| Excerpo® Storefront Type |
Lite |
Professional |
Premium |
 Domain License |
$119.95 CAD |
$179.95 CAD |
$249.95 CAD |
| One-time license fee per domain. |
| Monthly Application Hosting |
$49.95 CAD |
$84.95 CAD |
$119.95 CAD |
| Monthly recurring fee. Take advantage of a 10% discount by paying annually with check. |
| Transaction Fee |
$0.00 |
$0.00 |
$0.00 |
| Unlike some competing products, with Excerpo® Storefront you pay NO transaction fees for sales (standard credit processing fees apply with the use of a merchant account). |
| Standard Features |
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| Product SKU Support |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| One of the most exciting features of Excerpo® Storefront is its support for an unlimited number of product SKUs. This is especially beneficial if you have products in multiple sizes, colors, etc. |
| Database Disk Space |
250 MB |
500 MB |
1000 MB |
| Amount of storage space in the database for product descriptions, pictures, etc. Additional disk space is available at a rate of $5.00 per 10 MB monthly. |
| Bandwidth (Data Transfer) |
3 GB |
5 GB |
10 GB |
| The amount of data (files and images) passing through a connection. When visitors access your store, traffic is generated. Your total transfer is the sum of all in-and-out-bound traffic. 300 visitors a day consume approximately 3 GB of bandwidth. This number can be higher or lower and depends on several factors including but not limited to how many images your storefront contains and the size of the images. Additional bandwidth is available at a rate of $3.00/GB. |
| CAMS Access |
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| CAMS® (Central Account Management System) is an easy-to-use online interface, which enables you to easily manage a wide variety of features related to your account and provides you access to valuable statistics such as visitors to your store, etc. |
| FTP Access |
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| FTP access allows users fluent in HTML the ability to make updates and changes to their store by uploading files directly to the server. |
| PHP, Perl, and MySQL Support |
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| PHP (http://www.php.net) is a popular server-side scripting language distributed for free and is one of the most popular development languages in use today. MySQL (http://www.mysql.org/) is an open-source robust SQL database engine. |
| Network & Security Features |
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| Dual Intel Xeon, RAID-5 SCSI Servers |
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| No customer has the patience for slow, unresponsive websites. That's why Excerpo® Storefront is powered by state-of-the-art, commercial grade servers, which are equipped with fully redundant hardware and only brand-name components. Each server utilizes multiple Intel Xeon processors, multiple high-speed SCSI hard drives, multiple memory modules and multiple power supplies. This guarantees the best possible performance and maximum up-time, even during times when Internet traffic peaks. |
| Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) System |
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| The Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) System ensures that the Excerpo® Storefront servers continue to operate without a glitch during a power outage event. Should such an event occur, dual diesel generators are standing by to provide ongoing power for up to two weeks. |
| Fully Redundant Internet Network |
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| Excerpo® Storefront is hosted in a state-of-the-art data center, located in Atlanta, Georgia USA. The facility connects to the Internet via a fully redundant network, which utilizes ultra high-speed connectivity from the nation's eight (8) Internet backbone providers. This unmatched level of redundancy delivers the ultimate in performance and system up-time. |
| 24/7 Network & Server Monitoring |
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| The entire hosting network is monitored 24/7/365 by a highly trained staff of network engineers and systems administrators to ensure maximum up-time and reliability. |
| 99.9% Up-Time Guarantee |
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| Excerpo® Storefront comes with minimum 99.9% guarantee. |
| Password-Protected User Accounts |
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| To ensure the privacy of all users, each account is password-protected. Passwords are never shared with third parties via the phone or email and may only be reset by the account owner for security reasons. |
| Weekly Tape Backup |
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| All Excerpo® Storefront data is backed up weekly for disaster recovery purposes. |
| Daily Tape Backup |
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| In addition to weekly back-ups, Excerpo® Storefront Professional and Enterprise provide additional peace of mind with daily tape back-ups for disaster recovery. |
| Payment Processing & Shipping Features |
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| Real-Time Credit Card Processing Support* |
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All versions of Excerpo® Storefront support real-time credit card processing (MasterCard/Visa, American Express & Discover). Processing credit cards requires a credit card merchant account with a compatible bank and secure transaction processing system such as Authorizenet® (not included). We are pleased to offer free setup of a credit card merchant account for any US based business. Please contact our office for details. |
| Off-Line Credit Card Processing |
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| All versions of Excerpo® Storefront support off-line processing using either your merchant terminal or access through your own merchant account. Order information is securely stored in the online database. |
| 128-Bit SSL Security |
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| SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is an accepted standard for transferring information securely across the Internet. It encrypts data passed between the server and the browser, so that unauthorized parties cannot intercept sensitive, confidential or personal information, such as a phone number or address. Excerpo® employs SSL to protect your customers' billing and shipping information when it's submitted through your checkout pages, which helps to ensure a reliable, secure shopping experience. |
| Mail-In Payments |
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| All versions of Excerpo® Storefront offer the option to process orders pending receipt of payment via postal mail. |
| Co-branded Checkout Pages |
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| All versions of Excerpo® Storefront offer you the option of publishing your logo on the checkout page. |
| Setup Shipping Method Rules |
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| This allows the Excerpo® administrator to configure special shipping rules for the site such as 'free shipping on orders over $25' or 'all ground orders shipped free'. |
| Export Order Data to External Databases |
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| Excerpo® supports exporting your data file to .csv format for use in external databases. If you require the file in another format, please contact our office to check availability. |
| Automated Tax Calculation |
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| Taxes can be set and calculated based on either state or county sales tax. |
| Integrates into UPS Online Tools |
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| UPS Online Tools require details about the products you are selling and base the shipping cost by product weight and destination. You can also use any of the available shipping methods UPS provides. |
| Sales & Marketing Features |
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| Copy/Paste 3 line JavaScript code |
