Stockashop website features

Stockashops websites are packed with features to make your web site as customer friendly as possible.

Having a Stockashop website gives you

• Up to 10 email addresses
• Webmail
• SPAM protection
• Virus scanning of incoming and outgoing email
• Multiple domain names for a single site
• Web statistics
• Stockashop runs on a top-of-the-range server
• And supported by a top-of-the-range hosting provider
• Your site will be ready in just 1 or 2 days

General Stockashop features

• Change all text on your website and override default
• Multi language support
• Multi currency support (PayPal accepts AUD, CAD, EUR, GBP, JPY and USD)
• Product search
• Contact or enquiry form
• Shopping basket with checkout and confirmation
• 3 or more levels of navigation
• Add new pages, products and product categories
• All pages and products are search engine optimised
• View customers and orders
• Set discount vouchers with expiry dates
• Give percentage discounts to members
• SPAM filtering on enquiry and contact forms
• CAPTCHAs (pictures with funny text) on enquiry/contact forms
• Google analytics (if you provide your Google ID number)
• Google verification (if you provide the verification code)
• Automatic creation and submission of Google site map each night
• Table-less Google friendly HTML and CSS
• Menus are automatically generated and cached for performance
• Control the header image and colours of your site
• Multiple editors allowed on a site
• Receive notifications whenever a page on your site is edited
• Or receive one notification at the end of each day
• Seach engine friendly titles and URLs (using URL rewriting)
• Manage multiple shops with one set of login details
• Adding HTML to site template (like Google ads)
• Subsidiary pages are editable too - contact us, file not found, etc
• We can provide an HTML snapshot of your site
• Automatic weekly reordering*
• Selling and accepting payment via credit*
• Ability to have 3 column web sites
• List your products in boxes or in vertical lists with summaries
• Flyout (drop down) navigation menus

When editing a page

• Fully editable page content, including HTML formatting
• Several images allowed per page and one Flash movie
• Limit who can view the page (by membership level)
• Movies and video allowed
• Specify separate page titles and navigation titles
• Redirect a page to another page
• Hide pages from the navigation
• Specify text for the left hand column (and right if applicable)
• Left and right column text can be inherited by pages lower down in the navigation hierarchy
• Specify a different CSS class for a page for page-specific colours

When editing a product

• Fully editable product description, including formatting
• Sell downloads as products
• Specify recommended products
• Add differently priced variations/options to a product
• Sitewide product options with codes and pictures available
• Show new products first in listings
• Specify a product's weight (used to compute shipping)
• Specify how many of a product you have in stock
• When a product has 0 stock, customers can no longer buy it
• Enter a meta summary and description for a product
• Resize or crop an image when you are uploading it
• Specify a separate thumbnail to use on listing pages
• Products can be placed on more than one page
• To save time entering information, you can duplicate products
• Deactivate products by un-setting their category

Order completion

• Different tax options (no VAT, VAT included, VAT excluded)
• Ship only to specified countrires
• Compute shipping by subtotal or weight
• Different shipping prices to different countries and continents, even to different UK post codes
• Option to ask for a separate delivery address
• Integration with PayPal
• Integration with Protx now Sage Pay
• Integration with Nochex
• Payment by cheque or telephone
• Receive an email whenever an order is made
• Receive an email for products that are out of stock
• Automatic weekly ordering processing*

Customer Management System

• Customer login
• Customer 'my account' with order history
• Newsletter signup
• Send bulk HTML emails to your customers (up to 500 customers)
• Track opening of emails and clicking of links
• Or send an email to one of our customers from your site
• Automatically send emails to your customers on their birthdays
• Members only pages with up to 4 levels of membership
• Report on customers by date as an Excel spreadsheet
• Export products in Google Base format and arrange for it to be automatically submitted each week
• Merge duplicate customers into one entry

Order management

• View paid (and failed payment) orders
• Change the status of orders (to delivered or archived)
• Send an automatic delivery note with orders
• Report on order data by date as an Excel spreadsheet

* indicates that an add-on is required. Many features are included in the standard Stockashop package but you may need to request us to enable them. Italicised features definitely have to be enabled by Stockashop using CSS.