While E-Commerce is a practically common term these days, many businesses don’t realize the potential of online sales, it is among the cleverest means to leverage your place in the online market. Many businesses have become exceedingly profitable through online sales. Dell Computers is a leading example. Small companies and even individuals can also market their products where large companies can reduce stocking costs by selling online.

Astrum’s ecommerce solution acts as a platform that is packed with functionalities that includes:

Catalog Browsing:

  • Layered Navigation for filtering of products
  • Static tool to create landing pages
  • Configurable search with suggested terms
  • Cross-sells and Up-sells
  • Recently viewed products
  • Filter by Tags
  • Product listing in grid

Catalog Management:

  • Inventory Management with Minimum and Maximum quantities
  • Virtual Products
  • Batch Import and Export
  • Search Results rewrites
  • Create Store-specific attributes
  • Media Manager with image resizing and watermarking
  • Bundled and Grouped Products

Product Browsing:

  • Image Zoom-in Capability
  • Multiple Images Per Product
  • Configurable search with suggested terms
  • Product Reviews
  • Stock Availability
  • Product Option Selection
  • Grouped Products View
  • Send with Email, Facebook and Twitter
  • Add to Wishlist

Customer Accounts:

  • Order status and history
  • Re-orders from account
  • Recently ordered items
  • Address Book
  • Default Billing and Shipping
  • Wishlist
  • Email Wishlist
  • Newsletter Subscription
  • Product Reviews
  • Product Tags

Site Management:

  • Support for localization
  • Administration System Roles and Users
  • Flexible tax management
  • 100% customizable design
  • Customer Groups
  • One-Click Upgrades
  • Content Management System for Pages

Order Management:

  • View, create and fulfill orders from admin.
  • Create one or multiple invoices, shipments and credit memos per order
  • Print invoices and packing slips
  • Call Center order creation
  • Ability to create new customer, or select existing customer and view cart, wishlist, and compared products list, as well as select addresses, give discounts and assign custom prices
  • Create re-orders for customers
  • Email Notifications of Orders

Shipping:

  • Order tracking from customer accounts
  • Multiple shipments per order
  • Flat rate shipping
  • Flat rate shipping
  • Free Shipping
  • Table rates for weight and destination
  • Table rates for product sub-totals and destination
  • Table rates for number of items and destination

Checkout:

  • One-Page Checkout
  • SSL security support on both front-end and back-end
  • Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
  • Guest Checkout
  • Shopping Cart with tax and shipping estimates
  • Checkout with account
  • Option to create account at beginning of checkout
  • Accept gift messages per order
  • Saved Shopping Carts

Tax Settings:

  • Setting Up Taxes
  • Value Added Tax (VAT)
  • Retail Tax Calculations
  • Compound Tax Rules For compound taxes
  • Tax On Shipping
  • Tax Rules
  • Retail Taxes
  • Fixed Product Taxes (FPT)