Twist Systems: Design Develop Promotion

e-Commerce Categories...

• Unlimited Categories - Categorize your products any way you like whether you have 10 products, 10 thousand or 100 thousand.
• Unlimited Sub-Categories - Create departments and segment your products so customers can easily find what they're looking for.
• Dynamic Categories - Smart categories update their products when you update your catalog. Create categories to automatically show your latest products, products from specific manufacturers and price ranges.
• Sort Order for Products in Categories - Arrange your products in categories in any order at any time to help shoppers find what they're looking for.
• Automatic Paging - When your categories get large we automatically break them up into pages for easy viewing and searching.
• Grid View - Display products with large images for quick browsing and shopping.
• List View - Show a quick text list for displaying many products at once or groups of similar products.
• Details View - Display all your product information, including "add to cart" buttons on a single page, saving your customers a click or two.
• Category + Sub Category List - Display an intuitive directory of your top categories and departments with thumbnail images.
• Sub Category Navigation - Allow shoppers to quickly refine their product searches with a list of departments or subcategories available for shopping.
• Custom Banners - Bring your categories and departments to life with custom banner graphics that set the mood! Easily upload banner images in our intuitive admin interface.
• Custom Icons - Display categories and departments in your products grids with custom icons.
• Content Before and After - Customize your category pages with your own HTML. Insert flash, product manuals, custom links and more--all from our admin interface!
• Custom Descriptions - Insert your own description of categories. Include bolded words, hyperlinks and images for a totally custom experience.
• Per-Category Meta Tags - Help shoppers find your store with awesome search engine friendly meta tags customized for EACH category. Other carts limit you to the same tag for every page in your store, making it difficult for the search engines to find your categories.
• Show Count of Items Inside Category - Show customers how many items are in each category of your store.
• Automatic Breadcrumb Trail - Keep your shoppers from getting lost. Show them a clickable history of how they arrived at each category.

e-Commerce Products...

• Clone Products - Copy existing products to make others, saving you time.
• Customise Product Types and Properties - Create a rich product catalog by adding information like "author," "published date," "movie rating," "track list," and more. In most other carts this requires expensive custom programming!
• Radio Button Choices - Let customers choose options for your products with radio buttons.
• Dropdown List Choices - Let customers choose options for your products with dropdown lists.
• Text Input Fields - Let customers customize your products with information for monograms, business cards, personalized gifts, and more.
• HTML Descriptions - Insert your own HTML in your description of products. Include bolded words, hyperlinks and images for a totally custom experience.
• Per-Product Meta Tags - Help shoppers find your store with awesome search engine friendly meta tags customized for EACH product. Other carts limit you to the same tag for every page in your store making it difficult for the search engines to find your products.
• Product Ratings - Let customers or store owners rate your products with 1 to 5 stars.
• Product Reviews - Let customers or store owners add reviews for your products. Optionally, hide reviews until a moderator approves them.
• Short/Long Descriptions - Provide one description of your product for the category page and a more detailed description for the product page.
• Unlimited Images - Product images sell products. Unlike many other carts, add as many as you like. No limits! Image Swap When Choices Change (i.e. size/color) Automatically show the large red shirt picture when a customer selects the large red option. No clicking required with our AJAX enabled product page.
• Electronic/ Intellectual Goods - Sell electronic goods or other information products and we'll make sure the downloads are available and no shipping is charged.
• Drop Ship from Unlimited Vendors - Assign each product to a warehouse and our intelligent shipping system will automatically figure out the correct shipping cost, even if a customer orders products from different warehouses.
• Size/Weight - Enter product size and weight for accurate shipping cost.
• Manufacturer - Assign each product to a manufacturer for drop shipping and easy categorization.
• Vendors - Assign each product to a vendor for drop shipping and easy categorization.
• Minimum Quantity - Require customers to order at least a minimum amount of any product. Great for customized orders like business cards and calendars.
• Activate/Deactivate - Turn products off temporarily while you update them or before they're ready to go on sale.
• MSRP (list price) - Display suggested retail price for your products if your price is lower. We'll automatically calculate the savings and display them to your customers.
• Site Price - Set your store price lower than MSRP.
• Site Cost - Set your internal cost to keep track of profitability. Coupons can be set to never go below your cost.
• Tax Exempt Option - Easily mark items as tax exempt.
• Tax Classes - Easily group products for tax rules. For instance, set food products to one set of tax rules and apparel to another.
• Cross-Sells - Easily promote accesory products and add-ons.
• Up-Sells - Easily offer upgraded replacement products before the customer gets to the shopping cart.
• Auto Suggest Cross-Sells - Automatically display "customers who bought this also bought."
• Inventory Tracking By Variants - Unlike most other e-commerce software, keep track of inventory for products with size, color, and other variations. When you run out of small, red t-shirts, the software can automatically remove it from the store.
• Custom Descriptions, Images, SKUs for Variants - Unlike most other e-commerce software, set different prices, pictures, descriptions and more for each size, color, or variation of a product.
• Unlimited File Downloads Per-Product - Offer downloadable software, product manuals, documents and more with each product.
• Batch Editing - Update multiple products at once from a single batch edit page.
• Batch Inventory Editing - Update inventory levels on multiple products from one screen. A great time saver!
• Minimum Advertised Price Support (i.e. add to cart for price) - Hide prices until customers add them to their carts. Display a text message on product and category pages.

