Ecommerce Setup Features

• Build completely static pages.
• Full browser control panel.
• 5-level product structure.
• Automated navigation, site map capabilities, and more!
• Set up great product pages that can be optimized for search engines, either by importing existing product data or entering new information.
• Template and products can be set up or imported via SearchFit.
• Help files are included in the admininstration area for all areas of product setup.
• Products can be imported from either CommaSeparatedValues or TabSeparatedValues files.
• Ability to import categories, subcategories, products, options, manufacturer name, metatags, headings, etc.
• Vendors can also be imported and assigned to products for the new drop shipping feature.
• Delete, create new, or update existing records when importing.
• Order/QuickBooks database export is possible.
• Super fast HTML code generation.
• Setup for affiliates possible with reseller login.
• Vendor/Service login with automated drop shipping order system per vendor.
• Custom invoice, order, and email templates.
• Sitemap control: SearchFit provides the ability to specify whether individual and customized link/pages should be excluded from or included in the generated SiteMap.
• Choose between standard and parallel layouts on the second checkout page.
• You can include a custom help link on the second checkout page to explain parts of the process, like the Credit Card Security ID, to customers.
• Support of WebServices. Currently the following SearchFit's features are exposed as WebServices:
• do-test : just a test service
• do-import-store-records : import records to the store
• do-generate : start generation (and possible transfer)
• do-import-orders : import orders' information
• SearchFit's WebServices are mostly used by programmers and developers, as these features allow them to integrate SearchFit via their own software.
• "Dest Cart URL (HTTP)" property of the users may contain the non HTTPS URL of the cart. This URL is used to show non-secure information as popups of products and similar.
• If textareas include special symbols like € ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ™ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ © ­ ® ° ± · º ½ ¼ ¾, then the symbols will be repaced with the following html equivalents € ‘ ’ “ ” • – — ™ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ © ­ ® ° ± · º ½ ¼ ¾ ÷ . This feature requires "iconv character set conversion facility" installed on the servers.
• Configurable "Product Update Mode" with two choices. This setting is used for product import. The [Standard] choice creates links to existing products if different categories specified. The [No Links] choice enables reorganization of products by moving them to specified different categories.
• If a given option is required, then the "required" property of individual groups of product options can be imported as well.
• The names of the categorytypes, categories, and products can now be changed per user (website) and can be imported as well.
• The descriptions of the categorytypes, categories, and products can now be changed per user (website) and can be imported as well.
• The metatags of the categorytypes, categories, and products can now be changed per user (website) and can be imported as well.
• Manufacturers' properties can be configured including: name per user, metatags, metatags per user, description, and description per user.
• Show products as links (configuration per user) option allows the items (products) on the check out pages to be shown as regular text (not links).
• "Checkout Layout (2nd page)" property at Configure/PerUser can be set to display "Parallel Shipping+Billing".
• During an import characters like C (copyright), R (reserved), and TM (trademark) will be replaced with appropriate HTML substitutes.
• Products' templates keywords:
• a) AUTO GENERATED PRODUCT URL BRIEF: will be replaced with the the URL pointing to the webpage of the brief product
• b) AUTO GENERATED PRODUCT URL DETAILED: will be replaced with the URL pointing to the webpage of the detail product.
• This allows for flexible text and image links.
• When importing products, if the value of the importing product option contains "" then it will be created and marked as default one.
• Tags for custom content on dynamic pages including: and - the content between these tags will be shown on all dynamic pages, but the checkout ones.
• "Thanks Page" keywords including:
• a) SCART ORDER AMOUNT SUBTOTAL - will be replaced with the subtotal amount of the order (in selected currency)
• b) SCART ORDER AMOUNT SUBTOTAL USDOLLAR - will be replaced with the subtotal amount of the order (in us dollars)
• The MISC/FilesRepos area allows the uploaded files to be organized in different folders and subfolders.
• The keyword AUTO GENERATED TOOL CATEGTYPE will be replaced with a dropdown navigator that has category types only.
• The administration navigation menu was changed to better group the available menu items, the names of some menu items were changed as well.
• Functions for the Store/Customize and Handling/DropShipping features:
• Ability to select products by categoryType/category.
• Ability to deselect products by categoryType/category.
• Ability to assign products by categoryType/category.
• Ability to import/export product web page names.
• Ability to import categorytypes and categories web page names.
• The Following Keywords can be used in the main templates: AUTO_GENERATED_METATAG_CONTENT_TITLE: will be replaced with the title from the metatags section of the web page.
• Ability to have additional HTML anchor attributes for the custom web links.
• Products have 2nd additional brief and detail descriptions fields available. Ability to import and export them.
• Ability to search by product foreign id on the products' admin pages.
• Keywords available for the export products templates: PRODUCT_PRICE_COST (product cost price).
• Ability to show product properties (0-9) on the checkout pages. Use <checkout_indicator/> element to mark a property as to be shown.
• Ability to specify categorytypes, categories, and products web page names to be non-fully (with extra suffixes) or fully (no extra suffixes) customized.
• Ability to transfer only modified product images to the remote FTP server. On the generation page, show the latest date when a product image has been added/modified.
• Ability to generate style sheets (CSS) only.
• Ability to generate partially the web sites by specifying the category type and category of the pages to be generated.
• Implemented security enhancements, stronger encryption, encrypting additional data.
• When a product is inactivated it is not unselected from the customized stores or drop shipping vendors. This allows the system to restore to the old configuration when the product is activated again. The inactive products are shown on the customize store and drop shipping vendors pages
  The "Edit Order Textarea Rows" property at Configure/PerUser has default value of 12 rows for all new customers.
• Increased the max length of member's email fields from 25 to 100.
