Sadly, the Match-funded grants available through the Connect.Glos scheme are now exhausted.

Through our association with "The Web Group", we are constantly seeking new sources of funding for our clients.

In the meantime, we can offer the following for Actinic Shopping Cart websites.

Actinic Catalog Client provides a comprehensive store management tool for use with ecommerce sites developed using Actinic Designer. Based on the award winning features of Actinic Catalog, CBN are able to offer it at a significantly lower in price.

The Catalog Client provides ease of use and flexibility in the areas of order processing, product catalogue management and marketing, leaving the site design in the hands of us, the professional web designer.

In a nutshell, we will build you a cart and propagate it with your products, then publish and host it.

We will then supply you with a “Client” licence to manage your own Products, "Brochure" pages, Accounting and the order fulfillment elements from your own PC.

You have nothing more to worry about.

Furthermore, if you choose this option, in the absence of any current grant schemes, we will provide you with an automatic £300 discount on the full cost of the site.

Key Features and Benefits

- Easy to use and intuitive Windows interface.
- Powerful marketing and merchandising features to assist in growing your online business.
- Extensive store management functionality for easy and efficient store operation.
- Flexible product catalogue supports up to 20,000 products including digital products.
- Independence to integrate with all the leading online payment gateways and commercial
hosting providers.

Features in Detail

Flexible Product Catalogue

- Explorer ‘drag and drop’ style interface to access product items quickly and easily
- Support for up to 20,000 products with product images
- Create unlimited number of product sections and subsections
- Multiple page layout options
- Create links to external files or urls
- Define product attributes and choices for each product and assign different prices to each
product choice
- Show product choices as radio buttons, drop downs or button grids
- Define additional components for each product
- Support for downloadable products such as mp3 music
- Add additional text or images in a pop-up window
- Specify shipping weights for each product
- Add shopper definable fields for personalized products
- Import and export product and section data

Comprehensive Store Management Functionality

- Built-in order-processing module processes orders from receipt to shipment
- Handles both online and offline orders
- One click order processing to allow fast processing of orders
- Accurately calculates shipping, handling and taxation costs
- Edit order details within the Actinic database
- Monitors stock levels during order processing, with alerts for low stock levels
- Print invoices, packing lists and address labels
- Create and view sales reports such as fastest selling items and best customers
- Generate customer emails with support for unlimited custom email templates.
- Prompted backup and restore feature
- User logon for catalogue management

Powerful Marketing Features

- Generates search-engine-friendly web sites
- Create Best Sellers list for publication to the web site
- Create Related Product lists to encourage additional purchases
- Automatically generate a New Products list and publish to web site
- Generate email lists and mailing lists including mailing labels, envelopes and reports
- Create customer accounts to increase shopper loyalty
- Apply discounts based on order value and display in the shopping cart

Customer Friendly Stores

- Online shopping cart with industrial strength security
- Fully integrated with all the leading online Payment Service Providers
- Support for secure offline payment processing
- Automatic email confirmation of order
- 'Remember me' option for returning visitors.
- Cart content summary visible on every page
- Automated site navigation features including menu bar, section list, site map and
'breadcrumb trail’
- High speed index-based online searching.