Features Summary

• All-in-One Solution - no software to install or upgrades to buy.
• Everything is Included - you need to buy nothing else to start selling online.
• No HTML Knowledge Needed - it's all done for you.
• No Hidden Fees - there are no surcharges, added costs or extra fees.
• Free Software Upgrades - as we upgrade the systems or add new functionality you get the new features free of charge.
• Free Technical Support - email support is free.
• Completely Web Based - you can access your store from any computer with internet access, so even on holiday you can manage your shop.
• Search Engine Optimized - Our specialist design means that the pages and products are indexed better by the search engines and each product has a unique page.
• Completely Customizable - We give you our standard design which you can change logos and colours on, but if you need to change it we can quote on a new design.
• Analytics, Reporting & ROI - Free visitor statistics, page hits, and analysis of search terms used to find your website.
• Data Import/Export - Order and User details are freely exportable for you to analyse whenever you require.
• SSL Security Certificate included free for the first year and only £200 per year afterwards

Shipping Features

• Will be Integrated with major shipping companies...
• Batch Order Printing - print packing slips for multiple orders with one click.
• MinOrderWeight and MaxOrderWeight fields - allows you to set shipping price grid based on weight.
• Automatic shipping rate lookup – Post Office and DHL Worldwide. Accurate rates given to customers
• Package tracking - Post Office and DHL Worldwide tracking so that your customer can track their packages at YOUR website.
• Multiple shipping calculation types - Free, Local Pickup, By Order Price, By Region, By Live Rate Lookup, or your own method.
• Additional shipping weight (Shipping & Handling) - can be automatically added to each live shipping calculation.
• Automatic shipping confirmation by email - Customer receives email when product is shipped.
• Free Shipping - Free shipping on orders over a certain amount. For example: "FREE Shipping on orders over £99!"

Security Features

• Improved security, best in reliability...
• Integrated IP Blocking Security feature - allows you to block IP's or IP Ranges from accessing your website, or lockdown your admin area to block all IP's expect your specific IP Addresses.
• SSL Encryption - The highest Internet standard for website security and e-commerce (Supports any brand SSL Certificate). Encryption of sensitive data such as credit cards and passwords
• Secured, password protected administration area
• Multiple Administrators Login - multiple, customizable levels of access. Hide all credit card numbers and financial data from your employees for example. Or hire a temporary employee to do data entry / add products, but lock them out of everything else... it's important to your business to have this control.
• Administration Area Access History - gives you the ability to see who accessed your admin area, when & what pages they visited. You can see if an employee you trust is really doing what they should be doing within the admin area.
• MySQL database - best in reliability, stability, and speed
• Shopping cart features "Crash Protection" - so that if a customer has added items to his/her cart, and is not able to complete his/her purchase, due to any reason, the customer's items will still be in the cart on his/her next visit.
• "Members Only" website capabilities - requires all customers to register, and optionally pay a fee, BEFORE being able to view products and shop. You can also run a members only site and ALLOW the customer to browse the site, look at all the products, but HIDE ALL PRICING until they register to become a member.

