Setup & Support
- No Programming Required
- Installs in minutes with a easy to use
web based wizard or you can use our professional installation services
- Integrates into your web site's look and
feel or you can use our simplified design to get your store up and running
in minutes
- Complete storefront system
- Easy-to-use browser-based administration
area to manage your entire shopping cart
- Set tax, shipping settings, payment
gateway options, admin email addresses, etc. from administration area.
- Unlimited number of products, categories
and sub-categories
- Toll Free Phone and email support
- Supported platforms: Unix, Linux, Windows
with Apache, FreeBSD, MacOS X
- Change templates to support any language,
configurable currency symbol and configurable list of states/provinces
- Compatible with all PHP 4.X and PHP 5.X
and MySQL 3.X or 4.X
- Multiple administration accounts with
permissions for each to view only certain sections
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Design & Layout
- Featured products
- Filter the search by any category
- Side-bar category include that lists the
main categories
- Clickable bread-crumb category trail
- Admin can alter the order in which
products display on the front-end of the store
- Coupon code field on the view cart screen
- Pop-up shipping calculator on the view
cart screen
- The ability for the admin to toggle
on/off the shipping display on the view cart template
- The admin can set which fields are
required or not required for the bill-to/ship-to fields, along with the
shipping instruction comments field on the payment template, all through
the shopping cart behavior settings in the admin area.
- Setting in the admin area, where you can
choose to display the thumbnail image for each product line item on the
view cart page.
- Customer billing name default as the
"cardholder name" on the payment page.
- Multiple currency support for customers
so they can choose what currency to display while they are viewing the
store.
- Simplified Design - This gives store
owners the ability to setup a store in minutes using a pre-existing layout
and changing colors right in the admin area
- Content Manager - Be able to build your
shipping & return, privacy notice and terms of use from your admin area
- Header/Footer Wizard Integration wizard
directly in your admin area
- 100% template-based
- Easy navigation
- Easy to use templates allow for custom
design
- Search engine friendly static HTML
product/category pages.
- Admin can change settings for width and
height of images
- The admin can set which fields are
required or not required for the bill-to/ship-to fields, along with the
shipping instruction comments field on the payment template, all through
the shopping cart behavior settings in the admin area
- Includes dynamic sidebard main category
list
- Clickable Bread Crumb Trail for easy
navigation for the customer
- Includes Featured Products list
- Coupon code and Shipping is on the view
cart for quick customer access
- Cut and Paste your existing HTML for
quick design integration
- Cascading Style Sheets(CSS)-compatible.
CSS allow you to easily change styling of your pages.
- Streamlined handling of orders
- Link to any URL, including category list,
product list, and category detail page
- Discount coupon codes for entire store or
individual product
- Side bar shopping cart
- Customer can sort products by price
- Supports pounds or kilograms
- Empty Cart button
- Configurable Continue Shopping button
- Fully supports multiple spoken languages.
You can add as many new languages as you need and manage them through the
admin interface. You can have more than 1 language running at a time.
- Full search engine built in to search for
products by all or by a specific category
- Support multiple date formats
- Froogle Export (Google Base) support
- Configurable continue shopping button
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Email Notifications
- Administrator can change the email sent
out to either html or text based. Also all of the emails can be managed
through the admin area in either text based or html format.
- Administrators can resend the email
receipts to any email address in the administration area order detail
page.
- The administrator will receive an email
notification when an order is placed.
- Customer receives an email when the
customer signs up for an account
- Customer receives order receipt email
- Customer receives shipping confirmation
email when customer order is shipped
- The administrator can set low inventory
notification emails
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Administration Area
- The admin can set a terms and conditions
to be required or not required during checkout. The admin can turn this
feature on or off.
- Keywords in the keyword tracking can be
deleted in the admin area
- Administrators can set admin level
privileges for each administrator. This way the admin can set a specific
admin user to only have access to only certain areas of the admin area (ie
orders only).
- Create multiple administrators
- Username/Password login
- Ability to change password
- Ability to log out for extra security
- Control digiSHOP from anywhere in the
world using your web browser
- Add/Edit/Delete Products, Categories,
Customers, Coupons & Orders
- Searchable Orders List, Customer List,
Product List, Category List, Coupon List
- Ability to change shopping cart behavior
- Configurable countries
- Ability to track keywords through keyword
placement tracking
- Displays Ship Service entered in by admin
for each order
- Batch order printing supported
- Batch order exporting supported
- Printable HTML packing slip
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Main Menu
- Today's Sales Report displayed on admin
main menu
- Sales Statistics Report displayed on
admin main menu
- Fast access to orders through admin main
menu.
