Features
CFWebstore® offers tons of built-in features to make creating your stores fun and easy! Why spend dozens of hours custom-coding some other product when you can have one that does so much out-of-the-box? This page list some of the popular features of the latest 6.0 version. Just click on the camera to view a screenshot.
You can view the Version History link to see the complete list of additional features and updates made for version 6. And if you don't see a feature you are looking for here, you can also check out the list of Extensions at Nucom Web Hosting.
- New Features to this Version
- FCKEditor has been updated to the latest CKEditor.
- New security features to prevent CSRF attacks (validating form submissions are not coming from an external source)
- Widespread changes to allow use of the software inside Mura CMS (and possibly other CMS systems).
- Use mulitple shippers at the same time. Show prices from UPS, USPS, Fedex, and custom tables all at the same time. Give your customers more choice.
- Updates to the shipping APIs to the latest versions, as the older ones are slated for retirement.
- New payment gateway CRE Secure which provides 3rd party handling of credit card payments, while skinned to match your site. This allows for fulfillment of all PCI and PA-DSS requirements.
- Updates to the Shift4 payment gateway to now include partial payments and i4Go support.
- Added Paypal Express as payment method. This new Paypal method allows a greater shopping cart interaction than before.
- Impersonate a User - You can now login as another User for the purpose of placing orders.
- Store Design
- Categorize your features to create an online magazine.
- Unlimited number and level of categories
- Create custom palettes and layouts that can be used for category or store pages
- Feature articles for creating site content 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)
- Products, features and subcategories at any level
- FCKEditor has been updated to the latest CKEditor.
- New security features to prevent CSRF attacks (validating form submissions are not coming from an external source)
- Widespread changes to allow use of the software inside Mura CMS (and possibly other CMS systems).
- 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
- Can send email notification when stock is below a certain level
- Require a minimum quantity purchase of a product
- 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
- Store reports to track sales, best-selling products, affiliate earnings, etc.
- Can set user permissions to allow access to only certain areas and actions for order processing
- 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
- Use mulitple shippers at the same time. Show prices from UPS, USPS, Fedex, and custom tables all at the same time. Give your customers more choice.
- 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
- Supports both PayPal Standard (using IPN) and PayPal Pro
- 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
- CVV2 card code available for most processors
- Create and redeem gift certificates automatically
- Optional gift wrapping module
- Updates to the shipping APIs to the latest versions, as the older ones are slated for retirement.
- New payment gateway CRE Secure which provides 3rd party handling of credit card payments, while skinned to match your site. This allows for fulfillment of all PCI and PA-DSS requirements.
- Payment Options
- Updates to the Shift4 payment gateway to now include partial payments and i4Go support.
- Common online processors available such as Authorize.Net, PayFlow Pro, Skipjack, Cybersource, Linkpoint, etc.
- Additional processors can easily be added
- Can log PayPal IPN results
- Can automatically update status of pending PayPal transactions
- Checks for valid credit card number and expiration date
- 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
- Added Paypal Express as payment method. This new Paypal method allows a greater shopping cart interaction than before.