Sales Tools and Features

• Search Engine Optimized (SEO Optimized) - Strategically placed keywords, Meta Tags & text helps you get TOP Rankings for all your products.
• Dynamic Static HTML page creation - STATIC HTML pages with keywords in the URL provide an extra boost in SEO optimization. Plus the ".html" pages lose NO functionality, and everything remains completely automatic.
• Export feeds to third party shopping marketplaces - including Froogle, Shopping.com and Yahoo Shopping.
• 5 Tier Affiliate System - allows you to track all sales and traffic generated by your affiliates. With this powerful system, you can allow people to advertise your business for you, and in turn you can pay them a percentage of all sales generated by them. Supports up to a 5 tier system (5 level system) which encourages affiliates to acquire new affiliates similar to MLM. You set the default payout rates for each level, plus you can change any individual's payout rates.
• Affiliate management system - allows your affiliates to login to their account and view their statistics live and real-time. For example the total clickthroughs that they generated each month, or how much money they've made so far this month, how many people are in each level of their network.
• Email marketing/Newletter marketing - Easily create Email marketing campaigns with the built in Mass E-mailing Software, which allows you to send attractive HTML e-mails to your customers.
• You can use the pre-designed email templates, or you may create new email templates using your favorite HTML editor. Also handles all bounced email . Plus integrated ROI Tracking to see how many people (a) open your email and just look at it, (b) how many people click on a link in the email and (c) how many people actually buy something because of the email solicitation. A complete analytical insight.
• Phone Order System - allow sales reps to quickly take orders from customers when they call in to place an order.
• Gift Certificates - Customers can buy gift certificates from you and use them as payment when they purchase from your store.
• Quantity Discounting - encourages people to buy more! - You can give people a percentage discount, or a specific discount for purchasing over a certain quantity.
• The customer NEVER leaves your website - Everything in this amazing store is built into YOUR website.
• Gift Wrapping - Allow the customer to choose to have the item gift wrapped (you set the rates).

Customizable, automated product input & management...

• Web-based Administration Area - allows you to configure every aspect of your e-commerce site.
• Unlimited photos per product - AUTOMATIC photo resizing & optimization. Creates all required thumbnails for you, all you have to do is upload your largest photo, and the system takes care of the rest.
• Product Options - Specify size, color etc. in (a) dropdown boxes (b) radio buttons (c) checkboxes (d) text boxes for customer input. (All configurable via the admin area) There is no limit to the number of options you may have, or the number of items in each option list. Optionally display "Update Price" button to re-calculate newly configured price.
• Live Stock Status - Customizable to show actual qty in stock or "In Stock","Out of Stock", etc. Includes option to allow or not allow backorders of "Out of Stock" items.
• Inventory Management - Keeps track of inventory levels to display appropriate "stock status".
• Generates Purchase Orders with vendor-specific information, then send purchase orders instantly via e-mail, print, or "email to fax".
• Multiple pricing levels - set up to 6 pricing levels for your products, whereas you can assign certain customers a lower pricing level, PERFECT for wholesalers or educational / government discounts for example. PLUS you can give any certain customer an additional percentage discount store-wide if you negotiate a special deal or just want to reward your best customer(s).
• Set a minimum or maximum order quantity for your products.
• Set a minimum total order price to proceed to checkout.
• Optional display of list price and/or sale price.
• How to get sale price" feature - allows you to comply with your strict vendor policies that normally restrict you from advertising a price that is "too low" to publicly advertise... our system SOLVES this problem. You can (a) have it not display the sale price until added to the cart, or (b) have it "Email a better price" to the customer automatically upon request.
• "Hide" products from customers without removing them from the database.
  Optionally specify an "end date" for your products to be taken offline. You can even have it automatically take a product offline when it becomes OUT OF STOCK.
• Assign products to multiple categories & sub-categories.
• Enable a customer to "Edit Price" - for specific products, such as gift certificates or for collecting donations for charity.
• Quantity discounting by percentages or value.
• Specify additional product keywords.
• Specify Gift Wrapping price.
• Assign accessories related to each product - plus display a "Quick Add" checkbox next to each accessory. Perfect for cross-selling. Plus added ability to display related products on the shopping cart page itself, which intelligently chooses products related to the products currently in the customer's shopping cart!
• Product Description can be divided into 4 customized sections - Product Description, Product Features, Technical Specs, Additional Info (all of which can be re-named to whatever you choose).
• Bulk data import / export - Allows you to import data from any existing source, plus you can export data anytime with a few clicks, edit the data and import it back in. Completely flexible. The export feature also includes the ability to SAVE EXPORTS for "one-click" customized export queries to CSV, TAB DELIMITED, or MSACCESS format.

Allows your customers to manage their account...