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Inventory Management
- Full Inventory Management
- Ability to turn Inventory Manager on or
off globally or by individual product.
- Low Inventory email notification supports
multiple email addresses
- Automatic notification for customer if
they try to add more to their cart than is in inventory
- Checks inventory before checkout is
submitted to ensure correct inventory count
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Managing Orders
- Administrator can specify the number of
grid columns for the product grid option on the store front in the admin
- Batch add-to-cart from the product list
This allows the customer to add multiple products to their shopping cart
at one time. The admin can turn this feature on or off.
- Admin can choose in the admin area, to
force the customer's billing & shipping to be the same address during
checkout.
- UPS Worldship compatibility.
Administrators can export UPS orders from digiSHOP directly to UPS
Worldship.
- The administrator can edit an order's
billing and shipping address information after the order has already been
placed on the admin order detail page.
- Wishlist - Let your customers be able to
add to a wishlist
- Partially Shipped Status - A order status
where you can put orders that have only been partially shipped
- Backorder Status - An order status where
you can put orders that are on backorder
- View Pending, Approved, Shipped,
Partially Shipped, Backorder, Void and Declined Orders
- Searchable order list
- Batch add-to-cart from the product list.
This would allow the customer to add multiple products to their shopping
cart at one time. The admin can turn this feature on or off.
- Ability to set minimum order and maximum
order amounts
- Ability to make the credit card cvv code
required during checkout
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Managing Products
- Quantity based pricing
- Multiple related products
- Product import tool
- Free shipping feature for products
- 20 separate option drop downs for any
product (color, size, etc.)
- Have multiple products photos to be
displayed on the product detail page. Also, a large pop-up photo for the
main product image on the product detail template and the 1st extra image
on the product detail template.
- Cross-sell ability on the view cart to
recommend other products to customers based on what currently is in their
shopping cart.
- Admin can choose to have a text area box
appear for a specific product and choose to have it required or not, plus
the ability to have a price for that field.
- Setting in the admin area, where the
admin can choose to display the product inventory to customers on the
product detail page when inventory is set to product level.
- Admin can manage the order in which
categories are displayed to the customer through the category sort order.
- Product export tool to use the same exact
format as the product import tool.
- Product Review - Let your customers add
reviews to your products
- Be able to hide "add-to-cart" or hide
prices until logged in
- Copy and add new product - This will let
you copy an existing product which will save you time when adding products
- Product cost amount for each product
- Simple tab browsing for viewing products
- Assign and display multiple related
products
- Store images in file system
- Assign membership pricing for each
membership group created
- Ability to insert HTML into the
description and teaser fields
- Supports multiple display formats from
the following: text list, text & thumbnail list, text & thumbnail grid (3
column format)
- Product options can be set to have their
own price or added to the base price.
- Products can be assigned unlimited number
of categories
- Set a product to be "on sale"
- Handle up to 20 option drop downs (ie
size, color, etc) with an unlimited number of drop down in each option.
- Add weights for products
- Auto-generate thumbnail image from main
image or upload your own thumbnail image
- Products can be marked "not available",
which keeps them in your database, but does not display them in your store
- Can show or hide products if out of stock
or unavailable
- Ability to control number of products
listed per page
- Sortable product list
- Ability to display products from a
specific category for easy editing
- Ability to set meta-title for each
individual product
- Ability to set meta-description for
products
- Ability to set meta-keywords for products
- Admin can control in which order the
products display to the customers
- Ability to flag a product as taxable or
not taxable
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Managing Categories
- Searchable Categories List
- Unlimited Subcategories
- Ability to upload images for individual
categories and subcategories
- Ability to add a description to each
category
- Turn on/off the category image
- Ability to set meta-title,
meta-description, meta-keyword for each individual category
- Ability to hide a category from the
storefront
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Managing Customers
- Customer specific discounts
- Membership Price Tiers / Levels
- Admin can force customers to login before
they can view any front-end components of the shopping cart
- Admin setting to make customer login
optional to go along with required or not required.
- Remember me feature to login screens
where the customer will stay logged in even if they close their browser.
- IP Blocking available to ban customers
from making purchases who use the ip address banned. This can be setup to
only be used when downloadable products are being ordered. The admin will
have a custom message displayed to the customer.
