CKGOLD 1.5

Below is a list of some of the great features you will find in CKGold. Over the years we've listened to our clients needs and have designed a rich sets of innovative tools to build an effective e-commerce site. We continually plan for improvements and new features based on client feedback and suggestions.

CKGold Features:

Getting Started
- Setup - Web-based installation wizard
- Easy-to-use web interface
- Context sensitive help integrated on most admin pages
- Full online help system with index and search
- Printable manual
- Flexible Design and Layout - Uses HTML and CSS with simple PHP includes
- Customizable templates per category and item
- Choose from several pre-designed color themes
- Three modes of Category Navigation, Vertical, Horizontal and Multi-Level
- Four modes of product display which can be further customized inside of templates
Catalog Management
- Batch loading of products and pictures
- Keyword and Advanced product Search
- Global Options - one option can be shared across multiple items and updated easily
- Required Options
- Sequence display of items, categories and options
- Min. Qty limit can be set on items
- Decimal Quantity support. You can also limit which decimal quantities are allowed.
- Real-time USPS and UPS shipping calculation from one location
- Unlimited number of custom-defined delivery methods based on flat rate, weight, order total and per-item based shipping
- Different weight limits for different delivery methods
- Add USPS or UPS insurance fees
- Add handling/freight charges
- Customizable tax rates
- Accept payments in any currency
- Allow payment via several online payment gateways (see below)
- Manual (offline) credit card processing
- Custom Payment Methods - can collect additional information
Inventory Tracking
- Full inventory control on item AND options
- Determine if items can be back ordered or not
- "Out of Stock" Messages
- Set thresholds for admin low stock notification
- Set threshold for low inventory display
Customer Experience
- Customers can browse personal order history
- Repeat Customer can checkout with optional saved data (requires login be turned on)
- Customers can save items for future purchase to wishlist
- Keyword and Advanced product Search
- Customer can choose between account registration and express checkout
- Customer can choose to save billing information or not
- Lost password retrieval
- "Send to friend" Link
- Request More Information link
- Add to wishlist
- Ability to save the shopper's cart
- Set threshold limits for checkout of retail and wholesale shoppers
- Special Pages (All items, New items, Sale items categories and manufacturers, All Manufacturers)
- Shop by Manufacturer drop down list
Promotion
- Free Froogle Submission tool
- Customizable e-mail notifications/invoices
- Wholesale login and item pricing
- "Featured Products" Section
- Top Products based on sales (best sellers)
- Related products, categories and manufacturers for up selling and cross selling
- Create a Manufacturer Hierarchy with ability to relate productlines to manufacturers
- Discount promotional codes offer on dollar off, percentage off, free shipping.
- Promotional codes can be set for one time or multi use
- Define thresholds for redeeming codes
Special Features
- Friendly URLS remove the query string from your browser URL (server requires mod_rewrite and installation service)
- Multi-Platform WYSIWYG text editor to enhance product descriptions and layouts along with non-product pages
- Integrated content management for non product pages
- This system can be used as a catalog without the cart. You can disable the order buttons.
- Built in Image gallery with short descriptions for each view
- Resize images on upload (requires GD2 server library)
- Share products across multiple categories
- New Item, Category and Manufacturer flag with expiration date. Define which entries are new and how long to display them as new
- Customize shopper check out questions
- Pre-defined content management allows you to adjust the buttons, messages and much of the text displayed to the shopper.
Backend Tools
- Database maintenance tools
- Admin can set checkout behavior to require login, optional login, or no login
- Password retrieval for admin
- Sales Analysis & Tracking of referrers
- Searchable order data
- Export order data for use in a spreadsheet
- Define custom META tags for every category, item, page and set site defaults
- Encrypted credit card data

Requirements:

· Operating System: *BSD/UNIX or Linux
· Web Server: Apache (v1.3+ recommended or v2+) with PHP and OpenSSL and mod_ssl
· MySQL: Version 3.23+ (4.1+ recommended for performance and security)
· PHP: Version 4.3.0+ required (4.3.10+ recommended - PHP 5 not yet recommended)
· PHP Requirements:
· allow_url_fopen - On
· file_uploads - On (for certain features)
· PHP FTP Support - Enabled (required only for Froogle Feeder)
· OpenSSL Support (required for authorize.net and TrustCommerce payment gateways and USPS Shipping Calculator)
· CURL Support (required for Linkpoint payment gateway and Paypal Website Payments Pro -- see below)
· PEAR ( Services::PayPal PEAR libraries) required for Paypal Payments Pro support)
· SSL space: host must be on the same logical file system as non-ssl web site
· GD2 (not required) for use of image resizing feature