EROL5 software features
Using EROL 5 you can....
- Create a new online store, or add e-commerce to your existing site
- Build search engine friendly pages
- Build W3C Accessibility Compliant & XHTML Standards Compliant stores
- Implement your custom CSS design to your e-commerce store
- Upload your store direct from your desktop via EROL’s integrated Publish Wizard
- Create powerful, time-expiring store discounts
- Download and process orders using EROL’s comprehensive back office management
Deliver a Great Shopper Experience
- Easy site navigation features including 'breadcrumb trail’
- Fast product search, including Product Code/SKU search
- Basket content and running totals visible at all times
- Automatic email confirmation of order to every customer
- Deliver customer-specific content and discounts for repeat shoppers
- Display a panel of Best-Seller, On Sale or Featured products anywhere in the page
Flexible Design Control
- Break the bonds of template-driven stores - whatever you can imagine you can create!
- WYSIWYG design tools with EROL's HTML Editors
- Complete offline basket functionality - test-drive your store before publishing
- Preview your store design offline as you build it
- Store Themes Library with hundreds of combinations of designs and colour schemes
- Use HTML or graphic rollover buttons, or design your own!
- Use with Macromedia Dreamweaver and other web-page editors for 'comfortable environment editing'.
- Explorer-style interface - access any part of your store instantly
- Improved productivity with multiple viewing modes to maximise your workspace
- Use HTML Tidy ™ or EROL’s Optimised output to create clean, structured HTML pages
- Unlimited product categories and sub-categories
- Include product variations, such as size and colour
- Fully customisable store pages - Additional text or images can be added anywhere on any page
- Product data round-trip import / export
- Create and link to static content pages - build your entire website using EROL!
Powerful Product Control
- Related Products - automatically show shoppers similar products they may also like!
- Create Product Kits with variable components and pricing, Product Matrices and Variants
- Flexible price points for product variations, volume price breaks etc.
- Display Product options with radio buttons, checkboxes or dropdowns
- Powerful Product Import Wizard - add, update and remove products from your store from one, or multiple, data sources
- Create Product Lists - add multiple products to the basket with one click
- Capture personalised customer information to sell personalised products e.g. Add your name to a t-shirt
- Assign different tax groups to different products – e.g. Books at 0% VAT / tax
- Up to 10,000 products
Secure Payments
Efficient Order & Customer Management – EROL’s Back Office
- Automatically retrieve orders
- Use the Order Manager to process your orders from receipt to shipment.
- Automate order processing steps to maximise productivity
- Receive an automatic email receipt for every order taken
- Monitors, adjusts and publishes stock levels whilst processing orders
- Print Invoices, Delivery Notes, Pick Lists and Print ‘n’ Peel EROL Address Invoice Labels
- Create and view sales reports and charts
- Customer Manager tracks customer purchase history
- Create individual privileges/discounts for your customers
- Inventory Manager - view and change product information rapidly
- Automatic backup and data integrity check feature
- Export order, customer or product data to CSV for use in other applications
- Connect to Sage Line 50 accounting packages *
- (*) Requires additional software purchase
Marketing Features
- Create search-engine-friendly web stores
- List your products on Google Products (formerly Froogle) using the automatic Froogle export!
- Send individual or group e-mails to your customers
- One click Google Analytics integrations – track your store’s visitors and sales
- Set discounts based on a shopper's total order value
- Offer a free gift, free shipping, percentage and fixed amount discounts
- Create product bundles using Product Kitting
- Deliver retail (Business-to-Consumer) and trade/wholesale (Business-to-Business) product pricing from the same store!
Fast & Friendly Support
- Free online Support Helpdesk for 12 months
- 30 days Free Telephone Support (*)
- UK-based support, delivered by technicians who use the software
- Online Knowledge Base – ask our searchable support database any question
- EROL Customer Community Forums – talk to other online store owners for help and advice
- EROL Cover Plan options available** - full ongoing support and upgrade protection, and discount on additional services
- Get free extra traffic and orders to your online store (***)
- (*) Not included with EROL Startup 25
- (**) Additional fee required
- (***) Delivered via EROL Shopping
