General Features

General Features

cStore powers the biggest stores with ease supporting catalogues up 250,000 products. Developers have access to an extendable framework to customise the system to meet the most demanding (or unusual) business requirements.
  • Web Based Store management.
  • Provides complete Web site solution, including shopping cart, content management, customer management etc...
  • Designed For Max Capacity 250,000 products
  • Host Types Supported: Shared Server, VPS Server, Dedicated Server
  • 5,000 Content/HTML (topic) pages supported
  • C# Codebehind Pages Included without full source
  • Database Schema Included
  • Databases Supported: MS SQL 2005, MS SQL 2008, (Express and Workgroup Ok)
Product Capabilities & Features

Product Capabilities & Features

cStore comes packed with a ton of best practice product management and display features.
Supports multiple images per product (icon, medium, and large)
Support for swatch colour image changing
Restrict product quantities to preset values (e.g. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, ...)
Enforce product minimum order quantities (i.e. must order at least 10, etc).
Support for sizes & colours. All colour/size site "prompts" can be customised in the admin area, so you could rename those two options to have completely different meaning.
Two Attributes Per Product (e.g. Size/Colour)
Inventory By Attribute (e.g. Size/Colour)
Price can vary by size/colour option chosen
Prices can vary by customer or customer level (group)
Fully dynamic site map (optimised for search engines)
Tell store to locate product pictures by ID (icon, medium, large)
Tell store to locate product pictures by SKU (icon, medium, large)
Can re-use use pre-existing images (ie associate with mutliple products)
Support for sale prices
Vary product prices for each customer level (e.g. wholesale/retail)
Phone Order Entry Module
Product Descriptions can include HTML formatting
Disable Buy buttons by product
Set Site to Wholesale Only (Prices not shown to general site customers)
Bulk Product Importing

Bulk Product Importing

cStore offers a variety of ways of populating and maintaining the production catalogue data. From simple Excel or XML importing to real-time synchronising with Web Services or other third-party applications, cStore provides robust and efficient options to keep catalogues up to date.
  • From Xml File
  • From Excel File
  • Web Services Automation Interface (WSI). Allows automated import, export, data updates and synchronization.
  • Event Notification callbacks to external Web Service which you register, on storefront events (e.g. new order created, customer created, etc).
  • (Multi-Currency). Customer can select store currency to view at run-time. Allowed currencies are under control of store administrator. Support for various leading exchange rate feed suppliers will be supported (via XmlPackages). Sign-up for some exchange rate feeds is optional, through 3rd parties, and they may have fees associated with them (e.g. xe.com, x-rates.com, etc).
  • Store developer/admin has full control over all store site strings used (e.g. prompt used for SKU, Product, Colour, Size, shopping cart, etc). Every string used in the storefront can be edited.
Page layout Customisation

Page layout Customisation

There is no restriction on layout and design using cStore. If your client wants a full Adobe Flash eCommerce experience or best practice standards compliant online shopping, cStore makes it easy to implement their creative vision.
  • Completely customise the layout & appearance of any category, section,  or product page
  • You can link to the cart "pages" from your existing site pages, or use the storefront to run your entire site
  • Add page header/footer HTML blocks to cart page, and all checkout and order confirmation pages, to provide special notes/text specific to your store or business
  • Use custom receipt formats & templates
  • Use custom "your order has shipped" email formats and templates
  • Automatic email notification to customer with receipt
  • Receipt can be fully customised
  • Receipt Formats Supported
  • Automatic email notification to store admin of new order received
  • Mini-Cart (optional small box on every page showing cart summary contents and checkout link)
System Support

System Support

cStore is designed and optimised to leverage Microsoft technologies including Asp.net, MS SQL and Windows Server. But more than that, by working with .NET we're able to offer you peace of mind that your product is supported at a foundation level by the most successful software company in the world.
  • Databases Supported MS SQL 2005, MS SQL 2008, (Express and Workgroup Ok)
  • Asp.net 2.0
  • Asp.net 3.0 Compatible
  • Asp.net 3.5 Compatible
  • Windows 2000 Server
  • Windows 2003 Server
  • Windows 2008 Server
  • IIS 5/6/7 for development or production supported
  • Visual Studio 2005
  • Visual Studio 2008
  • Built in page and data caching