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Actinic developerActinic Developer provides merchants and web designers with a sophisticated ecommerce development tool with the added benefit of multi-site development and maintenance.

For merchants, Actinic Developer allows the building and management of an unlimited number of ecommerce sites with a single licence.

Web designers benefit from the

built-in integration with Macromedia Dreamweaver and flexible client site deployment options.


RRP £1500 + VAT with one day's training plus one year's Developer subscription. Software only £1250 + VAT.

Features new in v7 Compare with other Actinic products Award winning features of Actinic developer

Flexible Product Catalogue

Explorer-style interface with drag and drop editing

Unlimited sections and subsections

Unlimited product variations, such as size and colour, and product components

Product can appear more than once, and be a component of another product

Built-in support for downloadable products such as mp3 music

Additional text or images can be added anywhere on any page, or in a pop-up window

Multiple page layout options including list layout with single 'add to cart' button

Optional home and additional information pages, which can include product links for 'special offer' and 'best seller' promotions

Up to 10,000 products

Build and manage multiple stores with one software license*

Customiseable Design

'QuickStart Guide' wizard walks you through the initial site setup

Real-time preview of your store as you build it

More layout and colour scheme combinations than any other package

'Point and click' changes to add your own company style

User-replaceable navigation buttons

Open access to page templates for more advanced design work

Integration with Macromedia Dreamweaver allowing easy access to HTML templates

Site map available in Javascript standalone indexes for integration into external sites*

Customer Friendly Stores

Automated site navigation features including menu bar, section list, site map and 'breadcrumb trail'

Lightning fast search

Search on product attributes

Cart content summary visible on every page

Editable shopping cart can be saved for later completion or as a 'wish list'

Automatic email confirmation of order

'Remember me' option for returning visitors.

Customer accounts and customer-specific store content for regular visitors

Comprehensive Merchant Features

Tamper-proof shopping cart with bank-approved security

Built-in order-processing module is a complete application in its own right, dealing with orders by phone, fax and post as well as from the web.

Accurately calculates shipping, handling and taxation costs.

Monitors stock levels during order processing.

Over 20 built in reports including printing of invoices and packing lists.

Anti-fraud and anti-spam options

Product import and export functions

Prompted backup and restore feature

Link to Sage Line 50 and QuickBooks accounts

Deploy order processing facilities for clients at low cost with Actinic Order Manager*

Powerful Marketing Options

Generates search-engine-friendly web sites

Email module supporting unlimited custom email templates.

Order-level discounting

Sophisticated product-level and customer-level discounting including 'buy one get one free', '% off orders over.', time-expiring discounts, coupons etc

Upsell opportunities through product bundling

Discount promotion in the shopping cart

Comprehensive Support

Free email support

30 days free telephone support

Online Knowledge Base

Actinic Community forums

Renewable Actinic Cover option provides telephone support, free upgrades and Online Resource Centre access for 1 year

* marks features unique to Actinic Developer

Minimum System Requirements

Vendor PC:

Pentium PC running Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP or NT4; minimum 64MB memory, 128MB preferred

100MB free disk space

recommend 65536 colour display

Internet access

Internet Explorer v5 (and higher)

Web site:

NT or UNIX/Linux server

Perl 5.004 or later; MD5 Perl module recommended

user writeable CGI bin

Accessibility Chorley Web Design Search Engine Optimisation