ProStores Business
Edition offers a richer, more sophisticated set of capabilities then
most small business e-commerce packages on the market today. But we didn't stop
there. ProStores Advanced offers a wide range
of even more advanced features that let you take your e-business to the next
level. If you want to do any of the following in your store, choose the
Professional Edition.
Store Operation
Automatically send e-mail notifications to store manager
on shipping confirmation.
Notify the "Store Buyer" via e-mail of low inventory
items.
Billing & Payment Options
Offer additional payment options of COD, Purchase Orders
or internal department orders.
Establish PO limit amounts for each customer.
Allow registered customers with valid resale # to
indicate that purchases are for resale & waive sales tax
charges.
Promotions
Offer quantity discounts by product.
Offer storewide sales with a percentage discount. You
will have the ability to exclude selected products from the sale.
Offer multiple promotions that are activated by Promo
Code entry during the check out process. This can also be positioned as an
online Gift Certificate program.
Track the results of special
promotions.
Order Management
Issue store credits for orders, goodwill, or
promotions.
Automatically send e-mail notifications to store manager
on shipping confirmation.
Have the ability to manually enter an order from the
Store Management area.
Product Management
- Relate products to one another to prompt the customer
for a potential purchase of a product in which they have already shown an
interest. Can also be positioned for "up sales."
- Have additional product attributes (i.e. size/color)
with different price points for each attribute.
- Collect information (up to 5 editable fields) from the
customer that is specific to a product they purchased (i.e. height, weight,
inseam, waist, neck).
- Display additional custom fields on a product's Catalog
Detail page.
- Identify products that require special authorization for
a customer to purchase.
- List MSRP price in addition to your "sell" price for
comparison.
- Have product-specific surcharges that are taxed
appropriately and not impacted by a sale. Editable surcharge text is displayed
on the checkout and invoice.
- Assign product-specific shipping charges with the
ability to exclude normal shipping charges on the product.
- Have the ability to exclude selected products from
storewide sales.
- Define special product services and fees for products
(i.e. custom engraving) and prompt the shopper for input (i.e. text to be
engraved). This will be treated as a service and not taxed, and excluded from
promotions and sales.
- Have the ability to classify a product as a "lead"
listing in the catalog that will prompt the shopper for additional information
for a sales rep to contact for follow-up. This might be used for a special
order/custom product that would not be purchased directly from the online
store.
Inventory Management
- Hide products from the catalog when the inventory
reaches zero or a defined threshold value.
- Define product inventory threshold levels that will show
on reports that the product needs to be re-ordered and/or hide the product from
the catalog.
- Manage backorders: Allow orders on backordered products
to be accepted and/or notify a customer that the product is backordered during
the checkout.
- Have the ability to display current inventory levels to
the shopper.
- Have access to reports that indicate low inventory and
backordered products.
- Access Cost of Inventory reports.
- Notify the "Store Buyer" via e-mail of low inventory
items.
Customer Management
Have access (both customer & merchant) to customer
order history.
Allow customers to save shopping carts for recurring
orders.
Allow customers to manage their profiles via their
browser.
Define order limits by customer.
Create "Members Only" area of store with
different/additional catalog.
Manage authorization to allow customers to purchase
selected products.
Manage customer "subscriptions" that allow them to
purchase selected products.
Collect up to 8 editable additional fields of
information as part of a customer profile. This is in addition to the standard
information collected (name, company, bill to address, ship to address, 6 phone
#'s, payment type).
Advanced Reporting
Track the success of your special promotions.
View total cost of current inventory report
View "Top 20" customer report.
View sales report by customer.
You will also need to upgrade to the Professional
store if you want to use any of the Add-On Modules (Customer Plus, Supplier
Connect, Sales Manager). Here is the functionality that each of the modules will
add to your professional store.
Customer Plus
Create and manage customer groups.
Assign customers to different groups (i.e.
retail/wholesale/West Region/dealer) and provide different pricing based on the
assigned group.
Create a frequent buyer club or members-only area with
special pricing.
Give discounts to customers/groups based on a percent
off the sales price or a percentage above cost.
View sales reports based on customer
groups.
Supplier Connect
Automatically notify suppliers of orders (by e-mail, EDI
or fax) for drop shipment to your customer, creating a virtual inventory
business process.
View pending orders by supplier, even if the order spans
multiple suppliers
Based on the shipping confirmation, separate partial
orders for special handling.
Sales Manager
Create & manage your own affiliate program.
Gather sales leads by product.
Define & track sales managers, salespeople and
affiliates.
View sales activity reports of affiliates, sales
managers, and sales people by day, week, month, quarter and annually.
Automatically assign a salesperson to a lead.
Assign salespeople to customers. |
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