Which Edition Is Right For Me?

• Would your business benefit from selling your products online?
• Do your customers ask about purchasing your products from your website?
• Are you looking for alternative ways your existing customers can do business with you?
• Would your business benefit from having an expanded advertising presence?
• Do you prefer an easy to use package with solid features over packages that are more advanced with all the bells and whistles?
• Do you have 100 products or less to list in your online store?
• Are you looking to give eCommerce a try without making a major investment of time or resources?
• Would your business benefit from signing up, posting and managing eBay product auctions?

If you answer yes to these questions, then you may benefit by using ProStores Standard Edition.

• Do your customers expect to see your products sorted into categories or departments for easy selection and purchase?
• Would you like to provide shoppers with detailed product information?
• Would your customers benefit from being able to search for specific products in your store by typing in a keyword, product name, manufacturer, SKU, price and/or category?
• Do you use QuickBooks and would you save time and money by having products, orders and customers seamlessly update between your online store and your QuickBooks company records?
• Do you have employees that may require access to specific areas of store administration to perform their independent tasks (i.e. shipping, customer management, product updates, etc.) without gaining access to all areas of store administration?
• Would your business benefit from posting your products in several shopping search engines, producing highly qualified traffic and an efficient sales channel for you? Marketplace support includes Shopping.com, BizRate and Froogle.
• Do you often place multiple products on sale and would providing shopper's quick links to easily purchase those products be important?
• Would you prefer a desktop icon to alert you of new customers and orders over logging into the store to obtain a status?
• Would you like the ability to issue credits, partial credits or line-item credits to shoppers, based on your store policies?
• Do you require sophisticated reporting functionality from your online store (i.e. top selling products, top customers, total sales, returning vs. new customers, search results, tax liability)?

If you answer yes to these questions, then you may benefit by using ProStores Professional Edition.

• Do you wish to sell one of the following from your online store: services, subscriptions, or memberships?
• Do you sell to other businesses? Businesses of all sizes often use a purchase order system to manage their procurement of goods and services. Would you like to accept purchase orders as a method of payment?
• Do you often conduct storewide sales (placing everything in the store on sale) while excluding certain products from sales in order to maintain those products margins?
• Would you like to be able to offer quantity discounts, such as two for the price of one?
• Do you assign special promo codes to your advertising, direct mail or other marketing promotions? If so, would you like to allow your customers to redeem coded offers in your online store?
• Would you like to be able to hide products from your catalog when inventory reaches zero, or the product re-order threshold, so that shoppers do not place orders for items that are not in stock?
• Would you like your customers to be able to place orders for items that are on backorder and have the customer notified the item is on backorder before they place their order so they are aware of the situation?
• Would you like to be able to view the total cost of your inventory?
• Do you have repeat customers who purchase the same items each visit (i.e. businesses that you supply, customers that return rather frequently to purchase the same goods)? If you have repeat customers who purchase the same items each visit, a "saved shopping cart" is a user-friendly, time-saving tool. When they save their shopping cart, your customers no longer have to browse the product catalog and place their desired items in the cart - it's all there, in the cart, from the last time they shopped in your store.
• Do you take customer orders by phone, fax or email? If so, would you like to have the ability to manually enter those orders directly into your customers' accounts with your online store?
• Would you like to offer your customers anywhere, anytime access to their account information? Professional Edition offers advanced customer service features that allow your customers to view and edit their billing, shipping and contact information, check the status of an order or review their order history, and even make a copy of an invoice or receipt from a previous order.

If you answer yes to these questions, then you may benefit by using ProStores Professional Plus Edition.

• Would you like to offer special pricing to certain groups of preferred customers, such as frequent buyers, wholesalers, etc.?
• Would you like to be able to give discounts to certain types of customers based on a percent off the sales price or a percentage above the cost?
• Would you like to track sales by customer groups?
• Would you like to set up an affiliate program that drives traffic from other sites to your store, and incents other sites to sell for you?
• Do you sell products that need the involvement of a salesperson, such as those that require customization or special handling during shipping? If so, Professional Plus Edition can capture the customer information and automatically assign a salesperson for follow up.
• Would you like to assign your salespeople to specific customers, and credit those salespeople when their customers make a purchase online?
• Would you like to view sales activity reports of affiliates, sales managers, and sales people by day, week, month, quarter and annually?
• Would you like to automatically communicate orders from your online store to the product supplier? Professional Plus Edition can notify your suppliers of new orders according to their preferred communication method, whether fax, email, XML or EDI.
• Would you like to set up a virtual inventory process that allows you to offer products in your online store, but not have to carry them in inventory? Professional Plus Edition can automatically send orders to your suppliers for drop shipment, eliminating the need for costly inventory.
• Would you like to automatically update your customer's order status? When you receive order acknowledgements and shipping confirmations from your suppliers, Professional Plus Edition can automatically pass them along to the appropriate customers.
• Would you like to improve the management of your supply chain overall? With Professional Plus Edition you can associate products with suppliers and view orders by supplier, letting you manage the entire process more efficiently

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