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Features & Functionality

Design

  • Specialist site design optimised for converting art transactions
  • Replicates your existing brand style or corporate id
  • Fully customisable site design and HTML
  • Adheres to strict W3C web standards (Priority AA complaint)
  • Selection of in-house ‘product pickers’ to ensure intuitive browsing

Products

  • Add/Edit/Delete products
  • Full framing, canvas, multi panel product previews and onscreen visualisations
  • Unlimited number of photos for each product
  • Unlimited number of products allowed
  • Automatic image resizing for thumbnail and enlargements
  • Easily transfer files to/from your site through ftp uploads
  • Import and export your store data via text files
  • Automated image scale and sizing indicators
  • Customer defined size conversions (e.g. metric, imperial measurements)
  • Automatic image watermarking (optional)

Sales & marketing

  • Nominate products / bestsellers for homepage promotion
  • Automatically display related or alternative products (using dynamic keyword, artist, title algorithm)
  • Promotional voucher codes and gift certificates
  • Ability to set beginning and end dates for voucher offers
  • Automatic product submission to Froogle
  • Automatic submission for all major shopping comparison engines
  • Automatic Google® Sitemaps submission
  • Add meta data to every page to tune and optimise for search engines
  • Updatable news and press release tools
  • Supports multiple currencies
  • Customer reviews
  • Online customer testimonials

Stock control

  • Multiple Art on Demand product variations and options
  • Fully customisable product categories and subcategory levels
  • Personalisation tools to sell products that can be customised by end-users
  • Real-time dynamic stock inventory control for originals and limited editions

Search & advanced search

  • Automatic dominant image colour recording for all products
  • Colour search facilities using 15 million colour options
  • Advanced search facilities encompassing products, price, size, keyword, manufacture, etc
  • All products can be assigned to searchable groups or tagged with searchable keywords
  • All products are automatically indexed and searchable
  • All product artists, keywords and product groups are hot-linked
  • Bookmarking with Social Networks

Financial transactions

  • Real-time payment gateway to accept credit card payments (merchant account required)
  • Supports offline credit card payment processing
  • Supports MOTO offline credit card processing
  • Confirmation email sent to store owner and customer
  • Fully branded and printable PDF invoice available for customer download

Shipping & taxation

  • Automated and customisable tax rates and calculations
  • Supports full online order tracking
  • Customisable shipping rates (can ship anywhere in the world using any courier)
  • International shipping and location restriction
  • Manage and maintain drop shipping partners

Hosting & security

  • Ability to create sub domains for supporting micro sites
  • 98% uptime rating
  • Shared 128-Bit SSL security
  • Full HTTPS/SSL support
  • Weekly data backups
  • Multiple power source backups
  • Advanced data centre security monitoring
  • PCI DSS compliant

Reporting

  • Integrated visitor statistics
  • Detailed in-store search analysis
  • Full transaction and order reporting
  • Clients and customers can view order status & history
  • Site reporting includes Page Not Found and Missing Image queries
  • Automatic Google® Analytics integration

Client support

  • Dedicated technical support from our own UK based team
  • Dedicated account management
  • Proactive support through regular information updates to help improve sales
  • Frequent software updates and upgrades

Customer management

  • Wish lists and light boxes
  • Express checkout for registered users
  • Customers can track and view order history
  • Automated order confirmation e-mails
  • Ability to add/edit/amend customer testimonials
  • Restricted access trade areas

Administration

  • Web-based store administration tool
  • Administrate from anywhere in the world
  • Create multiple admin users with different account privileges

Forthcoming functionality

  • Accept payments with PayPal® and Google® Checkout
  • Dynamic display related products for cross-selling
  • Comprehensive discount solution for sales & marketing
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