e-Commerce Marketing...

• Product Rotators - Show a different product each time a customer visits your homepage.
• Category Rotators - Show a different category each time a customer visits your home page.
• Flash Image Rotators - Show a slide show of products on your home page without programming!
• HTML Content Rotators - Show different content on your home page each time a customer visits. For example, show a different press release or advertisement.
• Unlimited Pricing Groups - Provide some customers, like wholesalers, with storewide discounted pricing. No limits!
• Cross-Sells - Easily promote accesory products and add-ons.
• Cross-Sells on Shopping Cart - Suggest accesory products after a customer puts an item in the shopping cart.
• Auto-Suggested Cross-Sells - Automatically display "customers who bought this also bought."
• Up-Sells - Easily offer upgraded replacement products before the customer gets to the shopping cart.
• Wish List - Let customers keep track of items they would like to purchase in the future.
• Buy One Get One Free - Offer customers a free product when they buy one or more other products.
• Order Discounts - Offer customers a percentage or amount off an order with a coupon code or other rules.
• Shipping Discounts - Offer customers free or discounted shipping with a coupon code or other rules.
• Product Discounts - Offer customers a percentage or amount off a prouct with a coupon code or other rules.
• Discount by % or £ - Flexible discounts save you time when pricing changes.
• Number of Uses Limited by User or Store - Offer discounts to the first 500 customers or 1 time per customer.
• Coupon/Promotional Codes - Optionally require coupon codes to qualify for discounts.
• Limit Offers by Order Total - Require customers to order a specific amount before discounts apply.
• Limit Offers by Quantity - Require customers to order a specific number of products before discounts apply.
• Custom Discount Plug-ins - Easily add your own custom discount rules without modifying our source code.
• Storewide Sales - Mark down every product in your store with a single click! Sales by Product Offer sales on specific products.
• Sales by Category - Offer sales on all products in a specific category.
• Sales by Product Type - Offer sales on all products of a specific type.
• Fixed Price Sales (i.e. everything is £0.99) - Mark down all products to a set price.
• Volume Discounts - Offer lower prices when a customer orders 10, 20, 30 or more.
• Unlimited Mailing Lists - Create multiple mailing lists to target groups of customers. Offer lists for weekly sales, product updates, general information and more.
• Unlimited Email Templates - Create and save HTML e-mail templates for more effective e-mail marketing. Easily create e-mail templates from the admin!
• Mailing List Bulk Import/Export - Import or export your customer list to programs like Constant Contact. We make it easy to port your lists over to other software.
• Automatic URL Rewriting - Give your products search engine friendly URLs that are easy for customers to remember.
• Custom URL Rewriting - For the ultimate control, we make it easy to set your own URLs for every product and category in your store. You can even create custom URLs for other store pages like privacy policies and FAQs. Most other carts don't offer this option at all!
• Recently Viewed Products - Automatically keep track of the products a customer recently viewed and offer the customer a quick link back to those products.

e-Commerce Search...

• Quick Keyword Search - Keep a search box on every page of your store so customers can quickly find items by keyword.
• Advanced Search - Allow customers to find products by keyword, price range, category, manufacturer, vendor and custom properties.
• Search by Price Range - Allow customers to quickly find products between two prices. Search by Manufacturer Allow customers to filter products by manufacturer name.
• Search by Vendor - Allow customers to filter products by vendor name.
• Search by Category - Allow customers to find products in a specific category.
• Search by Product Type - Allow customers to find products of a specific type
• Search by Merchant Definable Properties - Allow customers to search by your custom fields like author, published date, movie rating and more!
• Product Keyword Field for Misspellings or Similar Words - Add keywords for searches that don't display on the store. Great for common misspellings!
• Automatic Sitemap Page - A site map is automatically created, making it easy for search engines to index all of your pages.

e-Commerce Customers...

