Actinic offers a family of easy to use, feature-rich e-commerce software products
Actinic offers a family of easy to use, feature-rich e-commerce software products that can grow with your business; backed up by a comprehensive range of support options.
Whether you want to source a complete ebusiness web site, or build an ecommerce site yourself, Actinic can do the business for you.
Actinic is a desktop-based ecommerce solution and is based on a Microsoft Access database; the software needs to be installed on your own machine (it is not necessary to have Access installed). The requirements are:
Pentium PC running Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP or NT4;
minimum 64MB memory, 128MB preferred
100MB free disk space
recommend 65536 colour display
Internet access
Internet Explorer v5 (and higher)
This means you have a physical copy of the software, with manual, with support available from the manufacturer. The software works in a familiar, Windows syle, with drag and drop editing and an Explorer-type interface
The website can be run on a Linux, Unix or Windows server.
The administration of the shop is done on your own machine, the software then creates the web pages automatically from the product database and design templates, and uploads them to your web server.
One of the benefits of this is that the website is search engine friendly, as it is made of static webpages created by the software with static page names.
Orders are downloaded automatically to the order processing system using a built in ftp connection.
Built in Order Processing
Actinic Catalog for business to consumer ecommerce features a built-in order-processing module which deals with orders by phone, fax and post as well as from the web. With this, you can track payments from customers and payment service providers, print packing lists and invoices, and produce a number of sales reports.
Actinic Business for business to business ecommerce features sophisticated discounting, customised pricing schedules for individual customers, customer-specific store content and customer account management.
Actinic comes with a number of built in shop templates that you can choose from and get running straight away, additionally you have the option to choose colour schemes.
Custom Actinic Template
It is also possible (and in fact desirable) to have a custom template rather than use one of the built in templates - you don't want your shop to look exactly the same as several other shops! Unless you are very experienced with Actinic, you need to get this done by an Actinic specialist, such as Amaryllis Design, as there are many different template files which go to make up the complete site.
New - Actinic Express
Actinic have announced a new product - Actinic Express, which is a fully hosted online shopping cart system. It includes everything you need to sell on the internet. Whether you are a new start-up, or an existing business looking to expand online, Actinic Express will get you trading on the internet, fast, for a low monthly payment.
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