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Standard features and functions

CREOTECSHOP is a shopping cart e-commerce solution. It provides a customisable platform for full shopping cart functionality, as well as integrated search engine optimisation and advanced statistics capabilities. Creotecshop is SEARCH ENGINE FRIENDLY - this means, every product page is served as a static page; Google/Yahoo/MSN etc will love indexing your web store. Features include:

Technology

  • PHP 4.3. CREOTECSHOP’s use of PHP scripting language allows compatibility across networks using IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, POP3, or HTTP.
  • Database: mySQL. CREOTECSHOP’s database functions can be customised for MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL or other SQL-compatible databases.
  • Use of mySQL provides high performance and productivity, with the ability to manage up to one million products. 

Security and hosting 

We make the security of your site and your customers’ data a top priority. We offer:

  • Full Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) support;
  • Encryption of stored credit cards and customer databases;
  • 24/7 monitoring;
  • Daily backups; and
  • RAID1 mirroring and duplexing capabilities to protect your data even in the event of system failure. 

Products and inventory  

CREOTECSHOP provides a full functionality shopping cart platform.  It supports:

  • Unlimited products in unlimited categories;
  • Unlimited product features (such as color or sise);
  • Product accessories;
  • Multiple images per product;
  • Stock control by product;
  • Downloadable products;
  • Out of stock messages (CREOTECSHOP will allow you to indicate when an item is out of stock or to hide products that are out of stock); and
  • Automatic identification of top sellers.
  • For ease of administration, CREOTECSHOP provides an HTML editor for product and category descriptions, with simple, forms-based controls.

Checkout, payment, taxes, and shipping

CREOTECSHOP provides complete support for the checkout process, including:

  • Quantity-based pricing;
  • Discounts (or free or reduced shipping) based on order amount or other variables;
  • Processing of coupons or gift certificates;
  • Customisable payment options allowing you to integrate with any payment gateway;
  • Multiple currency support and automatic currency conversions;
  • CVV2 support to allow enhanced customer security by accepting a credit card’s unique identifying number;
  • Taxes by state, zip code, or country;
  • Handling or shipping fees;
  • Printer-friendly customer receipts;
  • Express Checkout for customers who do not wish to take the time to establish an account.;
  • CREOTECSHOP allows you to customise the states and/or countries that can purchase from your web shop;
  • CREOTECSHOP also provides product rating and review forms for customers to complete, which makes your web shop more interactive, increases the textual content for search engine optimisation, and increases both the amount of time a customer is likely to stay on your site and the likelihood the customer will return (to post a review or read others); and
  • CREOTECSHOP provides customisable shipping options to facilitate fulfillment.

Marketing and customer service

CREOTECSHOP is designed for search engine optimisation to harness the power of search engine technology to make customer acquisition effortless; 

  • Easy store search by item name, description, or item number;
  • Database storage of all orders;
  • Customer history of all orders; and
  • E-mail feature to allow customers to send a product listing to a friend.

Cross selling and upselling capabilities

CREOTECSHOP also helps you market to your existing customers and expand your customer base with built-in marketing features that include:

  • Integrated capacity for "Froogle feed" to get your business listed with Google’s retail counterpart;
  • Capacity to use multiple customer mailing lists;
  • Mailing List Manager, which allows you to identify a group of customers, by buying activity, amount spent, or geographic area (such as country, state or ZIP Code) and then send both text and HTML e-mails; and
  • Repeat customer recognition. 
     

Store and content management

CREOTECSHOP allows you to manage your web shop from any computer with an Internet connection. It provides built-in functionality to allow you to securely:

  • Update product descriptions and add new products;
  • Upload and resise product images;
  • Display and print orders filtered to your specifications (such as by billing status or shipping status);
  • Order tracking messages;
  • Use e-mail templates to update customers on the status of their orders;
  • Customise and add unlimited e-mail templates.;
  • CREOTECSHOP enables your web shop to have multiple administrators with different privileges allowing you security and administrative ease within your business; and
  • It is fully integrated with QuickBooks for easy tracking of vendors, bills, receivables, and cash flow. And it allows you to control and update content on any page of your site.

Advanced statistics

CREOTECSHOP provides comprehensive statistics for every click and every transaction, including:

  • Clicked categories and viewed products;
  • Purchased products; and
  • Revenues.

In addition, CREOTECSHOP uses its search engine optimisation features to offer sophisticated analysis of:

  • Customers, including detailed statistics about customers’ IP, referring site, browser, language, and more;
  • Search keywords, so that you can understand what keywords were used to direct customers to your site; and
  • Referrers, allowing you to track sales from each referring site during any time frame.

CREOTECSHOP’s statistics offer functionality found in only the most expensive statistics programs, truly harnessing the power of the web for your web shop.

Other modules

In addition, should you desire, CREOTECSHOP also offers free modules to help you expand your web shop’s reach:

Affiliate Program:

  • With CREOTECSHOP, you can establish an affiliate program through which you pay by lead, pay a percentage of each sale, or pay a set fee per sale.
  • CREOTECSHOP’s Affiliate Program allows two tiers and permits you to set different commissions for different product categories.

AD Tracker Module:

  • With this module, you can track all your advertising and return-on-investment from advertising activities in one easy place.

Events Calendar:

  • CREOTECSHOP enables you to establish an events calendar to plan sales and other activities around events that will be meaningful for your customers.

Froogle feed generator:

  • CREOTECSHOP enables you to dynamically generate and import product data directly into your Froogle account (you need to create a Froogle account on http://www.google.com).

PDF Catalogue generator:

  • With this module, you can generate downloadable PDF catalogue of all the products in your web store.  This is done automatically on the fly so when you update your product database, the PDF catalogue is also updated.

CREOTECSHOP flexibility

The features mentioned above are standard features already available with CREOTECSHOP.  Because CREOTECSHOP is so flexibility, it  allows us to add tailored mobules (features) to meet your business requirements - whatever you are selling.