• Remember Billing and Shipping Addresses - Shoppers' billing and shipping addresses are saved, saving them time the next time they order!
• Unlimited Address Book - Automatically remember all addresses that customers have used in the past for quick reorders.
• Order History - Customers can view the details of all past orders.
• File Download Links - Make it easy for customers to find their downloads again.
• One Click Re-Order Button - Customers can duplicate an old order with a single click.
• Email List Subscribe/Unsubscribe - Allow customers to add and remove themselves from e-mail lists, saving store owners support time.
• Forgot Password - Reset Let customers reset their own passwords 24 hours a day without contacting a store owner.
• Change Email - Let customers update their own e-mail addresses.
• Change Password - Let customers change their passwords at any time.
• View Customers Keyword Search History - View a report to find out what keywords customers are searching for on your store. Great for optimizing your content and targeted advertising campaigns.
• Unlimited Pricing Groups - Provide some customers, like wholesalers, with storewide discounted pricing.
• No limits! Mailing List Selections - Let customers browse all available e-mail lists and subscribe or unsubscribe.
• Password Encryption - Choose from several industry standard encryption methods to protect customer passwords.
• Tax Exempt Option - Easily mark some customers as tax exempt.

e-Commerce Loyalty...

• Email a Friend - Share great product bargains with other customers via e-mail.
• Unlimited Mailing Lists - Create multiple mailing lists to target groups of customers. Offer lists for weekly sales, product updates, general information and more.
• Remember Shopping Carts - Automatically remember what customers have in their shopping carts, even if they close their web browsers and aren't logged in.
• Remember Users/Logins - Save customers' time by remembering their user names when they return to shop again.
• Remember Last Billing/Shipping Address - Save customers' time by remembering where they last had their orders shipped and billed to.
• Fixed Amount Gift Certificates - Offer flat rate gift certificates like £10, £50, £100, etc…
• Variable Amount Gift Certificates- Let customers enter the exact amount they wish to purchase a gift certificate for.
• Auto-Generate Gift Certificate Codes - Define your own gift certificate code format. For example, MYSTORE123.

e-Commerce Content Management...

• Unlimited Customizable Content Sections - Easily add and remove sections of HTML and forms from our admin interface.
• 15+ Built-in Content Blocks - Choose from a variety of built in content blocks to customize your site's appearance.
• Unlimited Content Block Plug-Ins - Create your own content blocks and easily add them to our software without custom programming.
• Category Rotators - Display a new category link every time a customer visits a page.
• Category Menus - Show a list of navigation links that are automatically generated from our admin interface.
• Flash Image Rotators - Show a slide show of products with fade in/fade out transitions anywhere on your site.
• Image Rotators - Show a new image each time a customer visits a page.
• Recently Viewed Products - Automatically keep track of which products a customer views and provide quicklinks back to the products.
• RSS Feed Viewer - Display RSS news feeds anywhere in your store to keep content fresh.
• Search Box - Allow customers to quickly search by keyword from any page in your store.
• Top 10 Products - Automatically show a list of the top 10 selling products on your store.
• Top Weekly Sellers - Automatically show a list of the top selling products this week
• Store Contact Address - Add your store location for contact forms and shipping calculations
• Store Contact Form with Customizable Fields - Let customers contact you via a web form. Add your own questions and comment fields.
• Store Meta Tags - Create a set of default meta tags to be used when individual product and category meta tags are not set.
• Help/FAQ - Add frequently asked questions to your store from the admin without programming.
• Privacy Policy - Let your customers know what will happen to their information.
• Shipping Policy - Let customers know when their items will ship.
• Return Policy - Let customers know how and if you accept returns.
• Terms and Conditions - Optionally, require customers to agree to your site's terms and conditions before purchase.
• Custom Store Polices - Create your own policies to display in the customer service area.
• Custom Pages - Add custom HTML pages to your store with one click. No programming required.
• Open/Close Store for Updates - Temporarily close your store while you update pricing and products before a big event.
• Unlimited Email Templates - Create and save HTML e-mail templates for more effective e-mail marketing. Easily create e-mail templates from the admin!
• Unlimited Print Templates - Create and save print templates to customize packing slips and more.
• Custom URL Rewriting - For the ultimate control, we make it easy to set your own URLs for every product and category in your store. You can even create custom URLs for other store pages like privacy policies and FAQs. Most other carts don't offer this option at all!
• Administrator Dashboard - Easily see how your store is doing at a glance with links to commonly used features and alerts needing your attention.

e-Commerce Order Management...