• Ability to export product navigation bar tabs (refer to the export products examples).
• If textareas include special symbols like µ × , then the symbols will be replaced with the following html equivalents: &micro; &times; This feature requires "iconv character set conversion facility" installed on the servers. µ ×
• Ability to activate/deactivate products during "Edit All" products.
• The new "SiteMap: custom links position" property at Configure/PerUser allows the store owner to select whether the sitemap to start or end with the custom links.
• Ability to search by product id on the products' admin pages.
• Sitemap.htm custom page will be automatically created for new users.
• Keywords available for the product templates:
• AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_NAME_ONLY: will be replaced with the name of the product (not as link)
• AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCT_URL_PRINTABLE_VIEW: will be replaced with the "Printable View" url (read the help for an example).
• The following keywords are available for the export orders templates:
  ORDER_SELLER_ID: seller's id
• ORDER_SELLER_USERNAME: seller's user name
• ORDER_SELLER_FULLNAME: seller's full name
• ORDER_SELLER_COMMISSION: seller's commission
• ORDER_PRICE_SUBTOTAL_COST: cost of the ORDER is the subtotal calculated by the costs of the items instead of their selling prices
• ORDER_ITEM_PRICE_COST: item's cost price
• ORDER_WEIGHT - the weight of the ORDER
• ORDER_ITEM_WEIGHT: item's weight
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_01: item's property 01
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_02: item's property 02
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_03: item's property 03
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_04: item's property 04
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_05: item's property 05
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_06: item's property 06
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_07: item's property 07
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_08: item's property 08
• ORDER_ITEM_PROPERTY_09: item's property 09
• ORDER_PRICE_TAX_EXEMPT: tax exempt of the ORDER (valid for v6.6+)
• ORDER_SHIPPING_STATE_XX: abbreviated shipment state of the buyer
• ORDER_SHIPPING_COUNTRY_XX: abbreviated shipment country of the buyer
• ORDER_BILLING_STATE_XX: abbreviated billing state of the buyer
• ORDER_BILLING_COUNTRY_XX: abbreviated billing country of the buyer
• Ability to enter/import products' cost prices.
• Ability to skip transferring of the ImagesTempl to the remote FTP server. On the generation page, show the latest date when an image templ has been added/modified.
• Different Generation Methods Available
• Generate Custom Pages Only
• Generate Entire Web Site
• Ability to start multiple generations (multiple users) with different types of generations:
• Functions available for the Store/Products feature: ability to make the cost/list/selling price to be X% of the cost/list/selling price, ability to make the user price diff to be X% of the selling price
• Functions for the Handling/DropShipping feature: Ability to deselect all manufacturer's products for selected vendor, ability to assign all manufacturer's products to selected vendor.
• Functions available for the for the Store/Customize feature:
• Ability to select all manufacturer's products for selected user
• Ability to deselect all manufacturer's products for selected user
• Ability to assign all manufacturer's products to selected user
• Ability to send test email for a user on the Store/User page.
• Ability to have search form on the generated pages that allows visitors to search by product name, number, or description.
• Ability to use product's auto-generated keywords (tags) in the product's navigation tab content.
• Increased the max length of all email fields from 50 to 100.
• The import functions have an extra validation to make sure that the importing files do not have ".xls" extensions as customers often make the mistake to create an xls file and try to import it before converting it to comma separated or tab separated file
• The following keywords are available for the WEBSITE/TemplMain, SCART/TemplTop, and SCART/TemplBottom templates: http://www.searchfit.us.com - URL of the user's destination website, http://www.searchfit.us.com/ - URL of the user's destination store, https://www.searchfit.org/SEARCHFIT-US-COM/scart/public/scart/ - URL of the user's destination cart
• Ability to import: Category Descr (below products), Category Descr (below products) (selected user), SubCategory Descr (below products), SubCategory Descr (below products) (selected user)
• Ability to import the category/subcategory description below products.
• The following tags allow custom content to be placed on the checkout pages only if a customer is not logged in as a member <scart_area_notmember> and </scart_area_notmember>.
• The "Show Qty Field" property on the product options screen allows a Qty field to appear on the generated pages per option in case the option has a price and it is shown as check box or radio button.
• The AUTO_GENERATED_PRODUCTS_GROUP_id keyword can be used in the descriptions of category types and categories.
• Ability to import eProducts + Registration Numbers, exposed a web service that allows the operation to be performed programmatically as well.
• Different Types of Generation Are Available: Generate Entire Web Site, Generate Custom Pages Only.
• The product properties "To Order", "Order By Phone Only", and "Orderable By" were moved to the Misc tab and grouped together with the new "Order Offline Only" property.
• New customers will have automatically created default.htm and missing.html custom pages.
• The "Change NEW Order Status Rule" property at Configure/Per User allows the store owner to select whether the status of the NEW orders will be changed automatically to IN PROGRESS or not when clicked on the "view" link for the orders
• Ability to show quantity field per checkbox and radio button option for groups of options with prices.
• .name is an allowed extension for email addresses. For example user@domain.name
• The following keywords available for the order emails: ORDER_DATE (the date of the order), ORDER_TIME (the time of the order), ORDER_SHIPPING_METHOD_NAME (the shipping method of the order)
• The "duplicate product" function handles the assigned navigation bar (if any).
• Ability to import navigation bar tabs of the products.
• Ability to define "common includes" in the templates repository. Enter the keyword of an include in another template to include it's content.
• "Export Products" examples with templates available for the following online, comparison shopping: www.froogle.com, www.pricegrabber.com, www.pricescan.com, www.shopping.com, shopping.yahoo.com, www.shopzilla.com, www.sortprice.com