ice5 software is like Steve Jobs iPhone, in which one man had a vision of how something should be, and set out to create and deliver that vision to the world. The iPhone set the standard and raised the bar for all cell phones on the market today, and is widely accepted by millions of people. Internet Commerce Engine 5 has a vision that reaches far into the future, in terms of ease of use, functionality and world wide acceptance as the new standard for stores on the internet.
This is the 3rd Published Edition of Internet Commerce Engine 5, so it has years of experience in being able to handle all types of customers successfully now. Whether the customer is new to computers, or is already technical savvy, they will be able to shop and checkout with ease.
Comparable programs include Microsoft Commerce Server 2009, in which you can get your site up and running quickly with reduced time to market, allowing you to focus on marketing and selling merchandise. Support for Windows Server 2008 and 64-bit gives access to higher performance servers and helps you support large product catalogs. Multi-Channel support for mobile phones and gaming systems are built-in to foundation of this ecommerce package.
Starting a ecommerce store from scratch can be a very long process after building and testing your application, and then taking it for a road test. Internet Commerce Engine 5 gives you the ability to setup your ecommerce website or store in less than a week.
I see sites like Amazon.com, EBay, Overstock.com and Zappos.com that are making huge sums of money on the internet today. Their secret is in the software, which is very well written program code. But it's more than just the code. They all have a secret sauce in the background that you may have not noticed yet. That sauce is in thousands of programming hours making the user interfaces easy to use, and predicting customer errors while making corrections before they become confused.
Now I don't want to name other programs or SAS (software as service), but I have come across thousands of stores that simply don't work. I tried to order one of those Valentine teddy bears one year, to find the site broken. I have yet to see a open source solution that is free to download, a low cost licensed solution, or even a high end SAS priced around $250 a month generate 2 or 3 million dollars a year in sales.
All of the sites that are doing over 2 million a year in sales are custom solutions with thousands of hours of programming time. Business 101 states that all businesses should own their assets, and your ecommerce program code is the more important asset that your business can own. So let’s get it right the first time out, so we can both make money.
The Order Scoreboard gives you a quick view to your stores activities. Daily tasks takes you right to the function you need. 5 levels of security are available to users, to control user access.
Automatic logouts after 10 minutes idle time in public locations.
The Product Editor has been upgraded for easier use. Now the editor has been expanded to full screen for easy viewing, and the Navigation flyout tab allows you to go to the next item, while staying on the same screen. Now you can fly through and edit hundreds of items at a lightning fast speed.
This is the completed orders queue for the last 30 days. You can view a order on the screen, or print out a PDF of the order to keep in your file cabinet. All reports have PDF capabilities. Emails are automatically sent after fulfillment and shipping.
Customer can get pre-checkout shipping estimates for items that are flagged as Real-time or Flat Fee Shipping. Combinations of both are lumped into a real-time rate, and flat fee only items are offered real time rates for faster delivery times. Promotion Codes are entered here as well and the discount is auto applied. Once the customer has entered their information, the rate is updated each time the cart contents change.
The Shopping Cart and checkout system has been upgraded with a new painted textbox feature that gently changes colors when an error is made, and fades out when the error is corrected. Extensive testing and refining over the last year has increased checkout rates to almost a 92% success rate. Many errors that were common in the past are now pre-emptive in correction, before they make payment.
Customers are presented with the Real-time Shipping Rate Program after entering credit card information. Their order items are ran through a series of programs, which selects the qualified services, and pre-fetches the quote values. Now they can select additional shipping services and get quoted again before moving forward. This allows your shipping vendor to up sell your customers now.
Internet Commerce Engine 5 works with 90% of the merchant processors and payment gateways available in the United States. If you don't see your gateway, it may just be a private labeled gateway from one of the vendors above.
FedEx, DHL and UPS is included as standard in Internet Commerce Engine 5. USPS is not available at the moment, due to some work around needed for delivery confirmation and credit card change backs for non-delivery.
Internet Commerce Engine 5 is written in ASP.Net, and is a collection of server controls compiled as DLL files. You can customize the program using Visual Studio 2010 or the free web edition. SQL Server 2008 or the free SQL Server 2008 Express R2 is used to store your data.
We've been making ecommerce and shopping cart components for over 10 years now. Most of our products are used in the infomercial industry for payment processing and shipping.
Our goal is to make ecommerce software that is simple and effective, yet powerful in processing and ease of use.