Actinic Designer Version 8

Ecommerce products for web designers!

Actinic Designer V8

Actinic Designer provides a powerful, low cost tool for professional web designers and developers to build and deploy multiple ecommerce sites. Actinic Designer features an intuitive design interface enabling complete site customization combined with sophisticated functionality in marketing, product catalogue and store management. This means that ecommerce sites can be developed quickly, easily and more economically, and without compromise. In addition, access to a range of customizable deployment options provides flexibility for both the web designer and the client.

    

The Facts :

What you can not do with Actinic Designer…you can not take or process orders from any live production website.

What you can do is build, deploy and test multiple Actinic powered websites. Either with your own website designs, using the included Actinic designs or by importing pre built second party designs. Combined with all the powerful features of Actinic ecommerce software.

Who is Actinic Designer V8 for?

Designer is built for use by active web designers looking for a fast efficient way to develop and deploy client ecommerce websites with powerful flexible features.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Easy to use and intuitive windows interface.
• Complete design and store layout flexibility to create a unique and customized web store.
• Flexible and customizable deployment options to provide a unique and bespoke solution tailored to the client’s requirements.
• Macromedia Dreamweaver design module enables the site design to be prepared in Dreamweaver and integrated with actinic designer.
• Built-in marketing, merchandising and customer management features to provide sophisticated functionality to the client.
• Extensive store management functionality providing testing capabilities for the web designer and maximum productivity for the client.
• Based on a flexible product catalogue supporting up to 20,000 products including digital products.
• Independence to integrate with all the leading online payment gateways and commercial hosting providers.

 

Feature Details:

Powerful and Flexible Store Design and Layout:

• Full site customization using an intuitive ‘point and click’ interface.
• Multiple preview modes provide easy navigation and instant access to any part of the site.
• Select from a range of pre-designed themes or mix and match elements to create a unique design.
• Complete flexibility to edit of site color scheme, product/section layout and variables.
• Select from a ready-made library of design ‘snippets’ to be used in a creating a store design.
• ‘Point and click’ HTML code editor enables quick and intuitive access to format web content.
• Use of PHP code to generate static HTML pages based on the data provided in the content.
• Real-time preview of the store as you build it.
• Create additional content and information pages – build a complete web site.
• Create conditions for specific content to appear on the web site.
• Integrates with Macromedia Dreamweaver enabling design to take place in Dreamweaver.

Site Deployment and Client Control:

• Create multiple sites from a single license.
• Deploy the site with Catalog or Business Clients for store management and operation.
• Customize the client start up screen and product name to create a uniquely branded solution.
• Create and configure tabs for the client interface.
• Specifying which tabs appear and restrict/allow choice of design in content.

Flexible Product Catalog:

• 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 personalized products.
• Import and export product and section data.
• Hide products and information items from selected customers or customer groups.

Comprehensive Store Management Functionality:

• Built-in order-processing module processes orders from receipt to shipment. (test mode only)
• 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.
• Dynamically link products to an external database.
• Import customer account information.

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.

Comprehensive Support

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

 

Advance Integration Partners:

• UPS World Ship
• UPS Online Tools
• Quickbooks POS
• Quickbooks Financials

Payment Gateways:

• World Pay
• Authorize.net
• Paypal
• Internet Secure
• Quickbooks Merchant Services

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Actinic Catalog Client: - Including all the award winning features of actinic catalog, the actinic catalog client provides a powerful and easy to use store management tool for sites developed using actinic designer.

Actinic Business Client: - Including all the award winning features of actinic business the actinic business client provides a sophisticated and easy to use store management tool for sites developed using actinic designer.

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Additional Services You Will Need For Success:

Priority Phone Support - One year's Priority Phone Support package, upgrades assistance and other benefits.

Shared SSL – Make sure your shopping cart is secure with golden padlock for all your customers.

Actinic Website Templates – Professional pre built templates for actinic catalog.