Ecometry .Net eCommerce Manager

(AKA the Ecometry .Net Framework System)

Advanced Search – Search by category, keyword, item name, or any word in the product description. Built-in thesaurus helps with more successful matches.

Attribute Inheritance – Products can inherit attributes from the categories they belong to.

Caching Framework – Improve performance of the website dramatically by reducing the number of requests to the database. The caching framework is tightly integrated with the persistence framework.

Category/Product Attributes – Define an unlimited number of attributes. Attributes could store textual information or could be an image or a downloadable file.

Consolidated Order Tracking – View current and previous order information including order status and order shipment tracking regardless of whether the order was created via web, phone, mail, etc.

Consolidated Product Management – New Products, product description changes, price changes, and discontinued products are applied once and immediately reflected on the web site, at the call center, and at all other channels.

Content Manager – Static content is easily managed and even made searchable with a feature-rich manager.

Customer Discount – Offer a special price for a certain customer. This supports special contract and wholesale pricing.

Customer Profile and Preferences – Collect desired information from your customers to analyze customer preferences and demographics.

Dynamic Page Templates – Multiple Templates may be defined to change the look of any web page as offers change, customer information is updated, or based on seasons and promotions.

Customer Reviews – Fully integrated on site with a reviews administration and control buckets

Email Notification – Customers receive automated confirmation emails upon entering an order and when the order is shipped.

Faceted Navigation – Customers can narrow down their search results by category, brand, or price range.

Gift Cards/Certificates – Customers may purchase and redeem gift cards online.

Homepage/Category Administration – Create several homepage templates and administer easily within the Commerce Manager administration tool. Rotate content at a time/date interval of your choosing.

Item Availability Tracking – Customers can see how many units of a particular item is in stock. Products can even be removed once stock is depleted.

Meta Data – Dynamic meta data standard and editable meta data for every page/product on the site

Multiple Ship-to Addresses – Customers can enter multiple ship-to addresses within the same order.

Multiple Websites - Multiple websites can be driven off a single database with products unique to each site, or shared between multiple websites.

Newsletter Subscription – Customers can subscribe to email newsletters online.

Online Product List – Not all available products need to surface on the web site. Product Managers can control which products are listed online.

Order Comments – Customers can comments related to order handling or shipping.

Order Queue – Can be used to flow in orders as required; a plus for high volume times like during season or while a specific promotion is run.

Personalized Gift Messages – Orders with multiple ship-to addresses may have a different gift message for each one.

Process Catalog Requests Online – Allow customers to request a catalog online.

Product Up-sell/Cross-sell – Recommend related products to your customers based on predefined associations.

Promotional Coupons – Validate and process promotional coupons during check out.

Real-time Address Validation – Verify that your customers entered a valid address (zip and state) during the checkout process. QAS integration is also available.

Real-time Credit Card Processing – Securely process credit card transactions with an authorization during checkout and a charge once the item is shipped.

Reinforced Uptime – The website will continue to accept orders regardless of whether connectivity issues exist with the Ecometry system. Orders are queued until connectivity is restored. Great for high traffic websites.

Replicated Database – Host your websites internally or choose a hosting provider that suits your needs. Real-time replication process is set up for complete redundancy if Ecometry downtime occurs.

Reports – Multiple reports are available to analyze your customers and what they are buying.

Scalable – Dynamic product listings on the website allows the site to grow as your product offering grows.

Shopping Cart Saved – Customers can view a shopping cart they started during their last visit.

URL Rewrite Module – Make your URLs search engine friendly.

User-friendly Navigation – Intuitive navigation to help customers find products right away. Multi-level product navigation can be configured based on keywords or assembled master categories.

Volume Discounts – Offer price savings to your customers when they purchase multiples of a particular product, regardless of style, color, etc. Support for group codes and multi-pricing across line items is provided out-of-the-box.

Web Farm Support – Scale the website across multiple web servers.

Wish List – Customers can create a wish list of items they most like, and others can shop from this list.

XML Product Feeds – Can use for shopping engines/Google Site Map