Powered by a familiar Windows interface, Actinic ECommerce software provides ease of use, flexibility and a comprehensive range of features in a value for money package. Backed up by a range of support and service options and a ready-made upgrade path to more advanced functionality providing a platform to building a successful online business.

Easy to use Windows interface
Actinic Catalog presents a familiar and easy to use Windows interface with Start Up and Design Wizards to get you up and running quickly.

Flexible product catalogue
Managing your product catalogue is made easy with the Explorer-style ‘drag and drop’ interface. Select from a number of product page layout options to display up to 20,000 products with further flexibility to create unlimited sections and subsections, product variations and components. Actinic Catalog also supports downloadable, digital products such as mp3 music files.

Customisable store design and layout
The design module provides complete flexibility to design your store in the way you want to. Select and amend from a range of pre-designed themes, mix and match elements from the design library and edit colour schemes, fonts and layouts to create your own unique, customised store. Preview your site in real-time as you go.

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Actinic Catalog is the best-selling ecommerce software application and includes everything a business needs to build and manage an online store. Powered by a familiar Windows interface Actinic Catalog provides ease of use, flexibility and a comprehensive range of features in a value for money package. Backed up by a range of support and service options and a ready-made upgrade path to more advanced functionality, Actinic Catalog will provide a platform to building a successful online business.

Efficient order processing and customer management
Actinic Catalog has comprehensive built-in order processing functionality to efficiently process orders from receipt to delivery. Download orders from the website; easily print invoices, packing lists and address labels, monitor stock levels and customise email communications to your customers.

Powerful marketing and merchandising features
Actinic Catalog provides a range of advanced marketing and merchandising features to assist in growing your online business.

Your web site pages are automatically generated in a search-engine friendly format; good for natural search engine rankings. You can easily create mailing lists from your customer database and create special offers and discounts.

Merchandising features include generating Best Seller, New Product, Recently Viewed and Related Products lists to encourage additional purchases. Display customer feedback to increase customer trust and likelihood of purchase by demonstrating the retailer's commitment to good customer service. And, the Google Analytics integration enables you to monitor your site performance.

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Actinic Business provides a powerful and affordable ecommerce package for businesses requiring increased efficiency and sophistication for both online and offline business operations. Building on the comprehensive features in Actinic Catalog, Actinic Business provides additional, advanced features in the areas of marketing, customer management and integration with Sage 50 Accounts. Actinic Business also offers extended functionality for businesses operating through mail order and retail channels including a facility to process mail and telephone orders (MOTO) and integration with Actinic EPOS.

Powerful order processing and customer management
Actinic Business provides all the functionality included in Actinic Catalog together with enhancements to improve customer service and order processing efficiency, particularly for businesses taking orders through online and mail or telephone channels. The mail order/telephone order (MOTO) screen enables the input of orders directly into Actinic.Dealing with other businesses or customers on a regular basis is made easier by setting up customer accounts or groups, and applying specific criteria such as discounts, messages and payment methods.

Advanced marketing and merchandising features
Actinic Business provides all the marketing and merchandising features included in Actinic Catalog together with some significant enhancements to assist in growing your online business.

Use sophisticated merchandising techniques to increase sales including multiple use coupons, ‘buy one get one free’, discounts based on quantity or specific products ordered and ‘Also Bought’ lists to show products others have purchased.

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Actinic Business Plus extends the capabilities of Actinic Business for companies requiring multi-site management and multi-user order processing and content management. Actinic Business Plus enables the creation and management of an unlimited number of sites together with the option of adding multiple user licences for simultaneous use on networked PCs.

Sophisticated order processing and customer management
Actinic Business Plus provides all the functionality included in Actinic Business including features to improve customer service and order processing efficiency, particularly for businesses taking orders through online and mail or telephone channels. The mail order/telephone order (MOTO) screen enables the input of orders directly into Actinic. Dealing with other businesses or customers on a regular basis is made easier by setting up customer accounts or groups, and applying specific criteria (discounts, messages, payment methods).

Integration with other systems
Actinic Business Plus provides integrations with Sage 50 Accounts software and Actinic EPOS for businesses with a physical retail shop. These facilities allow the transfer of orders and other data between the systems to assist in improving operation of your business.

Multi-user and multi-site management
Actinic Business Plus enables order processing and catalogue content management simultaneously on multiple networked PCs (up to 4 users) together with the ability to manage multiple online stores with a single licence. Actinic Business Plus is supplied with a single user licence as standard with the option of adding up to 3 additional users (additional licence cost).

