Key Feature |
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| Database Catalogue System |
Like all serious e-commerce applications, CactuShop uses a database, with pages built dynamically 'on-the-fly'. |
| Email List Management |
Let subscribers signup to a newsletter when ordering, enquiring, or just visiting your site. Export the addresses or mail them from CactuShop. Full opt-in verification. |
| Stock Tracking |
CactuShop can keep track of how many items you have in stock, give low-level warnings and prevent users ordering more items than you have in stock. |
| Advanced Keyword Searching |
CactuShop searches categories, products and versions, and highlights the matching keywords in the search results and product pages. |
| Sophisticated Back End |
Enter product data, upload images, view stats and warnings, clone new versions, find 'lost' products and much more. It's just as slick as the front end. |
| Tax by Country |
CactuShop knows which country/state you're in and therefore whether to charge you tax or not. Which countries get charged tax is easily configured in the back end. |
| 100% Scripts |
All code is in script form and written in VBScript. Unlike proprietary e-commerce programs, virtually anything in CactuShop can be changed. |
| Databased Configuration |
Nearly all the configuration settings are now held in the database and can be updated by a simple-to-use back end utility. You can even change payment systems online without recoding |
| Customer and Order Database |
You can view customers who've used the site or create new accounts from the back end. Find orders quickly and link them to customers. |
| Translation-Friendly Design |
General page text as well as products are all stored in a database. The pages pull the required text where it's needed. Translated versions or text changes to the English version can be easily maintained even when CactuShop upgrades come out. |
| Robust Cookie-Based Basket |
Most competitor ASP carts use sessions variables, using valuable server memory linked to the user with cookies. CactuShop stores basket info on similar cookies but uses no server memory and never times out. |
| 'Related Products' Functionality |
Now you can easily add links to related products, a great way to encourage users to view other products they might be interested in and stimulate sales. |
| Save/Recover Basket Contents |
Store your basket contents in the database and recover them later, even from another computer - ideal for regular orders or selecting items that you want someone else in a different location to recover and purchase.. |
| Multiple Payment Options |
CactuShop supports WorldPay, AuthorizeNet and Protx online authorization support, SSL back end order review or the optional Cactusoft Encrypted Email system. |
| Easy Visual Customization |
Our single-file 'skin' HTML template system gives you an easy way to design the visual appearance of the site in FrontPage, Dreamweaver, etc. and is exclusive to CactuShop |
| Shipping Charges |
Shipping is calculated based on order value or weight, and banded according the the 'zone' that the country is in. You can also set which tax rate applies to shipping. |
| HTML Search Engine Pages |
CactuShop has a built in static HTML generator for building indexed search engine pages based on your product catalogue. One click is all that's needed. |
| Affiliate Scheme Management |
CactuShop allows you to set up affiliates and record how much traffic, revenue and commission they've earned you. Affiliates can login to see the traffic, sales and commission they've generated over any of the last 12 months. |
| My Account |
Let users see the progress of their orders (order tracking) and manage their saved baskets and regular orders. They also get a full order history. |
| Multiple Database Support |
CactuShop now supports MS Access, MS SQL Server and MySQL database formats. |
