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Just what do you get when you power your website with IMPACT?
You get the finest state-of-art professional website system
available anywhere, at any price!
We know that sounds like a lot of brag, so for all you geeks and techies, here is a lengthy list of the powerful features that makes Impact the industry leader:
Data Center and Technical Features
All our servers are Enterprise Class Compaq Proliant Quad Xeon Rack Mount Servers
Our Disk sub-systems are Raid 5 - 72Gig Disk Arrays of 10K RPM 18.2Gig Hot Swap Drives
We run Windows 2000 & Red Hat Linux Operating Systems
MS SQL or MySQL database backends on all web sites
Apache or IIS Web Servers
The Cold Fusion Application Server runs the system
All our servers are housed in a Tier 1, 24-hour manned data center, indefinate off-grid sustainablity, triple redundant connections that guarantee 100% up time and unlimited bandwidth.
Impact Web System Features
All of these features are managed using your favorite web browser.
Login to your manager console and you'll be able to perform the following functions:
Company Information (Address, Phone Numbers, E-mail Address etc)
Updating Your Password - You can update your own password any time you want simply by entering in your old password and choosing a new one. Confirm your new password and it is changed.
E-mail Forwards Setup - You can add your own email forwards simply by entering in the new forward address you want - such as Info@Yourdomain.com and where you want it to "Forward" to such as davesemail@cox.net and you're done.
Domain Registration Setup - You can quickly register and add new domain names simply by checking if its available and register it. Each web site comes with one free domain name registration and is allowed up to five domain names to be directed to it.
Dynamic Feedback Forms - With our program you can quickly and easily create customer feedback forms simply by entering the question you want on the form, choosing what type of answer you want multiple choice, text box or select box and our system does all the work. Change your forms whenever you want. Any info sent back from the forms is automatically emailed to you and saved in your Manager's Console.
Join E-mail Lists - We have a built-in Email list manager by which visitor's to your site can join your email lists and remove themselves at any time, you can also manually add email addresses or remove email addresses from your lists.
E-mail Reminder - This is a service we offer to help you to capture email addresses, when your customers use this service your web site will automatically email them the reminder they have asked for birthdays, important meetings etc. Whenever somebody uses this service you capture their email address for marketing purposes.
Customer Profiles - Whenever a customer buys something from your web site, our system automatically creates a "Customer Profile" and emails the customer a username and password so that they can login to your web site and check the status of their order, review all prior purchases, update their information and check how much money they have in their "Customer Loyalty Program" They can also change their password.
Secure "Members Only" or "B2B" Password Protected Area* - We have a secure User Name / Password system within your web site where you can flag products and sections of your web site for Members Only � You can quickly and easily create users and passwords of who can see what page as well as Flag Products that are only for sale to "Members � Users that you have created passwords for". These products will not show up for all visitors but will only appear after your customers have Logged in. *You Administer the Login Accounts. Products and/or Subpages are hidden until your customer has successfully logged into your site. Customer Login is NOT the same as Members Only.
Managing Your Site Back to Top
Secure Password Protected Login - In order to manage your web site you must have a username and password to login.
Adding, Renaming and Deleting of Pages - Quickly and easily create new pages, rename pages and delete pages, simply follow the on screen prompts to perform any of these functions.
Choose the Order of Your Pages - You can modify the order in which your pages are displayed across the top of your web site and in your Site Map.
Editing Page Content (Text & Pictures) - With our easy to use WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) web page editor you can format text, align text, bold, underline or italicize your text, insert links, images and more, just follow the on-screen prompts.
Dynamic Flash Headers - Add your own messages to our dynamic flash headers, custom animations and effects to match the theme. Upload your own flash or static headers or just use ours.
Image Library - Manage all your images in one space, upload from your digital camera or from the web, our library shows you thumbnails, image size and lets you add or delete images quickly and easily.
Upload Your Pictures with only Your Web Browser (no FTP) - Upload your pictures simply by clicking the Browse button in the Image Library or page editing sections, locating the image on your computer and quickly uploading to your image library. Once an image is uploaded into your image library you can quickly and easily insert it into any page on your web site.
Turn On or Off Your Site Map - Your site map is a text or drop down listing of all pages on your web site, with our system you can have a text site map, a drop down site map, both or no site map, simply choose which layout you want and hit go.
