Professional eCommerce
Professional eCommerce – Professional E-Commerce Product of ProStores
“Professional E-Commerce” of ProStores is among the most popular and basic professional products of it. In this solution, the ProStores provides an instant and automatic (with support of automatic wizards) online retail store setup which allows the users to create their online retail stores and online sales showrooms easily and instantly. In this way ProStores provides its users a hassle free set up for their online showroom creation.
“Professional E-Commerce” is an all-in-one, customizable ecommerce solution for small businesses starting or expanding their online businesses. Now this service is available with advanced merchandising, promotion, inventory management, and payment features for both retailers and service businesses.
“Professional E-Commerce” is in fact the basic service of ProStores and is a good choice for the customers who are either starting their new business online or are bringing their retail business on internet or are launching their next online retailing venture and are interested to have a watch on their business progress and achievements with online extensions of their selling points.
Following are the major services and advantageous features available with “Professional E-Commerce Solution” of ProStores Products:
1. Hosted Storefront with Secure Shopping Cart: ProStores allows its users to host their online retail store fronts to promote their sales online. It allows its users to create an online showroom to illustrate, promote, and sale their retail products. The ProStores provides secure shopping cart and payment options to its users.
2. Personalized Domain: The ProStores provides a personalized domain to its users for their online Storefront. The user can choose a shared domain name like “HTTP://STORE.PROSTORES.COM/YOURSTORENAME”. The shared domain name can later be upgraded to a dedicated domain name. The user can select a dedicated domain at any time. When a user is an existing ProStores ecommerce solutions subscriber, it can simply call the ProStores technical support phone number to select a domain name. Users are allowed one free domain with each subscription, but they can also purchase additional domain names and have them point to their ProStores web store. If they need or want more than one domain name, the appropriate additional charges will apply for the domain names beyond the one domain name that is included with the subscription without any additional cost.
3. Number of Products in online listing: In its “Professional E-Commerce Product”, ProStores permits listing of up to five thousand products in one online retail storefront.
4. SSL Security: All ProStores transactions are supported by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption, also known as secure order protection, secure certificate, or digital certificate. Developed by Netscape, SSL is a protocol for securely encrypting and transmitting electronic information between web servers across the Internet, and is the most popular method for ensuring the secure transmission of credit card data and consumer information. All the web stores customers will see a locked security icon on their browser when making payments, so they will know it is encrypted. SSL encryption protects sensitive information of the website, its visitors, and of those who do shopping on SSL secured websites. SSL secures the sensitive data even while accessing the ProStores Control Panel, store administration and web storefront pages that contain personal data.
5. Unique Email Boxes: In its “Professional E-Commerce Solution”, the ProStores provides up to 05 e-mail boxes with their unique e-mail ID’s. ProStores Professional ecommerce solution includes 5GB of storage space collective for these five email ID’s and other stuff of the online retail store.
6. Storage Space: The storage space for e-mails is a component of the ProStores ecommerce solutions hosting package disk space quota and no additional cost is required to be paid for this. The “Professional E-Commerce Solution” of the ProStores provides 5GB data storage space for the web store.
7. Monthly Data Transfer: The “Professional E-Commerce Solution” of the ProStores allows 50 GB data transfer (uploaded data PLUS Downloaded data) per month to its subscribers.
8. Multiple Administrative Users Allowed: ProStores permits its subscribers to create multiple user accounts for its stores with different access rights. To a single web store, the subscriber can assign multiple users with administrative rights and the great thing is that the subscriber can do this without any compromise with its sensitive and personal data or information.
9. Getting Start Checklist: With its subscriptions, the “Professional E-Commerce Solution” of the ProStores gives the subscribers a quick check list to get started on their online retail store for business promotions by setting up the most important aspects and parameters of the store with the help of this checklist.
10. Online tools and support: All merchants who have subscribed to the “Professional E-Commerce Solution” of the ProStores have access to online help, priority email assistance, and even the 24 X 7 toll free telephone service for any technical support required. In addition to these contact information of technical and customer support departments, a wide variety of support resources are available to ProStores customers through Store Administration and in the “Know How” section of ProStores.com.
