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Excerpo® Storefront Professional Edition is ideal for growing businesses with a larger number of products seeking to implement advanced e-commerce tools to increase sales volume and automate more processes.
The Professional Edition's powerful built-in marketing tools not only help drive more traffic to your online store but can actually help convert more browsers into customers... and keep them coming back!
| $149.95 Domain License | $69.95/mo. Application Hosting | $0 Transaction Fee |  |
 Daily Tape Backup |
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| In addition to weekly back-ups, Excerpo® Storefront Professional and Enterprise provide additional peace of mind with daily tape back-ups for disaster recovery. | |
| Integrates into UPS Online Tools |
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| UPS Online Tools require details about the products you are selling and base the shipping cost by product weight and destination. You can also use any of the available shipping methods UPS provides. | |
| Copy/Paste 3 line JavaScript code |
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| Using only 3 lines of JavaScript code, your product pages will be generated within an existing static HTML document for quick and easy integration. | |
 Search Engine Friendly Layout |
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| All versions of Excerpo® Storefront support the use of meta information to ensure that your online store can be easily accessed by the leading Search Engines. | |
| Trackable Links |
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| A trackable link is a powerful marketing tool which enables you to determine the most effective forms of advertising. By assigning a unique code to various banners, for example, Excerpo® Storefront can record which banner is generating the most traffic. A trackable link could also be assigned to search engine listings, unique web pages or affiliates to track sales. | |
| Boolean Based Product Search |
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| All products can be searched by product title, overview, or description. Using boolean terms such as AND, NOT, or OR within your query, you can limit or expand your search results. | |
 Easy Ebay Integration |
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| With Excerpo® Storefront, you can easily expose your products to millions of potential buyers by listing them on Ebay for sale or for auction. | |
| Gift Certificates |
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| Customers can buy and send electronic gift certificates from your site and the recipient can redeem the gift certificate value during the checkout process. You can track the number of gift certificates you have outstanding for accounting and management purposes. | |
| Wishlists |
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| A wishlist allows your customers to shop without purchasing and leave a wishlist for those who may make a purchase for them, i.e. birthday present, wedding gift, etc. | |
| Trackable Links for Affiliates Programs |
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| An affiliate program is a formal, trackable relationship between you and another web business, under which you agree to reward that business for successfully referring traffic to your website. With this feature you can track the performance of affiliate relationships that you establish. You and your partner can monitor, via online reports, the total monthly sales revenue generated through referrals from the affiliate partner, and use this information to calculate referral fees. A more advanced feature coming soon is the ability to create an affiliate program to allow visitors sign up for the program online. | |
| Integrates into Yahoo & Froogle portals |
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| Excerpo® provides an export of your catalog formatted specifically for Yahoo Shopping Network and Froogle. These portals provides additional exposure for your site. | |
| Product Discounting |
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| Allows for the discounting of products based upon admin defined qualifications. Examples include discounts via coupons, promo codes or user login. | |
| Product Options/Variances w/ surcharges |
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| Allows for user defined 'options' to be selected during the product selection; most commonly used for the selection of an item's color or size. |
| Real-Time Credit Card Processing Support* |
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| All versions of Excerpo® Storefront support real-time credit card processing (MasterCard/Visa, American Express & Discover). Processing credit cards requires a credit card merchant account with a compatible bank and secure transaction processing system such as Authorizenet® (not included). We are pleased to offer free setup of a credit card merchant account for any US based business. Please contact our office for details. | |
| Off-Line Credit Card Processing |
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| All versions of Excerpo® Storefront support off-line processing using either your merchant terminal or access through your own merchant account. Order information is securely stored in the online database. | |
| Mail-In Payments |
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| All versions of Excerpo® Storefront offer the option to process orders pending receipt of payment via postal mail. | |
| Co-branded Checkout Pages |
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| All versions of Excerpo® Storefront offer you the option of publishing your logo on the checkout page. | |
| Setup Shipping Method Rules |
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| This allows the Excerpo administrator to configure special shipping rules for the site such as 'free shipping on orders over $25' or 'all ground orders shipped free'. | |
| Export Order Data to External Databases |
