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Interactivity, customer relations

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• Contact you by form for each item (email message mentioning the item's characteristics and the person's contact information).
• Use a shopping cart system.
• Get a printable detailed invoice online.
• Add to the selection and modify ordered items and quantities until the last moment.
• Navigate between the different types of presentation set for your products, sort, filter and search by query to quickly find the desired item.
  - Sort: by modification date, on a particular characteristic, etc...
  - Up to 6 different presentations for your items (selected among an infinite number of possible combinations for each catalogue).
  - Filter: to display available items only, items for sale or exchange, items wanted - for marketplaces, platforms for the general public...

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What the administrator can do (Back Office)

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• Organize products into as many catalogues as necessary, without any limitations of items per catalogue or characteristics per item.
• Choose "electronic shop" mode or "electronic catalogue" mode
• Add, delete or modify a product, a product family, a catalogue and break them down into as many categories and sub-categories as necessary ("super administrator" level).
• Withdraw a product, change its price, characteristics, presentation, shipment cost, available quantity, etc...
• Switch catalogues to "off-line" mode
• Illustrate each item with images, videos, MP3s, pdf, Word or Excel documents (or any kinds of valid files).
• Add as many images and related files for each item as you wish.
• View and modify the stock.
• Define rules to calculate shipment costs.
• Modify merchant information (sales conditions, contact info, ...).
• View access statistics (items viewed, catalogue visits, search keywords, kilobytes transferred).
• Grant restricted or total access to one or several sub-administrators.
• Export or import data in TXT format to:
  - save online data.
  - work on the current data with office tools (Word, Excel...).
  - perform massive updates.

Online management is password-protected.

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Uploading, presenting and classifying your items. You can :

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• Automatically import data from any existing databases: ACCESS, SQL, MySQL, etc...
• Keep on using your own databases (products database for products presentations, auto-switcher database for org. charts) and use Maniasys.com's automatic import function to publish, enrich and easily present your online data.
• Several products can have the same gencode (duplicates are allowed).
• Final classification levels - portal and catalogue - are easily managed by sales persons, secretaries, or any persons that usually manage your data.
• Classification into an unlimited number of categories and sub-categories - with the possibility of putting a catalogue at the intermediate level (administration at the "super administrator" level).
• Unlimited number of product options: size, colour, image, video, music sample, ...
• Products displayed in rows or in columns, as clickable thumbnails, in galleries, individual pages or lists...
• You can prevent certain products from being displayed.
• Extended product description ("product file").
• Images viewed in high or low resolution.
• Email and web addresses in your online texts automatically detected and made clickable.
• Hyperlinks are generated automatically (meaning no broken links are possible).
• Products descriptions can be updated while catalogues are being visited.
• Each product family can have its own display mode. Each product's display is customizable with HTML - using simples tags or with an HTML editor (e.g. Golive or Dreamweaver).
• Create and edit styles and apply them to your catalogues (colours, fonts, sizes...).
• Save and re-use page layouts applied to your catalogues: displayed elements, styles, colours, background images, available display modes, filters, sort options and search engines.
• Customizable icons: "for sale" and "shopping cart" buttons for e-commerce or "send email", ask for a "contact", etc... for an org. chart. You can design your own buttons and their associated functions. (coming soon)

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Selling items (See also : selling services...)

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• Multi-product orders by clicking on one button ("shopping cart" or "basket").
• Select contact form, shopping cart or both.
• Display the competition's prices (struck through), your own price and the difference - the savings made when buying your products.
• Cross-selling: you can link a product's sale with others of your own choice.
• Related sales: the same product is found again in several catalogues in different categories or sub-categories.
• Create specific catalogues for promotional offers: the "Rebates" page will display all product with a rebate.
• Create specific catalogues for novelties: the "Novelties" page will display all the latest products.
• Manage products for sale, for exchange or wanted...

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Selling services and dematerialized products: pictures, files, reports, audits, written material, access to links, bookmarks, addresses...

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• Automatically grant and handle passwords sent to your customers after payment.
• Passwords revoked after a number of uses or a period of time.
• Receive payments for accesses to:
  - a portal (a number of catalogues dedicated to a client or a group of users)
  - a catalogue (e.g. an report) or
  - a specific item (e.g. a picture or a file).

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At the end of each order

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• Sale confirmation e-mail sent to the owner.
• Purchase confirmation e-mail sent to the customer.
• You can insert a specific field into your confirmation e-mails (a product reference for instance).
• You can review each order with a spreadsheet editor (Excel, Works, ...) and then perform all your analyses and statistics.
• Your customers can view their orders follow-up online and read your comments. (coming soon)

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Stocks

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4 methods are available to manage your stock:

• No notion of stock: your customers will be able to order your products without any problems of availability.
• Unavailable: an icon is displayed when a product is sold out.
• Unavailability threshold: allow management of a product's quantity when several customers order this product at the same time. (coming soon)
• "Hide item" mode to withdraw a product that is sold out.

