The .store applet includes a number of powerful standard features that enable you to efficiently and effortlessly sell your products and services over the Internet while enhancing service to your customers. It is an applet of e-Business Manager, which provides you with business-to-business e-commerce capabilities that link directly to your Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 system.

The .store applet integrates seamlessly with the automated credit card processing module, PCCharge Payment Server, allowing payment information to quickly and accurately flow through your accounting system with little or no intervention. This level of integration reduces operating expenses, thus dramatically enhancing the overall efficiency of your business.

This powerful applet also helps you serve customers more efficiently and effectively. Because the .store applet does not require customers to be set up in the system prior to shopping at your Web site, anonymous customers can place orders any time. In addition, customers can check the status of their orders using the new package tracking functionality in the e-Business Manager .inquiry applet.

The system allows you to maintain a user profile, giving you a powerful tool for tracking sales, better understanding your customers’ needs, and strengthening your customer relationships.

Designed for use in conjunction with the Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 e-Business Manager module.

Features

• Credit Card Payments - The .store applet allows the customer to pay for their purchases with a credit card. If the optional Credit Card Processing module is installed, a credit card authorization will be automatically obtained when the shopping cart is submitted. Credit card payment information flows directly into the accounting modules.
• User Profile - .store allows the user to maintain a user profile so that shoppers who return to the site do not have to reenter their information. Credit card information can optionally be stored as part of the user profile.
• Products and Services Page - The products and services Web pages provide the ability to view the items available on the Web in a collapsing tree view of categories. Categories can be used to make it easy for a customer to find items according to logical groupings. Once an individual item is selected, the image associated with the item is displayed, along with the price and description and the ability to add the item to the shopping cart.
• Products Search - On the products and services inquiry page, items can also be found by using the product search feature. This function allows you to search by item number, item description or categories. Search options give you the ability to search by the criteria “begins with,” “contains” or “ends with.”
• Display Shopping Cart - After items have been added to the shopping cart, either from the products and services page or from any of the drill-downs in .inquiry, clicking on the shopping cart icon will display the current contents of the shopping cart.
• E-mail Notifications - Decide if you want to send e-mail notifications when:
  • An Internet order is generated or rejected
  • An Internet order is shipped

.store Functions

The .store applet requires the purchase of the e-Business Manager module.

The .store applet allows your prospective Web customers to:

• Do an inquiry and search of your products and services
• Place orders without having to be previously set up in the system
• Check status of their orders through the .inquiry applet

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