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Building on the comprehensive features in Actinic Business Plus Actinic Enterprise is designed for successful online and multi-channel businesses that need a scaleable package with room for future growth. Based on the high performance Microsoft SQL database, Actinic Enterprise provides enhanced performance for businesses that handle large order volumes; sell through multiple channels or require multi-user access for order processing and catalogue maintenance. Actinic Enterprise is a highly flexible and functional application that will sit at the heart of a multi-channel business; optimised for the web, with comprehensive support for mail and telephone order processing (MOTO) and the ability to synchronise with Actinic EPOS for in-store automation.

High performance and scalable database with multiple user access control
Based on Actinic’s widely used and award winning ecommerce platform, Actinic Enterprise adds a fast and scaleable SQL-based local database which provides superior performance for a larger numbers of users and greatly increased throughput where the order volume is high. The ‘granular’ access control enables users roles and responsibilities to be set so that individuals are given access only to relevant areas or functions of the system.

Sophisticated order processing
Actinic Enterprise provides all the functionality required to efficiently process a high throughput of orders including an ‘order picker’ feature to speed up product picking in a warehouse. The mail order/telephone order (MOTO) screen enables the input of orders directly into Actinic and, combined with an Actinic Payments account, you can process credit card payments directly for those orders.

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Actinic Link for Sage 50 Accounts integrates your Actinic ecommerce site with your Sage 50 Accounts software by enabling data transfer between the two systems. With Actinic Link for Sage 50 Accounts you can export orders from Actinic Ecommerce into your Sage 50 Accounts software, and update customer account, stock level and product information from Sage 50 Accounts into Actinic.

Actinic Link for Sage 50 Accounts is included as standard with Actinic Business, Business Plus and Enterprise (not available for Actinic Catalog).

Benefits

• Streamlines and enables flexibility in your online business operations


• Speeds up and reduces cost in the fulfilment process


• Saves time and reduces errors by eliminating the need to re-key website orders into Sage 50 Accounts software or manually update the Actinic web catalogue

Features

• Windows style interface and comprehensive on-screen help


• Transfers all orders (sales orders and invoices) directly from Actinic into Sage 50 Accounts


• Reads and translates customer and product records from Sage 50 Accounts for seamless transfer into Actinic


• Retains customer discounts or special pricing allocated within Sage


• Customer log-in enables unique pricing at the website and stored address details


• Reads Sage field descriptions ‘Web Description’, ‘Web Image’ and ‘Web Category’ to give control over how products appear online.


• Flexibility to transfer all your product details or update your stock quantities only.


• Flexibility to transfer your entire customer base or selective customers


• Select how you raise sales orders within Sage (Accounts Professional only), raise invoices (Accounts Professional and Accounts Plus only) or transfer orders as batch invoices (all versions).


• Handles orders from registered customers, and from new (unregistered) customers.

Actinic Link for EPOS improves business management through bringing together the online and offline areas of your business. For retail businesses with both a physical and online store Actinic Link for EPOS is the easy and cost effective way to integrate your multi-channel business by enabling the transfer of data between Actinic Ecommerce and Actinic EPOS software applications. It also gives you greater control, saves time and improves accuracy of stock control, product management and reporting.

Actinic EPOS Link is included as standard with Actinic Business, Actinic Business Plus, Actinic Enterprise and Actinic EPOS Network.

Benefits

• Improves business management through synchronising the online and offline areas of the business


• Saves time and reduces errors through eliminating the need to re-key product data into Actinic Ecommerce and Actinic EPOS applications, or to update each application manually


• Improves efficiency and accuracy of stock management through real time synchronising and reporting of stock levels

Features

• Synchronises stock levels across both Ecommerce and EPOS applications in real time


• Reads and transfers product data and prices between Actinic Business and Actinic EPOS Network


• Product data includes description, barcode, price, tax code, product and content categories and section hierarchies


• Prices can be updated within Actinic EPOS and transferred into Actinic Business with a single button click


• Data transferred via the internet allowing online and offline operations to be run and managed from separate locations with no need for networking


• Easily enter product information including barcodes into ecommerce product fields using a scanner


• Create integrated, cross-channel promotions and communications for new and existing customers


• Manage all your orders and stock levels in Actinic EPOS to easily place purchase orders with your suppliers.


• Select which products are displayed on the website and how they are transferred to reflect correct tax codes and prices for applicable customer groups, regions and countries

System Requirements

• Ecommerce – Actinic Business v8.5.0 or above


• EPOS – Actinic EPOS Network