• New Order Emails - Automatically send an e-mail receipt to customers after they place orders.
• Filter By Payment Status - Quickly find orders that are paid, unpaid, etc…
• Filter By Shipping Status - Quickly find orders that are shipped, unshipped, etc…
• Filter By Order Status - Quickly find orders that are completed, on hold, etc…
• Filter By Date Range - Quickly find orders from a specific date or date range.
• Filter By Keyword (user, phone, credit card, etc.) - Quickly find orders by customer name, e-mail, phone number, etc…
• Batch Process Credit Cards - Receive payment from multiple orders with a single click.
• Batch Print Invoices - Print invoices from multiple orders with a single click.
• Batch Print Receipts - Print admin sales receipts from multiple orders with a single click.
• Batch Print Packing Slips - Print packing slips from multiple orders with a single click.
• Flag Orders as On Hold - Mark suspicious orders for review.
• Delete Orders - Permanently remove old or test orders.
• Edit Orders (including variant products) - Add and remove products from orders, adjust shipping, add coupons, or adjust prices. Editing products even works with product choices and inputs, unlike competing software.
• Receive Payments - Quickly receive payment via credit card, paypal, cash, cod, telephone and more.
• Issue Credits - Refund credit card payments without leaving the admin interface.
• Generate Return Authorisations - Automatically generate return authorization numbers and allow customers to easily fill out return request forms.
• Receive Returns - Approve or deny return requests and automatically return items to inventory.
• Ship directly Through UPS and Print Labels - Generate UPS shipping labels and automatically send information to UPS via the admin interface. Tracking numbers are automatically added to orders and shipment e-mails are sent to customers.
• Email Customers - Quickly e-mail customers with status updates on their orders.
• Report Customer IP Addresses - Keep track of IP addresses to help identify fraudulent transactions.
• Public Notes - Add order notes visible to both customer and admin on the order details screen.
• Private Notes - Add order notes visible to only the admin on the order details screen.
• Customer Instructions - Let customers add additional instructions and comments during checkout.
• Ship Suggested Packages with One Click - Our shipping algorithm suggests which items should go in which boxes. You can optionally ship our suggested boxes with a single click or create your own.
• Record Tracking Information - Automatically record UPS tracking numbers and manually add tracking information for FedEx, US Postal Service and more!
• Create New Orders via Admin Website - Our telephone order entry page allows admins to create orders on behalf of customers. Find customer accounts, create customer accounts or place orders without customer accounts.
• Take Orders By Phone - Our telephone order entry page allows admins to create orders on behalf of customers. Find customer accounts, create customer accounts or place orders without customer accounts.
• Unlimited Merchant Definable Order Status Codes - Create your own order status codes like "ready for packing," "need customer approval," or "rush order." No programming required.
• 2 Included Checkouts with Unlimited Plug-Ins - Choose from multi-page or single page checkouts or create your own.
• Ajax Enabled One Page Checkout - Simplify the checkout process with automatically updating shipping and payment information all on a single screen.
• Checkout without Registration - Allow customers to purchase without creating an account. Require Registration Option Optionally require that all customers create accounts to place orders.

e-Commerce Taxes...

• Unlimited Taxes - Create an unlimited number of tax zones
• Unlimited Tax Classes - Create tax zones that apply to specific groups of products.
• Tax by Country - Charge tax by country.
• Tax by State/Region - Charge tax by state or region.
• Tax by County - Charge tax by county or municipality.
• Tax by Zip/Postal Code - Charge tax by zip code.
• Tax Exempt Products - Create tax exempt products with a single click.
• Tax Exempt Customers - Create tax exempt customers with a single click.

e-Commerce Payments...

• Credit Cards - Receive credit card payments from more than 25 common credit card gateways.
• Google Checkout - Fully integrated with Google Checkout. Enable with just a few clicks.
• Pay Pal Express Checkout - Allow customers to checkout through the PayPal website
• Pay Pal Payments Pro - Process credit cards through PayPal.
• Pay Pal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) - Automatically update order status when PayPal payments clear.
• Telephone - Allow customers to place orders and phone in payment information. Cash Update orders to note the receipt of cash as payment.
• Purchase Order - Capture purchase order numbers to invoice clients for payment.
• Cheque By Mail - Update orders to note the receipt of Cheques by mail as payment.
• COD - Allow customers to order with cash on delivery as payment
• Authorize.net - Process credit cards through Authorize.net.
• LinkPoint - Process credit cards through LinkPoint.
• Concord EFS Net - Process credit cards through Concord EFS Net.
• Off-Line Processing - Capture credit card numbers for offline processing.
• Credit Card Simulator for Testing - Built in test processor allows you to try out charges, failures, refunds and more before your store opens.
• Unlimited Credit Card Plug-Ins - Choose from more than 25 common credit card gateways or easily add support for your own.
• CVV Codes - Capture security codes for lower processing fees.
• CISP Compliance - Currently meets all CISP compliance guidelines PCI application compliance in progress.

e-Commerce Shipping...