11. Priority Email Technical Support: As mentioned in earlier point also, all subscribers of “Professional E-Commerce Solution” of ProStores have access to priority email assistance. The subscribers can contact the customer support department for any help on their priority e-mail ID’s and get quick assistance on any of the issues faced.
12. Easy to use design templates: In its “Professional E-Commerce Solution”, the ProStores provides easy to use templates for quick design of online retail store with its built-in storefront website templates and custom designs. The user can choose from more than one hundred fifty available design templates and customize them as per their own interest to provide special information about business and the company. These design templates are customizable in their themes and layouts. The offered design templates are created with specialist expertise and give attractive as well as professional look and feel to any online showroom created with them. There are available special templates for specific business types. For example, a user can find very suitable templates for book stores & libraries, automobile spare parts businesses, gift shops, or any other retail business. There are available some general purpose templates also which can be used for multiple or miscellaneous business types. These may be used for the retail shops which have multiple categories of products on sale.
13. Logo Generator: With its Logo generator feature in “Professional E-Commerce Solution”, the ProStores provides its subscribers facility to create their custom logo just in a few minutes. Customers can add name of their company with the logo images. The customers are allowed to use these custom created logos wherever they want to promote their business.
14. Customizable Basic Designs: ProStores provides tools for easy customizations to its design templates as per the need and interests of the customer. The basic designs available with ProStores can be customized in their layout as well as color themes with adding of logo, images, and other informative media to them.
15. Theme builder, HTML design editor and service of Advanced Customization: With its theme builder and HTML design editor facilities in “Professional E-Commerce Solution”, the ProStores provides the tools to edit the layout and design of the web pages by addition, deletion, and modifications in the content material and their location on the page. In its advanced editing tools, ProStores provides to customize the look and feel of the web store with popular third party HTML Editing tools. The best part of this product is that “Professional E-Commerce” is completely a web based program and does not need any set of special software for it. This means that there is no need to install any software on the personal computer. All the buildings and maintaining tasks of the website are through your web browser only and no memory of the personal computer is consumed in any software installation. The website, as being developed through a completely web based program, can be controlled and maintained from any location from any general purpose computer which is capable to get connected to internet and has a web browser with it.
16. Integration with E-Bay: “Professional E-Commerce Product” of ProStores supports online listings of products on e-bay as well as on the online sale point of ProStores. In this product solution, the ProStores provides an integrated service for e-Bay listing, e-Bay Stores Market Places, and ProStores Web Storefront. The subscribers can create e-Bay listings from their ProStores Storefront products or even from their preferred e-Bay listing tool. They can have buyers to checkout through any point of sale.
17. The facility to Copy existing websites: The ProStores Business understands that many people already may have a business websites of their own. For these customers, in the “Professional E-Commerce Solution”, ProStores offers a tool that allows the users to build the ProStores Online Retails Store onto the website the users already have. With Copy Center the user can keep your design elements of its old website, its images as well as the data, and yet updating the site in an easy and quick way.
18. Design Studio of ProStores: ProStores Business also realizes that not all its users have the same design skills. They understand that some of the users may be the experts of designing, the others may be novice and some others may be illiterate about designing concepts for web sites. For the web design illiterates and novice users, ProStores in its “Professional E-Commerce” provides easy to use automatic wizards to create instant web sites. But for the expert users who are interested to go beyond the templates of the wizard based web sites, and want to give them more customized and personal look, ProStores provides a set of design tools in its Design Studio facility. Although, it may take some time to learn about facilities provided in this Design Studio Pack, and to learn how to use them in better ways, but, once used with expected expertise, this gives great power to the users to give their web pages the best personal look and feel. And in fact learning about Design Studio of ProStores is much simpler than learning about the web designing tools and other concepts, and also far less expensive than hiring a professional website designer. Once the user learns the basics thoroughly, they can take their site to entirely a new level of acceptance and appreciation.
