hosting    design    development    ecommerce    seo     analytics     backoffice    support
 

 
   
 
 

LaGarde StoreFront Features
 

StoreFront (SF) is an ASP.NET-based shopping cart that offers a rich feature set.  Ideal for small merchants
and scalable for enterprise solutions, StoreFront offers one of the strongest sets of functionality available today.  Affordable, StoreFront also has the advantage of being a mature product that is a market leader in its space,
and enjoys a robust developer community that provide customizations and pre-built add-ons.
 
As a certified StoreFront Solutions Provider, Digital Beach is well-experienced in delivering and maintaining
SF-based solutions across a wide range of merchants and market niches, as well as integrating core SF
functions with extensive customizations and add-ons.
 
Contact us for details.
 
 
 Features
 

Standard Edition

Advanced Edition

Merchant Advantage    
Personal E-Business Consultant
Experienced online business analysts offer oversight of your order and provide insight and assistance.
ü ü
Optimized Development Environment
To help you start building your online business as quickly as possible, we have created a staging site for you on our optimized StoreFront hosting platform.
ü ü
24/7 Support Services
Unlimited live support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Support is available free of charge for 30 days.
ü ü
Site Creation Tools    
Flexible Design Controls
Fully customizable web design allows for implementation of advanced site designs or integration with the look and feel of an existing site.
ü ü
FrontPage and Dreamweaver Integration
StoreFront site creation and design tools are available from the Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver menus.
ü ü
Technology Platform
ASP.NET - The newest web development language pioneered by Microsoft. Building on-line stores in .Net increases performance and gives you the framework for a more robust, extensible web application.
ASP.NET ASP.NET
Developer APIs
Published interfaces for modules such as shipping, tax, inventory, order tracking, etc. allow for full customization of the StoreFront application.
ü ü
Access or SQL Server Database Support
In addition to support for Microsoft Access, StoreFront provides full support for a robust, high performance SQL Server backend.
Access or SQL Access or SQL
Secure Online Operations
Ensure the security of customer and business data using StoreFront's sophisticated support for SSL and credit card encoding.
ü ü
Advanced Encryption
Industry leading Triple DES encryption offers state-of-the-art encryption technology to protect the integrity of credit card data.
ü ü
Product Management    
Number of Products
Catalog a virtually unlimited number of products. Shoppers can browse product pages or use the advanced search utility to find specific items.
Unlimited Unlimited
Product Import and Batch Update Utility
Easy information exchange! Add products to a web store or complete batch updates by simply importing data from an existing database or delimited file.
ü ü
Catalog and Product Page Templates
Catalog and product page design just got a lot easier. StoreFront lets you choose from a number of fully customizable templates without having to modify the html.
Multiple Customizable Templates Multiple Customizable Templates
Unlimited Sub-Categories
Build unlimited levels of categories and subcategories so that merchants can easily manage products and support drill down product searches.
ü ü
Price and Weight Sensitive Product Attributes
Easily manage product and shipping costs for product attributes, such as size. For example, merchants can charge more for a large bag of dog food and have accurate shipping costs that take into account the increased weight.
Price & Weight Price & Weight
Customer Defined Attributes
Provide shoppers with a field to input product specific special instructions or information. Great for personalized merchandise, such as invitations!
ü ü
Inventory Tracking With Backorder
Advanced inventory tracking features allow merchants to keep track of inventory and communicate that to customers. Allow or disallow backorders, display quantity in stock on product pages, receive e-mail notification of low stock levels and more.
  ü
Order Processing    
Integrated Shipment Tracking
Bring customers back to the web store to track delivery status. Get the same information returned from the shipping carrier's own web site while promoting repeat purchases.
ü ü
Merchant Account/Gateway Integration
StoreFront has built-in integration with most of the leading merchant account and gateway service providers (click here to view a list of integrated gateways). We also offer our own gateway service (click here for more information about StoreFront Payment Solutions).
