1.Setup and Support

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-     World class easy, no installation set up
- Hosted
- Use your own domain
- 128 bit SSL security on admin and checkout
- 24 hour live support from admin panel (Monday to Friday)
- Email accounts on your own domain
- No plug-ins or programming required
- Build a complete online store product and information pages
- Web based store administration
- Free tech support (phone, email, online chat)
- No graphic design skills required
- No HTML knowledge required
- Rich Text (WYSIWYG) Editor with custom HTML section
- Free ecommerce software user manual, tutorial movies and knowledge base
- Free upgrades for life
- Multilevel password restricted admin entry

• * Export of X-Cart store data: config data, states, users, categories, products, destination zones, taxes, shipping rates, orders, membership levels, etc.
• * Import of X-Cart store data: config data, states, users, categories, products, destination zones, taxes, shipping rates, membership levels, etc.
• * Customizable localization: multi-language, configurable currency symbol and weight/dimension measurement units, configurable list of states/provinces
• * Free access to all future releases/updates
• * Multi-lingual products, categories and options.
• * 4 free skin templates
• * Smarty template-based design
• * Fully customizable CSS-based design & layout
• * W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant code
• * WYSIWYG editor for product/category/manufacturer descriptions, language variables and static pages
• * Automated product thumbnails generation with a sharpness filter
• * Category thumbnail images
• * Side-bar "mini-cart" viewable at all pages
• * Build-in template editor: preview, edit and restore templates
• * WYSIWYG front-end text editor (webmaster mode)
• * Debug console: displays a tree of templates for all pages
• * The possibility to find, create and modify static HTML pages
• * Customizable heading tabs
• * HTML emails

·                                 Product control
- Customisable admin product fields
- Product duplication
- Unlimited category and sub category structure
- Unlimited brands
- Multilevel product variants & optional surcharges
- Multi level text variant option
- Gift certificates
- Discount coupons
- Customer specific discounts
- Digital goods delivery (product keys, passwords etc)
- Product reviews editor
- Bulk product import & export
- Featured products
- Related products
- Quantity discounts
- Stock control with level alerts (product and variant based control)

• * Unlimited number of products
• * Unlimited number of categories
• * Unlimited category nesting
• * Products can be assigned to unlimited number of categories
• * Ability to modify multiple products simultaneously
• * Members-only categories
• * "Featured Products" area
• * Automated bestsellers display
• * Related products, up selling and cross selling
• * 1-click enable/disable switch for products and categories
• * Support for multicurrency display (single currency payment processing though)
• * Configurable search by title, description, category, SKU, price and weight

• * Unlimited product options/variants/properties w/optional price modifiers
• * Unlimited custom input fields for products
• * Unique prices for special customer groups
• * HTML product descriptions
• * Unlimited number of product images
• * List a product in several categories
• * Manufacturers module
• * Ability to display product detailed images in popup windows

3. Merchandising/Inventory:

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Pr     product control
- Customisable admin product fields
- Product duplication
- Unlimited category and sub category structure
- Unlimited brands
- Multilevel product variants & optional surcharges
- Multi level text variant option
- Gift certificates
- Discount coupons
- Customer specific discounts
- Digital goods delivery (product keys, passwords etc)
- Product reviews editor
- Bulk product import & export
- Featured products
- Related products
- Quantity discounts
- Stock control with level alerts (product and variant based control)

• * Discount coupon codes and gift certificates
• * Full inventory control
• * "Out of Stock" Messages
• * Quantity discounts
• * Retail and wholesale price
• * Limit minimal order amount

4. Shipping & Tax:

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eg     ration of real time shipping methods (UPS, USPS, Australian Post, Fedex)
- Location restriction on shipping
- Advanced shipping customisation (by weight, by price, flat rate etc)
- Free shipping option
- Domestic and international accurate tax calculation based on customer's location.
- Shipping free orders
- Tax free products
- Automatic shipping confirmation by e-mail

