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ML/64 |
ML/DotNetNuke |
IS
eBusiness Edition |
| Our
Price |
$2295 |
$2495 |
$2495 |
$3995 |
| ♦ Architecture support |
| x86 (32 bit OS
support) |
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| x64 (64 bit OS
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| ♦ General Features |
| Pricing Model,
Reseller discounts available (click
here) |
Per Site |
Per Site |
Per Portal |
Per Site |
| Store management |
Web Based |
Web Based |
Web
Based
(Requires DotNetNuke
Platform) |
Windows Smart Client |
| Provides complete web
site solution, including shopping cart, content
management, customer management etc... |
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| Fully Integrated with DotNetNuke platform |
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| Fully Integrated
Accounting, CRM, ERP, Accounting, Point Of Sale
(POS), E-Commerce |
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| Designed For Max
Capacity |
Designed for Stores up to 250,000
Products |
Designed for Stores up to 250,000
Products |
Designed for Stores up to 250,000
Products |
Designed for Stores up to 250,000
Products |
| Host Types
Supported |
Shared Server
VPS
Server
Dedicated Server |
Shared Server
VPS
Server
Dedicated Server |
Shared Server
VPS
Server
Dedicated Server |
Dedicated
Server |
| Up to 5,000
Content/HTML (topic) pages |
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| Dynamic data driven
pages via XmlPackages |
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| *Source code option
available (either C# or VB.NET) |
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| Installation Locales
Supported |
Worldwide |
Worldwide |
Worldwide |
Worldwide |
| Database Schema
Included |
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| Databases
Supported |
MS SQL 2000
MS
SQL 2005/
2005 Express |
MS SQL 2000
MS
SQL 2005/
2005 Express |
MS SQL 2005/
2005
Express |
MS SQL 2000
MS
SQL 2005 |
| ♦ Product
Categorization Features |
| Up to 2000 Categories,
Departments or Manufacturers |
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| Categories and
Departments can also be fully nested to any
level desired (e.g. sub-categories,
sub-departments) |
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| Supports cross-matrix
of products by category and department. E.g. a
product can be mapped to the shoe category, in
the women's department |
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| Products can be mapped
to more than one category or department |
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| Paged browsing for
categories and sections: Keeps page size small,
and optimizes user experience. |
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| Category, Department,
and Manufacturer "names" can be renamed (e.g.
"Brochures", "Products", "Car Parts", whatever
you need that is appropriate for your unique
store site products). |
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| Disable buy buttons
for specific products |
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| Supports Wholesale
Only Sites (Prices not shown to general site
customers) |
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| ♦ PayPal Features |
| PayPal Website
Payments Pro |
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| PayPal Express
Checkout |
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| PayPal (standard) |
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| ♦ Shipping Features |
| Calculate Shipping By
Order Total |
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| Calculate Shipping By
Order Weight |
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| Calculate Shipping By
Order Weight & Zip code Zone |
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| Calculate Shipping By
Order Total & Zip code Zone |
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| Calculate Shipping By
Fixed Item Shipping Costs (e.g. Shipping Cost By
Product) |
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| Calculate Shipping By
Fixed Percent of Order Total |
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| Specify All Orders As
Free Shipping |
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| Real Time Shipping
Rates |
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| ♦ FedEx |
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| ♦ UPS |
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| ♦ DHL |
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| ♦ DHL International |
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| ♦ USPS |
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| ♦ Australia Post |
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| ♦ Canada Post |
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| Admin defined shipping
methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day,
Priority, etc) |
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| Real Time Shipping
carriers can vary based on Domestic or
International shipping address |
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| Filter Real Time
Shipping Rates You Want To Allow |
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| Add Shipping &
Handling Extra Fee To Orders |
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| Shipping Methods
Verified Against User Addresses During Checkout
(this avoids the ground shipping to Hawaii
situations!) |
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| Shipping Tracking #'s
e-mailed to Customers |
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Via 3rd Party
Plug-In (optional) |
| Support for Download
Products |
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| Support for "No
Shipping Required" Products (e.g. services) |
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| Allow "Free shipping
over $X" for site |
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| Batch Shipping Order
Printing/Tracking Integration with UPS WorldShip
and FedEx Shipping Mgr. |
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Via 3rd Party
Plug-In (optional) |
| Multiple ship-to
addresses per order (a customer on one order can
ship some items to address A, and other items to
address B) |
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| Mark Customer
Levels/Profiles as free shipping (or tax
exempt) |
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| ShipWire Interface
Supported |
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| ♦ Bulk Product Import
Features |
| From Xml File |
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| From Excel File |
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 Web
Services Automation Interface (WSI). Allows
automated import, export, data updates and
synchronization. |
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N/A
(Handled By
DNN) |
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| Event
Notification callbacks to external Web Service
which you register, on storefront events (e.g.
new order created, customer created, etc). |
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| ♦ Gift Registry
Features |
| Gift
Registry Supported |
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| Gift
Registry Can Be Anonymous (gift registry owner
name and address is hidden) |
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| Gift Card
Support (E-mail and Physical Gift Cards
supported) |
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| ♦ Wish List Features |
| Customer Add To Wish
List Supported (Persists over Customer Visits
also) |
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| ♦ MaxMind Integration |
| Integration of
invaluable industry leading MaxMind fraud
prevention/scoring technologies. Requires
separate service agreement with
MaxMind.com. |
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| ♦ buySAFE Integration |
| Integration with buySAFE buyer protection service |
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| ♦ Multi-Lingual
Features |
| (Multi-Lingual) Store
site can support dynamic run-time language
switching. Customer can select store language at
run-time. Store administrator controls allowed
languages. |
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| (Multi-Currency).
