Website design & development services

E commerce and online shops

Actinic software development

For sophisticated medium to large scale e-commerce applications, we recommend Actinic e-commerce software. We are accredited Actinic designers, and have deployed the full features of the flexible and award winning Actinic environment for a range of customers in different industries and with different products to sell!

See the > Actinic website for more information on Actinic online shop software

See our > portfolio for examples of e-commerce applications.

The Actinic system offers:

Flexible Product Catalogue

• Support for up to 20,000 products with product images
• Unlimited number of product sections and subsections
• Multiple page layout options
• Links to external files or urls
• The ability to define product attributes and choices for each product and assign different prices to each product choice
• Product choices shown as radio buttons, drop downs or button grids
• Support for downloadable products such as mp3 music
• Additional text or images in a pop-up window
• The option to specify shipping weights for each product
• The facility to add shopper definable fields for personalised products
• The ability to hide products and information items from selected customers or customer groups

Customisable Store Design and Layout

• Full site customisation
• Select from a range of pre-designed themes, or Footmark will design a completely usinque bespoke layout
• Create additional content and information pages
• Create conditions for specific content to appear on the web site

Comprehensive Store Management Functionality

• Built-in order-processing module processes orders from receipt to shipment
• Handles both online and offline orders
• One click order processing to allow fast processing of orders
• Accurately calculates shipping, handling and taxation costs
• Edit order details within the Actinic database
• Monitors stock levels during order processing, with alerts for low stock levels
• Print invoices, packing lists and address labels
• Create and view sales reports such as fastest selling items and best customers
• Generate customer emails with support for unlimited custom email templates.
• Prompted backup and restore feature
• User logon for catalogue management
• Order completion using barcode scanning
• Interface directly with Sage Line 50 and Quickbooks accounting systems to transfer orders and import product and customer data
  

Powerful Marketing Features

• Generates search-engine-friendly web sites
• Create Best Sellers list for publication to the web site
• Create Related Product lists to encourage additional purchases
• Create Also Bought lists to show products other shoppers have purchased
• Automatically generate a New Products list and publish to web site
• Generate email lists and mailing lists including mailing labels, envelopes and reports
• Create customer accounts to increase shopper loyalty
• Apply discounts based on order value and display in the shopping cart
• Advanced mailing list generation allowing filtering based on a variety of criteria
• Set up a range of customer groups and apply specific criteria (discounts, messages, payment methods) to each group
• Apply discounts based on quantity or specific products ordered
• Apply merchandising discounts such as ‘buy one get one free’, date
  expiring discounts and multiple use coupons

Customer Friendly Stores

• Online shopping cart with industrial strength security
• Fully integrated with all the leading online Payment Service Providers
• Support for secure offline payment processing
• Automatic email confirmation of order
• 'Remember me' option for returning visitors.
• Cart content summary visible on every page
• Automated site navigation features including menu bar, section list, site map and 'breadcrumb trail’
• High speed index-based online searching

For more information and an outline of your requirements please contact us.