• Customer can login to their account by providing their email address and password.
• Customer can update their billing / shipping addresses, change their password, view gift certificate balance.
• Customer can view all orders placed, view order status, and modify orders that have not shipped yet.
• Customer can track their packages live without leaving your website.
• The customer will always find what they want...
• Customer can browse products by category (each up to 7 sub-categories deep)
• Search capability - allows user to search for exactly what they desire.
• Related Products - Customer can easily find related products while viewing product details page. A "related products" box, "accessories" box, and "more products in same category" list all help the customer to find what they want.
• Breadcrumb trail - shows where you are in the checkout process at all times during checkout.
• Sort Search Results - Customer can choose to sort search results or category listings by: "Most Popular", "Price: Low to High", "Price: High to Low", "Title", "Manufacturer", or "Newest"

Features that customers LOVE...

• Recent History - helps the customer remember which products they recently viewed and might still be interested in purchasing. (very helpful)
• Available accessories for product - shows a list of accessories specifically for that product.
• Email product to a friend - Sends an email of the product, photo, and price to the user's friend.
• Shopping Cart Summary -shown as reference for customer as they continue to browse for more products.
• Website remembers the customer and welcomes them by name each time the visit - adding the amazing convenience that return customers NEVER have to type information twice (except for their password)
• Gift Wrapping - Allow the customer to choose to have the item gift wrapped (you set the rates). Plus allows the customer to type of a gift message for the package, which is automatically printed on the packing slip.
• Wish list - The wish list feature allows the customer to save items to a list in their account that they may wish to purchase later.

Accept credit cards, checks & PayPal with ease...

• Tax Calculation System - now supports tax rates all the way down to the zip code. Plus international tax support including (VAT, GST, HST, PST, for the UK, Canada, and more).
• Support for additional international PayPal currencies.
• Integrated Currency Conversion - to allow customer's to choose their local currency as they shop.
• Integrates with your existing or new merchant account - to process credit cards online, or even accept checks online!
• Integrates with over 50 major credit card and electronic check gateways.
• Supports PayPal payment services (including PayPal IPN) to give you a low-cost alternative to a merchant account. Complete integration with paypal notifies your store in real-time of payments for integrated record keeping & order processing.
• Process payments at time of sale OR during order fulfillment. Ability to "Authorize" funds at time of sale, then "capture" while processing the order via the admin area... plus ability to "void" & "credit" via admin area. (feature only available to select gateways)
• Supports Recurring Payments: subscriptions, monthly billing, yearly billing, or anything in between (for example every month, every 3 months, etc.). Also supports automated promotional pricing such as "First 3 months $29.95, and $39.95 monthly thereafter".
• Accurate tax calculation based on customer's location.
• Ability to specify tax-exempt customers or products.
• CVV2 (Security Code) support. Optionally require CVV2 number for credit card payments. (For extra Fraud Protection)
• Configurable currency symbol. Use any character instead of "$". Thereby displaying currency in your local format of EURO, CAD, AU$, USD, etc.
• For security, displays only last four digits of credit card numbers on receipts. (************1234)

Powerful Administrative Control Center...

