4D Business Kit 2.2.10 review

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Designed for rapid development, 4D Business Kit is a complete e-commerce store front solution, including catalog, shopping cart, Intelligent BehaviorEngine, tax calculations, multi-currency handling, shipping, customer management, order tracking, and support for transaction processors.

License: Demo
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 74598K
Developer: 4D, Inc.
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Price: $598.00
Updated: 11 Feb 2006
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Designed for rapid development, 4D Business Kit is a complete e-commerce store front solution, including catalog, shopping cart, Intelligent BehaviorEngine, tax calculations, multi-currency handling, shipping, customer management, order tracking, and support for transaction processors.

Setting up 4D Business Kit is easy with the Quick Set-up Wizard.

An integrated multi-language, multi-store e-commerce solution, 4D Business Kit can run completely standalone, or with other Web servers, such as 4D WebSTAR, Apache, and MS IIS.

Here are some key features of "4D Business Kit":
General Features
Integrated database
Integrated HTTP server
Integrated HTML tag-based language
Multiple stores on the same 4D BK server (subject to licensing)
Each store has its own Web site and database
Able to communicate easily with existing 4D databases
Tasks delegation to other software (e.g. complex price calculation)
Windows and Macintosh cross-platform

Store/Catalog Design
Unlimited number of products/items
5 category levels
Fully customizable item definition
20 views per item (pictures and thumbnails)
Import and export product data (text files and image references)
New improved picture definition
Data model selection when importing data

Web Site Design
Create your own site with both static and dynamic pages/integrate 4D BK into your existing site
Create and export your own templates
Save time by using our set of ready-to-use templates containing Web pages and products
Customize our templates using standard HTML editors (such as Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe Golive)
Page and data available in multiple languages
Unlimited design capabilities
Can use your own domain name for each store
Templates improvement

Business Features
Define the primary currency of your store
Multiple currency display
Built-in tool for latest exchange rates
Export and import of shipping methods
Shipping value calculations based on quantities, price or weight
Automatic taxation on VAT (Europe), sales tax (USA & Canada) and others
Web-browser-based real-time order tracking for the merchant
Currency update facilitated
Complete "Export and import of shipping methods: UPS Germany, German Post, Swiss Post
In-depth management of taxes applying to articles

Secure Payment
SSL 128 bit standard compliant
Choice of payment methods (check, deposit, credit card, or fax)
Implemented Payment gateways: Authorize.net, Verisign's PayFlow Link and now Paybox (France), Paypal (USA), Yellowpay (Switzerland), etc.
Script technology to support market-leading payment gateways
New payment solutions offered directly through the banks : Caisse d'Epargne (France), Banca Sella (Italy), etc.

Site Marketing
Send a full item description/page from the site to a customer
Gather customer data through registration form
Generate a full activity log for each Web visitor

Order and Inquiry Management
Real-time order-tracking for customers
Order confirmation e-mails to the customers
Merchant order notification
More confidentiality of elements put in the Order module
Personalized shopping cart.

eCRM
Upsell merchandising features including automatic suggestions to shoppers for items related to purchase
Customize prices based on customer (special offer, discount per item category, and discount on quantities)
Develop your own item calculation methods (e.g. prices, shipping, etc.)
Automatic generation of a log file in ISO format
Automatic generation of a file of web server requests

Management Application
Built-in support for English, French, and German
Automatic translation features
Multiple numerical format
Move items from one store/catalog to another
Multi-criteria and global search capabilities
Local administration
Stronger shop access control in a multistore context
New search and sort instructions

Administration
Remote administration via a Web browser for items, taxes, and orders
Order module improvement
New improved interface for remote administration

Server Security
Allow/Deny access to the site based on IP addresses and URLs
Anti-flood protection
Anti-virus protection
Easy backup procedure
Authentification of the identity of the email sender through the POP3 session

Hosting Information
Log for viewed pages, user requests, and browser hits
Transmission volume and processing time per page, store, and day.

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