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Simrun E-commerce Full Features & Specifications List

Category Management

Categories/Departments/Manufacturers Supported
Categories and Departments can also be fully nested to any level desired (e.g. sub-categories, sub-departments)
Supports cross-matrix of products by category and department. E.g. a product can be mapped to the shoe category, in the women's department
Products can be mapped to more than one category or department
Paged browsing for categories and sections and Sorting by Price, Manufacturer, Date Added, Popularity, and Product Name

Category, Department, and Manufacturer "names" can be renamed (e.g. "Brochures", "Products", "Car Parts", whatever you need that is appropriate for your unique store site products).
Disable buy buttons for specific products
Supports Wholesale Only Sites (Prices not shown to general site customers)
Power Search Support, Categories can display product attributes & filter products based on criteria such as Price, Brand, Material excetra (click here for more information)
Product Compare, allow customers to compare products and view product information.

Merchandise Features & Customization

Support for 5 images sizes: icon, medium, large, micro and source
Auto Image Resizing on upload
Supports multiple images per product (icon, medium, and large)
Support for swatch color image changing
Automatic image watermarking for protection
"Zoomify" Images Supported (requires separate service from Zoomify.com)
Donation Products (e.g. Customer Enters Price)
Restrict product quantities to preset values (e.g. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, ...)
Enforce product minimum order quantities (i.e. must order at least 10, etc).
Recurring products can have varying intervals (days, weeks, months, years)
Subscription based products & content access
Downloadable products supported, with automatic e-mail to customer with download instructions
Text options on products (e.g. require initials for monogrammed products, require text name for product customization, etc)
Support for sizes & colors. All color/size site "prompts" can be customized in admin site
Product Attributes definable by Product Class & Specs. (Click here for more details)
Inventory By Attribute (e.g. Size/Color)
Price can vary by size/color option chosen
Prices can vary by customer or customer level (group)
Sort products in any order desired
Fully dynamic site map (optimized for search engines)
Second tree-form dynamic site map (optimized for users)
Support for simple products (e.g. a book) or products with variants
Setup variants within each product (e.g. VHS Version or DVD)

Each variant can have a different price
Each variant can have different attributes (e.g. size, color, etc)
Each variant can require a text option input (e.g. monogram)
Each variant can have a separate SKU modifier, and price, description, etc
Locate product pictures by ID (icon, medium, large)
Locate product pictures by SKU (icon, medium, large)
Admin supports filename override option to locate product pictures (icon, medium, large). Allows you to easily use pre-existing images
Support for sale prices
Vary product prices for each customer level (e.g. wholesale/retail)
Phone Order Entry Module
Product Descriptions can include HTML formatting allowing you complete control over each product description. You can use the administration site to enter product descriptions, or even link to fully custom external product description HTML/PDF files.
Support for Kits (build to order products). Kits can have dynamic pricing and component selection (e.g. build your own PC) and more specification as to what items can be added, whether they are required, etc.
Support for Packs. A pack is a product with a fixed price that can hold up to N other arbitrary products. When the pack is full, it can be added to the cart and purchased. Pack items are products themselves, which could be ordered separately
Disable buy buttons by product
Set Site to Wholesale Only (Prices not shown to general site customers)
Inventory Tracking: By product, color, options, sku, and variant.
Limit orders to quantity on hand inventory, or allow customers to place orders for items out of stock (admin configurable)
Manage Inventory by variant or attribute (e.g. size, color, etc)
Show inventory on hand status on product page to customer (optional)

Marketing & Promotions

Support for Upsell Products Directly On Cart Page
Product prices can be set to "Call for Price'
Product prices can be hidden until product added to cart
Products can require that other products are added to the cart (e.g. Product X requires Product Y)
Recently viewed products
Customers who bought X also bought Y information
Customer levels supported, which you can define (e.g. wholesale, retail, or gold, silver, platinum, etc..)
Customer levels can have special product pricing, can offer percent discounts, free shipping, tax exception, etc.
Products visible on the site can be filtered by customer level

