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See the new SiteSphere Store demo at www.play-shop.com

A new demo website has been launched to showcase some of the leading features of the SiteSphere Store web content management and e-commerce solution.

SiteSphere Store is a powerful platform for any e-commerce venture and has been continually developed and improved since the year 2000. SiteSphere Store can run multi-brand, multi-currency, multi-lingual stores integrated into leading ERP and accounting solutions, and delivered using a hosted software-as-a-service model. Built upon the latest Microsoft .NET platform and using the power of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 the product is designed with speed, flexibility and easy-of-management in mind, qualities essential for online success.

See the demo store at http://www.play-shop.com/


Functional Highlights

  • Hosted Web Content Manager
  • Digital Asset Manager (Image & Document Libraries – search fileproperties, author, image resolution, etc.)
  • Product Catalogue/List Manager (Any Lists e.g.: Events, Staff)
  • Menu, Section, Site Maps & Navigation Breadcrumbs
  • Feature & Spotlight Manager
  • Promotions Engine, Polls, Ratings & Commenting
  • Page Template Manager
  • Form Builder and Survey Manager, Forums & Blogs
  • Detailed Audit trail and content version history
  • Self-Service Wizards (built by simply drawing flowcharts)
  • Indexing for Instant Site Search
  • Content tagging (keyword searching)
  • RSS + XML Site Maps
  • Site Membership & User Subscriptions
  • Contact Manager (Accounts, Locations & Contacts)
  • Message Marketing (e-Flyers with tracking and reporting)
  • Manage Captions, AutoTranslate, Glossaries
  • Enquiry / Request Manager
  • Security Manager
  • Site Optimisers (URL Rewriting for improved search ranking, pagecaching & pre-fetch)
  • Links to Google XML Site Maps
  • Multiple languages, territories, time-zones, currencies, brands/domains

Optional Modules:

  • Publications Manager (extract content into print-ready documents/catalogues)
  • Extranets with customisable Dashboards and global search
  • Google Product Search Feed
  • FTP access
  • Calculation Engines (link in calculations developed in Excel
  • spreadsheets)
  • Page2PDF – instantly convert pages to downloadable PDFs
  • Partners with WhosOn Live Chat & Live Visitor Tracking
  • Over 20 leading payment gateways (World Pay, Sage Pay, Google Checkout, PayPal)
  • Live shipping rate feeds
  • PunchOut for SAP SRM (OCI compatible)
  • PunchOut for Ariba Supplier Network (ebXML compatible)
  • SharePoint Connector for publishing Lists and Document Libraries automatically
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM, NAV, SAP Business One integrations
  • SiteSphere Excel Manager for bulk import/exports

Technical Specifications:

  • Friendly and easy-to-use
  • Fully customisable website look and feel (no template restrictions)
  • Hosted at top tier Docklands, UK facilitywith shared and dedicated server subscription options

Notes for Partners:

  • Fully customisable ASP.NET web page templates
  • SiteSphere XML Services provide an XML-baseddata server(WebServices or REST) covering the entire feature set
  • SiteSphere PageParts are .NET controls which retrieve, render and cache the content featuring built-in conversion from XML to HTML using XSL templates