AspireCommerce is an innovative Ecommerce management program that allows you to conduct all of your online business transactions in one customized, integrated, and efficiency-maximizing system. With the following unique features, AspireCommerce is sure to meet all of your business's variegated and individual needs:
Order Management
Custom Order Creation
Pro Formas
Product Categories
Customized Products
Customer Benefits
Affiliate Support
Product Promotions
Localization & Translation Support
Import/Export Capabilities
Complete Module Setup Control
Integration With AspireSoft System
Comprehensive Order Administration:
Consolidated Records
The system provides you with a complete, accessible database of all orders in one convenient location.
Standardized Classification
System assigned ID numbers for each order allow for effective organization and ease in future reference.
Filtered Results
The extensive, time-saving search function allows you to narrow down the list of orders and readily locate desired information.
Order Details
The list of orders allows you to readily view all relevant details (date/time placed, customer, payment method, tax, total, paid amount, status, etc.).
Simple Order Addition
Within the administration, you can easily create new orders by filling out a simple form.
CRM Access
When creating new orders, you can access the CRM in order to search for and assign appropriate customers.
Contact Creation
Should the desired customer not yet exist in the CRM, you can create a profile for them from right here in the Ecommerce administration.
Accessible Contact Details
Integration with the CRM allows you to search for and select contact information connected to the specified customer in order to easily complete fields such as the shipping and billing addresses.
Product Controls
If the desired product is not yet listed in the product database, you can create an entry for it right from here.
Automatic Updates
Every time a product is selected, the system automatically fills in the form with the its details and calculates a new subtotal.
Delivery Determination
In creating orders, you are free to select any shipping method you like and can specify an appropriate shipping fee.
Flexible Billing Details
Should you wish, you can have the billing details automatically filled in with the customer's name and address, rather than manually entering them.
Comprehensive Index
In the administration you can easily access a complete list of all existing pro formas, representing regularized, pre-set sales agreements with certain customers.
Practical Search Filters
The straightforward search engine allows you to narrow down the list and locate desired information more efficiently.
Fully Adjustable Details
You are free to modify the specifics related to existing pro formas at any time you like.
Simple Creation
Establishing new pro formas is as simple as filling out a few specified fields.
CRM Access
In specifying the details of pro formas, you have full access to data stored in the CRM, in order to easily specify customers and their associated details (shipping address, billing address, etc.).
Product Management:
Systematic Organization
The straightforward product tree allows you to easily view and modify the structure of your online store, based upon customized product categories with individual products within them.
Structural Modifications
With the product tree, you are able to move the position of individual product categories and/or products within the hierarchy using simple arrow icons.
Category Creation
With a simple click of your mouse, you can create a new category at either the base level of the tree or under some other existing category.
Adjustable Details
By simply clicking on the desired category within the product tree, you can modify its details (as well as those of its underlying products) as you wish and when you wish.
Customized Classification
The system gives you the freedom to determine an original name, description, and URL for each product category.
Multi-Lingual Capacity
With the system, you can create individual category details for each of the languages that your site supports.
Product Assignment
In creating categories, you have full access to the product database in order to easily assign products to be included within them.
Flexible Product Positioning
With the easy-to-use arrow icons, you have full control over the order in which products are displayed within their categories.
Status Control
The system gives you the freedom to control the status of each product within a category, in order to determine when it will be displayed on your site.
Product Cloning
This innovative, time-saving feature allows you to clone products within a category with a click of your mouse.
Functional Preview
The comprehensive preview feature allows you to view the category of products exactly as it will appear on your site before going live.
Search Engine Optimization
The system allows you to compose (and modify) search engine optimized meta data for each individual product category, in order to determine how and when they will appear in search engines.
XML Control
There is always the option of uploading and editing additional XML data for product categories.
Centralized Database
The system stores a complete, accessible index of all products within your online store in one convenient location within the Ecommerce administration.
Functional Search Filters
The comprehensive search engine allows you to easily navigate the product database, narrowing down the list in order to efficiently locate desired products.
Accessible Product Details
For your convenience, all of the major details of products (name, system ID, product ID, price, and status) are displayed right in the product list.
Simple Product Creation
New products can easily be added to the system by filling out a simple guided form.
Product Classification
The system allows you to classify each individual product by selecting an appropriate product type from a customized list.
Descriptive Freedom
For each product, you are free to compose an original name, descriptions, list of features, order instructions, and shipping instructions with full access to the AspireSoft system's innovative content editors.
Search Engine Optimization
Search-engine friendly meta data can be composed for each individual product in order to determine how and when it will appear in online search engines.
Image Support
The system allows you to upload multiple images of a product in various customized sizes.
Creative Freedom
The system provides you with the option of selecting additional media attributes to be included in products' profiles.
Hierarchical Organization
The system's hierarchical design allows you to effectively organize products by assigning them to customized product categories.
Flexible Measurement Settings
AspireCommerce provides you with much freedom in specifying measurements of products, with the ability to use any system you like.
Specialized Delivery Settings
For each individual product, you can specify individual shipping instructions that will determine the method and system of delivery, as well as if any special considerations need to be taken (fragile, hazardous, etc.).
