Fully-Customizable Online Bookstore Features
See below for a list of some of the key features of BookstoreHost’s fully-customizable online store solution for book retailers. Sell both new and used books, as well as gifts, accessories or virtually any other product from your online store. Let customers browse and shop your store’s actual and/or virtual inventory of available books from the convenience of home via their Internet connection.
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Upload Your Inventory
Upload your store’s specific inventory (of both new and used books) or upload your used inventory but also allow customers to browse and buy any title online from the entire database of in-print new books available to you from Baker & Taylor.
Book Data
Visitors to your BookstoreHost online store can browse a database of hundreds of thousands of book titles complete with product details, jacket images and annotations.
Sell Used Books
Add your used book inventory to your online store on an item-by-item basis, or bulk upload a comma-delimited file. Add these items using the web-based Store Manager.
Sell Any Type of Product
You can also add books and publications by local authors, consignments, used inventory, gifts, accessories and virtually any other type of product to your online store.
Web-based Store Manager
Extensive online management controls are accessible from any web browser. Manage and maintain your online store with ease. No technical expertise is required. Process orders, print invoices and packing lists, update your home page, create e-mail lists, upload products, check sales and visitor statistics and much more.
Live Training & Support
Our staff provides live training sessions by phone to get you up to speed quickly. We explain all aspects of managing your online store and provide step-by-step instructions and follow-up support.
Site Design Tools
Easily create and manage product listings, featured product placements, departments, sub-departments, navigation menus, banner ads, announcements and much more.
Custom Color Scheme
A custom-designed color scheme and header with your logo gives your BookstoreHost online store the "look and feel" you want "right out of the box." We work closely with you to generate an original design.
Customizable Design
Customize virtually any page of your online store. A variety of page templates are available to handle virtually any page layout or graphic design scenario. Plug in your own HTML code or text to customize any template.
Insert Banner Ads
Easily insert banner ads or other promotional text and/or HTML content into your online store. Create different banner content for individual pages. You control all promotional, marketing and advertising space.
Menu/Departments
Create an unlimited number of departments, sub-departments and links to other pages using our flexible menu system. Easily manage all menu items using the web-based Store Manager.
Featured Products
You control all featured product placements. Promote the titles you choose on your home page and department pages. Insert and change featured products using the web-based Store Manager.
Online Reports
Extensive online reports allow you to track sales, revenue, customers, best sellers, e-mail lists, affiliates, web site traffic and much more.
Create Affiliates
Create your own affiliate network and pay commissions to others who send shoppers to your online store. It's a snap to set up new affiliates and track their sales and commissions.
Shipping Calculation
Easily set and edit shipping options, shipping carriers and shipping charges by weight or number of items purchased. Apply shipping options by country and/or state. You decide which states and/or countries you will ship to. Integrate with UPS real-time shipping quotes.
Tax Calculation
Easily set and edit sales tax rates and jurisdictions by country, state, zip code or any combination for domestic or foreign orders.
Electronic Gift Certificates
Sell and redeem electronic gift certificates through your online store.
Pricing Rules
Map specific retail prices to specific list prices, set retail prices to a percentage discount off list price or markup over wholesale. You may also set a specific sale price for any item, overriding the pricing rules.
Accept Credit Cards
Real-time automated and secure online transactions or process credit card transactions offline using a physical terminal. Credit Card Merchant Account required.
SSL Site Security
Our secure shopping cart provides industry-standard encrypted transactions using SSL certificates.
Reliable Hosting
Reliable hosting featuring T3 connections, 24/7 monitoring and nightly data backups.
Software Upgrades
We continue to refine and enhance our e-commerce solutions to meet our clients' evolving needs. Future upgrades are included in your low monthly fee.
Order Fulfillment
You may fulfill your own orders and/or we are integrated with consumer-direct-fulfillment services from one of the nation's leading wholesale book distributors. If you fulfill your own orders customers may also utilize the “pick-up-in-store” functionality (if you choose.)
Search Options
Simple and advanced search capabilities. Search an individual field such as "author," "title," "keyword" or use the "advanced search page" to search across multiple fields simultaneously.
Customize Searches
Customize the search criteria for each search field available to consumers in your online store.
Customer Data
You control all customer data. Search your customer database using a variety of criteria.
Mailing Lists
Easily create marketing mailing lists and e-mail lists from your customer database. Sort your lists by name, city, state, zip code, e-mail address etc.
Order Notifications
The retailer is sent an order notification e-mail and the consumer receives an order confirmation e-mail. Each contains complete information about the pending order.
Real-Time Order Status
The order confirmation e-mail includes a link to an "order status page" that provides up-to-the-minute information about the status of the order.
Fees
| Monthly fee | : | $295.00 |
| One-Time Setup Fee | : | $995.00 |
| Sales Commission | : | 3% of the retail price of any items sold |
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