19. E-bay Sync Service: A user who has an e-Bay listing of its retail products may also be interested in ProStores products. With the services of ProStores, an e-Bay user may be interested to start an online showroom customized and personalized for its own business company. It gives birth to a complex situation where either the user needs to divide its inventory into two independent parts for the two independent online showrooms, or there may be duplicate listing of an item in the inventory and serious conditions of double sold may also arise. But e-bay provides a great solution for this with its “Professional E-Commerce” of ProStores. E-Bay allows the users to maintain a common synchronized inventory for its online retail point on ProStores and for its listing of products with e-bay online retail store. The inventory records are updated according to sales from any of the two sale points and are kept in synchronization for both of the sales points.
20. Free Shopping Site Submission: With its “Professional E-Commerce Solution”, the ProStores helps the subscribers with routed visitor traffic by automatically submitting their domain names to popular search engines like Google Base, theFind.com, and Nextag etc. this automatically brings business and popularity to the newly created retail web store.
21. Managed Shopping Site Feeds: ProStores automatically manages the catalog feeds to shopping site search engines to route more population and popularity to the ProStores retail webs. It manages the catalog feeds with popular shopping search engines like Shopping.com®, Shopzilla ™ and Google Base ™ etc.
22. Search Engine Optimization for web Storefronts: To its “Professional E-Commerce Solution” subscribers, ProStores facilitates with its automated search engine optimization ability. With this ability, ProStores adds customized key words, Meta tags and also customizes other settings to maximize the search engine visibility of a storefront.
23. Automated Site Map Management by ProStores: The stores that have a dedicated domain name (not a shared domain name e.g. “www.storename.com”), can automatically create and update a store site map. The site map allows web crawlers to index the store which can help achieve higher search engine rankings. The user may also choose to create settings to notify Google and Yahoo! automatically each time a new site map is generated.
24. E-Mail Marketing Facility: As a third party associated service, ProStores manages e-mail marketing campaigns with Constant Contact or Sales in a Click for its subscribers of “Professional E-Commerce”. Although a third party fees for this service may apply.
25. Shopping Cart Facility: In the “Professional E-Commerce” , the subscribers get a shopping cart facility and the settings for this shopping cart can be customized as set by the user as per their own interests.
26. Payments Processing With PayPal: Professional E-Commerce Service allows its subscribers to accept online payments from the online buyers of the goods in the stores. These payments are usually acceptable through payment gateways of PayPal. Users hereby can take advantage of real time credit card payments and buyers can make use of their credit cards to purchase the goods from these online retail stores.
27. Multiple Payment Methods: Professional E-Commerce subscribers of ProStores get the facilities of manual or real-time credit card processing plus store card, check and money order payment options.
28. Facilities from compatible payment gateways: “Professional E-Commerce” is fully integrated with the payment gateways from Authorize.Net, PayPal PayFlow Pro®, PayPal® Website Payments Pro, QuickBooks® Merchant Service, LinkPoint®, Innovative Gateway Solutions, and CyberSource®. Hence the subscribers to this solution can take advantages from them.
29. Security Features for Online Business and Credit Card Payments: The ProStores Business offers ways to help reduce the risk for frauds of online purchases and payments through credit cards. This service includes a Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTPS) server access through Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for maintaining secrecy and security in such online financial transactions. ProStores Business also asks potential customers for their CVV2 code (printed on the back of most credit cards) before completing the transaction. This helps ensure that your customer has the physical card, not simply the number, and hereby extends the security of the credit cards.
30. Invoice adjustments and recurring Billing features: The ProStores for its “Professional E-Commerce” subscribers adjust the invoices as needed by them. It also automatically issues credit card refunds when using real-time credit card processing. Not only this, the subscribers of ProStores also get facility of automatic generation of invoices and schedules of recurring billing on credit cards.
31. Additional and advanced payment options: ProStores offers purchase order, internal department order and cash (COD) order payment options to the customers or buyers on the web storefront of its “Professional E-Commerce” subscribers.
