Flexible tax rate management with support for US and International markets
Fully 100% customizable design using templates or editing one (1) HTML file
Content Management System for Informational Pages
Add shopping carts to existing sites
Unlimited main / sub categories
Integrated store search
Thumbnails and large image views
Email to a Friend
WISSY Editor for all content areas
Email and SMS order notification
Integrated Skype Chat
Brand able Flash Ipod Player for easy preview of music or video
Marketing Promotions and Tools
Discounts
Percentage Discounts based on number of products purchased
Free Shipping Option
URL Rewrites
Recently Viewed Products
New Items Promotional Tool
Up-sells in Shopping Cart
Cross-sells on product pages
Send to a Friend for all visitors, or registered users only
Newsletter Management
Ability to put your products on other pages, forums or websites by copying one line of auto generated code
International Support
Support for Multiple Currencies
Tax rate support
Localization
Search Engine Optimization
100% Search Engine Friendly
URL Rewrites give full control of URL's
Dynamic Meta, Alt and Title tags
Google Analytics tracking throughout your site
Keywords in page titles
Keywords in breadcrumb navigation
Custom HTML sections
Checkout
One-Page Checkout
SSL security support for orders on both front-end and back-end
Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
Shopping Cart with tax and shipping estimates
Checkout with account to use address book
Option to create account at beginning of checkout
Saved Shopping Carts
Shipping
Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
Multiple shipments per order
Digital downloads of every filetype
Ability to specify allowed destination countries per method
Flat rate shipping per order
Flat rate shipping per item
Free Shipping
Shipping calculated by weight of product
Shipping Zones with different rates
Insured or Not Insured Shipping
Payment
Support for virtually every payment gateway out there! No Joke
Support for easy integration should we not support your payment gateway already
Free Products
Check / Money order
Order Management
Email and SMS order notification
Product status
Ability to communicate with customer via the store
Call Center (phone) order creation
Print invoices and packing slips
See all orders of Customer
Admin notes
Customer Service
Contact Us form
Feature-rich Customer Accounts
Add extra forms to pages such as Helpful tips, Need Assistance, Subscribe to product support
Order History with Status Updates
Order Tracking from Account
Forgot Password Email from front-end and administration panel
Order and Account Update Emails
Customizable Order Emails
Create and Edit Orders from the Admin Panel
Customer communication Newsletters with Google Analytics tracking for ROI on campaigns
Customer Accounts
Order status and history
Address Book with unlimited addresses
Default Billing and Shipping addresses
Newsletter Subscription management
Product Reviews submitted
Account
Dashboard for overview of: recent orders, personal information,
newsletter subscription status, primary billing address, primary
shipping address, shopping cart, wishlist, recently ordered items,
recently reviews and recent tags
Catalog Management
Inventory Management with Backordered items, Minimum and Maximum quantities
Batch Import and Export of catalog
Simple, Configurable (e.g. size, color, etc.) and Grouped Products
Tax Rates per location, customer group and product type
Attribute Sets for quick product creation of different item types
Create Store-specific attributes on the fly
Products-to-categories structure
Categories-to-categories structure
Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
Catalog Browsing
Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products
Cross-sells, Up-sells and Related Items
Advanced Search
Product Listing of All Store Products
Ajax Image previews
Flash Player for promoting Audio and Video
Category based Browsing
Cross linking of Products into other Categories
Product Browsing
Multiple Images with Zoom
Product Reviews
Related Products
Stock Availability
Product Option Selection
Send to a Friend with Email
Analytics and Reporting
Integrated with Google Analytics
Admin Dashboard for Report Overview
Multiple Sales Reports
Tax Report
Unsold Shopping Cart Report
Best Viewed Products Report
Best Purchased Products Report
Low Stock Report
Total Sales Invoiced
Best Customers Report by Total and Number of Orders
Manufacturer Sales Reports
Introduction
The BuyX e-commerce system is an online store that has been built on the OScommerce open source ecommerce package, that have been customized through years of production use. Many contributions have been added to form this powerful e-commerce package that, together with a monthly subscription fee, is being marketed under the name BUYX. All source code used in the BUYX shop can be downloaded separately from the OScommerce website.
The BuyX engine has been put together primarily for the Music and CD Distribution industry, offering CD Stores and Records labels the ability to sell and promote their Music in various formats.
However the BuyX e-commerce store has proven it's metal in many other environments including Retail, Arts and Culture, even Online Ticket sales! Stability, Ease of use, Security and Speed are the principles the BuyX engine was built on.
This Shop is Search Engine Friendly
Because this is an online store, it has been build with Marketing on the Internet in mind. From dynamic META tags to URL rewriting right through to Short URLs
Dynamic Meta Tags Short URLs Product Specific URL rewriting All Products Inventory link RSS Feeds
Unlimited Products, Categories and Manufacturers
Managing Products, Categories and Manufacturers has never been easier!
With an intuitive Explorer like Managing system, you can Copy, Move or Link Products in any Category, under any Manufacturer one Product at a time, or many all at once.
Unlimited Products Unlimited Manufacturers Copy, Link or Move single or many Products at once
Create Master and Slave Products with Independent Stock
By creating Master and Slave Products you can easily group and manage your Products.
For example, You have a CD but you also have the DVD and the Limited edition, by creating Slaves to the Master Product you can easily show many Products on one page, with their own Products Attributes.
Master and Slave products Independent Master or Slave Attributes, Weight, Download, Price Increase or Decrease
Content Rich Product Pages, published via a WYSIWYG.
With the recent advances in Internet Connectivity, and Prices, your visitors can benefit from this store, from a Flash Player that can handle full CD or Track previews to Embedding a Flash movie Player for Trailers, for example, your a Music Store, you can now, have your visitors preview CDs or DVDs before they buy.
