Catlog Central™ was built around the concept that at its
core, your company website should be about sharing information with your customers,
partners and employees.
With Catalog Central™ delivering a highly rich and manageble product and service
catalog over the web becomes a reality.
Catalog Central™ means an online catalog can now be created to fit your unique
needs to provide product and business information over the web. It also provides
an extensive set of content management tools to make managing and growing your product
catalog and administrative task instead of a web development project.
Your Catalog Central™ online catalog can deliver high end content management
(CMS) capabilities without the complexity, expense, and learning curve typically
required.
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Share information —
Catalog Central™ was built around the concept that at its core, your company
website should be about sharing information with your customers, partners and employees.
- Online catalog of your product line
- Allow customers to search product documentation and specifications.
- Provide product support
- Build dynamic, targetted FAQ's using customer inquiries
- Sell Access to digital media
- Host customer support forums
- Send out product update emails
- Allow customer ratings and feedback
- Provide restricted access to select materials on your website
Advanced Catalog — Help your customers find products
and get information on your products by utilizing the advanced catalog features
of Catalog Central™.
- Multiple catalogs: You can setup many catalogs in a single
database. This helps you target your audience by presenting a specific subset of
products, with their own category structure and product descriptions. By doing this,
you can show your customers a branded catalog and website.
- Extended product details: Don't be restricted to the limitations
of field size in your existing database sch The advanced catalog has the ability
to create large formatted text descriptions of your products. These descriptions
can either be stored as plain-text or as HTML for a richer purchasing experience.
- Multi-Level categorization: Categories are an easy way for
your customers to find your products. By simple browsing a multi-level structure,
they can "drill-down" to the item they are looking for. These category levels can
have an unlimited number of subcategories under them and a product can be assigned
to as many categories as you would like.
- Attach product images and documents: Product images (thumbnails,
regular, and large) can be tied to a product or category. You can also attach documents
(such as spec-sheets, manuals, or brochures) to a product or category so your customer
can download them.
- Product Grouping: Group multiple products on a page for
easy selection of what the customer needs.
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Intuitive Administration — Catalog Central™
is designed around quick a and intuitive content management system (CMS). Every
element on a Catalog Central page can be edited simply by clicking an Admin edit
button which only appears when a user is authorized to edit that element. And full-featured
web-admin screens let you edit and customize every item on the site.
Account Central™ is integrated with Verisign, PayPal, and
COCard and payments can be made on an account or for a specific invoice.
Create Email Forms — Catalog Central® has a complete
queuing system that improves website response and can be used as a batch emailing
system for customer service emails. Using the email functions you can
inform customers of specials or new products, send promotional emails, and remove
the need for 3rd party email services.
Email Queue and Batch Processing — Account Central™
provides customers with the ability to retrieve order history based on a wide variety
of search criteria. Order history results link to a detailed invoice page and also
to any invoices tied to a specific order. Optionally, •PDF Invoice documents created
internally can be linked to instead of the Account Central invoice page.
Advanced security features at both the page and the component
level — Set privileges for any page or component in Catalog Central®.
By using a simple security tool, you can limit what customers can do on your site.
You can hide or disable buttons, secure certain pages, or lock-down features depending
on the user's privileges.
Completely developed from ground up in ASP.NET —
Catalog Central® is built on .NET technology and is seamlessly integrated via XML
Web Services. Catalog Central® is built upon the Microsoft Internet Information
Server providing scalable, efficient, and expandable ecommerce solutions for all
types of businesses.
All data elements are developed as server-side controls. Simply drop the desired
component on the page you want and gain the functionality access you need. (Example:
if you want to allow customer feedback on a product, just drop the feedback control
on the page.) Catalog Central has many configurable options for security and scalability.
By using XML Web Services you can host your web server in a data center while your
Solomon server is accessed securely behind your firewall. Load balancing tools can
be used to distribute processing across multiple services and servers if need be.
The "branding" or look-and-feel of the website can be easily changed using Microsoft
Visual Studio or Front Page. Advanced website design and other unique features can
be added through our customization department on an as needed basis.