32. Taxation tools from ProStores: ProStores facilitates its subscribers of “Professional E-Commerce” with a set of taxation tools for customizable computing and reporting of state and local sales tax tables. This facility is provided with an integration with AvaTax Sales Tax Service.
33. Shipping control tools from ProStores: The “Professional E-Commerce” subscribers at ProStores can create their own custom shipping tables. They can also configure custom shipping methods and rates for shipping of each one of their products separately as required. The users can also specify flat rates or they can specify calculated rates from UPS® or USPS® for domestic and international destinations. They also have the options of calculating shipping rates in real-time with the FedEx®, UPS®, USPS®, or Canada Post® integration. The subscribers to “Professional E-Commerce” would save time and generate shipping labels from their stores for quick order fulfillment.
34. Post Sales Management Services from ProStores: To its subscribers of “Professional E-Commerce”, ProStores provides efficient Post Sale Management Support for convenient use of their web storefronts. ProStores maintains services for lost password recovery by automated look up and by e-mail of lost passwords in a efficient and secure manner. ProStores allows its subscribers to share their web storefront data with other business applications and internal or external work processes. It provides services to export Products Information, Orders Information, and Customer Information to other business applications for extended services and usage.
35. Catalog Management Service: ProStores provides catalog management services to its subscribers of “Professional E-Commerce”. In this service, the subscribers get the facility of eBay sync in which they can sell products on eBay and ProStores simultaneously and ProStores will automatically manage synchronous inventory in both places. The users can also choose to automatically create products in their ProStores Web store when new listings are created on eBay. ProStores also provides product catalog service to its subscribers. The users can organize their products by categories, subcategories, product names, or manufacturer names etc. The users have freedom to create unlimited number of categories and subcategories and the ability to assign products to multiple categories. They can create and manage up to ten attributes for each and every product in their catalog. The subscribers of ProStores Solutions avail the facility of inventory tracking at attribute level. It enables them with an ability to manage inventory and pricing by product attributes like size and color. The users also have facility of inventory based automatic catalog control and need not to worry about “out of stock” products appearing in the product catalog of the storefront. ProStores takes the responsibility of it and automatically hides the products that are out of stock. The administrator of the storefront can also set the inventory thresholds for hiding the products.
36. Reporting and Accounting Tools of ProStores: The subscribers of “Professional E-Commerce” get the facilities of powerful reporting and accounting tools of eBay. Over a dozen reports are available to the service subscribers to help them in managing their retail stores. The subscribers can utilize the sophisticated web analytical reporting tools to analyze the traffic activity on their online ProStores retail storefronts. With QuickBooks® Integration, ProStores allows the service subscribers to share their products, purchase orders of their customers, and the customer information directly with QuickBooks.
37. Customer attraction and routing services of ProStores: With ProStores, e-Bay enables its user to attract new customers online with automated Google Base feed and online marketing tools.
38. Free of Cost for a limited trial period: ProStores understands the importance of trial and evaluation of the product before investments and its purchase. For this, ProStores offers its subscribers of “Professional E-Commerce” a One Month Free Trial Subscription. This one month free trial offer is limited to one trial subscription per account. Further, this includes waiver of Monthly Subscription Fees only. Successful Transaction Fee of 0.5% still applies in this trial period. The offer does not end here. ProStores also offers One Year Free Dedicated Domain Registration. This offer is limited to one free domain name registration for one year per ProStores account. This offer includes waiver of annual domain name registration fee for one year. Thereafter, domain registration will be automatically renewed at the rate of 8.95 USD per year. Private domain name registration can be added for 10 USD and will renew at a price of 18.95 USD per year. The offer in fact expires in 30 days from date of ProStores sign up. All of the above explained offers of ProStores on its “Professional E-Commerce” subscription are nontransferable and may not be combined with any other offers or discounts. These offers of ProStores may also not be exchanged or redeemed for cash. Additional terms and conditions although are applicable and the users are advised to please see the Merchant User Agreement for details on trial and promotion offers.