Paymentech
Versign
StoreFront
Wells Fargo
and More
Paymentech
Versign
StoreFront
Wells Fargo
and More
Automated Tax Calculations
Local, state/province, and country tax region options can be used to calculate Tax rates during checkout.
 Local
State
Country
Local
State
Country
Multiple Payment Options
Accept electronic checks, purchase orders, COD, credit card, and phone/fax orders
ü ü
Download Delivery
Offer merchants automated delivery of soft goods, such as music, software, graphics, etc. Specify when the download is made available and for how long.
  ü
Automated Drop Shipping
Merchants can identify unique vendors for each product, so that when an order comes in, the vendor can ship the product to the customer from their warehouse.
  ü
Marketing and Promotions    
Promotional Mail Utility
Send product announcements and special offers to customers with html e-mails  - and add graphics and dynamic data for real impact.
HTML & Text HTML & Text
Search Engine Submission
Type in your own site-specific key words, meta-tags and descriptions, and StoreFront will automatically place them on your web store pages.
ü ü
E-Coupons
Now its easy to use coupons as sales incentives. Specify when and how the coupon will expire and what items the coupon can be applied to.
ü ü
Product or Storewide Sales
Launch sales for specific products, product categories, vendors or manufacturers or implement a storewide sale. Ex: All widgets on sale, 10% off all Acme products, everything on sale. You have the ability to accelerate sales where you want.
Storewide or By Category, Mfg., Vendor, or Product Storewide or By Category, Mfg., Vendor, or Product
Extended Affiliate Programs
Build referral sales with StoreFront's fully automated affiliate program. Powerful affiliate management tools allow affiliates to securely track referral sales.
ü ü
Suggested Selling
The easiest time to add on a sale is when a customer is buying. With suggested selling you can link add-on products to customers' choices several times during the buying process.
ü ü
Related Items
Encourage add-on sales by displaying related items at the bottom of product pages.
ü ü
Volume Pricing
Promote bulk purchases by offering volume purchase discounts. Set up to seven separate levels and offer a percentage or fixed amount off of base the base price.
  ü
Shopper Features    
Running Cart Total
Lets customers keep track of their order with a cart summary on every page.
ü ü
Customer Address Book
Shoppers can store an unlimited number of addresses in a personal address book. We make it easy for shoppers every step of the way.
ü ü
Multiple Ship-to Addresses
Just like it sounds. A customer can do holiday shopping and send gifts to multiple people within in a single order.
ü ü
Wish Lists
Allow customers to add items to a wish list and e-mail that list to friends and family. A great tool for holiday, wedding or special occasion shopping.
  ü
E-Mail to a Friend
Drive site traffic by giving shoppers the ability to email product information to a friend or associate.
ü ü
Gift Wrap
Shoppers can choose to have items gift wrapped when checkout out.
ü ü
Gift Messages
Personalized message can be associated with a gift item.
ü ü
Simple Search Utility
Let shoppers search for items from any page. A great feature!
ü ü
Gift Certificates
StoreFront 6 lets web stores to accept gift certificates as payment. Any leftover amount can be saved for later.
ü ü
Customer-Specific Pricing
Allows merchants to set up multiple tiered pricing specific to classes of customers, allowing "frequent shopper" programs or multi-level distribution systems.
  ü
Merchant Management    
Sales Reports
Monitor sales activity using detailed sales reporting tools. Generate sales summary, sales detail and product sales reports.
ü ü
Order Fulfillment
Merchants can manage incoming orders with StoreFront's order fulfillment tools. They can track which orders have been paid and/or shipped, print packing slips, and enter shipping tracking numbers.
ü ü
Web Based Merchant Tools
Easily update product information, run sales, and manage store settings through a set of web based store administration tools.
ü ü
E-Mail Confirmations
Merchants and shoppers receive instant e-mail notification when an order has been placed. Customize the content, add images, etc to your confirmation e-mails.
ü ü
QuickBooks Integration
Streamline your accounting operations with the integrated QuickBooks export tool. Automatically extract orders and customer data into QuickBooks.
Optional Optional

 

 
     
   
Digital Beach
Professional Services and Internet Consulting