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Actinic Business V9

Actinic Business V9 provides a range of options for small and medium sized companies to develop and manage sophisticated, high volume ecommerce and multi-channel businesses. Actinic Business builds on the comprehensive features in Catalog with additional advanced functionality in the areas of marketing, offline ordering, customer management and back-office integration. It provides enhanced value and service for customers, and greater efficiency for the merchant.

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>	Actinic's Flexible Product Catalogue
>	Actinic's Customisable Store Design and Layout
>	Actinic's Comprehensive Store Management Functionality
>	Actinic's Powerful Marketing Features
>	Actinic's Customer Friendly Stores
>	Actinic's Comprehensive Support

Actinic's Flexible Product Catalogue

>	Explorer ‘drag and drop’ style interface to access product items quickly and easily
>	Support for up to 20,000 products with product images
>	Create unlimited number of product sections and subsections
>	Multiple page layout options
>	Create links to external files or urls
>	Define product attributes and choices for each product and assign different prices to each product choice
>	Show product choices as radio buttons, drop downs or button grids
>	Define additional components for each product
>	Support for downloadable products such as mp3 music
>	Add additional text or images in a pop-up window
>	Specify shipping weights for each product
>	Add shopper definable fields for personalised products
>	Import and export product and section data
>	Hide products and information items from selected customers or customer groups

Actinic's Customisable Store Design and Layout

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>	Use Wizards to help you set up your store; configure Actinic for your web space; change the site design; and set up product options
>	Full site customisation using an intuitive ‘point and click’ interface
>	Multiple preview modes provide easy navigation and instant access to any part of your store
>	Select from a range of pre-designed themes or mix and match elements to create an unique design
>	Complete flexibility to edit the site colour scheme, product/section layout and variables
>	Library of design snippets to be used in creating a design
>	Real-time preview of your store as you build it
>	Create additional content and information pages – build a complete web site
>	Easy to use ‘point and click’ HTML code editor for text formatting
>	Create conditions for specific content to appear on the web site
>	Integrates with Macromedia Dreamweaver enabling design to take place in Dreamweaver
>	Create multiple sites from the same application
>	Advanced site deployment options

Actinic's Comprehensive Store Management Functionality

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>	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
>	Product prices can be both entered and displayed exclusive or inclusive of tax
>	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
>	Associate actions and dates with orders
>	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
>	Single-page order entry form for 'phone, fax and mail orders
>	Direct credit card payment processing for 'phone, fax and mail orders (requires Actinic Payments account; available mid-April)
>	Rearrange the fields in the Orders tab
>	Order completion using barcode scanning
>	Interface directly with Sage Line 50 and Quickbooks accounting systems to transfer orders and import product and customer data
>	Interface directly to an Actinic EPOS application
>	Dynamically link products to an external database

Actinic's Powerful Marketing Features

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>	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
>	Google Analytics integration provides comprehensive monitoring of site performance and ROI (requires free Google Account)

Actinic's Customer Friendly Stores

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>	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
>	Postcode lookup on the web site for online orders (Postcode Anywhere account required - annual fee applies; exclusive discount available)
>	Postcode lookup on the desktop for offline orders (Postcode Anywhere account required - annual fee applies; exclusive discount available)

Actinic's Comprehensive Support

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>	Free email support
>	Actinic Community forums
>	30 days free telephone support
>	Online Knowledge Base

Actinic's Minimum System Requirements (Vendor Pc)

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>	Windows XP (service pack 2) or Vista
>	1GB RAM (2GB for Vista)
>	Minimum 1 GHz processor recommended (2 GHz or faster for sites with over 5000 products)
>	Internet Explorer 6 or above
>	120MB available hard disk space

Actinic's Minimum System Requirements (Website)

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>	Windows, UNIX, or Linux Server
>	Perl 5.004 or later (MD5 Perl module recommended)
>	User-writable CGI bin
>	Min. 20MB process memory recommended