Turn On or Off Product Search - Want to allow your customers to do text searches of all your products at once simply turn ON the product search, a text search box and a GO graphic will appear on the top left portion of your web site allowing your customers to search for your products.
Manage Search results - Want to control how many products are displayed, and how many products are displayed per row, simply enter in the number of products and the number per row and the system will now display exactly how you specify.
Turn On or Off Auto or Real Estate Listings Search - Selling Real Estate or Cars, or products of these, don't want the listings searchable, simply turn on or off the search boxes.
Select or Change Your Pages to a Specific Page Types - Did you create your page as a regular web page but now want to add a join email, feedback form or secure page? Simply change the "Page Type" by clicking on the change page type link and you can recreate the whole page as another type.
Change Your Theme - The theme is the look and feel of your site, we have more than 80 themes and more coming weekly, want to try something new, simply choose a new theme and hit enter, 90 images, colors and styles will change automatically, don't worry, if somebody is shopping on your site during your change, their shopping carts are saved and they might not even know the difference. Change your theme monthly to keep your site fresh!
Change Background Colors, Link Colors and more - Want complete control over the colors within the theme, want to add a background image or change your text colors, simply use our color picker to try all the colors, find one you like and hit update.
Upload Your Own Music/Sound Clips (WAV or MIDI) - Always wondered how some web sites got sound all our sites are sound enabled, simply choose from one our default sounds or add your own, you can even listen to the sounds before activating.
Manage Your Meta Tags (Title, Keywords, Description) - Getting ready for the search engines, want to control your key words and meta tags, our system has a meta tag editor that automatically creates all your keywords and titles, simply enter in your info and our system will create all the tags automatically.
Change Your Site's Resolution (640x480, 800x600 etc) - Want your site to fill more or less of the browser? Think you should be at a certain resolution? Our dynamic resolution selector lets you set and/or change your resolution whenever you want, simply choose one and hit enter.
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Direct Links to Top ADD URL sites - We've created the list of all the search engines your site should be on, simply follow the links to the sites and submit your site. Some search engines, such as Yahoo, charge for your site to be listed, the only one we suggest paying is Yahoo.
Page Titles & Meta Tag Manager (Title, Keywords, Description, Author etc.) - Search engines organize and search their engines based on your web site Titles and Metatags words that describe your service or product. Using our tool, you can quickly, easily and as often as you want, update your page titles and search keywords.
E-mail List Manager (Add/Delete E-mail Addresses and E-mail Groups etc.) - Manage all your customer's and potential customer's email addresses all in one spot. You'll know how many email addresses you have and you can break down your email addresses into groups such as customers and potential customers get creative, you can have as many groups as you want.
Compose & Save Newsletters - With this tool you can create and manage all your email topics, such as your holiday sales, your upcoming events and your newsletters. Write it once and save it for reuse or adjustment at your leisure.
Send Newsletters to All or Specific Groups - When you're ready to do some marketing you simply open your email message and with a click of the mouse your business enters a chosen group or everyone on your list's home or office! Send as often as you like but don't offend your customers as they may decide to remove themselves from your list. You should only send email to customers once or twice a month at most and give them a reason to read the email, a special offer or trial is best.
E-Commerce Options Back to Top
Secure Checkout (SSL) - All our servers use 1024 BIT ENCRYPTED Secure Keys ensuring that all transactions are secure .
Returning Customer Login - As part of our customer profile we also store cookies on your buyers computers, so your web site will immediately welcome them back by name as a returning customer and Pre-Fill their customer info to save them time. We don't pre-fill any credit card info for security reasons.
Add, Edit, Delete Products - Quickly add your product picture, part number, inventory quantity, price, retail price (shows the amount they save buy buying online), add related products (customers who bought this product also bough this product a dynamic up-sell feature), add options (different colors available) and even pricing for options (multiple sizes or weights) if needed. Edit the product at any time, change the related products and set your inventory. Your web site will automatically email you when your inventory gets low, and if you run out of inventory our system will automatically display a sold out or call to backorder message for your visitors.
Specify Page for Product to be Displayed - Want to move your products around on the web site, no problem, you can set what pages you want the product to appear on! Of course using the product search feature will display the product no matter what page it is on, unless you have flagged the product as a "password protected" product, which means it does not exist unless you have logged in with a username and password.
Dynamic Resizing of Product Images - Upload any size picture and our system will automatically size it to as large as it can be but still display properly on the web site, our system even creates three other images of the product image you upload one for the search results, one for the product detail, one for the related products and one for the shopping cart contents page.
