Our Services: eSite ® Online Store
eSite ® is designed to give you the power of rapid e-commerce deployment in a matter of weeks.

eSite ® gives you amazing control over your e-commerce online store.
From an amazing array of built-in features and optional settings, eSite is designed to handle the special needs of each merchant in a end-to-end solution that can get your online store up and running in a matter of weeks, not months.

eSite ® features virtually everything you could want in an e-commerce enabled retail website. Please see a list of features below:

Store Design
-Unlimited number and level of categories
-Feature articles for creating site content pages
-Categorize your features to create an online magazine!
-Products, features and subcategories at any level
-Create custom palettes and layouts that can be used for category or store pages
-Use of style sheets for even more design control
-Edit and add store content pages and custom menus
-Wide variety of custom tags you can easily use in your layouts for menus, shopping cart summary, store discounts, etc.
-Create custom page templates (for more advanced users)


Product Management
-Unlimited number of products
-Unlimited number of product options (selections)
-Assign products to multiple categories
-Options can adjust product price, weight, SKU and number in stock
-Product addons for additional items that can be added or entered for a product
-Can create an addon that calculates price separate from product quantity (perfect for setup fees!)
-Addons can adjust product price and weight
-Turn addons, options or option choices on and off
-Automatic display of price with option or addon
-Can make an option or addon required or not
-Create standard options and addons to use with multiple products
-Optional layouts for products and options
-Mark products as "New", "On Sale" or "Hot"
-Assign product to a manufacturer, and display their logo on the product detail page
-Assign product to a vendor for drop-shipping
-Inventory control available to remove products from store if out-of-stock or allow backorders to be placed
-Require a minimum quantity purchase of a product
-Can send email notification when stock is below a certain level
-Product import function for adding items from an existing database
-Product copy feature makes adding similar products quick and easy
-Add any number of custom product fields for additional information
Custom fields can also be used to export additional information to Google Base
-Support for electronic download products
-Membership products to sell site access (online subscriptions, etc.)
-Create quantity discounts for products
-Ability to set a second set of prices for wholesalers
-Can create related products for cross-selling
-Add related features for additional information on your products
-Image gallery allows you to add unlimited images to your products
-Image upload and thumbnail creation features
-Custom tags available for product search, teaser box, etc.
-Turn off ordering for product to use as an informational site instead.



Site Access Features
-Can set up permissions for groups and users
-Built-in access control to various admin sections
-Can create access keys to protect access to specific areas of your site
-Can protect categories, features and products with access keys
-Access keys can be assigned to groups or users or sold as a store product
-Memberships can expire after a certain number of days
-Create trial or automatically recurring memberships



Order Management
-Advanced filtering and search features to find orders
-Can easily page through the orders after completing a search
-Batch order printing feature
-Print packing slips for your shipments
-Advanced order editing to make adjustments to order items, shipping cost, tax, order credits, etc.
-Comprehensive drop-shipping features, send emails to multiple vendors when orders are placed or filled
-Ability to manually or automatically create purchase orders for drop-shipping
-Add notes, payment and shipping status information to orders
-Send emails to customers with shipping and tracking information
-Special Purchase Order section for drop-shipping information
-Special Billing tab allows you to capture credit card funds after shipping
-Can set user permissions to allow access to only certain areas and actions for order processing
-Store reports to track sales, best-selling products, affiliate earnings, etc.
-Customers can add gift messages and desired delivery date to orders
-Customers can view their order history and order status



Search Engine Optimization Features
-Default site-wide meta tags
-Ability to add title tags, keywords and descriptions to store pages and products
-Ability to use search-engine friendly URLs throughout the customer site
-Sitemap page that can be used to submit site to engines, or used for customers, with alphabetic search feature
-Two types of storewide searches included
-Custom tags available for product and feature searches
-Special page for automatic Verity indexing provided



Shipping and Tax Options
-Automatic shipping rates for UPS®, FedEx® and U.S.P.S., others using Intershipper
-Alternatively, can create custom shipping tables by weight, number of items, or total price
-Can add a base shipping and/or handling charge to all orders
-Choose or create the shipping methods you want to offer (ground, next-day, etc.) and set the order to display them to the customer
-Create shipping rates for other countries
-Can set store to calculate shipping from drop-shippers separately
-Ability to offer free shipping of your choice for orders over a certain amount
-Can set a flat-rate (freight) shipping cost for a product, or set dimensions for oversized packages
-Optional shipping estimator in the shopping cart to pre-calculate shipping charges
-Built-in function for retrieving tracking information on orders
-Setup any number of tax codes and configure how to apply them
-Tax rates by state, county, zip and/or country
-Supports use of VAT taxes displayed on product prices
-Setting for tax on shipping



Store Discounts and Promotions
-Apply discounts by product, category or to the entire store
-Can also base discount on total amount of order
-Can group products together for a certain discount
-Discounts can be based on a coupon code that customer must enter
-Offer discounts only to certain user groups
-Discounts can be a specific amount off, or a percentage
-Discount can be offered if certain amount spent, or specific quantity purchased
-Promotion module for additional types of discounts and specials
-Promotions use one criteria to determine if the order qualifies, but applies the discount to another item, to do specials like "Buy 1 Get 1 Free" or "Buy 2 get a 3rd half price".
-Can set promotions to automatically multiply and/or add discounted (free) items to the cart
-Both discounts and promotions can have an access key applied so that the customer must purchase a membership to receive the specials



Shopping & Checkout Functions
-Customers can leave comments and reviews on your products and content articles
-Complete control over who can leave reviews and ratings and how to approve them
-Can require user accounts to checkout or allow guest checkouts
-Use custom checkout fields to collect additional information during checkout process
-Gift Registry function allows users to create and share shopping lists
-Wishlists to allow customers to save favorite store items
-Create and redeem gift certificates automatically
-Optional gift wrapping module



Payment Options
-Common online processors available such as Authorize.Net, PayFlow Pro, Skipjack, Cybersource, Linkpoint, etc.
-Additional processors can easily be added
-Supports both PayPal Standard (using IPN) and PayPal Pro
-Can log PayPal IPN results
-Can automatically update status of pending PayPal transactions
-Checks for valid credit card number and expiration date
-CVV2 card code available for most processors
-Options to accept offline orders (mail or fax payment) or purchase orders
-Settings for processors to authorize only
-Ability to later capture funds using the Billing tab in Order Management for some processors



User Management
-Many settings available to customize how your store handles user accounts
-User Summary for admins to quickly access all information for each user
-Several different user signup forms available
-Optionally save birthdate information on file
-User passwords hashed for security
-Functions for confirming registrations and notifying admin of new users
-Can set maximum failed logins and prevent multiple logins on one account
-Admin functions to reset locked accounts, resend email confirmations and passwords, etc.