ProStores Advanced

ProStores Advanced

ProStores Advanced tier option is suitable for small- to medium-sized retail or service businesses who are looking towards maximizing their sales, creating a hyperbolic profits graph as well as fine tune and contour business operations economically and efficiently. Advanced and modern merchandizing, product or service promotions, easy inventory management and an array of payment features are just a few benefits that this plan offers to its esteemed web store owners. This tier plan is an ideal option for online merchants who would prefer to track inventory by item specifics, like size or color or access advanced promotional tools like storewide sales, quantity discounts, and promotion codes. It offers a complete e-business solution; a system with proven superior viabilities.

Below is a brief description of services and features offered in the ProStores Advanced tier plan:
Website Hosting and Setup:
• Website hosting with 10 GB storage space
• Personalized domain name registration
• Up to 100 unique email boxes
• 200 GB/month data transfer
• Up to 180 customizable design templates and tools to get a personalized and professional look and appeal to your web site.
• Ability to integrate 3rd party functions (including Dreamweaver, Flash and MP3s); to enhance the overall look of the web store.
• 24/7 technical assistance; available online, by priority email or toll free phone number.
Payments
• Shopping carts coupled with a safe and secure SSL enabled checkout.
• Special groups like vendors and employees get password protected access rights and shipping calculator is added to check out pages.
• Secure payment processing via credit card, PayPal, WorldPay, store card, checks as well as money orders.
• Get the added benefit of creating your own custom shipping tables. Integrated with FedEx®, UPS®, USPS®, or Canada Post®
• This plan also offers additional payment options: purchase orders, internal department orders and cash (COD) orders.
• Advanced tax calculation features
Sale Management:
• Schedule recurring billing for subscriptions, services, installment payment options, and “product of the month” clubs
• Merchants can also sell downloadable products like e-books, software and music.
• Individual shopping carts of customers can be stored and the purchase can be made at a later time. Alternatively, customers can add or subtract items from their stored shopping carts.
• Shopping history or past purchases of frequent buyers is stored. Therefore, repeat purchases are quick and simple for frequent buyers.
• Advanced order management system allows you to update orders, issue credit, and create reporting.
• Add invoices for orders taken by phone, in person, or via email
• Upload and share your product, order and customer information with QuickBooks®, Access and Excel
• 17 sophisticated reports to enhance management of your ProStore
Merchandizing and Marketing
• The plan offers promotional capabilities, including storewide sales, quantity discounts, and promotion codes
• Issue store credits for orders, goodwill or promotions
• Create unlimited pages and sell an unlimited number of products
• Organize and further refine your product catalog by category, product name or manufacturer as well as with cross-references.
• Powerful and extensive search engine makes product searching easy for customers. Search can be done by price, keyword, SKU, category, subcategory, price range or product name.
• Enables daily submission to popular shopping engines like Yahoo!® Shopping™, Shopping.com®, Shopzilla™ and Froogle™
• Manage email marketing campaigns for your buyers.
• Integrated with eBay.com and eBay Stores listing formats; therefore merchant gets an access to 147 million customers.
• Access advanced tools to help with search Engine Optimization
Inventory Management:
• Hide products when products are out of stock, choose whether to display quantity available to customers, and enable backorders
• Consolidate inventory management for all sales channels
• Automate inventory management functions
• Organize and view low online inventory and back order reports

The pricing structure of the above tier plan is thus: $74.95/Monthly, 0.50% Successful Transaction Fees.

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