- Customer specific discount field is
available so you can give specific percentage discounts to a specific
customer.
- Customers and membership pricing groups (ie
wholesalers) can be flagged as "tax exempt" so they will not be charged
sales tax when placing an order on the store.
- Newsletter - Stay in contact with your
customers with a built-in newsletter engine
- Customers can only view certain
categories - You can create membership levels where only certain
membership groups can view certain categories
- Customer list with detailed information
on how long they have been a customer and how many items they have
purchased
- Searchable customer list
- Update customer information
- Export customer order information to
Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel or most other databases via CSV file
- Ability to display all orders for a
specific customer
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Managing Vendors
- Admin can add/edit/delete vendors (also
called dropshippers or manufacturers)
- Vendor names tied to products will
display in the admin order detail and packing slip templates
- Created a dynamic list of all vendors for
use on any front-end template. This list will allow customers to see only
products belonging to a specific vendor.
- Vendor Sales Report to list out each
vendors total sales
- Vendor email functionality so that each
vendor gets an email notification about only items in their order, if this
feature is turned on.
- Customer Phone Number and Email is
displayed on the email vendors receive
- Vendor specific shipping by zipcode for
real-time rate quotes
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Managing Coupons
- Coupons options: required sub-total
before the coupon can be used, set the number of usages available for a
coupon, apply a coupon to just a vendor(s), category(s) or a specific
product(s). You can set a coupon to be used only by a specific membership
level (ie wholesalers).
- Ability to create unlimited custom
coupons
- Ability to apply discounts as a
percentage or dollar amount
- Sortable Coupon List
- Ability to add expiration date to limit
use of an individual coupon
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Managing Site Wide Discounts
- Ability to apply a discount across all
products in the cart which will be automatically applied based on the
sub-total
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Gift Certificates
- The administrator or customer has the
ability to order gift certificates in both the front-end shopping cart or
admin area
- Added gift certificates field to the
checkout payment form
- Added gift certificate code used to the
order export and added gift certificate field to order export
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Downloadable Products
- Ability to sell egoods
- Set clicks and time for expiration
- Orders that are changed to
shipped/completed with downloads now send the email download link via
email to the customer when the order status is changed
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Managing Affiliates
- Integrated I-dev affiliate program
- Ability to add, edit or delete affiliates
- Set affiliate commission percentages on
sales
- Multiple affiliate reports
- Easy to use affiliate database
- Front-end login for affiliates to view
tracking URL
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Managing Settings
- Easy to use interface to manage all the
store's settings
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Email Settings
- Set order "from" and "to" email addresses
- Supports multiple emails for admin
receipts
- Send email to customer letting them know
a customers order has been shipped (on/off setting)
- In general settings be able to manage
each email through the admin and set the emails to either use text based
or html format
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Payment Options
- PayPal Pro Integration (Direct API &
Express Checkout)
- WorldPay Payment Gateway
- UK based additional payment fields (Issue
Number and Start Date) so that they are required, but ONLY when a UK based
card is used (Switch or Solo)
- Firepay payment gateway
- YourPay payment gateway
- viaKlix payment gateway
- The admin chooses to save or not save the
credit card number when using real-time credit card processing in the
admin
- USA E-Pay
- BeanStream
- Verisign Pay Flow Pro Integration for
Non-Windows servers only
- PayPal Standard support Instant Payment
Notification from PayPal. This integration will allow orders to be sent to
digishop without having the customer click on the return to merchant
button on PayPal.