Edit Products to be Displayed by Row and Page - Control the results of your product search by number or products to be displayed per row and number displayed per page before our system automatically creates a list of product pages.
Edit "Thank You" Message for E-mailed Receipt - Your web site will automatically send out a receipt with a unique invoice number / time and date stamp along with all the other important information from the order, you can customize this email simply by editing your "Thank you message"
Setup Shipping by Flat Rate, Total Amount, Weight, Quantity or By Product - Want to have different shipping schemes, no problem, charge by Item, by weight, number of items, per product or flat rate, you can even mix and max shipping methods and charges, unlimited number of shippers.
Setup Multiple State Tax Rates - Need to charge sales tax in different states, no problem with our program you can change a different tax rate in all 50 states, the system then automatically calculates all sales tax on checkout.
Customer Loyalty Program - Want to setup a customer loyalty program, no problem its already integrated, simply enter in a savings rate and our system will set aside the % of money as an incentive for your customers to come back and shop again, completely automated simply tell the system how much rewards you want to give back and the system will auto debit the percentage of savings on the next purchase.
Select Credit Cards You Accept - Setup and edit the credit cards you accept as payment, Visa, MasterCard, American Express etc. simply choose the ones you accept and they will automatically appear on your check out forms.
Select & Configure Real-Time Processor (AuthorizeNet, Cybercash etc) - Want to run the credit cards in real time, no problem, our systems are fully and automatically integrated into all the top payment gateways such as Link Point, Pay Pal, Authorize.net, Cybercash, Longate, iBill and more.
Select Required Fields - Configure your own required fields, make any field optional or mandatory, our system will automatically create the pop up boxes telling your customers which fields they must fill in and which ones they can skip.
Add B2B/Member Only Products (Accessible Only by Logging In*) - You can hide sections of your web site and some products from normal visitors and restrict them to Members of your web site for example you can sell Wholesale AND Retail from the same web site.
*You Administer the Login Accounts - Quickly and easily manage all your users and passwords simply by typing in names and passwords. Restrict or grant access with no problems.
Built-in Affiliate Program (Manage Accounts, Upload Banners etc) - Want to create an affiliate network and pay people to send customers to you. No problem, simply add the Affiliate Sub System, tell the system how much you are going to pay affiliates, upload a banner that your affiliates can put on their web site and our system does the rest, automated signup and link creation. You can check on all your affiliates, how much traffic and sales their driving to you and they can do the same with their password protected login.
Statistics and Customers Back to Top
View Visitors per Month, Week, Day or Hour - Want to know who is visiting your site, where they came from, what they did when they were there, and how much time they spent on your site. Our real time tracking system gives you all this information and more 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with easy to read graphs and data.
1st Hit records the Date, Time, Operating System, IP Address and Referrer - Logs include the above plus Time Spent on Site, Pages Viewed, View Orders by New Pending Archived, View Orders by status customer date then print them out or manage them on screen. Its up to you.
Change Status of Order - Update and archive orders for easy retrieval.
Enter and Send Out Tracking # - Your site Automatically emails the customer their products tracking number and "We've shipped your product" notice.
View # of Sales for the Month or Day - View sales by day, week, month etc. quick and easy graphs.
Read, Respond and Archive Submitted Forms - Our dynamic form management system not only emails you the results of any forms submitted on your site but it even keeps a record of them so you can make notes, revisit them and archive all communications from your customers.
View and Edit Customer Database - Sort all your customers by number of sales, dollar value of their orders, view, edit and manage all their information, view entire transaction history and actual invoices from the transactions.
Additional Features Back to Top
Multi-Language Manager Console - Our tools are currently available in 8 languages English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and German. We are working on our language system and will soon have our system available in every major language.
Multi-Language Themes - The system will accept any language but we even have graphic themes in several languages including: English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and French.
LOGOFF Button - An added Security Measure.
Online Help, Live Chat, Email Support, Phone Support - All of our sites come with an online help system to show you how to manage the sites and use all of these features, need more help? No problem, our highly trained tech support people are here to help you.
Link to Preview Site - Preview your site at any time right from your manager�s console, simply click on the link to preview your site.
Dynamically Pass the ID from Page to Page (more info required) - Create internal links while still maintaining the session variables.
Not all of our site features have been listed. We are adding new features on a regular basis to improve the performance and ease-of-use of your site.
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