Product Relationships
Related products can be connected to each other so that they will appear in each others' profiles.
Product Recommendations
The system is capable of generating a list of the top ten products also ordered by customers who ordered the product currently being viewed.
Systemized Product Tracking
By assigning individual SKU's to the products in your online store, you can easily keep track of your inventory as well as track sales for use in future marketing research.
Product Preview
Before completing a product's profile and allowing it to be displayed on your website, you can view a complete preview to ensure you are satisfied with its appearance.
Customer Support:
Simple Shopping
With a straightforward one-page checkout and ease in browsing and adding products to the cart, customers can complete their orders with no worries at all.
Secure Pages
With SSL secure pages, customers never have to worry about sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, falling into the wrong hands.
Product Recommendations
When ordering a product, the system automatically presents customers with lists of related products and a list of the top ten products also ordered by customers who chose the product being viewed.
Email Confirmations
Customers will promptly receive emails confirming that their orders have been received and, when the time comes, that they have been shipped.
Shipping Options
Customers are free to choose from a wide selection of shipping methods and carriers.
Payment Options
Customers have the freedom to choose their preferred method of payment, whether it be credit card, check, or cash-on-delivery.
Full Contact Records
The system allows you to view (and modify) all of the important details related to your company's affiliates (ID, type, name, group, status, etc.) in one convenient, centralized database.
Simple Affiliate Addition
New affiliates (whether corporate or individual) can easily be added to the system by completing a single straightforward form.
CRM Access
In specifying affiliates, you are free to select from the complete list of contacts existing in the CRM, which can be sorted through using the system's convenient search filters.
Contact Details Assignment
In order to increase efficiency, when specifying an existing CRM contact as an affiliate, you can have the details stored in the CRM copied and used to complete the affiliate details.
System Access
RMS details (login name and password) can be assigned to affiliates so that they are able to access your system.
Sales Records
The system allows you to view and search through a complete list of affiliate sales.
Accessible Invoice Database
Invoices for affiliate sales are all stored in a database that is easy to search through in order to located desired information.
Guided Invoice Creation
Creating professional invoices for affiliate sales is as easy as filling out a few provided fields (including billing address, payment information, notes, and more).
Group-Based Organization
Affiliates can be organized into customized groups, all of which can be seen, modified, and removed in a composite table.
Custom Group Formation
Creating customized affiliate groups is as easy as entering an appropriate name, which can be translated into all of the languages that your site supports.
Group Membership Control
Whenever you add affiliates to the system, you can assign them to any of the existing groups by selecting the desired option(s) from a provided list.
Customized Rates
In order to determine the rates that individual affiliates will receive, you can simply assign rates (modifiable at any time) to each of the overarching groups, which will then be applied to each of its constituent members.
Systemized Product Discounts
In addition to the general affiliate group rates, you can set special discounts that will be given to affiliates for specific individual products.
Convenient Database
All product promotions are stored in an easy-to-access database, where they can be modified and removed at any time.
Straightforward Formulation
Customized product promotions can be designed by simply following an easy-to-use, all-inclusive form.
Descriptive Freedom
The system allows you to compose an original name and description for promotions, as well as specify their types and how they should be triggered.
Duration Control
In creating promotions, you have full control over how long they will be valid and available on your site by simply entering desired starting and ending dates.
Custom Promotional Content
The system allows you to compose original catalog and item text in each of the languages that your site supports.
Connectable Promotions
When creating a promotion, you can easily combine it with another existing one by simply selecting the desired promotion from the provided list.
Visual Enhancement
Individual catalog and item graphics can be included with promotions.
Multi-Lingual Capacity
With AspireCommerce, content can be created in any language you like, even those that read from right to left.
Single Website
When translating pages into different languages, there is no need to create separate websites for each language.
Friendly URL's
Each page within your website, no matter what language it is being displayed in, has a single URL, as parallel storage is used for all translations, which enables only one version to be displayed at a time.
Automatic Language Detection
The system automatically detects the language preferences and settings of users' web browsers and instantaneously carries out a language negotiation process, allowing content to be displayed in the appropriate language the moment your site is opened.
Imported Product Data
The system allows you to import external CSV files with information about your products.
Imported Graphics
Batches of images to be used in products' profiles can be imported to the system with ease.
GoogleBase Export
Information on your products can be exported to GoogleBase in order to enhance the appearance products in searches made on Google.
Category Designs:
Central Design Control
In the module's setup, all of the existing category designs are stored in one composite table, where they can easily be viewed, modified, and/or removed.
Default Capacity
The system allows you to specify one design as the default category design, which will be used when no specific design is selected for a category.
Custom Designs
New category designs can be created by selecting style-sheets made in the Design Editor, as well as specifying the default number of products to be displayed on each page and how they should be sorted.
Checkout Labels:
Comprehensive Index
As part of the module's setup, you can view a list of all of the labels that will be displayed on your site's checkout page (including each label's ID, the actual text that appears on the page, and explanations of each label's use).
Text Customization
The system allows you to modify the text that will actually appear on your website's checkout page for each of the individual labels as you wish.
