Which Version of StoreSense Is Right for Me?
If you are looking for Marketing website that has a powerful, integrated shopping cart which can be used immediately or saved for later, then select the StoreSense Starter Edition.
StoreSense Standard Edition offers a richer, more sophisticated set of capabilities than most small business e-commerce packages on the market today, yet the Professional Edition may be a better fit because its features offer greater versatility and more enhanced customer incentives, which ultimately means it may be better equipped to achieve your online objectives.
StoreSense Professional PLUS offers even more features that let you take your e-business to the ultimate level, especially if you want to establish multiple customer groups with unique price levels or assign customers to specific sales reps.
To do the following, you will want to choose a StoreSense Professional Edition store :
Store Operation
- Automatically send e-mail notifications to store manager on shipping confirmation.
- Notify the "Store Buyer" via e-mail of low inventory items.
Billing & Payment Options
- Offer additional payment options of COD, Purchase Orders or internal department orders.
- Establish PO limit amounts for each customer.
- Allow registered customers with valid resale # to indicate that purchases are for resale & waive sales tax charges.
Promotions
- Offer quantity discounts by product.
- Offer storewide sales with a percentage discount. You will have the ability to exclude selected products from the sale.
- Offer multiple promotions that are activated by Promo Code entry during the check out process. This can also be positioned as an online Gift Certificate program.
- Track the results of special promotions.
Order Management
- Issue store credits for orders, goodwill, or promotions.
- Automatically send e-mail notifications to store manager on shipping confirmation.
- Have the ability to manually enter an order from the Store Management area.
Product Management
- Sell services, subscriptions or memberships.
- Support recurring billing.
- Offer electronic download for digital products.
- Relate products to one another to prompt the customer for a potential purchase of a product in which they have already shown an interest. Can also be positioned for "up sales."
- Have additional product attributes (i.e. size/color) with different price points for each attribute.
- Collect information (up to 5 editable fields) from the customer that is specific to a product they purchased (i.e. height, weight, inseam, waist, eck).
- Display additional custom fields on a product's Catalog Detail page.
- Identify products that require special authorization for a customer to purchase.
- List MSRP price in addition to your "sell" price for comparison.
- Have product-specific surcharges that are taxed appropriately and not impacted by a sale. Editable surcharge text is displayed on the checkout and invoice.
- Assign product-specific shipping charges with the ability to exclude normal shipping charges on the product.
- Have the ability to exclude selected products from storewide sales.
- Define special product services and fees for products (i.e. custom engraving) and prompt the shopper for input (i.e. text to be engraved). This will be treated as a service and not taxed, and excluded from promotions and sales.
- Have the ability to classify a product as a "lead" listing in the catalog that will prompt the shopper for additional information for a sales rep to contact for follow-up. This might be used for a special order/custom product that would not be purchased directly from the online store.
Inventory Management
- Hide products from the catalog when the inventory reaches zero or a defined threshold value.
- Define product inventory threshold levels that will show on reports that the product needs to be reordered and/or hide the product from the catalog.
- Manage backorders: Allow orders on backordered products to be accepted and/or notify a customer that the product is backordered during the checkout.
- Have the ability to display current inventory levels to the shopper.
- Have access to reports that indicate low inventory and backordered products.
- Access Cost of Inventory reports.
- Notify the "Store Buyer" via e-mail of low inventory items.
Customer Management
- Have access (both customer & merchant) to customer order history.
- Allow customers to save shopping carts for recurring orders.
- Allow customers to manage their profiles via their browser.
- Define order limits by customer.
- Create "Members Only" area of store with different/additional catalog.
- Manage authorization to allow customers to purchase selected products.
- Manage customer "subscriptions" that allow them to purchase selected products.
- Collect up to 8 editable additional fields of information as part of a customer profile. This is in addition to the standard information collected (name, company, bill to address, ship to address, 6 phone #'s, payment type).
Advanced Reporting
- Track the success of your special promotions.
- View total cost of current inventory report.
- View "Top 20" customer report.
- View sales report by customer.
To include the following advanced features, you will want to select a StoreSense Professional Plus Edition store.
Professional Plus Edition includes the Customer Plus, Sales Manager and Supplier Connect modules, which combine to establish one of the most feature-rich e-commerce solutions available for a fraction of what other companies have paid to get equivalent capabilities. You, your customers and your suppliers will greatly appreciate all the extras, and they might just give you the competitive edge you need to 'lead the way' in your market area, too!
Customer Plus
- Create and manage customer groups.
- Assign customers to different groups (i.e. retail/wholesale/West Region/dealer) and provide different pricing based on the assigned group.
- Create a frequent buyer club or members-only area with special pricing.
- Give discounts to customers/groups based on a percent off the sales price or a percentage above cost.
- View sales reports based on customer groups.
Supplier Connect
- Automatically notify suppliers of orders (by e-mail, EDI or fax) for drop shipment to your customer, creating a virtual inventory business process.
- View pending orders by supplier, even if the order spans multiple suppliers.
- Based on the shipping confirmation, separate partial orders for special handling.
Sales Manager
- Create & manage your own affiliate program.
- Gather sales leads by product.
- Define & track sales managers, salespeople and affiliates.
- View sales activity reports of affiliates, sales managers, and sales people by day, week, month, quarter and annually.
- Automatically assign a salesperson to a lead.
- Assign salespeople to customers.