Full CD or DVD Preview, streamed via a Flash Player Support Youtube, Google Video and other Rich content providers
On the Fly Image scaling and Caching
With BUYX you only need to upload one image, your Store front Thumbnails will be automatically reduced in Size.
It also uses various Caching modules, so it cache's the image on the Server side and Client side, on the visitor's PC
On the Fly Thumbnail generation and scaling One image per Product Caching of Content Server side and Locally
Web 2.0 Ready
What is Web 2.0? When the Internet first started out, websites where flat, and pretty much static, the layout wasn't optimised for User interacting and Users couldn't really interact with the website.
With Web 2.0 came better design and layout, functionality, where clients can Send a Product link to a friend, Subscribe to your Newsletters and Product notifications, even check their Order History or Update their account.
Web 2.0 Theme Intuitive Shop Layout and Design, with instant page width adjust or Increase/Decrease Font buttons Java script Notifications Customer order Notifications Customer Account and shopping Basket
Support Multiple Currencies
This Shop can support virtually any Currency, from South African ZAR to Japanese YENYou can select your default Store currency and add ass many currencies as you wish to support, they are updated Daily, via Oanda and XE Servers
Support Multiple currencies Support Any currency Currencies updated Daily, via Oanda and XE Servers
Manage, Create and Edit Customer Orders
Using BUYX you can communicate with your customers via the Administration side, where you can keep track of orders, and your customers. You can also view unsold cart contents via the reports section of your Shop.
Reply to Customer orders via the Administration Side Update, Create or Delete Orders View unsold Shopping Carts
WYSIWYG Newsletter Manager
Create and send your Custom Newsletters from within your Shop Administration side. And if you require a professionally designed, You can always contact us!
Send great looking Newsletters Compose via a WYSIWYG
Accept Credit Card Payments or Direct Deposit and PayPal
With the BUYX Store you can accept online payments, with a credit card or Direct Bank Deposit and update the orders as Payments are Confirmed
Credit Card Payments via VCS Virtual Card Services that support all South African Banks Accept Direct Bank Deposits PayPal support
Sell Anything Online! From Truck Spare Parts to Ipod accessories to Music or Videos
Finally you can sell your products online! Because various Shipping Modules, Shopping Carts are calculated using the Weight and the Costs of your products. With the ability to setup Shipping Zones, for example if your in South Africa, using the post office, local goods are shipped at a lessor price than foreign parcels.
You can also sell digital Products such as MP3 Music, PDF Online Magazines, AVI Movie Files and All other File Formats
Multiple Shipping Modules Multiple Shipping Zones with Cost difference Register, Insured or Non Insured Shipping Digital Media, MP3 Music, PDF Online Magazines, AVI Movie Files and more..
Email and SMS order Notification
By default the Shop Owner and Client get Email notification, now you can also send a SMS notification to either the Store owner and/or the Client using an SMS Gateway such as Vodazone
Get Email order Notifications SMS order Notifications to either the Store owner and/or the Client
Full Google Analytics, AWStats and Clicktracks Support
Running an Online Store is exciting! You can run Marketing Campaigns, Send Newsletters and Advertise on other websites, and it's great to see which perform and which doesn't, Reporting Programs are a very valuable part of Successful Online Trading
Full Google Analytics, AWStats, Clicktracks support
Administrators and Users Rights Permissions
With the BUYX Store, you can create users and groups with different permissions. For example, you have people capturing and loading products on your website, they should not be able to contact Customers, nor should they be able to alter the Store front.
Another example is Sales and Support staff, who should be able to alter stock and orders and customer details, but they don't need access to Sales reports or theStore Front.
Administrative User and Group permissions Lost password and User settings Independent Login
Music Industry
The BuyX e-commerce system has been implemented for multiple CD Stores and Music Websites.
Boasting with features like Digital Downloads, Free Products, Full free track samples and Discounts, this e-commerce system has what it takes to elevate your business to a higher level!
Easy to use to allow for fast capturing. The BuyX engine is designed for large catalogs. From the ground up our goal was speed, ease of use, and to give your clients the best environment for CD, and Music shopping. The BuyX engine comes pre-installed with an incredible marketing and entertainment tool.
BuyX POD Player
The BuyX Player Plays Music on any browser or operating system. One click and your web clients are listening to crisp clear music. All CD Covers are dynamically loaded and displayed with a 80% opacity. The CD Cover can be shifted up and down to display and hide track listings.
Copy and pasteoneline of auto generated code to display the BuyX Player on anywebsite, blog or personal page like Myspace.
Digital Downloads
Optimized for Digital Downloads the BuyX engine allows for any format, MP3 | WAV | OGG | WMA and more! File locations are randomly generated and you can specify the amount of days and number of downloads that a file will be active.
Arts & Culture
Large, crisp, good quality images here are the key. The BuyX engine has been optimized for serving large images. One image are compressed and decompressed to different sizes. This saves you from resizing the image yourself.
The BuyX engine is perfect for online galleries, and artists that want to sell or rent their art online.
Retail and Clothing Industry
The BuyX e-commerce system has the ability to add attributes to any product. These attributes can, for example, increase or decrease the price of a product based on the product's size.
Different colors or styles of the product can be easily captured to display on one product page with the option of interlinking products on different pages. This feature is called Master and Slave products.
Miscellaneous Products
The BuyX engine is extremely versatile and easy to implement in any environment. Whether you are selling wedding dresses or truck spare parts you will find that the BuyX e-commerce system is the solution that you have been looking for!
It's never been easier to add News Articles to your store and design your own Newsletters!
The BuyX comes pre-installed with an editor that will write HTML for you. Upload and add pictures, change font sizes and colors, even copy and paste rich content to publish to your store as a News Article or Newsletter.