the complete e-commerce solution provider

The complete e-commerce software package for business, at excellent value.

Provides all the design and product features you would expect, plus order management, customer and supplier management and now includes the ability to deploy your store on multiple domains for targeted search engine marketing, brand separation or multi-lingual stores.

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Using EROL 5 you can....

• Create a new online store, or add e-commerce to your existing site
• Build search engine friendly pages
• Build W3C Accessibility Compliant & XHTML Standards Compliant stores
• Implement your custom CSS design to your e-commerce store
• Upload your store direct from your desktop via EROL’s integrated Publish Wizard
• Create powerful, time-expiring store discounts
• Download and process orders using EROL’s comprehensive back office management

Deliver a Great Shopper Experience

• Easy site navigation features including 'breadcrumb trail’
• Fast product search, including Product Code/SKU search
• Basket content and running totals visible at all times
• Automatic email confirmation of order to every customer
• Deliver customer-specific content and discounts for repeat shoppers
• Display a panel of Best-Seller, On Sale or Featured products anywhere in the page

Flexible Design Control

• Break the bonds of template-driven stores - whatever you can imagine you can create!
• WYSIWYG design tools with EROL's HTML Editors
• Complete offline basket functionality - test-drive your store before publishing
• Preview your store design offline as you build it
• Store Themes Library with hundreds of combinations of designs and colour schemes
• Use HTML or graphic rollover buttons, or design your own!
• Use with Macromedia Dreamweaver and other web-page editors for 'comfortable environment editing'.
• Explorer-style interface - access any part of your store instantly
• Improved productivity with multiple viewing modes to maximise your workspace
• Use HTML Tidy ™ or EROL’s Optimised output to create clean, structured HTML pages
• Unlimited product categories and sub-categories
• Include product variations, such as size and colour
• Fully customisable store pages - Additional text or images can be added anywhere on any page
• Product data round-trip import / export
• Create and link to static content pages - build your entire website using EROL!

Powerful Product Control

• Related Products - automatically show shoppers similar products they may also like!
• Create Product Kits with variable components and pricing, Product Matrices and Variants
• Flexible price points for product variations, volume price breaks etc.
• Display Product options with radio buttons, checkboxes or dropdowns
• Powerful Product Import Wizard - add, update and remove products from your store from one, or multiple, data sources
• Create Product Lists - add multiple products to the basket with one click
• Capture personalised customer information to sell personalised products e.g. Add your name to a t-shirt
• Assign different tax groups to different products – e.g. Books at 0% VAT / tax
• Up to 10,000 products

Secure Payments

• Automatically calculates correct shipping and taxation charges, anywhere in the world.
• Bank-approved security for all secure online payment methods
• Twenty fully supported and integrated Payment Service Providers e.g. PayPal, WorldPay, EROL PAY
• Accept non-real-time credit card payment, too, like orders by cheque, bank transfer etc.

Efficient Order & Customer Management – EROL’s Back Office

• Automatically retrieve orders
• Use the Order Manager to process your orders from receipt to shipment.
• Automate order processing steps to maximise productivity
• Receive an automatic email receipt for every order taken
• Monitors, adjusts and publishes stock levels whilst processing orders
• Print Invoices, Delivery Notes, Pick Lists and Print ‘n’ Peel EROL Address Invoice Labels
• Create and view sales reports and charts
• Customer Manager tracks customer purchase history
• Create individual privileges/discounts for your customers
• Inventory Manager - view and change product information rapidly
• Automatic backup and data integrity check feature
• Export order, customer or product data to CSV for use in other applications
• Connect to Sage Line 50 accounting packages *
• (*) Requires additional software purchase

Marketing Features

• Create search-engine-friendly web stores
• List your products on Google Products (formerly Froogle) using the automatic Froogle export!
• Send individual or group e-mails to your customers
• One click Google Analytics integrations – track your store’s visitors and sales
• Set discounts based on a shopper's total order value
• Offer a free gift, free shipping, percentage and fixed amount discounts
• Create product bundles using Product Kitting
• Deliver retail (Business-to-Consumer) and trade/wholesale (Business-to-Business) product pricing from the same store!

Fast & Friendly Support

• Free online Support Helpdesk for 12 months
• 30 days Free Telephone Support (*)
• UK-based support, delivered by technicians who use the software
• Online Knowledge Base – ask our searchable support database any question
• EROL Customer Community Forums – talk to other online store owners for help and advice
• EROL Cover Plan options available** - full ongoing support and upgrade protection, and discount on additional services
• Get free extra traffic and orders to your online store (***)
• (*) Not included with EROL Startup 25
• (**) Additional fee required
• (***) Delivered via EROL Shopping

System Requirements

• Intel Pentium 4, Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon or Intel Core Duo (or compatible) processor
• Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or Windows Vista Home Premium, Business or Ultimate (32 bit Editions)
• 512Mb of available RAM (1Gb recommended)
• 500MB of available hard disk space (additional free space required during installation)
• 800 x 600 monitor resolution with 16-bit video card
• CD ROM drive
• Internet connection required for product activation

Host Server Requirements

• Windows or UNIX / Linux web server
• Perl 5.004 or later (including user writeable CGI Bin and MD5 Perl Module)

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Fully featured product, including:

• All EROL 5's New Features
• 10,000 Products
• Single Store, Single Domain
• Build Manager
• Order Manager
• Publish Manager
• Inventory Manager
• Customer Manager
• Supplier Manager
• Code Snippets
• Additional PSPs
• Multiple-Payment Gateways*
• (One Gateway on each domain)
• Store Search & Results Sorting
• Live Currency
• Has Kits (inc Related Products)*
• Product Variants
• 30 Day telephone support *

(*) denotes features not available in Small Business