eCommerce

Don’t get swept behind the competition. Every year, more and more business is being done on-line. Giving your customers more options on how to purchase your services- face to face, on the phone or on-line- leaves them the option of choosing between you, you and you.  

Our customers have been thrilled with the professional edge and flexibility that our highly customized version of BV Software has allowed them.

Review some of BV’s main features below along with our own personal customizations.

Categories

  • Unlimited Categories
  • Unlimited Sub-Categories
  • Auto-Category by Price
  • Auto-Category by Manufacturer
  • Auto-Category by Vendor
  • Auto-Category by Latest Products
  • View by Pages
  • View all at once
  • Grid View
  • list View
  • Detail View
  • Custom Banners
  • Custom Icons
  • Custom Tabs
  • Hidden Categories
  • Per Category Meta Tags
  • Custom Descriptions
  • Sort by Price
  • Sort by Name

Products

  • Product Templates
  • Clone Products
  • Dropdown list Choices
  • Radio Button Choices
  • Text Box Choices
  • HTML Descriptions
  • Per Product Meta Tags
  • Short/Long Descriptions
  • Define Custom Types
  • Product Ratings
  • Product Reviews
  • Non-Shipping Option
  • Size/Weight Fields
  • Unlimited Images
  • Auto-Generate Images
  • Activate/Deactivate
  • Site Cost
  • list Price
  • Site Price
  • Minimum Quantity
  • Show Choices as Grid
  • Manufacturer Field
  • Vendor Field
  • Tax Exempt
  • Tax Classes
  • Drop Shipping
  • Related Items
  • Inventory
  • Inventory by Choice
  • SKU by Choice
  • File Downloads

Marketing

  • Product Rotators
  • Category Rotators
  • HTML Rotators
  • 10 Pricing Levels
  • New Product Badge
  • Related Items
  • Accessory Products
  • Customize Homepage from Admin Web Site
  • Quick Search
  • Wish list
  • Backorder Messages

Security

  • Role-Based Security
  • Encrypted Password
  • triple DES Encryption for Credit Card Information
  • Clear Old Credit Card Information Script
  • Full SSL Support
  • Force SSL for Admin

Personalized Accounts

  • Address Book
  • Order History
  • Wish list
  • Password Reminder
  • Password Reset
  • Change Email
  • Mailing list Signup
  • File Download links

Customer Loyalty

  • Email to a Friend
  • Mailing list Signup
  • Remembered Carts
  • Auto-Populate Addresses
  • Address Book
  • Multi-Ship To Orders
  • Gift Certificates

Affiliate Program

  • Sign Up Form
  • Report by Affiliate
  • Remember Referrals for Additional Sales
  • Commissions by Amount
  • Commissions by Percentage
  • Custom Theme By Affiliate

Content Management

  • Customize Emails
  • Homepage Columns
  • Site Logo
  • Site Address
  • Meta Tags
  • Help/FAQ
  • Privacy Policy
  • Return Policy
  • Shipping Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site Terms
  • Custom Pages
  • Open/Close Store

Order Management

  • New Order Alerts
  • View Unpaid
  • View Unshipped
  • View Problem Orders
  • On Hold Orders
  • Void Orders
  • Receive Payments
  • Issue Credits
  • Ship Orders
  • Edit Orders
  • Return Items
  • Ship by UPS and generate shipping labels
  • Print Packing Slips
  • Print Invoices
  • Print Admin Records
  • Email Customer
  • Record IP Address
  • Merchant Notes
  • Customer Instructions
  • Order Search

Taxes

  • Unlimited Tax Classes
  • Tax by Country
  • Tax by Region
  • Tax by Postal Code
  • Tax Exempt Products
  • Tax Exempt Customers
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Sales and Discounts

  • Product Discounts
  • Order Discounts
  • Shipping Discounts
  • By Amount
  • By Percentage
  • Minimum Quantity
  • Minimum Amount
  • Coupon Code
  • Coupon Use limits
  • Store-Wide Sales
  • Start Date
  • End Date
  • Volume Discounts

Payment

  • Credit Cards
  • PayPal
  • Telephone
  • Email
  • Check by Mail
  • Gift Certificates
  • Authorize.Net
  • linkPoint
  • Concord EFS Net
  • RichSolutions.com
  • Off-line Processing
  • Plug-Ins for Credit
  • Card Processors

Import and Export

  • XML Web Services
  • XML Import
  • XML Export
  • Text File Product Import

Shipping

  • UPS
  • FedEx
  • US Postal Service
  • By Item Count
  • By Order Amount
  • Per Item Charge
  • Handling Fees
  • Adjust Real Time Rates
  • Ship and Label packages via UPS Online Tools
  • tracking Numbers

Design

  • CSS
  • Themes
  • Personalized Themes
  • Themes by Affiliate
  • Custom Buttons
  • Custom Site Terms

Development

  • ASP.NET 1.1
  • Visual Studio .NET project and solution files
  • n-Tier Architecture
  • Stored Procedures for Data Access
  • Visual Basic .NET

Reports

  • Monthly Sales
  • Daily Sales
  • Sales by Affiliate
  • Sales by Coupon
  • Top Customers
  • Top Products
  • View Sales Tax

We provide the following enhancements in all of our standard packages:

Administration Options:

  • WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor on fields where this is appropriate, complete with image upload functionality.

Smart Search

  • Full-text indexed product search capabilities using any combination of manufacturer, vendor or category, and most text fields associated to a product description.
  • An advanced search capability selecting only products on sale, minimum/maximum pricing, range of dates that products were added to the store. 
 

Filter Products by

  • Status (Active / Inactive)
  • Sales (Sales / Discounts / Site < List)

Product Administration

  • Clone products full information
  • Copy another products information
  • Ability to hide products from search and category listings (used for attribute up sells)
  • Ability to disallow products from being added to cart (used for attribute up sells - ignoring main product, but adding just attributes)
  • Ability to upload product images by SKU and BV will dynamically optimize a "small" and "medium" image for a product.
  • Ability to list products in a category simple grid list

Navigation

  • Ability to create multiple navigation bars. Example Use: navigation bar for products and one for services

Promotion

  • Smart Search Options such as link to everything that is on sale, or "new" products defined by date range -- say products added in the past 60 days

Shipping

  • Customer estimate shipping previous to using credit card and checking out

We also have quite a few add-ons to simplify product management and marketing. If you would like to see what these options are, please let us know at the time of your scheduled demo.

If you wish to view some help documentation (including video tutorials), you may view them here.

eCommerce Pricing

Including optional custom design, ssl, hosting, and merchant account

Core Fees

  • BV Commerce Advanced Shopping Cart
    Includes: Shopping cart core, back-end administration, and a full suite of feature enhancements GFX has added to the "out of the box" version of BV
    $1295
  • BV Commerce Installation
    template setup / database setup / client orientation / 30 day support after site launch
    $360

Optional Fees

  • Custom Design*
    Creative - $765
    Implementation - $680
    *Not neccessary if you wish to use a pre-defined BV template
  • SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
    Used to secure transactions in 128 bit encryption
    $95 (Includes installation)
  • Hosting - Business Plan
    500MB storage, 20GB transfer/bandwidth, unlimited email accounts, MS SQL database (Additional details on our hosting page)
    $49.95/mo
  • Merchant Account (Via Web Merchant Services)
    2.30% Discount Rate
    $0.30 per transaction ($10/mo. min.)
    SecurePay Gateway: $24.95/mo.
    $232.50

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