Actinic shopping cart

Actinic offers popular, affordable and easy-to-use ecommerce software and shopping cart software for selling online . Winner of numerous awards, with more sites than any other supplier in the UK and thousands of users in over 40 countries worldwide, Actinic is the first choice for businesses wanting to sell on the internet.

Now v8 adds even more powerful functionality to the award-winning features of previous versions.

Actinic products have been carefully designed with the requirements of search engines in mind. They have a well-deserved reputation for delivering sites that rank well with search engines out of the box, and are easy to optimise further.

Improved shopping experience

- Allow entry of product quantity and other product specific fields in the main
catalogue pages.

- Allow a single Add to Cart button per page rather than one per product, enabling 'order form' style shopping pages.

- Editable shopping cart allowing quantity and other product information to be
changed.

- Cart expiry period can be configured by the merchant.

- Ability to create product pop-up windows containing additional product information and alternative product images.

Components, attributes and choices

- Where one product is sold as a component of another, the associated product name may be used in the cart and invoices rather than composite component/ attribute / choice information.

- The detail of component pricing may optionally be retained throughout the order process and passed to the export files.

- Where a product is entirely made up of components, the main product information may be suppressed from the cart, invoice etc.

- A component may be allowed to inherit a parent product's tax rate if its own tax rate is different.

Security

- Support for the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P). Merchants will be able to use standard policies provided by Actinic, or create their own.

Order Processing

- A copy of every order may be emailed to a third party

Site Management

- Enhanced site deployment, backup and restore capabilities.

- Prompted site backup feature.

- An option not to overwrite existing merchant orders when importing a site produced by Actinic Developer

- An option not to overwrite existing merchant orders when deploying a site.

- Developers can 'sign' deployed sites and options to prevent their clients making changes to the Actinic Ecommerce configuration which are likely to break their installation.

- Browser button on toolbar to link to current site URL

- New dialog for easier editing of CSS variables

- New icons to identify products with extended information and sections defined as 'order form' views.

Design

- Wider range of templates based on research into typical ecommerce site layouts
- A default Section Image can be defined and section images will inherit from the parent section.

External Data Sources

- Various improvements in Design Settings including layout changes to enhance usability.