Currency:
Global Currency Availability
The system allows you to select any currency that you would like to be used on your website, providing you with a complete list of worldwide currencies and their respective ISO codes.
Currency Display
The system provides you with the freedom to determine what currencies will be displayed on your websites and full control over their respective exchange rates.
Transaction Regulation
From the list of displayed currencies, you can select which currencies will actually be accepted as a means of payment on your website.
Baseline Settings
The system allows you to specify a base currency for your website from which the relative rates of all other currencies will be determined.
Data Types:
Centralized Management
All data types used in the various fields throughout the Ecommerce module are stored in one convenient table, where they can be modified and/or removed whenever you like.
Customized Fields
New data types can be made in order to create customized fields later on by simply composing an appropriate name and selecting the kind of data that you would like to be entered into fields of this type.
Email Templates:
Default Email Specifications
The system allows you to specify a default name and email address from which all emails (unless otherwise specified) will appear as having been sent.
Order Confirmation
A customized template for emails sent to customers confirming their orders can be designed with the freedom to use both HTML and plain text formats.
Delivery Confirmation
For emails sent to customers confirming that their orders have been shipped, you can create a customized template (using both HTML and plain text formats) that will be automatically filled in with each customer's individual details.
Invoice Template
In order to determine the general appearance of the invoices that will be sent to customers, you can design a customized template (using both HTML and plain text formats) which will automatically be filled in with the details of the order in question.
Packaging Slip
In order to determine the appearance of the packaging slips that will be used in shipping your company's products to customers, you can design a customized template (using both HTML and plain text formats) which will automatically be filled in with the details of the order in question.
Manufacturers & Brands:
Systematic Management
The details of all manufacturers and brands with which your company is associated are stored in a convenient table, where you can modify and/or remove entries whenever you like.
Instant Record Creation
New manufacturers and brands can be added to the system by simply entering their names.
Payment Methods:
Pricing Group Control
All pricing groups (groups whose users receive specialized pricing packages) are stored in a convenient table, where you can modify and/or remove particular groups whenever you like.
Default Pricing
The system allows you to create a default pricing group for users that should not be given any special pricing models or regular discounts.
Customized Pricing Groups
New pricing groups can be created with ease, with the ability to compose their names and descriptions in each of the languages that your site supports.
Pricing Models:
Centralized Management
All pricing models are stored in a single convenient table, where you can modify and/or remove models (as well as control their activity status) whenever you like.
Pricing Flexibility
Customized pricing models can be created with ease, using different price modifiers for each existing pricing group in order to determine how they will be charged when this model is active.
Product Types:
Convenient Database
All product types (used in classifying products upon their creation) are stored in a composite table, where you can modify and/or remove them whenever you like.
Personalized Product Types
New product types can be created with ease, with the ability to compose separate names and descriptions for each of the languages that your site supports.
Type-Specific Attributes
The system allows you to specify various attributes that will be applied to all products of a particular product type, such as taxation types and GoogleBase details.
Affiliate Rates
Special affiliate rates can be set for a product type, which will then be applied to all products stored under that particular type.
Type-Specific Fields
Customized fields can be set up for individual product types, which will be included in the forms used for all products of the type in question.
Type-Specific Designs
The system allows you to specify designs that will be used in the display of all products of a particular type.
Promotion Graphics:
Accessible Management
All promotion graphics (which are available in the form used to create promotions) are stored in a convenient, accessible database, where you can modify and/or remove them whenever you like.
Image Selection
New promotion graphics (with separate images for the catalog and item) can be uploaded with ease, so that they will appear as options when creating promotions in the future.
Shipping Methods:
Central Shipping Controls
All existing shipping methods are consolidated in a convenient database, where you can modify and/or remove them whenever you like.
Carrier Determination
New carriers can be added to the list of shipping methods by simply entering the desired name.
Tax Settings:
Localized Taxes
The system allows you to select regions from a provided list in which you would like taxes to be applied to your products.
Units of Measure:
Systematic Measurement Tree
All available units of measurement are organized in a hierarchical tree that allows you to easily manipulate and set the base units of measurement from which other units are determined.
Customized Units
The system allows you to easily add new units of measurement that will be available to use in describing the products on your site, with the ability to freely define its relationship to other existing units of measurement.
Miscellaneous Settings:
Mailing Groups
The system allows you to determine whether or not you would like to employ auto-signup so that customers are automatically added to some of your company's mailing groups.
Icon Display
With the module's setup, you have full control over whether or not products' icons will be displayed in the administration.
Cart Settings
The system gives you control over specifying the various settings governing the "add to cart" and "continue shopping" options on your website.
Accessible CRM Contacts
In specifying customers and affiliates, you have full access to the list of all contacts existing within the CRM.
Accessible Contact Details
Contacts' details stored in the CRM are available for use in completing customers' contact details, such as their shipping and billing addresses.
Contact Creation
When creating customers and affiliates, you can set up new CRM profiles for them, should they not already exist within the system.
Login Settings
RMS details (login name and password) can be assigned to new customers and affiliates in order to grant them access to the system.
Design Imports
Style-sheets created in the Design Editor can be used to determine the appearance of various things throughout the module, such as product and product category pages.