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VAT, taxes, shipment cost and minimum order

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There are different ways of calculating shipment costs:

• Applying a specific tax to each destination (unlimited number of zones).
• Specific shipment costs:
  - based on order's total weight or
  - per fractions of order's weight or
  - according to ordered quantity.
• According to shipment mode:
  - regular
  - express
• Additional fees for handling costs can be included in the shipment cost per item or by country - or (coming soon) they can be configured separately.
• A specific tax rate can be applied to each product.
• Several types of VAT: all are editable for compatibility in any countries.
• A minimum quantity per order can be set.

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Compatible payments

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• Link up with any bank for online payment or manage your customer relations by email and forms - with payment by cheque, by refund, etc...
• Credit card numbers are NOT kept in the database: no hacking risk. Your bank alone handles these sensitive data.
• Compatibility with payments by cheque, wire transfer, Western Union, gateway (SP+, Paybox, Mercanet, Sogenactif, Atos, Sips...).

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Search engine

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• Very fast and powerful search engine.
• Integrated anywhere with a simple form or a hyperlink.
• Search all catalogues belonging to a portal or just one specific catalogue.
• Use "and", "or", "exact phrase", "partial phrase".
• Search on a particular characteristic of your products.
• Characteristics and illustrations of each product are included in search results.
• Indexed result pages allowing visitors to browse through the results in a pleasant way as in a catalogue.
• Statistics including all search keywords submitted by your visitors in all your search engines.

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Handling illustrations

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• Centralized, dynamic handling of illustrations (images, attached files, pdf, videos...): a simple click on a presentation thumbnail is all you need to relate an illustration to an item.
  You can organize your illustrations into specific directories and sub-directories.
• Automatic detection of the best size and resolution for online viewing of your illustrations: you can upload your images in their original sizes. Don't bother about image dimensions and weight.
• Modify the size and resolution of all the images and thumbnails illustrating your online items without using graphics applications (Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro...).
• 3 methods for uploading your illustrations and related files:
  - HTTP (upload form for 1 to 20 files): simple and fast for a few files.
  - Web browser ("click and drag" upload): simple and fast for a great number of files.
  - FTP (using an FTP Client application: CuteFTP, FTPExplorer ...): to classify, delete or rename your files. Very fast.

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Statistics

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• Statistics per month or year featuring: - Number of access to each of your catalogues.
  - Classification of items reviewed
  - Keywords entered in your search engines.
  - Bandwidth usage
• Statistics on your visitors identified by a login and password (so you can monitor your clients visits).

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Submissions to search engines

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• Automated meta-tag generator to submit your site to major search engines - automatic extraction of keywords, titles, site owners, etc... allowing web users to find your site in search engines.
• Add keywords that are not included in your databases and use specific titles for directories and search engines.
• Submit your site to 2,600 search engines.

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Localization

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• Maniasys.com can support any languages in the world upon request - including non-latin character languages such as Hebrew, Japanese, Greek, Chinese, etc...
• Right away, we can offer you interfaces in English, German, Spanish, Russian and/or Italian.

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What the super administrator can do (Admin)

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Thanks to Maniasys.com's multi-user specific administration tool, the super administrator can :

• Create, modify, temporarily hide or delete user accounts (login names).
• Configure the graphic design of each community of users.
• Define and grant rights for each account according to their belonging in different communities (a community is a group of user accounts with the same rights):
  - graphic configuration rights.
  - e-commerce module access.
  - optional limitation of the number of catalogues created, or items per catalogue or portal ("portal" = all the catalogues belonging to a user account).
  - adverts optionally displayed on catalogues.
  - etc... (over 30 functionalities).

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Options (sur devis)

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• Domain name hosting.
• Web pages hosting featuring CGI, HT access...
• Translation of your hosted content at very affordable prices (half the regular price on the market) thanks to the semi-automated translation developed by Maniasys.com.

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Acquiring Maniasys.com

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• Maniasys.com is available
  - in "ASP mode": data are hosted on our servers, or
  - in "server mode": data are hosted by you or your regular ISP (a simple Intel Pentium III or equivalent is sufficient).
• No supplemental licence purchase is necessary: Maniasys.com's operating system, database and all other components are free licence software (Linux, Apache, MySQL, ...).
• One time payment by cheque or monthly payments by credit card.