Order Based Coupons (apply to entire order)
Product Specific Coupons (apply to only specified product)
Coupon discounts by amount or percent
Coupons can offer free shipping
Coupons can have expiration date

Coupons can be marked as use once per customer, use once by only one customer, use N times, etc.
Coupons can be set to require minimum order amount before they are valid (e.g. save $10 if you order $100 or more, etc)
Coupons can be excluded from sale products
Customer specific coupons
Customers can review & rate products (if enabled)
Administrator can moderate product review comments
Profanity checking provided on product review comment entry
User Polls (find out what your customers are thinking!)
Gift Registry Supported
Gift Registry Can Be Anonymous (gift registry owner name and address is hidden)
Gift Card Support (E-mail and Physical Gift Cards supported)
Customer Add To Wish List Supported (Persists over Customer Visits also)
Multiple Wish lists supported, allow customers to add items to create multiple
wish lists.
Built In Customer Mailing Manager: Send e-mails or HTML newsletters to registered customers.

Customer Management & Order Processing

Customer can view Order History
Customer has an address book to specify multiple billing & or shipping addresses
Customer one click re-order any prior order
Multiple billing/shipping addresses per customer (similar to Amazon.com style checkout)
Recurring orders (e.g. for auto ship products, subscription sites, monthly service type products, etc)
Recurring Payments for Products Supported.
Customer levels supported, which you can define (e.g. wholesale, retail, or gold, silver, platinum, etc..)
Customers can be tracked to customer levels
Customer levels can have special product pricing, can offer percent discounts, free shipping, tax exception, etc.
Products visible on the site can be filtered by customer level
Customer can define multiple billing/shipping addresses and select during checkout
Order receipts automatically e-mailed to customer
Admin can be set to calculate Shipping By Order Total
Admin can be set to calculate Shipping By Order Weight
Admin can be set to calculate Shipping By Order Weight & Zip code Zone
Admin can be set to calculate Shipping By Order Total & Zip code Zone
Admin can be set to calculate Shipping By Fixed Item Shipping Costs (e.g. Shipping Cost By Product)
Admin can be set to calculate Shipping By Fixed Percent of Order Total
Admin can be set to Specify All Orders As Free Shipping
Real Time Shipping Rates BY Fedex, UPS, DHL & Canada Post
Admin defined shipping methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day, Priority, etc)
Real Time Shipping carriers can vary based on Domestic or International shipping address
Filter Real Time Shipping Rates You Want To Allow
Add Shipping & Handling Extra Fee To Orders
Shipping Methods Verified Against User Addresses During Checkout (this avoids the ground shipping to Hawaii situations!)
Shipping Tracking #'s e-mailed to Customers
Support for Download Products
Support for "No Shipping Required" Products (e.g. services)
Allow "Free shipping over $X" for site
Batch Shipping Order Printing/Tracking Integration with UPS WorldShip and FedEx Shipping Mgr.
Multiple ship-to addresses per order (a customer on one order can ship some items to address A, and other items to address B)
Mark Customer Levels/Profiles as free shipping (or tax exempt)

