Shopping online, eCommerce, web purchasing, buying products, services and electronic downloads through a website is a fast growing business opportunity. Online purchasing has been growing steadily for some years now and will continue to grow over the coming years.

Your eCommerce Website

Get the very best eCommerce website design. Allow your visitors to be able to navigate around your store easily, to find products and to do secure online business with you. ICIS can help your eCommerce website / store achieve this.Visitors expect the best from an online store or interactive website and want to be able to find the products or services they want quickly. ICIS eCommerce and web based solutions enable your customers to do just that, promote your best selling or latest items combined with featured and related products to give an the best possible online shopping experience from your online

Store.Features Overview
ICIS Web and Webstore is so much more than just a powerful content management system. Here is a list of features "out of the box," but the true power of ICIS Web and Webstore is in its extensibility.User

Management
ICIS Web and Webstore has a registration system that allows users to configure personal options. There are nine user groups with various types of permissions on what users are allowed to access, edit, publish and administrate.Authentication is an important part of user management and ICIS Web and Webstore support multiple protocols, including LDAP, OpenID, and even Gmail. This allows users to use their existing account information to streamline the registration process.

Media Manager
The Media Manager is the tool for easily managing media files or folders and you can configure the MIME type settings to handle any type of file. The Media Manager is integrated into the Article Editor tool so you can grab images and other files at any time.Language Manager

There is international support for many world languages and UTF-8 encoding. If you need your Web site in one language and the administrator panel in another, multiple languages are possible.

Banner Management
It's easy to set up banners on your Web site using the Banner Manager, starting with creating a client profile. Once you add campaigns and as many banners as you need, you can set impression numbers, special URLs, and more.

Contact Management
The Contact Manager helps your users to find the right person and their contact information. It also supports multiple contact forms going to specific individuals as well as groups.

Polls
If you want to find out more about your users, it's easy to create polls with multiple options.Search
Help navigate users to most popular search items and provide the admin with search statistics.

Web Link Management
Providing link resources for site users is simple and you can sort them into categories, even count every click.

Content Management
ICIS Web and Webstore's simplified three-tiered system of articles makes organizing your content a snap. You can organize your content any way you want and not necessarily how it will be on your Web site. Your users can rate articles, e-mail them to a friend, or automatically save a PDF (with UTF-8 support for all languages). Administrators can archive content for safekeeping, hiding it from site visitors.On public Web sites, built-in e-mail cloaking protects email addresses from spambots.

Creating content is simple with the WYSIWYG editor, giving even novice users the ability to combine text, images in an attractive way. Once you've created your articles, there are a number of pre-installed modules to show the most popular articles, latest new items, newsflashes, related articles, and more.

Syndication and Newsfeed Management
With ICIS Web and Webstore, it's easy to syndicate your site content, allowing your users to subscribe to new content in their favorite RSS reader. It's equally easy to integrate RSS feeds from other sources and aggregate them all on your site.

Menu Manager
The Menu Manager allows you to create as many menus and menu items as you need. You can structure your menu hierarchy (and nested menu items) completely independent of your content structure. Put one menu in multiple places and in any style you want; use rollovers, dropdown, flyouts and just about any other navigation system you can think of. Also automatic breadcrumbs are generated to help navigate your site users.

Template Management
Templates in ICIS Web and Webstore are a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want and either use a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. The level of visual control goes a step further with powerful template overrides, allowing you to customize each part of your pages.Integrated.

Help System
ICIS Web and Webstore has a built-in help section to assist users with finding what they need. A glossary explains the terms in plain English, a version checker makes sure you're using the latest version, a system information tool helps you troubleshoot, and, if all else fails, links to a wealth of online resources for additional help and support.

System Features
Speedy page loads are possible with page caching, granular-level module caching, and GZIP page compression.
If your system administrator needs to troubleshoot an issue, debugging mode and error reporting are invaluable.

The FTP Layer allows file operations (like installing Extensions) without having to make all the folders and files writable, making your site administrator's life easier and increasing the security of your site.
Administators quickly and efficiently communicate with users one-on-one through private messaging or all site users via the mass mailing system.

Web Services
With Web services, you can use Remote Procedure Calls (via HTTP and XML). You can also integrate XML-RPC services with the Blogger and ICIS Web and Webstore APIs.ICIS E-commerce offers a lot of Features, some of the standard Features are listed here. Please note that you can extend the Functionality using Plugins, Components, Templates and Modules to make them do what you need!

General Features of ICIS E-commerce

• capable of using Secure Sockets Layer (https) Encryption (128-bit)
• flexible Tax Models
o Model 1: ShipTo Address-based Tax Calculation
o Model 2: Store Address-based Tax Calculation
o Model 3: EU Mode (Store Owner based Tax Calculation when Customer comes from an EU Country)
• Shoppers can manage their User Accounts (registration required)
• Shipping Address Management (Customers can enter their own Shipping Addresses)
• Order History: Shopper can view all their previous Orders (and Order Details)
• Order Confirmation Mail (customizable!) is sent to Shopper and Store Owner

Multiple Currencies (you can allow Customers to change the Currency and buy using an alternative Currency)

Multiple Languages Product Catalogue Features
• Powerful Web-Administration Interface (Javascript-powered)

Manages an unlimited Number of Products and Categories
• Can be used as a Shop or just as an Online-Catalog (you can even turn off Price Display)
• quick Search for Products, Categories and Manufacturers; filter by features or discounted Products

Product Ratings & Testimonials (moderated or auto-published)
• feature specific Products by setting them "on special"
• Product Availability: show how fast a Customer can expect delivery
• Handles downloadable Products (virtual Goods)
• "Product is back in Stock"-Notification for subscribed Customers Administration Features

Multiple Images and Files (like Spec Sheets and Flyers) per Product
• Product Attributes (like Size or Colour) can be added to Product
• Product Types for Classification (like "Car", "Motorbike" or "Music Album")
• Shopper Groups for Customers (allows different Price Levels and Payment Options),
• multiple Prices per Product (Quantity-based and/or Shopper Group-based Prices)
• flexible Price Display (number & currency formatting; including or excluding tax)
• On-the-Fly Price Conversion between different Currencies using Live Rates from the ECB or other banks

Shop Statistics / Control Panel with a Summary of new Customers, new Orders....
• Stock Level Control for Products and Item
• Order Management with Order History, Customer Notification and Order Edit Functionality
• basic Reporting Feature: sold Items, monthly/yearly Revenue •

Order Status Management
• manage different Currencies, Countries & States Payment Modules
• capable of live Credit Card Processing
• pre-defined Payment Gateways like authorize.net®, PayPal, Sage Pay, 2Checkout, eWay, Worldpay, PayMate and NoChex
• extend your Shop with other Payment Modules using the Payment Module API!

Shipping Modules
• flexible Delivery and Rates Configuration
• extend your Shop with other Shipping Modules using the Shipping Module API!