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FocalSpan™ - the customizable storefront and shopping cart application from ASTA Incorporated.

If you are selling products on the web, or thinking about doing so, you should take a closer look at FocalSpan.

By combining strong presentation techniques with serious data management capabilities, FocalSpan helps to guide your customers from product selection to final checkout.

Want to do more to sell products through the use of affiliates, or offer promotional discounts? FocalSpan's built-in affliate and promotional features can help. FocalSpan also provides a number of features to support proper management of the order information for fulfillment purposes.

And speaking of fulfillment, FocalSpan has built-in support for direct data integration with Alternative Logistics, Incorporated (ALI), a premier fulfillment center located an hour north of Boston, Massachusetts. FocalSpan has been linked to ALI's Import Bridge so that your order information can be electronically submitted directly to the fulfillment center. This path assures a highly efficient and economical way for your orders to get to your customers.

If you use a different fulfillment company, or process the orders yourself, we'll work with you to customize an appropriate integration method.

Want to see FocalSpan in action? Pay a visit to Steeltrap Packaging Products, an imaginary online store which demonstrates the capabilities of FocalSpan. Click below to start placing your (demonstration) order.

Visit Steeltrap Packaging Products Online Store

If you want to see even more, contact ASTA, Incorporated so you can explore the Administrative back-end functions of the Steeltrap Web Store. View orders and reports, add products to the store, explore the settings and various functions of a functioning web store from an Administrator's perspective!

Features

Administrative interface
Account access for returning customers
Support for affiliates
Support for promotion code discounts
Support for retailers
Support for product attributes
Variety of reports
Inventory control system
Automatic order confirmation
Customized shipping charge model
Integrated search capability

Host Platform Requirements

Linux w/Apache
PHP (version 4.2 or higher, with built in support for cURL)
MySQL (Version 4.0 or higher)
phpMyAdmin (Version 2.3 or higher. Used for database administration)
Support for installation of user supplied SSL certificates
Dedicated IP
Support for remote access via FTP

Recommendation: Vadvanced account from Vervehosting

Additional Information and Requirements

Some required components are not included with FocalSpan. The following items are required for implementation of a FocalSpan Web Site, but must be purchased and implemented independently by the client:

Domain Registration and annual renewal
SSL Secure Certificate and annual renewal
Merchant Account (i.e. bank account)
Acquiring Bank Processors (i.e. Nova Corporation, First Data Corporation, Payment Tech)
YourPay API Payment Gateway Account or Authorize.Net's Advanced Integration Method (integration with other Payment Gateway applications such as Verisign's Payflow Pro will be implemented upon request. Additional fees may apply.)
Web Site Hosting (see Host Platform Requirements below for requirements)

Recommendation: Authorize.Net's Advanced Integration Method

Pricing

FocalSpan licensing prices start at $1,000.00 ($2,000.00 with ALI Import Bridge support).
Quotations for customizations and other features and activities quoted separately.