ShipWire Interface Supported
Configurable local pickup option that can be restricted by geographic region
Accept Credit Cards in Real Time: Cards can be processed & verified in real-time, or you can delay processing until a later time. Over 30 Gateways supported including Authorize.net, Paypal Express, QuickBooks Merchant Services, Chase, CyberSource, PaymentTech Sage Payment, and VeriSign (Paypal) Payflo Pro.
Accept payment by Check By Mail
Accept payment bye-Checks (Authorize.net and Itransact gateways)
Accept payment by C.O.D.
Accept payment by Purchase Order
Accept payment by PayPal
Accept payment by Google Checkout
PayPal Express Checkout (see below for PayPal website Payments PRO)
Request For Quote
MicroPay (Customer Rewards Program)
Accept payment by Gift Cards (Generated by the Admin
Integrates with your own merchant account (click here for information on obtaining a merchant account if you do not have one)
Store can be set to authorize only, or auth-capture credit card mode. You can then capture payment at shipment if desired
Void & Refund supported
Partial Refund and Add-Hoc Charges Supported
Mark Transactions As Fraud
Ban Fraud Users from Site
Support for recurring orders/payments (auto-ship products)
Support for CV2 (credit card security code) entry and checking (fraud prevention)
Address Verification codes reported to administrator with order
Credit card numbers never displayed on site, but remembered for user in an encrypted state shown as ****1111 on site). Storage can be disabled by both store admin and customers if they choose.
Disable storing of credit cards if desired (we recommend that you don't store credit cards on your site...it is almost never needed anymore)
Don't require account signup on checkout (e.g. skip registration on checkout or anon checkout)
Hide all references to "shipping" (e.g. useful for software, or download sites)
Force billing address to be the same as shipping address
Set a minimum order total threshold for proceed to checkout (e.g. must purchase over $100)
Automatically create drop-ship and special order/purchase order to vendor
Multi-level pricing list

Misc Features & System Extensibility

Completely Modifiable Product Detail Pages
Completely Modifiable Category and Entity Display Paages
Support for XML XSLT rendering and Master Pages (Version 9.X and above).
Password Protected HTML Pages (password protected topics)
General Site Disclaimer Message (Agree Before Entering) supported
Minimum order amount & quantity can be set before allowing checkout
Order options supported (e.g. gift wrapping, ship in unmarked box, etc). Additionally, each order option can have a price associated with it. User can optionally select order options during checkout.
Order & Customer & Product Export to Xml
Customer e-mail lists to XML (i.e. produce list of all registered customer e-mails for your mailing manager)
Product & Site Photo Galleries: Create photo galleries of products, activities or other important corporate or store fun events.
Recent Products Page
Best-Seller Products Page
Shopping cart can persist over visits
Shopping cart can be told to clear in N days
Built in support for the most common display formats: grid, table expanded, table condensed, simple form, right variant bars, Simrun Also also completely custom built pages for your needs as well.
Catalog Only Sites (e.g. turn buy buttons off)
Support for Informational Catalog Only Sites: A simple configuration setting removes all "buy" buttons from the site, in effect turning your site into an informational site, still complete with categories, subcategories, sections, product info, product photos, etc
Store News Items Supported (editable via Admin Site): Add real-time news announcements, and items to the site. Inform customers about important new items, or promotions.
Password protected topic (html content) pages

Order notes can be entered by customer with special instructions
Each cart item can also have notes entered by the customer
Can require customer to agree to Terms and Conditions block (user defined) before proceeding with payment
Support for subscription products. Each product can add N months to a customer subscription. Administration control panel allows override of subscription expiration date
External Product HTML description files supported (e.g. product descriptions can be stored in external HTML files)
Hide products, categories departments (publish or un-publish capability)
Integrated Product Search as Well Spell Check and Recommended products from Google Base based on your inventory.
Advanced Product Search Page (by category, section, manufacturer, price range, SKU, etc)
Export to QuickBooks with Integration available from Atandra
Quantity discounts on products (tiered Pricing)
E-Mail Product To A Friend: Product pages can be e-mailed to friends by site visitors
Apply Tax by State
Apply Tax by ZipCode
Apply Tax by Country
Tax can be applied to shipping costs
Individual Products can be marked Taxable or tax-exempt
Customer Levels can be tax-exempt (e.g. wholesale)
Tax Classes Supported By Product (e.g. Goods, Services, Alcohol, etc)
GoogleBase Feed (formerly called Froogle) Supported with automatic generation and FTP upload to your Froogle account, other product feeds such as Shopzilla, and Shopping.com are available as well.