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| Excerpo supports exporting your data file to .csv format for use in external databases. If you require the file in another format, please contact our office to check availability. | |
| Automated Tax Calculation |
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| Taxes can be set and calculated based on either state or county sales tax. | |
| Online Storefront Manager Interface |
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| Allows for the management and updating of the cart via the Web. This ensures that regardless of your location, providing you have Internet access, you will be able to update and manage your site's cart. | |
| Fully Integrated Customer Database |
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| This feature is much like a catalog manager. It is a customer database that allows you to easily access customer records including purchase date, item, payment type, shipping address, order history, etc. | |
| Batch Product Import Engine |
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| Already have your products in a .csv file format? Excerpo allows you to import your existing product data directly into the cart bypassing data-entry that might otherwise be needed. | |
| Batch Product Image Upload |
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| Similar to batch product import, the support for batch image uploading gives you the ability to mass upload all of your product images and avoid the hassle of unnecessary data-entry. | |
| Product Inventory Update |
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| The online inventory manager is a powerful built-in tool, which enables you to easily manage your entire product inventory, including pricing and detailed information about each item. Your entire inventory can be conveniently viewed at a glance. Inventory alerts can be set to automatically notify you when your inventory falls below a specified level so you can to reorder. This tool also allows you to set the quantity for product options/variances, i.e. number of red shirts, blue shirts, etc. is on hand. | |
| Print/Email Customer Invoices |
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| Customer invoices can be printed or emailed directly from Excerpo® Storefront's online interface, enabling you to provide your customers with records of their purchases. | |
| Traffic Statistics |
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| Provides full access to your sites statistical information such as number of viewers, number of hits and total bandwidth used. |
| Open Source PHP Code |
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| PHP is a freely distributed server-side scripting language that is one of the most popular development languages in use today. The open source nature of PHP provides our clients access to software and applications at a better price point when compared to licensing options from companies such as Microsoft. | |
| Powered by MySQL database |
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| The MySQL database server (http://www.mysql.org/) is the world's most popular open source database. Over five million installations use MySQL to power high-volume Web sites and other critical business systems - including industry-leaders like The Associated Press, Google, NASA, Sabre Holdings and Suzuki. | |
| All customer's data is stored in database |
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| Storage of customer data in a database allows you to easily access customer records including purchase date, item, payment type, shipping address, order history, etc. | |
| Full HTTPS/SSL support |
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| SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is an accepted standard for transferring information securely across the Internet. It encrypts data passed between the server and the browser, so that unauthorized parties cannot intercept sensitive, confidential or personal information, such as a phone number or address. Excerpo employs SSL to protect your customers' billing and shipping information when it's submitted through your checkout pages, which helps to ensure a reliable, secure shopping experience. | |
| Password-protected administrative access |
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| To ensure the privacy of all users, each account is password-protected. Passwords are never shared with third parties via the phone or email and may only be reset by the account owner for security reasons. Administrative access is likewise limited via password to ensure that all records and information are kept secure. | |
| Ultra-fast OC3-OC48 hosting network including 8 fully redundant Internet Connections |
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| Excerpo® Storefront is hosted in a state-of-the-art data center, located in Atlanta, Georgia USA. The facility connects to the Internet via a fully redundant network, which utilizes ultra high-speed connectivity from the nation's to eight (8) Internet backbone providers. This unmatched level of redundancy delivers the ultimate in performance and system up-time | |
| High-security, restricted facility access |
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| Access to the data center is highly restricted so as to provide maximum security for both ourselves and our clients. All access to the site is gained via secure card magnetic doors and is recorded to provide security personal a complete record of who is accessing the facility and what is taking place while on the grounds. | |
| 24/7 security & network monitoring |
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| The entire hosting network is monitored 24/7/365 by a highly trained staff of network engineers and systems administrators to ensure maximum up-time and reliability. | |
| 99.9% uptime guarantee |
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| Excerpo® Storefront comes with minimum 99.9% guarantee. |