• * Real-time Australia Post calculation from store location using customers postcode.
• * Unlimited number of custom-defined delivery methods
• * Flate rate, weight, order total and per-item based shipping
• * Different weight limits for different delivery methods
• * Markups for realtime shipping calculators
• * Mark products for "free shipping"
• * Promotional "free shipping" coupons for customers
• * Add handling/freight charges
• * Handle international, domestic and local shipping
• * Ability to clone shipping zones and associated information
• * Restrict shipping by location
• * Customer can choose delivery method
• * Support for downloadable goods (e-goods)
• * Customizable tax calculations
• * Product-specific taxes
• * Taxes & shipping fees depending on client's location
• * "Tax exempt" feature
• * GST
• * AustraliaPost order tracking

5. Marketing & Promotional Tools:

·                          Order reports with data export
- Hourly sales reports
- Payment method reports
- Sales by country reports
- Product based sales reports
- Sales by customer report
- Traffic reports
- Search engine traffic and keyword reports
- Visitor country & languages reports
- Recent visitor activity report
- Affiliate reports
- Directly integrated with accounting softwares. (Quickbooks ™ Pro, Premier and Enterprise - 2004 to 2005 (US and AU), Pro, Premier and Enterprise - 2006 to 2007 (AU Only) Quicken™ and MYOB™)
 

• * Comprehensive statistics:
• - Number of orders
• - Number of customers
• - Product views
• - Category views
• - Products removed from cart by customers
• - Sales by product / best sellers
• - Total sales
• - Client environment settings
• - Statistics on search patterns customers use when searching products
• * Searchable order data
• * Order data is easy to print
• * Printable shipping labels
• * Search engine & incoming traffic tracker: the cart keeps referrer data for all customers
• * Shipment/fulfillment interface
• * Export sales & customer data to spreadsheet.
• *Directly integrated with accounting softwares. (Quickbooks ™ Pro, Premier and Enterprise - 2004 to 2005 (US and AU), Pro, Premier and Enterprise - 2006 to 2007 (AU Only) Quicken™ and MYOB™)

Accept credit cards, real time payments
- Easy shopping cart payment option setup (2 minutes)
- Integrated with over 100 major banks and payment gateways - click for full list
- Offline (manual) credit card processing
- Cheques, bank deposit
- Create your own payment options
- Configurable currency symbol
- Multi currency support
- Google checkout integration

• * Accept payments in any currency
• * Allow payment via several online payment modules
• * Payment systems (including PayPal payments, Eway (Aust) & 100 other payment processors.
• * Manual (offline) credit card processing option
• * Google Checkout as an alternative to X-Cart's standard checkout
• * Predefined set of payment methods (offline): checks, purchase orders, phone orders, wire transfer and etc.
• * Authorize/Capture processing mode for several payment gateways

7.Search Engine Optimization:

·                                Fully web optimised structure
- Page titles with keywords embedded
- Option to enter keywords and description meta tags for individual pages
- Link popularity program between Ashop Commerce customers
- Always up to date with new search engine algorithms
- Spider friendly URLs
- Free SEO tips & tools
- Auto HTML page generation
- Google verification meta inclusion (Click here for details)
- Inbuilt automatic site map generation (Google, Yahoo, MSN compatible)

• * Pages can be indexed by all major search engines
• * Custom META tags for product, category and static pages
• * Custom URLs for product, category and static pages
• * Customer referrer info is stored in database
• * Product catalog can be generated as static HTML pages for better website performance
• * Search engine optimization options group
• * Page contents is placed at the top of the page HTML-code
• * Search Engine Friendly URLs for product, category and static pages

8.Security:

·                                Super-fast hosting
- POP3 & Webmail access
- 24x7 monitoring
- Real time data backup
- Multiple power source
- Guaranteed 99.8% uptime
- Advanced security monitoring
- Load balancing
- Microsoft Windows servers
- SQL 2005 database
- Full HTTPS/SSL support
- Password-protected SSL secured admin panel
- Geographical IP address location checking
- High risk IP address and e-mail checking

• * Full HTTPS/SSL support
• * Secure HTTPS/SSL administrative access
• * Password-protected administrative access
• * Strong Blowfish encryption for sensitive customer data
• * PGP-encrypted e-mail notifications
• * Real-time security notifications of all failed login attempts
• * Commercial Anti-Fraud module option validates customer's address during checkout
• * Stop list module allows disabling shop usage from specific IP
• * Backup sub-system
• * System fingerprints: ability to compare the status of the store files before and after modification and to discover which files have been deleted, added or modified
• * Protect registration pages and e-mail forms with a random-number image