- Skipjack Payment Gateway
- DirectOne Payment Gateway
- Innovative Payment Gateway (Quickbooks
Merchant Services)
- ANZ Egate Payment Gateway
- Protx Gateway
- Moneris Gateway
- Google Checkout
- Save customer credit card (except cvv2
code) - If you turn this option on, your customers can have the option to
save their credit card information for quick re-ordering (cvv2 code will
not be saved)
- In-Store Payment - A payment method which
you can choose as an option where customers pickup and pay at your local
store
- Purchase Order Payment - A payment method
which will allow your customer to pay by purchase order and enter in a
purchase order number
- Accept real-time credit cards
- Authorize.net (AIM)
- Payflow Link and Payflow Pro (Non Windows
Only for Payflow Pro)
- Linkpoint
- Cardservice International
- Offline credit card processing supported
- 2Checkout
- PayPal (Standard)
- Offline Methods: check, money order, COD,
in-store, purchase order (required or don't require a PO number)
- Switch and solo support
- Mod 10 Credit Card Algorithm to minimize
bogus credit card numbers
- Contact us for custom integration of any
payment gateway
- CISP Compliance
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Sales Tax
- VAT Inclusive/Exclusive - You will be
able to set VAT to be inclusive of your price or exclusive of the product
price
- Be able to choose if the tax should be
calculated off of the bill to or ship to address
- Be able to choose if tax should be
calculated before or after a discount is applied
- Easy to use Sales Tax Wizard
- Supports County-level sales tax
- Automatic Tax, Shipping, Sub-totals and
totals
- Flexible tax implementation based on
state and county basis
- Full support of Canadian sales tax (GST,
PST, HST, QST, PEI)
- Full support of US Tax System
- Ability to turn tax on or off for a
specific product.
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Shipping
- Handling Fee Supported % or whole dollar
- Real-time USPS Rate Quotes
- Add padding to real-time shipping
- Have per item shipping ability. The admin
can set shipping rates for each individual product for both domestic and
international orders (if applicable).
- Box dimensions can be set for each
product. They are box width, height and length. These fields are only used
with UPS real-time and the largest box in the order is used for the UPS
real-time shipping calculation.
- Set a max box weight for real-time rate
quotes. This will allow you to get more accurate rate quotes
- Canada Post Integration for real-time
rate quotes
- Pad rates by % amount of the shipping
quote from all real-time rate quote providers
- FedEx Real-Time Rate Quotes
- Option to charge tax on shipping
- Restrict shipping by country
- Custom Shipping Names
- Free Shipping for certain products or
based on sub-total amount
- Easy to print packing slips and invoices
- UPS Worldship Export
- Ability to turn on/off Shipping
calculator on the view cart screen & added totals together
- Item Quantity based shipping options
- Weight based shipping options
- UPS Real-Time shipping rates
- UPS real-time tracking built in
- Subtotal based shipping options
- Ready to process International Orders
- One-Click ship date
- Tracking number support
- Allow or disallow orders to be shipped to
PO Boxes
- Printable HTML packing slip
- Customer receives email when order is
shipped (on/off setting)
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Reports
- Product Cost Report - Using the product
cost we will build a historical report to display your profit for each
item you sell
- digiSHOP can work with Google Analytics,
formerly Urchin. You will be able to have the most in-depth tracking
available.
- View the total # of orders by each
customer
- Year-to-date Sales
- Number of products
- Number of categories
- Number of customers
- Number of orders
- Number of orders broken down by current
order status
- Gross Sales Report by predefined or
custom timeframes.
- Sales Tax Report by predefined or custom
timeframes.
- Product Sold Report by predefined or
custom timeframes.
- Keyword and Advertising Report by
predefined or custom timeframes. Manages your pay-per-click keywords so
you know which words are generating sales not just clicks. This
information is priceless if you do any online marketing. more
- Affiliate Sales Report, Affiliate Payout
Report and Affiliate Payout History Report
- Vendor Sales Report
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Customer Service
- Be able to have a customers cart contents
be remembered even if they close their browser
- Live order tracking
- Customer log-in
- Customer can view order status
- Customer can search and view past orders
- Customer receives unique order # with
every order purchased
- Automated email notification sent to
customers when they make a purchase
- All orders stored in MySQL database
- Credit card numbers (when you choose to
save them) are encrypted in the MySQL database for added security
- Password reminder for customers
- Registered customers do not have to enter
their data again when checking out
- Registered customers can edit their
profile
- Registered customers can change their
password
- Registered customers can logout for added
security
- Customer can automatically copy their
bill-to information to the ship-to page
- All customer information stored in
database
- Temporary shopping cart for guests and
permanent shopping cart for customers
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Security
- Delete any credit card through admin
- Full HTTPS/SSL support
- Secure HTTPS/SSL administrative access
- Password-protected administrative access
- Encrypted credit card numbers in MySQL
database (only if setting is turned on will they be saved)
- Full logout capabilities for admin and
customer
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SEO - Search Engine Optimization
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) feature
allows you to rebuild your static store one category at a time as an
additional option to rebuilding the static store all at once
- Static HTML of categories and individual
products
- Web pages can be easily indexed for all
major search engines and web crawlers
- Defined meta-tags for every category and
every product
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