Actinic Business Key Benefits

Security: Developed by a market leader, with thousands of customers in over 20 countries, Actinic Business utilises international and industry standards to keep your order information secure. Your customers buy online confidently and credit card security is high street bank approved.

Ownership: with Actinic Business you retain control of your business at all times. Updates are made easily from your PC and customer data is always available. There are no monthly rental charges for your software, and up to 10,000 products are supported.

Ease of use: Actinic Business is designed for ease of use by the vendor, and for customers at your website. By generating search engine friendly HTML pages, Actinic Business increases traffic to your site. The customer buying process is very straightforward, giving greater confidence and enhancing the user experience.

Affordable: Actinic Business provides everything you need to trade online in a simple low cost package, leaving room in your budget for hosting, design and promotion. Actinic Business reduces your risk by increasing your chance of success.

Business settings

• User-defined customer accounts **
• Multiple unlimited addresses and buyers per customer **
• Customer-specific pricing, discount structures and credit restrictions **
• Quantity-based discounts **
• Vendor defined terms and conditions
• Shipping charge calculations based on quantity, order value or weight
• Separate handling charges
• Pricing in any two currencies
• Unlimited tax rates
• Automatic tax calculations based on geography
• Display tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive prices, or both

Site design

• Choice of site themes
• 'Colourising' feature
• Theme manager enabling full custom design
• Export and import of custom themes
• Configuration wizard self-configures site to commercial Web space
• Navigator guides through web store creation process
• All fields and messages fully customisable Product Entry
• Supports 10,000 products with product images
• Tree control with drag-and-drop manipulation
• Unlimited depth of sections and sub-sections
• Unlimited user-definable product attributes and components
• Offline stock monitoring generates alerts to low stock levels and suppresses out of stock items.
• Import of product data via CSV files
• Dynamic linking to external databases and spreadsheets

Order processing

• Integral electronic shopping cart
• Customers can receive email confirmation of order
• Use of cookie to remember customer details
• Offline order processing with full encryption of orders until downloaded to your PC
• Email alert when a batch of orders is waiting
• Manual adjustment of order details
• Back-ordering enables processing and shipping of a single order as part orders
• Print packing lists and invoices
• Export orders as CSV file
• Production of data entry reports and credit card schedule
• Recording of payments and tracking against orders

Security and payment

• All conventional currencies supported
• Integrated, Java-based 128-bit encryption
• Supports SSL
• Supports all market-leading payment gateways
• Comprehensive 'snapshot' site backup