All about VendorS: Features I product information

What makes VendorS different from other shop solutions?

VendorS helps you to create ideal prerequisites for increasing your online sales. You enable your customers to purchase the product where they — e.g., coming from a search engine — find it mentioned on your website for the first time, whether this is a test report, a product description, or expert information. The days when the editorial section of a website had to be presented separately from the e-shop are well and truly over. Integrated selling is the key to successful online sales.

Detailed feature list

Product information

• all information is available in several languages (translations)
  
• Description:

•  Product name
•  Short description
•  Long description
•  Specifications
•  Internal comments
•  Parallel designation (for the search, e.g., a less formal   name for the product)

• General information about when you start/stop selling the product       
• Short URLs
• Meta descriptions for SEO
• Restriction to certain customer groups (n-many, requires login)
• A product may be contained in n-many freely definable product categories (e.g., shoes for men, special campaigns, outdoor shoes)  

Product relationship types

• Up-selling (similar products at a higher price)
• Cross-selling (similar products at the same price)
• Down-selling (similar products at a lower price)
• Accessories (related products)

Product types

• freely definable

Attributes

• your choice; for semi-automatically generating product variants (T-shirt: blue, yellow, red; sizes S, M, L, XL)
• your choice; can be displayed on the detail page (e.g., for specifications)
• your choice; can be used for quick search / filter (for setting up the filter, the attributes marked as "quick search" are used and represented to then display products for a given page). With the help of the quick search, users can highlight products matching their choice of attributes.
• your choice; can be displayed for more detailed search options in the extended search

Tax rates

• n-many tax rates: with start and end date

Postage & package flat rates

• numerous options for defining postage & package by flat rates/by price/by weight/by volume/by size (also in combination and in a freely definable order; can be inherited by products of the same product type)

Orders

• separated by open and processed orders
• status updates for Open, Partially Open, Settled, Issues
• overview of the complete order
• create (partial) deliveries directly from the system, incl. PDF generation
• create (partial) invoices based on (partial) delivery notes
• modify invoice and delivery address
• multiple addresses possible for every customer

Survey

• You'd like to know how the online user found you? Ask them a question with n options for answers

Customer condition groups

• Manage any number of price lists and customer prices using so called customer condition groups which you can map to your online customers

Pricing

• Any number of price lists
• Price on request
• Highlight products with a discount
• Highlight products that can be leased
• Specify the currency for the price / price list
• Specify the VAT rate for the price / price list
• Postage & package can be modified (and inherited by product type): Highlight as "packaged individually" and "no p&p"

Size specifications for the product:

• Length, width, and weight

Media (asset database)

• any number of media in any type of category
• Documents (PDFs, Office documents, etc.) can be grouped in categories
• Images incl. picture galleries (created automatically) and image maps
• Films
• etc.

Product visualization

Product categories

• freely definable product category tree
• Availability of visuals and modifiable templates for categories and sub categories

Freely definable templates:

• Product detail pages

• Modifiable product detail pages with layout of your choice (picture, picture gallery, prices (incl. RRP or special prices & calculation of deltas with modifiable text such as "Save 10%"), product name, short and long description, attributes, specifications
• Display product relationships (accessories, up-, cross- and down-selling)

• Product lists

• Modifiable product lists, same as with the detail pages

• Product category page with sub category list

• Modifiable category list page with display of a visual and the respective sub categories

Controllable semantic links

• Controllable, context-sensitive display of products and product lists on pages designed by the editorial team

Integrate configurable products if the "Configurator" module was ordered

• Jump from a product to the configurator and, at the end of the configuration, back to the cart with the configuration created