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| Using only 3 lines of JavaScript code, your product pages will be generated within an existing static HTML document for quick and easy integration. |
 Search Engine Friendly Layout |
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| All versions of Excerpo® Storefront support the use of meta information to ensure that your online store can be easily accessed by the leading Search Engines. |
| Trackable Links |
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| A Trackable Link is a powerful marketing tool, which enables you to determine the most effective forms of advertising. By assigning a unique code to various banners, for example, Excerpo® Storefront can record which banner is generating the most traffic. A Trackable Link could also be assigned to search engine listings, unique web pages or affiliates to track sales. |
| Boolean Based Product Search |
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| All products can be searched by product title, overview, or description. Using boolean terms such as AND, NOT, or OR within your query, you can limit or expand your search results. |
 Easy Ebay Integration |
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| With Excerpo® Storefront, you can easily expose your products to millions of potential buyers by listing them on Ebay for sale or for auction. |
| Gift Certificates |
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| Customers can buy and send electronic gift certificates from your site and the recipient can redeem the gift certificate value during the checkout process. You can track the number of gift certificates you have outstanding for accounting and management purposes. |
| Wishlists |
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| A wishlist allows your customers to shop without purchasing and leave a wishlist for those who may make a purchase for them, i.e. birthday present, wedding gift, etc. |
| Trackable Links for Affiliate Programs |
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| An affiliate program is a formal, trackable relationship between you and another web business, under which you agree to reward that business for successfully referring traffic to your website. With this feature you can track the performance of affiliate relationships that you establish. You and your partner can monitor, via online reports, the total monthly sales revenue generated through referrals from the affiliate partner, and use this information to calculate referral fees. A more advanced feature coming soon is the ability to create an affiliate program to allow visitors sign up for the program online. |
| Integrates into Yahoo & Froogle portals |
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| Excerpo® provides an export of your catalog formatted specifically for Yahoo Shopping Network and Froogle. These portals provides additional exposure for your site. |
| Product Discounting |
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| Allows for the discounting of products based upon admin defined qualifications. Examples include discounts via coupons, promo codes or user login. |
| Product Options/Variances w/ surcharges |
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| Allows for user defined 'options' to be selected during the product selection; most commonly used for the selection of an item's color or size. |
| Product Comparison Engine |
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| Product comparison is a tool your customers will use when you offer multiple items in a product line. This advanced feature allows your customers to compare like products at a glance in a table format. Not yet available in the demo. |
| Product Ratings & Reviews System |
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| Product rating and reviews allows your customers to peruse items and gain feedback from other buyers. This allows your customer an educational experience about products without leaving your site. |
| Fully Customizable Cart Themes |
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| Excerpo's® UI can be fully customized to provide a wholly integrated, professional look and feel with your existing site. Customization is available (contact us for a quote) or can be done by any qualified web developer knowledgeable in HTML and .php. |
| Product Custom Fields |
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| Excerpo's® can be customized to add extra fields specific to the type of products you are selling and convey the information back to your cusotmers as they are browsing your site. Contact us for a quote. |
| Automated Cross-Sell Engine |
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| Enables you to associate up to 5 products to each product as possible additions that the customer might have forgotten before checking out. I.e., a customer may have purchased a brand new computer but forgot that they would need a monitor, printer, ink, print cable, and paper. This feature enables you to suggest more items to the shopping list before checkout. |
| Storefront Management Features |
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| Online Storefront Manager Interface |
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| Allows for the management and updating of the cart via the web. This ensures that regardless of your location, providing you have Internet access, you will be able to update and manage your site's cart. |
| Fully Integrated Customer Database |
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| This feature is much like a catalog manager. It is a customer database that allows you to easily access customer records including purchase date, item, payment type, shipping address, order history, etc. |
| Batch Product Import Engine |
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| Already have your products in a .csv file format? Excerpo® allows you to import your existing product data directly into the cart, bypassing data entry that might otherwise be needed. |
| Product Inventory Update |
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| The online inventory manager is a powerful built-in tool, which enables you to easily manage your entire product inventory, including pricing and detailed information about each item. Your entire inventory can be conveniently viewed at a glance. Inventory alerts can be set to automatically notify you when your inventory falls below a specified level so you can reorder. This tool also allows you to set the quantity for product options/variances, i.e. number of red shirts, blue shirts, etc. on hand. |
| Print/Email Customer Invoices |
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| Customer invoices can be printed or emailed directly from Excerpo® Storefront's online interface, enabling you to provide your customers with records of their purchases. |
| Batch Product Image Upload |
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| Similar to batch product import, the support for batch image uploading gives you the ability to mass upload all of your product images and avoid the hassle of unnecessary data entry. |
| Storefront Statistics & Reports |
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| Traffic Statistics |
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| Provides full access to your site's statistical information such as number of viewers, number of hits and total bandwidth used. |
| Top Referring Sites |
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| Provides information as to what sites and/or search engines are referring users to your site. This information is critical to the continued success of a site as well for developing successful marketing initiatives. |
| Page View Count |
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| Provides the number of page hits on your website. |
| Search Topics |
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| Provides a list of the top search string queries on search engines indicating which queries were used to find your site. |
