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VAC Web Solutions nopCommerce Hosting Advantages

All of our hosting plan comes with a nopCommerce 1-click installer, to help you get your nopCommerce site up and running quickly. All of our servers are configured and optimized to host nopCommerce websites.

 

nopCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution that is both easy and FREE to use! !With multi-language support and support for mobile devices nopCommerce is the e-commerce solution of choice for many VAC Web Solutions Hosting customers.

nopCommerce General Catalog Features

-Supports an automatic version for most popular mobile devices (Apple, Android, BlackBerry, Windows, etc.)
-Supports categories and manufacturers
-Categories can also be fully nested to any level desired (sub-categories)
-Products can be mapped to more than one category or manufacturer
-One-page Checkout
-Anonymous checkout
-Gift Cards
-Recurring Products
-Multilingual support
-Multicurrency support
-Measure weights, measure dimensions
-Real-time currency exchange rates (ECB)
-SSL support
-Export to XML
-Access Control List
-Activity Log
-Live Chat Integration
-SMS Notifications
-Fully 100% customizable design using templates
-Phone order support
-RMA (return management)
-Configurable list of allowed countries for billing and for shipping

nopCommerce Product Features

-Product attributes (e.g. color, size)
-Product tags
-Configurable checkout attributes (such as 'Gift Wrap' or 'Enter custom message')
-Configurable customer attributes (such as 'Date of birth', 'Phone number')
-Individual prices can be specified for individual customer groups
-Allow customers to enter product price (if enabled)
-Allow store owner to hide prices for non-registered customers
-Supports multiple images per product
-Auto image resizing
-Downloadable products supported
-Text options on products (e.g. require initials for monogrammed products, require text name for product customization, etc)
-Support for simple products (e.g. a book) or products with variants
-Support for sale prices
-Product search
-Featured products, sale products or new products
-Inventory tracking
-Disable buy buttons for specific products
-Product specifications (e.g. processor, memory, graphic card)
-Compare product feature (if enabled)
-Breadcrumbs

nopCommerce Marketing & Promotions

-Reward Points System
-Ability to assign design on category, manufacturer or product (unique design per category/manufacturer/product)
-Supports related products
-Marketing manager (campaigns)
-Customer groups can be marked as free shipping
-Customer groups can be marked as tax exempt
-Supports discounts
-Supports coupons
-Discount amount can either be a fixed value or a percent off. e.g. $10.00 off or 20% off
-You can specify a start date and an end date when the coupon is valid
-Customers can review & rate products (if enabled)
-Require administrator approval of product reviews for all reviews
-Product review helpfulness ("Was this review helpful for you?")
-Discounts can be applied to products
-Discounts can be applied to categories
-Discounts can be applied to whole order
-Discounts can be filtered by a customer role
-Volume discounts (Tier prices)
-Recently added products page. RSS.
-Recently viewed products page
-Free Shipping Option
-Search Engine Friendly URL's
-Automated URL Re-Writing
-Every product, category and manufacturer page can have their own custom search engine meta tags, page title
-Customize default SEO meta tags
-Store news items supported. News RSS. News comments
-Polls supported.
-Store blog supported.
-Forum supported
-Supports affiliate programs
-Froogle (google base), PriceGrabber / Yahoo Shopping, become.com product feeds
-Google XML site map
-Customizable email templates
-Completely customize the layout & appearance of any category, manufacturer, or product page
-CMS Topics
-Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation
-"Store is closed" feature
-QuickBooks integration
-Google AdSense integration

nopCommerce Shipping Features

-Integrated for real-time shipping rates from: UPS, USPS
-Calculate shipping by order total
-Calculate shipping by order weight
-Calculate shipping by country & total order weight
-Specify all orders as free shipping
-Admin defined shipping methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day, etc)
-Support for download products
-Support for "no shipping required" products (e.g. services)
-Admin defined shipping methods
-Customer groups can be marked as free shipping

nopCommerce Tax Features

- Apply tax by state
- Apply tax by country
- Apply tax by zip
- StrikeIron tax provider
- Individual products can be marked taxable or tax-exempt
- Tax classes supported by product (e.g. goods, services, alcohol, etc)
- Customer groups can be marked as tax exempt#
- VAT support
- Allow store owner to specify which tax based on: billing/shipping/default/shipping origin address
- Allow store owner to specify whether prices include tax
- Allow customer to choose tax display type (incl/excl tax)
- Allow store owner to specify tax display type (incl/excl tax)
- Allow store owner to specify whether shipping is taxable
- Allow store owner to specify whether shipping prices include tax
- Allow store owner to specify whether to hide zero tax
- Allow store owner to specify whether to hide tax in order summary when prices are shown tax inclusive

nopCommerce Payment Methods, Gateways

- Cash On Delivery payment method
- Accept Purchase Order.
- Accept Checks / Money Order.
- Accept all major credit and debit cards
- Store can be set to authorize only, or auth-capture credit card mode. You can then capture payment at shipment if desired
- Real-time or offline credit card processing
- Manual gateway (just collects order & payment information for offline processing)
- Authorize.NET
- Google Checkout
- Moneybookers
- PayPal Standard
- PayPal Website Payments Pro (Direct)

Customer Service Features

- Allow customers to register/login by email or by username
- Wish list
- Customers can view their order history and order statuses
- Customer has an address book
- Customizable Order Emails
- Multiple billing and shipping addresses per customer
- Customer roles (groups)
- Time zone support
- Built-in forum
- Password recovery
- Several account registration/activation types
- Automatic registration (no approving)
- Email validation during registration
- "Email a friend" feature
- Compare product feature (if enabled)
- News RSS
- Recently added products RSS.
- Contact Us form