E-Commerce

The following buttons have become a necessity for a successful e-commerce site.

Consumers have come to expect and demand that their e-commerce experience be as easy and secure as possible. Merchants on the other hand have come to expect e-commerce solutions to be lengthy cost prohibitive projects.

That is where Alan Enterprises comes in. We will provide you with a secure, user friendly shopping cart site in a timely manner that is within most merchants budgets. Check out the following features that we have available for you.

E-Commerce Features Utilizing

Secure Socket Layer encryption for sensitive credit card information assures customer confidence.
Supports Linkshare, Commission Junction and Shareasale.com, Web-based services for advertisers and direct marketers who want to setup an affiliate program for their Web site. This allows advertisers and direct marketers to pay affiliate partners on a per-visitor (click), lead or sale basis.
Powerful discount system for all your quantity based discounts and sale needs. Multiple breakpoints, selectable by part number or range of part numbers. Discount by percent, flat amount, or just set the price!
Tracks shipping and handling costs with a variety of calculation methods including on the fly UPS charges by zone and weight! The UPS shipping calculator we use will also handle orders which must ship in multiple boxes!
Will calculate shipping rates for FedEX.
Allows customers to choose their shipping method from what you offer them, and calculates the cost for that method.
Orders are sent securely to the email address of your choice.
Can be set up for orders to be sent to you via fax!
Calculates sales tax for application to "home state" customer orders. Multiple home states and variable tax rate handled also.
Displays a Summary of the Shopping Cart contents when an item is added to the cart.
A "clear shopping cart" button for starting over.
A "view shopping cart" button to double check what has been placed in it.
Handles "intangible" items such as services so they do not inadvertently incur a shipping charge if ordered by themselves.
Support for UPSELLing or impulse buying, suggesting a related product to complement the item to be purchased.
Allows a mix of tax exempt and non-tax exempt items, tracking taxes accurately.
Nearly infinite support for height, width, size, color, material, etc. including whether or not the options add or subtract from the item cost.
Place one or one hundred items in the cart with a single button.
Issues unique order numbers to you and the shopper to match them up with their order for inquiries.
Allows a mix of shipping exempt and non-shipping exempt items, tracking fees accurately.
Allows customers to change the quantity of items in their cart, or remove them altogether.
Always provides a link back to the last html page where the customer was shopping.
Programmable threshold below which you can charge a small order fee, reminding customers to increase their order amount.
Choice of ordering and payment methods for you to offer your customers.
The cart display feature a "view" button which shoppers can click to easily see an image of what they've placed in the cart.
Verifies fields in order submissions for completeness.
Verifies Credit Card Numbers to assure mathematical validity.
Eliminates customer confusion with it's clean, intuitive interface.
Can be interfaced to accept PayPal, the #1 payment service on eBay. Trusted on over 3 million auctions. PayPal is the easiest and cheapest way for small businesses and websites to accept payments online.
Can be interfaced to accept Verisign's PayFloPro
Can be interfaced to accept Authorize.net
Can be interfaced to accept Linkpoint API

Back Office Solutions

Helping Make Things Work at the Home Office with Order Manager

This is for when you are getting a lot of orders, which is great, but are having troubles keeping up with the processing end of things AFTER the sale is made.

Download orders from your shopping cart and import them into the Order Manager
Builds a searchable Customer list with order & payment history
Subtracts items sold from inventory; backorders out-of-stock items
Re-calculates tax, shipping & credit due for partial orders
Includes "drop ship" option - automatically email or fax drop-ship orders to suppliers
Allows manual entry of phone, fax and email orders
Approves orders that can be totally automated, marks others for manual review
Prints any combination of Sales Receipts, Packing Slips, Shipping Labels & Pick Lists
Prints order summaries for newly imported and approved orders
- Includes warnings for inventory items that fall below reorder points
- Includes credit due information for partial and unshippable orders
Prints accounting summaries for any range of dates
Includes "Gift Message" option for packing slips
Includes options for "virtual coupon" discounts
Supports Coupons, Discounts multiple Sales Tax rates and many shipping options
Easy interface with UPS WorldShip, FEDEX QuickShip and other shipping software - stop retyping names & addresses!
Flags orders from problem customers.
Interface with Verisign and Authorize.Net credit card processing services. Capture credit card payments that were approved in your on-line store. "Virtual terminal" for processing manual orders, credits, etc.
Compatible with Postal Package Partner for USPS shipping
Automated Order downloading - just click Import Orders, and the Order Manager will go to your website store and automatically download and import your new orders!
POS screen for easier entry of Point-of-Sale Orders. Includes barcode scanning capability.
Create purchase orders for re-stocking your inventory. Print, email or fax them to your suppliers. Use barcode scanner to receive new inventory.
Use Order Options (Color, Size, Style, etc.) to build "Sub SKUs" and track the exact inventory items that have been sold.
"Email Merge" capabilities and Email Template Editor.
Automated filling of back-orders.
Export selected customer data for use with bulk email programs.
First-in-first-out tracking of inventory value.
Export shipping information to text files for import into other shipping programs.
Open system - written in Microsoft Access - compatible with Access 97, 2000 and XP/2002
Includes over 100 user-selectable options to customize your Order Manager store
Custom modifications and reports available

Some Actual Sites

Check out the following e-commerce sites that we have created. See for yourself how quality design enhances the shopping and ordering process. Order some products! You will come to appreciate why a well designed site will out produce a poorly designed site with the same amount of traffic and offering the same products.

Now contact us to set up an appointment and see what we can do for you. Internet Solutions for the Real World! is our motto. We give that extra meaning by providing e-commerce solutions for the real world!

Box 336
Ambridge, PA
15003

724 - 266-5230 Phone
724 - 266-5287 Fax
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