March 2008
AliCommerce Shopping Cart 1.2 for DotNetNuke 4.x
Developed by: AliCommerce
This is an independent review of AliCommerce Shopping Cart 1.2. The review looks at the module for its features, useability, functionality, ease of use, stability, value for money.
Module Details
Per the module overview provided at Snowcovered by AliCommerce they summarize their module in the following manner.
From day one, AliCommerce has been designed as a powerful and yet user-friendly DNN shopping cart and e-Commerce module. Since public beta was released in August 2007, 800+ DNNers worldwide have visited our demo site and feedback from DNN community has been really encouraging. Now, how long will it take to get a DNN store online? With AliCommerce you can do it within 15 minutes, from installation to being ready to take online orders. User interfaces for catalogue, order management, reporting and store settings all are very intuitive and running a DNN e-Commerce site with AliCommerce is more fun than a job. Please take a look at our demo site, we guarantee you will be impressed by what you will see.
Key Features
Categories
- Unlimited categories and sub-categories
- Meta title, meta description and meta keywords for search engine optimization
- Icon and banner images
- Dynamic categories by manufacturer
- Dynamic categories by vendor
- Dynamic categories by price range
- Dynamic categories by new products in last X days
- Dynamic categories by product type
- Auto-generate all or selected dynamic categories
- Sort products in dynamic category by product name, manufacturer name, vendor name or price
- Define default sort order for dynamic category
Products
- Unlimited products (for professional edition)
- Retail price, store price, store cost
- Meta title, meta description and meta keywords for search engine optimization
- Tax class
- Tax exempt
- Minimum quantity
- Manufacturer and vendor
- Display templates and easy plug-ins
- Multiple categories
- Width, length, weight and height
- Extra shipping fee
- Extra handling fee
- Ability to clone products
- Ability to set as non-shipping product
- Ability to ship separately
- Ability to search products by category, manufacturer, active status, purchasable, product type vendor, inventory or keyword
- Unlimited custom fields per product - text field, date field and multiple choices
- Enable or disable product inventory
- Ability to set out of stock mode - Show as no stock (Don’t allow purchase), Remove from store, Leave on store, or Show as no stock (Allow purchase)
- Reserve stock when Checkout Completed or Add To Cart
- Update product inventory by Add, Subtract or Change To operations
- Define reorder point, low stock point
- Volume discounts
- Unlimited electronic downloads per product
- Define maximum downloads, available time by Months, Days, Hours, Minutes
- Unlimited product images
- Ability to define width, height, suffix and prefix of small and medium images
- Ability to auto-generate high quality small and medium images
- Ability to copy uploaded product images as new files
- Ability to rename uploaded product images
Orders
- Filter by order status, payment status, shipping status
- Filter by order date - All dates, today, yesterday, last 3 days, this week, this month, last 60 days, last 90 days, last 120 days, this year, last years or custom date
- Order public notes (visible to customers)
- Order private notes
- Process credit card payments at admin site - authorize, charge, void or refund credit card payment
- Accept credit card payment on telephone
- Process PayPal payments at admin site - charge, void or refund paypal payment
- Accept check and cash payment at admin site
- Partial shipping
- Enable or disable zero dollar order
- Minimum order amount
- Order amount limit
- Save credit card numbers for offline charge, void or refund
- Clear credit card numbers for completed orders
- Clear credit card numbers for orders older than X days
- Enable or disable immediate download when order paid
- Send order emails - customer order receipt email, administrator new order email, order status update email and order shipping status email
- Custom order status
Payment Methods
- Credit card
- Purchase order
- Check
- Cash
- Telephone
- COD
- PayPal Express
Credit Card Gateways
- Manual Gateway
- Authorize.Net
- Worldpay Junior Invisible
- PsiGate XML
- eWay XML Payment
- Protx Direct
- Easy to create payment gateway plug-ins
Shipping
- Charge by order item count
- Charge by order weight
- Charge by order total
- Easy to create shipping provider plug-ins
- Define shipping methods at country or region level
- Enable or disable shipping methods for specified countries or regions
- Adjust shipping fee by amount or percentage
- Charge handling by per item or per order
- Enable or disable handling fee on non-shipping products
Taxes
- Unlimited tax rates
- Unlimited tax classes
- Tax by country
- Tax by region
- Tax by county
- Tax by postal code
- Tax by tax class
- Tax exempt products
- Option to charge tax on non-shipping products
- Option to charge tax on shipping
Email Templates
- Customer order receipt email template
- Administrator new order email template
- Order status update email template
- Order shipping status update email template
Store UI and Design
- 8 built-in themes
- 3 category menu display modes - display all categories, display top categories only, display related categories only
- Display root category name in category menu
- Show product count in category menu
- Set maximum category tree depth
- 4 built-in category templates, easy to create plug-ins
- Display all category breadcrumbs or only current one on product detail page
- Set maximum category breadcrumbs
- Sort products by price low to high
- Sort products by price high to low
- Sort products by discount amount
- Sort products by discount percentage
- Sort products by name A to Z
- Sort products by name Z to A or listing date
- Sort products by listing date
- Product display template, easy to create plug-ins
Reports
- Daily Sales Report
- Sales by Date - All dates, today, yesterday, last 3 days, this week, this month, last 60 days, last 90 days, last 120 days, this year, last year’s or custom date
- Top Products Report
- Top Customer Report
Security
- Security role for dashboard
- Security role for catalog administrator
- Security role for order administrator
- Security role for people administrator
- Security role for report administrator
- Security role for template administrator
- Security role for setting administrator
Store Wide Features
- Multiple-store support
- Native DNN modules
- Configurable dashboard
- Enable or disable Inventory at store level
- SMTP settings per store
- Set store email address, low stock email address and store admin email address
Purchasing
You can purchase this module from Snowcovered.com. At the time of this review two licensing options were available; standard edition for stores with under 75 products and the professional edition with no limitations on product count.
AliCommerce Shopping Cart 1.2 Standard – PA … $109.00
AliCommerce Shopping Cart 1.2 Professional – PA … $149.00
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