• UPS Real Time Rates - Calculate UPS rates automatically based on size, weight and shipping address.
• US Postal Service Real Time Rates - Calculate US Postal Service rates automatically based on size, weight and shipping address.
• FedEx Real Time Rates - Calculate FedEx rates automatically based on size, weight and shipping address.
• Canada Post (3rd Party Add-on) - Calculate Canada Post rates automatically based on size, weight and shipping address.
• Unlimited Shipping Provider Plug-ins - If your shipping company isn't supported, easily create your own shipping plug in.
• Per-Item Charges - Charge shipping at a flat rate for each item order.
• Per-Order Amount Charges - Charge shipping based on the total amount of each order
• By Item Count - Charges Charge shipping at a tiered rate based on the total number of items ordered.
• Handling Fees - Add handling fees of percentages or flat rate per order or per shipment.
• Individual Product Shipping Fees - Add additional shipping charges to specific products.
• Adjust Real Time Rates - Adjust calculated shipping rates plus or minus percentage or dollar amounts.
• Ship packages by UPS - Automatically send shipment information to UPS.
• Print UPS Labels - Automatically generate UPS shipping labels and tracking numbers.
• Automatically Record UPS Tracking Numbers - Automatically update orders with UPS tracking information and alert customers via e-mail.
• Manually Add Tracking Information - Add tracking numbers for FedEx, US Postal Service, and more with automatic links to check status.
• Mix and Match Providers and Rates - Display rates from multiple shipping providers at the same time to offer customers the best prices.
• Set Options by Country/Regions - Limit shipping providers and rates to specific countries and regions.
• Shipping Estimator on Cart Page - Let customers quickly estimate shipping charges without going through the checkout process.

e-Commerce Security...

• Fraud Screen by IP - Flag suspicious orders by known IP addresses
• Fraud Screen by Email - Flag suspicious orders by e-mail.
• Fraud Screen Phone - Flag suspicious orders by phone number.
• Fraud Screen By Domain - Flag suspicious orders by website domain name.
• Fraud Screen By Credit Card - Flag suspicious orders by credit card number.
• Lock Out Users After x Failed Attempts - Lock user accounts when someone has entered too many incorrect passwords.
• Lock Out Users for x Minutes - After Failed Logins Lock user accounts for a set number of minutes when someone has entered too many incorrect passwords.
• Role Based Security - Create admin accounts that have limited access for things like order processing or catalog updates.
• Unlimited Roles - Create your own administrative roles with rules about which areas they can access.
• Encrypted Passwords - Choose from several industry standard encryption algorithms to protect passwords.
• Triple DES Encryption for Credit Cards - Industry standard high security encryption is used to protect credit card information.
• Full Credit Card Numbers - Never Displayed Only the last four digits of credit card numbers are displayed to prevent card number theft.
• CVV Codes - Never Stored As required for PCI Compliance, security codes are never stored or displayed.
• Option to Scrub Credit Card Number after Payment - Optionally clear out credit card numbers from processed orders to reduce the possibility of card number theft.
• SSL Support - Full support for SSL certificates to protect private information.
• Shared SSL Support - Optionally use your web host's SSL certificate to protect private information.

e-Commerce Reports...

• Monthly Sales - Show order totals and order details on a month by month basis.
• Daily Sales - Show order totals and order details on a daily basis.
• Sales by Affiliate - Find out which orders came from which affiliates and what commissions are due.
• Sales by Coupon - Find out which orders used a specific coupon code with details.
• Sales by Product - Find out which products are selling best.
• Sales by Customer - Find out which customers are spending the most at your store.
• Keyword Searches - Find out which keywords are used to search your store. Great for refining your content and meta tags!
• Unlimited Custom Report Plug-Ins - Add your own custom reports by adding asp.net pages to the reports folder.

If you would like Twist Systems to Design Develop or Promote your next e-Commerce project then get in touch, we're nice people to work with.

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