Pro-Desk eCommerce Marketplace - Sales Modules

Commercial add-on module: Ecommerce Reports

An experienced storeowner knows that there is still much work to do beyond order fulfillment. Sales analysis is a good business practice that provides solid base for making the right management and marketing decisions. E-commerce reports add-on provides a set of multipurpose reporting tools for analyzing your online sales and customer base:

Key features:

• General Statistics: Provides general aggregate stats about online store operation.

• Product Sales: Analyzes sales for the period by product categories.

• Sales Dynamics: Displays bar chart for sales of selected product categories for the specified period.

• Sales by Geography: Splits your sales by geographical locations.

• Shipping/Payment Stats: Points out the most frequent shipping and payment options and their correlation.

• Focused Audience: Convenient tool for filtering your customer base according to the specified criteria (products purchased, geographic location, sum of orders etc.) If newsletters module is installed, promotional email (special offer, discount coupons, etc.) can be immediately sent to the focused group.

• All reports have configurable parameters and several forms of data presentation providing functional tool set for flexible e-commerce analysis.

$75.00

Commercial add-on module: Product Advisor

The eCommerce Product Adviser add-on module introduces multiple cross-selling opportunities to your eCommerce-based online store, including the means to notify customers of new arrivals, select items availability and price changes and to dynamically relate products to one another based on customers' selection of products.

Key features:

• Cross-selling is one of the easiest and least intrusive marketing techniques designed to widen the customer's reliance on the company and decrease the likelihood of the customer switching to a competitor.

• Using customer notification mechanism is an ideal way to remind your customers of products and services your business offers. At the same time, it reveals your customers' preferences and needs, and helps you plan your sales accordingly.

To successfully install the Product Adviser add-on module your shopping system requires eCommerce shopping cart software version 2.1 Service Pack 2 or later to be installed at your online store.

$75.00

Commercial add-on module: Gift Certificates

It is always a dilemma to choose the right present that is why many online customers prefer to leave the final choice up to the addressee. Gift certificate is a way to show care and attention while keeping everyone satisfied. Gift certificate add-on allows customers to purchase gift certificate for a certain sum that later can be used for purchasing goods from this store. When the addressee receives gift certificate he/she can visit the shop anytime to redeem it. Gift certificate can be redeemed partially or combined with other payment methods if gift certificate amount is not sufficient for the purchase.

The customers can send their gift certificates as an e-card or as a postcard. Several sample e-cards for most common events are bundled with this add-on however a shop owner can create his own e-cards.

• Storefront/Ordering gift certificates - To order a Gift Certificate, customers need to complete a simple form. The form allows a customer to specify who the GC is meant for, to enter the GC amount (the sum of money for which the GC should be issued), to add a message that will be enclosed with the Certificate and to choose how the GC should be delivered to the recipient.
  
  Gift Certificates can be sent via E-mail or (if the store admin enables this option) via Postal mail. If the customer chooses the E-mail delivery method, the GC will be sent in the form of an e-Card. The Select e-Card button allows the customer to choose the card design.
  
  Creating an e-Card, the customer can select the design that best suits his needs.

  In addition to the main e-Card image, the customer can choose a border pattern, as well as provide the forms of address which should be used in the greeting and farewell sections of the card.

  The customer can preview the card he has created. If necessary, he can go back to e-Card editing and re-adjust any e-Card settings. As soon as the customer is satisfied with the result, the GC can be added to the shopping cart.

  A GC is added to the customer's shopping cart as an ordinary product. Now, all the customer has to do is go to Checkout and place the order. The GC will be sent to the addressee as soon as the GC is activated by the store admin.

• Storefront/Redeem gift certificate - To redeem a gift certificate, the customer should select a 'Gift certificate' option in the payment methods menu.  The eight-character Gift Certificate code must be entered into a special field at the last stage of Checkout.

• Storefront/Gift certificate verification - Only Active Gift certificates can be used to pay for orders. GC owners can use Gift certificates verification service to check on the current status and amount of their GCs

• Administration back-end/Managing gift certificates - The store admin manages Gift Certificates created by customers via the 'Gift certificates' section of the admin interface. This section allows the admin to have all the information about the GCs in the store close at hand: for each GC the admin can see its eight-character identification code, the GC current status, the sum for which the GC was originally issued, the sum remaining on the GC currently, and the date when the GC was added. Gift Certificates' statuses can be updated directly in the Gift Certificates list. The GCs which are no longer needed can be deleted either separately or as a group.  Administrator can quickly view the details of any GC created at his store.  If necessary, the admin can add new GCs or edit the certificates added by customers.

• Administration back-end/Managing e-Cards - 'Gift certificate e-Cards' section allows the store admin to manage e-Cards used for Gift certificates. You will find several e-Cards bundled with the module - if you want, you can use them at your store. In addition to these ready-for-use e-Cards, you can create a practically unlimited number of e-Cards of your own. You can define the order in which your e-Cards should be displayed on the customer front-end and enable/disable e-Cards. Any e-Cards can be edited or deleted.  Based on templates, e-Cards are fully editable. You can easily change the images used by your e-Cards and the thumbnail pictures of the cards in the customer zone. For more substantial changes of the cards' contents and layout, eCommerce template editor can be used. You can either edit the templates of the existing e-Cards or create templates of your own.

• Administration back-end/Configuration - The module configuration settings allow you to define whether you want to send GCs by mail or not, to set the allowable GC amount range, to specify the period during which purchased GCs will be valid and to enter the shipping cost for GCs

$75.00

Commercial add-on module: Wholesale Accounts

This add-on was designed to give storeowners the ability to define flexible pricing/discount schemas for their merchandize and provide special pricing or access policies for customers with different membership levels. The functionality of this add-on is useful for wholesale trading companies, distributors, spare parts stores or any online store with vast product catalog or stores with average orders containing more than 2-3 items.

