Option to "close" the store during major product or format changes.

Reduce shopper’s confusion by performing changes while the store is closed.

Easy-to-use Site Setup Wizard with professionally designed templates.

Get your store up and running in 15 to 30 minutes.

Store administration welcome page takes you to the area you need based on the tasks you want to perform.

Quickly navigate to administration areas reducing time it takes to manage the store.

Context-sensitive wizards that guide you through the setup process.

Complex tasks are presented in easy-to-use wizards with online help.

Extensive online help and printed documentation.

Save time performing tasks.

Upgrade easily and automatically from within store administration.

When you are ready to do more you can quickly and easily move to a more robust store building on your previous work.

Intuitive, easy-to-use Design Studio that requires no knowledge of HTML, allowing custom store design.

Customize your store design to match your corporate identity.

Transfer all or part of an existing site design to your web store through a drag-and-drop interface.

Leverage your existing collateral for your store.

Easy-to-use ProStores Markup Language (SSML) for even more design flexibility.

Support for multimedia files, including Flash and MP3s, in your product catalog.

Customize all pages seen by the visitor.

Basic and Advanced navigation options allows customized views of the store administration area.

Reducing administration information to that which is important to you and your business.

Ability to assign multiple permission levels within the administrative or back-office area.

Provide your billing department with access to billing information while providing your shipping department with access to only shoppers shipping information.  Ensures everyone in your business is able to access the information that is important to them while not sacrificing security.

Design notification e-mails using HTML.

Ability to enable or disable certain features automatically using a simple check box, without having to edit the underlying template.

No need to know/understand HTML to take advantage of advanced store functionality. 

View shopping cart at any time, including estimated order total.

Shoppers can easily view the products they have placed in their cart and know the total of their purchase.

Order confirmation via e-mail.

Both you and your shoppers are notified that an order has been placed, the total of that order, shipping and the products ordered.

Catalog search by keyword, product name, manufacturer, SKU, category, sub-category and/or price range.

Shoppers can quickly search for products in your store, ensuring they find the product they want.

Link to products currently on sale.

Shoppers can easily find products that are on sale within your store.

Organize your catalog by category, product name, or manufacturer.

Categorize products in a fashion similar to your retail store – place products in multiple categories ensuring shoppers find the product they are looking for.

Show search results and customer's location in catalog.

Give each product and category its own unique look and feel using your custom templates.

Shipping and credit confirmation via e-mail.

Provides both you and your shopper a record that the order has been shipped, the delivery method chosen and any tracking information you may have provided.  Shoppers know the products they ordered are “on the way”.

Standard payment options: major credit cards, store card, checks and money orders.

Accept the forms of payment most online shoppers have become accustomed to.

Support for real-time credit card processing.¹

Credit card transactions are handled automatically and securely, reducing fraud and charge-backs while reducing the time you spend manually processing information (keying data into a card swipe machine).

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Support for PayPal

Accept payments online without investing in an online merchant account.

Support for Electronic check (ACH) using Electracash (or the ProStores SDK for other ACH products)

Electronic check transactions are handled automatically and securely, reducing fraud and charge-backs while reducing the time you spend manually processing information (keying data into a card swipe machine).

Support for WorldPay

Accept international payments in your store.

SSL enabled throughout the order process.²

Ensures a secure transaction allowing shoppers to feel confident that their personal data is safe.

Encrypted payment information.

Ensures a secure transaction allowing shoppers to feel confident that their personal data is safe.

Option to collect additional security code from shoppers.³

Many credit card companies are implementing additional security measures to ensure a safe, secure transaction.  When used with payment gateways, each store type will collect the additional security codes from shoppers (found on the back of their credit cards).

Integrated UPS® shipping.

Use UPS shipping tables and tracking information similar to your retail business.

Integrated FedEx® shipping.

Use FedEx shipping tables and tracking information similar to your retail business.

Integrated Canada Post shipping.

Use Canada Post shipping tables and tracking information similar to your retail business.

Shipping calculations based on order amount, order weight or total item count.

Create shipping tables to match your shipping needs.

Sophisticated tax calculations, including GST and PST for Canadian merchants.

Create sales tax calculations to match your sales tax needs

Support for external tax calculation service.

Taxable shipping charges.

Manage your online business like you do your retail presence – tax shipping if you do so for your retail business or if your state/shipping company requires it.

Customizable invoice notes based on method of payment.

Merchant-defined store order limit.

Create a threshold on the total amount a single order can be – helps to reduce fraudulent invoices or having to credit shoppers for mistaken orders.

Resale option.

Allow shoppers to purchase products resale and the store will automatically ask for the shopper’s resale number and not charge them sales tax.

Merchant-defined PO limits per customer.

Set a maximum dollar amount on purchase orders you accept.

Additional payment options: purchase orders, internal department orders.

If selling to businesses, you can accept more advanced forms of payment similar to your offline business.

Sign-up to become an eBay® seller.

Easy sign up process for posting products to auction.

Post products from your store to eBay for auction.

Manage both your store and your auctions from one place.

Track the status of your auctions: view pending, live, closed and completed.

Easily track the status of your auction through the auction life-cycle.

Display active auctions on your storefront.

Provide shoppers with links to your auctions from your store home page.

Allow winning auction bidders to complete the purchase of the product from your store.

Winning bidders are directed back to your online store to complete the purchase; increases traffic to your store and may make a winning bidder a repeat shopper; both auction and store sales stored within ProStores for easy management and viewing.

Place individual products on sale, including start and end sale dates.

Potentially increase sales by placing products on sale with defined date ranges.

Submit your products to multiple marketplaces including shopping search engines Shopping.com, BizRate and Froogle.

Display your products in several shopping search engines, producing highly qualified traffic and an efficient sales channel for you

Quantity discounts by product.

Provide shoppers with discounts on individual products they purchase in larger quantities.

Store-wide sale offering a percentage off all items. Specific products can be excluded from the sale.

Potentially increase sales by placing all products in the store on sale – create holiday storewide sales specials like Christmas and Back-to-School.

Use special promotion codes. Run multiple special promotions concurrently with the ability to track the results of each.

Increase sales by creating special promotions with codes so that you can see the success of the promotion – provide the code on your marketing material that provides shoppers a percent off or dollar amount off of their order.

Access orders by invoice number, tracking number or customer.

Easily find and manage orders in your store.

View and manage pending orders by status (missing billing info, awaiting authorization, ready for shipping, etc).

Easily find and manage orders in your store.

Automatically e-mail order notification to store manager.

You are quickly notified by email of an order that has been placed in your store allowing you to focus on your business and not always logging into your online store for an update.

Edit shipping tracking number and shipping date on invoices that have been shipped.

Easily correct an order that has already been placed and shipped.

Issue credits, partial credits and partial line item credits.

Easily credit a shopper for an incorrect order.