fields can also be used to export additional information to Google Base
Support for electronic download products	×
Membership products to sell site access (online subscriptions, etc.)	×
Create quantity discounts for products	×
Ability to set a second set of prices for wholesalers
Can create related products for cross-selling	×
Add related features for additional information on your products	×
Image gallery allows you to add unlimited images to your products	×
Image upload and thumbnail creation features	×
Custom tags available for product search, teaser box, etc.	×
Turn off ordering for product to use as an informational site instead.	×

Site Access Features

Can set up permissions for groups and users	×
Built-in access control to various admin sections
Can create access keys to protect access to specific areas of your site	×
Can protect categories, features and products with access keys	×
Access keys can be assigned to groups or users or sold as a store product	×
Memberships can expire after a certain number of days
Create trial or automatically recurring memberships	×

Order Management

Advanced filtering and search features to find orders	×
Can easily page through the orders after completing a search	×
Batch order printing feature	×
Print packing slips for your shipments	×
Advanced order editing to make adjustments to order items, shipping cost, tax, order credits, etc.	×
Comprehensive drop-shipping features, send emails to multiple vendors when orders are placed or filled	×
Ability to manually or automatically create purchase orders for drop-shipping
Add notes, payment and shipping status information to orders	×
Send emails to customers with shipping and tracking information	×
Special Purchase Order section for drop-shipping information
Special Billing tab allows you to capture credit card funds after shipping
Can set user permissions to allow access to only certain areas and actions for order processing
Store reports to track sales, best-selling products, affiliate earnings, etc.
Customers can add gift messages and desired delivery date to orders
Customers can view their order history and order status

Search Engine Optimization Features

Default site-wide meta tags
Ability to add title tags, keywords and descriptions to store pages and products
Ability to use search-engine friendly URLs throughout the customer site
Sitemap page that can be used to submit site to engines, or used for customers, with alphabetic search feature
Two types of storewide searches included
Custom tags available for product and feature searches
Special page for automatic Verity indexing provided

Shipping and Tax Options

Automatic shipping rates for UPS^®, FedEx^® and U.S.P.S., others using Intershipper
Alternatively, can create custom shipping tables by weight, number of items, or total price
Can add a base shipping and/or handling charge to all orders
Choose or create the shipping methods you want to offer (ground, next-day, etc.) and set the order to display them to the customer
Create shipping rates for other countries
Can set store to calculate shipping from drop-shippers separately
Ability to offer free shipping of your choice for orders over a certain amount
Can set a flat-rate (freight) shipping cost for a product, or set dimensions for oversized packages
Optional shipping estimator in the shopping cart to pre-calculate shipping charges
Built-in function for retrieving tracking information on orders
Setup any number of tax codes and configure how to apply them
Tax rates by state, county, zip and/or country
Supports use of VAT taxes displayed on product prices
Setting for tax on shipping

Store Discounts and Promotions

Apply discounts by product, category or to the entire store
Can also base discount on total amount of order
Can group products together for a certain discount
Discounts can be based on a coupon code that customer must enter
Offer discounts only to certain user groups
Discounts can be a specific amount off, or a percentage
Discount can be offered if certain amount spent, or specific quantity purchased
Promotion module for additional types of discounts and specials
Promotions use one criteria to determine if the order qualifies, but applies the discount to another item, to do specials like "Buy 1 Get 1 Free" or "Buy 2 get a 3rd half price".
Can set promotions to automatically multiply and/or add discounted (free) items to the cart
Both discounts and promotions can have an access key applied so that the customer must purchase a membership to receive the specials

Shopping & Checkout Functions

Customers can leave comments and reviews on your products and content articles
Complete control over who can leave reviews and ratings and how to approve them
Can require user accounts to checkout or allow guest checkouts
Use custom checkout fields to collect additional information during checkout process
Gift Registry function allows users to create and share shopping lists
Wishlists to allow customers to save favorite store items
Create and redeem gift certificates automatically
Optional gift wrapping module

Payment Options

Common online processors available such as Authorize.Net, PayFlow Pro, Skipjack, Cybersource, Linkpoint, etc.
Additional processors can easily be added
Supports both PayPal Standard (using IPN) and PayPal Pro
Can log PayPal IPN results
Can automatically update status of pending PayPal transactions
Checks for valid credit card number and expiration date
CVV2 card code available for most processors
Options to accept offline orders (mail or fax payment) or purchase orders
Settings for processors to authorize only
Ability to later capture funds using the Billing tab in Order Management for some processors

User Management

Many settings available to customize how your store handles user accounts
User Summary for admins to quickly access all information for each user
Several different user signup forms available