Key features:

• Flexible wholesale pricing feature allows defining various pricing schemas based on the quantity of purchased products and customers membership level.

• Global discounts flat or percentage discounts based on the order subtotal.

• Product or categories access you can permit to view the product, view its price or purchase the product only for registered customers or customers with particular membership on a per product basis.

• Membership trading possibility to sell memberships to your customers, you can provide special members pricing or access to particular product or categories for a limited period or perpetually.

• Bulk shopping feature makes online shopping easy for the customers who are placing big orders consisting of many products. When the category is in a bulk shopping mode it is possible to check items that you are going to order, select necessary quantity and add them to cart with a single mouse click.

• Printable price list generates brief printable version of your product catalog for reference and promotion purposes.

• Additional fields for the registration form additional fields that allows wholesale purchasers to provide necessary taxation information like federal tax ID, VAT/GST/PST registration numbers etc.

Administration back-end & Storefront/Wholesale prices - Wholesale Trading module allows you to set wholesale prices for any products in your store and make them available either to all the customers or to some privileged customer groups. You can define multiple levels of wholesale prices which will be applied depending on the quantity of products being purchased and on the membership of the customer who orders them

Wholesale prices appear on the customer front-end of your store in the 'Wholesale pricing' section of the product details page. A customer needs to be logged in as a privileged membership level user to be able to see the wholesale prices defined for his membership group

Administration back-end & Storefront/Bulk shopping - If you use LC membership levels to sort your customers by the type of privileges they exercise when using your store, you will certainly appreciate the new price list functionality allowing you to print out configurable price lists with information about wholesale product prices for different membership levels. You can select product categories which you would like to be included into a price list and create simple price lists for separate membership groups as well as composite price lists for several membership groups of your choice or all the membership groups defined for your store.

Wholesale Trading module 'Bulk shopping' feature enables your customers to simultaneously add to the shopping cart multiple products from one category. In categories for which bulk shopping is enabled, all available product variants are listed in a table. Customers do not have to open the product details page of each product they want to buy separately: they can select the product variants they want to add to the shopping cart and specify their quantity directly in the products table - and then add them to the shopping cart in bulk.

Administration back-end & Storefront/Global discounts - The module provides another powerful means for making your store more attractive to customers: global discounts. It is a kind of discount that can be applied to the price of all the products included into an order irrespective of the membership level of the customer who ordered them - if the order subtotal exceeds a certain amount. Global discounts may be absolute or percent.

The sum of the global discount is calculated automatically and is displayed to your customers on a separate line in the shopping cart.

Administration back-end & Storefront / Product access policies - The module allows you to set product access permissions: you can define what membership group(s) will be able to see a product on the storefront, to view its price and to order the product.

According to the product access settings, if a customer is allowed to see both the product and its price and has permissions to order the product, the product details page demonstrated to this customer includes product price and Add to cart button

For a customer from a membership group, which is allowed to view the product and its price but does not have permissions to buy the product, there is no Add to cart button on the product details page, so the customer is denied access to checkout.

If a customer belongs to a membership group that is allowed to see a product but is denied access to the product price, again, there is no Add to cart button, and the customer is shown a special message in the place where the price would be expected to appear (E.g. 'Call 555-555-5555 for details'). The price message can be defined by the store admin on the module configuration page.

Storefront / Product options - If the products sold at your store have options, you can enable your customers to select the option combinations they need in a more convenient way than using select boxes - that is in the form of a table. When enabled, 'Options' table displays all the possible product variants of the product being viewed (product options combinations - for example, 'Size: S + Color: Red'), the price of each variant (if the customer viewing the table belongs to a membership group which is allowed to see the price) and the quantity in stock of each of the listed variants (if Inventory Tracking module is used).

You can define the maximum number of product variants which can be shown in the 'Options' table. If the number of variants of some product exceeds this number, the options for this product are displayed to customers as usual - in select boxes.

Administration back-end & Storefront / Product options - If needed, you can set restrictions as to the quantity of products which can be purchased by a customer (purchase limit). For any product you can specify the minimum and/or the maximum number of product items which a customer is allowed to put into his shopping cart at a time.

If a customer attempts to order a quantity of a product that does not fit into the range specified in the purchase limit settings of this product, the customer is shown a message, explaining to him the reasons why the chosen product cannot be added to his shopping cart.

Administration back-end / Moderated sign-up for wholesale membership - Membership levels can be used to define the extent of privileges different kinds of customers can get using your store. The privileges may include the ability to purchase products at wholesale prices, as well as access to exclusive categories and products. Access to different kinds of privileges can be granted to customers on a commercial basis. Practically, your customers can sign up for a membership at the time of registration and get access to the advantages of this membership as soon as they are approved for it by the admin. The store owner can decide whether membership should be paid or free.

Administration back-end / Configuration - The Wholesale Trading module configuration page provides a flexible way to adjust the settings specific for the module. You can:

• Set up a message that will be shown in the place of a product price to customers who, for some reason, are not allowed to view the price.

• Specify the maximum number of lines which can appear in the 'Options' table on the product details page in the customer zone.

• Add fields to the customer registration form into which your wholesale customers will be supposed to enter their Sales Permit/Tax ID, VAT registration number, or GST and PST registration numbers.

• Select categories for bulk shopping.

• Add discounts that will be applied globally to all the products included into an order if the order subtotal exceeds a certain limit.

$75.00