• Financials / Report Generator - with complete Drilldown all the way down to each individual order.
• Admin Home Page - Customizable Real-Time Executive Dashboard
• Complete, easy to use, web-based Control Panel - allows you to fully manage EVERY aspect of your ENTIRE store.
• ROI Tracking - Know how well your advertising and marketing campaigns are converting to SALES! Track all clicks to your website from Google Adwords, Overture, or any other advertising banner ads. Also tracks all natural free search listings and inbound links.
• View & process orders quickly online. Plus complete control to EDIT all aspects of an order after it's been placed if necessary.
• Ability to print packing-slips, receipts, and invoices.
• Automatic shipping confirmation email sent to customer when they place the order, plus again when the order ships.
• Ability to print gift note (optionally provided by the customer during checkout) on the packing slip.
• Integrated Point of Sale (POS) System - allows you to use UK Data eCommerce at the checkout counter as a cash register. Includes support for scanning your products with a barcode scanner, swiping credit cards with a credit card swipe, and even printing receipts with a receipt printer.
• Inventory management - allows you to quickly receive new inventory with a barcode scanner or manual entry.
• Easily see which items and orders are currently in-stock or out-of-stock.
• Low Quantity Alarm - View inventory below "low quantity alarm", and quickly approve an automated re-order, quantity & best vendor, then click automatically generate and send all purchase orders to your vendors.
• Full Vendor support - includes automatic generation of Purchase Orders, plus ability to send the POs instantly online by email or even to a fax machine... provides for completely automated drop shipping.
• Generate reports and statistics to easily see "Top Customers", "Top Selling Products", "Most Visited Categories", "Most Visited Products", "Top Affiliates", "Total Monthly Sales", and more, for any given time period.
• Returned Merchandise Authorization (RMA) system - Allows you to track returned items.
• Enable or disable any feature(s) of the store. You have total control!
• Help Buttons located throughout the control panel to help you at any time.
• Integrated WYSIWYG editor - makes it easy to manage or add HTML content WITHOUT knowing HTML, you can jazz up your product descriptions or page content with different font sizes, colors, images, audio, video, flash and more!

Easily customize the look & feel to make it YOUR OWN...

• UK Data Ecommerce Software includes a complete ready-to-use website that let's you open for business INSTANTLY! You can open for business right away, and customize as you go, continually changing the look & feel whenever you have time.
• Access to our "Design Gallery" - allows you to browse for your favorite pre-made professional website design, and with a few clicks, easily change the entire look of your website.
• Ability to create and use your own custom website design. Integrate you own completely custom HTML header & footer to surround the software content pages, then just change all the colors / graphics / display options of the content pages to match up with your design... the software is DESIGNED to allow amazing flexibility in design style CUSTOMIZATION!
• Ability to customize each of your category pages to display products in many different layouts. Ability to use category graphics, subcategory graphics, and even display products in single rows, a 3x3 grid, large photos, small photos, short & simple list, or anything else!
• Keep your existing design - If you'd like to keep your existing website and DO NOT want to use one of our provided design styles, you also have the ability to: (a) embed this store right into your existing web pages! or (b) use your own existing HTML pages and simply link your ADD TO CART buttons to your NEW store

Free updates & improvements to the software just a click away...

• UK Data developers are constantly improving the software, adding functionality & features that will further improve your edge in the ecommerce world.
• Just a few clicks, on-demand, will upgrade your store to the newest version available. All your existing data is kept in-tact, while giving you access to all the latest & greatest ecommerce tools.

Superior customer support...

• Complete documentation - within the administration area, plus an additional manual, helpful tutorials & support knowledge base.
• One of the most valuable features is the UK Data Ecommerce Software Support Team

Traditional Search Engine Optimisation

• We will ensure your site’s content can be indexed by all available search engines, for a range of relevant keywords, so that Internet users can find your site quickly and easily.
• • Research and plan target keywords based on actual search data
• • Create Meta Data policy for dynamic pages or tag up to 20 hard coded pages
• • Work with developers to optimise layouts and website structure (10 hours)
• • Verify website’s indexability by search engine spiders
• Search Engine Submissions
• Neutralize will deliver initial manual search engine submission in order to facilitate the indexing of optimised website pages by search engines.
• Directories and essential paid listings2
• Neutralize will ensure that your website is included in the following major directories and paid listings;
• • Planned express listings on Yahoo!
• • Planned submissions to DMOZ
• Reciprocal linking
• Neutralize will devise a comprehensive linking campaign to assist the ranking of your site on major search engines. This manual process will focus on identifying and deploying links with relevant, high ranking sites for maximum effect.
• We will undertake a total of 3 hours inbound linking. Linking reports show the status of each link request (requested, accepted, rejected).