Customer can select store currency to view at
run-time. Allowed currencies are under control
of store administrator. Support for various
leading exchange rate feed suppliers will be
supported (via XmlPackages). Sign-up for some
exchange rate feeds is optional, through 3rd
parties, and they may have fees associated with
them (e.g. xe.com, x-rates.com, etc). |
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Price By Product
By Currency
Supported |
| Store
developer/admin has full control over all store
site strings used (e.g. prompt used for SKU,
Product, Color, Size, shopping cart, etc). Every
string used in the storefront can be
edited. |
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| ♦ Search Engine
Features |
| EVERY product,
category, and department page can have their own
custom search engine meta tags (title, keywords,
description, no script blocks, etc)... |
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| Static Product
& Category Pages: Designed to allow search
engines to fully crawl and index EVERY product
& category page in your store. This
can have a dramatic increase in site traffic
from search engines. |
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| Google Xml Site Maps
Supported: a direct Google search engine
submission method sanctioned by Google |
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| Yahoo! Xml Site Maps
Supported: a direct Yahoo! search engine
submission method sanctioned by Yahoo! |
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| Fully dynamic page
titles, and search engine meta-tags |
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| Google Analytics
(Urchin) Site Metrics & E-Commerce Tracking
Compatible |
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| ♦ Product Capabilities &
Features |
| Support for 3 images
sizes: icon, medium, large |
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| Auto Image
Resizing |
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| Supports multiple
images per product (icon, medium, and
large) |
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| Support for swatch
color image changing |
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| Automatic image
watermarking for protection |
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| Image Galleries
Supported |
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| "Zoomify" Images
Supported (requires separate service from
Zoomify.com) |
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| Donation Products
(e.g. Customer Enters Price) |
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| Restrict product
quantities to preset values (e.g. 5, 10, 15, 20,
25, ...) |
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| Enforce product
minimum order quantities (i.e. must order at
least 10, etc). |
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| Recurring products can
have varying intervals (days, weeks, months,
years) |
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| Subscription based
products & content access |
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| Downloadable products
supported, with automatic e-mail to customer
with download instructions |
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| Text options on
products (e.g. require initials for monogrammed
products, require text name for product
customization, etc) |
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| Support for sizes
& colors. All color/size site "prompts"
can be customized in admin site, so you could
rename those two options to have completely
different meaning. |
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| Two Attributes Per
Product (e.g. Size/Color) |
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| Inventory By Attribute
(e.g. Size/Color) |
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| Price can vary by
size/color option chosen |
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| Prices can vary by
customer or customer level (group) |
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| Handles multi-store
pricing on one database |
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| Connect multiple web
sites to one database. |
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| Price can vary by
attribute |
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| Sort products in any
order desired |
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| Fully dynamic site map
(optimized for search engines) |
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| Second tree-form
dynamic site map (optimized for users) |
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| Support for simple
products (e.g. a book) or products with
variants |
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| Setup variants within
each product |
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| Each variant can have
a different price |
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| Each variant can have
different attributes (e.g. size, color,
etc) |
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| Each variant can
require a text option input (e.g. monogram) |
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| Each variant can have
a separate SKU modifier, and price, description,
etc |
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| Tell store
to locate product pictures by ID (icon, medium,
large) |
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| Tell store to locate
product pictures by SKU (icon, medium,
large) |
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| Tell store to use
Image Filename Override for pictures (icon,
medium, large), Allows you to link to corporate
image server or pre-existing images already
available |
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| Support for sale
prices |
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| Vary product prices
for each customer level (e.g.
wholesale/retail) |
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| Phone Order Entry
Module |
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| Product Descriptions
can include HTML formatting: We know that having
complete control over each product description
is important, and no two products are alike. You
can use the administration site to enter product
descriptions, or even link to fully custom
external product description HTML files.
Additionally, each product can have an inline or
pop-up "specifications" window, providing more
detail to the customer, without distracting them
from making a purchase |
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| Support for Kits
(build to order products). Kits can have dynamic
pricing and component selection (e.g. build your
own PC) and more specification as to what items
can be added, whether they are required, etc...
Kit Items cannot be ordered separately
Other storefronts are charging nearly
$1200 for adding a "build kit" feature on their
storefronts. |
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| Support for Packs. A
pack is a product with a fixed price that can
hold up to N other arbitrary products. When the
pack is full, it can be added to the cart and
purchased. Pack items are products themselves,
which could be ordered separately |
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| Disable buy buttons by
product |
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| Set Site
to Wholesale Only (Prices not shown to general
site customers) |
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| ♦ Inventory Features |
| Inventory
Tracking |
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| ERP class inventory
tracking: FIFO, LIFO, Average Costing, Inventory
Tracking, Multi-Warehouse, Drop-Ship, etc. |
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| Limit orders to
quantity on hand inventory, or allow customers
to place orders for items out of stock (admin
configurable) |
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| Back-ordered product
handling & order management |
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| Order Splitting and
Editing (including split shipments from multiple
warehouses) |
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| Inventory can go
"negative" |
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| Manage Inventory by
variant or attribute (e.g. size, color,
etc) |
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| Show inventory on hand
status on product page to customer
(optional) |
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| ♦ Coupon Features |
| Order Based Coupons
(apply to entire order) |
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| Product Specific
Coupons (apply to only specified product) |
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| Coupon discounts by
amount or percent |
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| Coupons can offer free
shipping |
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| Coupons have
expiration date |
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| Coupons can be marked
as use once per customer, use once by only one
customer, use N times, etc. |
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| Coupons requires
minimum order amount before they are valid (e.g.
save $10 if you order $100 or more, etc) |
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| Coupons can be
excluded from sale products |
