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Beetlebrow provides state-of-the-art ecommerce solutions using Prestashop which is an open source online shopping platform that currently powers more than 125,000 online stores in more than 180 countries. We'll configure and customise the Prestashop enviroment to provide you with a beautifully designed, uniquely branded e-commerce solution that is jam-packed with functionality.

PrestaShop's software is lightweight, fast and extremely flexible. It has an intuitive Back Office, unmatched SEO tools and provides complete control over content and functionality. With over 300 advanced features designed to suit the needs of online businesses of all sizes, a Beetlebrow supplied PrestaShop solution provides everything you need to start a successful online store.

 

Catalog Management
Manage a dynamic product list through the PrestaShop back-office. Whether the shop has one product or thousands, this incredible administrative interface lets merchants manage the most complex inventory easily and update with a single click. Import and export quickly, set attributes, sort products, bulk discounts, and much more. Managing products has never been easier with PrestaShop.

• Choose product states
• Upload CSV files of products
• Create catalog mode
• Bulk uploads
• Select products unavailable
• Layered navigation
• Display unit prices on products
• UPC code management
• Inventory archives
• Restocking notices
• Minimum purchase quantity
• Unlimited categories and subcategories
• Unlimited attributes (sizes, colors, etc.)
• Unlimited product combinations
• Automatic combination generator
• Unlimited product characteristics
• Catalog reminders (empty pages, inactivated products)
• Segment product categories to specific groups
• Product and accessory packs
• Quantity discounts in percentage
• Quantity discounts by fixed amount
• Product references (ISBN-EAN13)
• PDF invoices and delivery slips
• Upload manufactures product list
• Manufacture management
• Supplier management
• Customize products individually or in bulk
• Cross selling
• Filter product by attributes, search term, or statistical data
• Edit product tags
• Return management
• Report of products added to wishlist
• Sell downloadable products: MP3’s, software, etc.
• Export orders and invoices
Product Displays
Display products in a unique way and provide customers with numerous options to view their desired products. Providing multiple views will help boost conversion rates. Merchants can reduce customer doubt by putting them at ease with zoom in features and multiple product views.

• Compare products
• Add products to a wishlist
• Send wishlist by e-mail
• “Send to a friend” option
• Unlimited pictures with automatic resizing
• Multiple pictures per product
• Zoom-in on product photos
• Watermark on product pictures
• Quick product search
• Customer comments on products
• Customer reviews
• Alias search
• Ajax search
• Double price display: with or without taxes
• Choice of number of products to display per page
• Out-of-stock e-mail notications
• Display available quantities
• Layered navigation
• Sort products by relevance, price, etc.
• Printable product pages
• Attach documents to products (user guides, etc.)
• Display products in the same category
• Export products to major search engines
• Multi-tier pricing
• Build product attributes
• Bookmark products
• Product page stats: Last purchased date
• Display cart content
• Display product categories
Site Management
Manage a site easily using PrestaShop. Business owners can enjoy editing content, managing product displays, and changing languages all through the back oce. PrestaShop has a one-click upgrade to keep a store running at the latest version.

• Control multiple stores via one back-office
• Customize the store without modifying the core
• Store locator
• Layered navigation
• Customize informational pages through a CMS
• Customize homepage pictures and content
• Turn modules on and o with one click
• Add unlimited modules to front oce and back office
• Display featured products on homepage
• Insert advertisement banners
• Customize product displays
• Multiple recipient contact form
• Customer breadcrumb trail
• Display best sellers
• Highlight available payment means
• RSS feed block
• Test a new page before launching
• Quick product search
• FIA-Net certication label
• Trusted Shops label
• eKomi label
• Promotions display box
• Footer links
• RSS feed subscription
• Newsletter subscription box
• Display of complete customer account
• Display of suppliers
• Bookmark products in one click
• Display resource links
• Leal notices
• Choose currencies
• Database back-up
• Subdomain management
• Choose languages
• Disable content pages
• Maintenance mode
• Authorize specific IP addresses while in maintenance mode
• Use multiple logos
• Replace photos
• Edit a theme from the front office
• Easy customization of templates
• Module to import shops
• Compatible with all web browsers
• Customizable favicon
• Integration with a CRM or ERP (Webservice)
• Help feature in the back oce
• Customize shortcuts in the back office
• Back oce universal search
• Text editor
• Manage exotic type faces
• SMTP E-mails: send e-mails via a contact form, etc
Search Engine Optimisation
One of the best forms of marketing is search engine marketing. Optimize a site and ensure major search engines are indexing the store. Simply through placing high tracked keywords in site tags, a store can be placed on the first page of Google! Discover countless possibilities with increased online traffic.

• Search engine friendly
• URL re-writes
• Dedicated URL for each product
• Google sitemap
• Auto generated sitemap
• Automatic robot.txt files
• Automatic .htaccess files
• Permalinks
• Edit product tags
• Title tags, meta tags, meta description, etc.
• W3C Compliant
• RSS feed
• Tag cloud
• Reduce load time of products
• Canonical URL: preventing duplicate content
Checkout
An effective checkout page will push conversion rates through the roof! PrestaShop offers a one-page checkout among other features. Merchants can customize fields to gather certain information. From design to shipping, PrestaShop checkout process makes purchasing easy for customers.

• One page checkout
• Guest checkout
• Renew an order in one click
• Customize order statuses
• Predefined order messages
• Set minimum order amount
• Order products out-of-stock
• PDF invoices and delivery slips
• Special offers
• Ajax cart
• Ability to upsell
• Gift wrap
• Billable gift wrap
• Saved shopping cart configured via expiration time
• Place sales conditions at checkout
• Automatic form filling with ReversoForm
Shipping
PrestaShop allows exible shipping modules and is fully integrated with major carriers. Provide customers reliable shipping options and the ability to include custom messages. Control logistics such as fees, weight, shipping restrictions and more from the back-office.

• Unlimited shipping carriers
• Unlimited destinations
• Shipping discounts
• Restrict carriers to zones or states
• Package tracking
• Email notications of delivery statuses
• Store pick-up
• Handling charges
• Ability offer delivery fees
• Fees by price or weight
• Separate billing and shipping addresses
• Estimates for postal charges
• FedEx, USPS, UPS, Canada Post, etc.
• Carriers' prices comparison with Envoimoinscher
• Shipping with Mondial Relay
• Courier delivery with Dejala
• La Poste So-Colissimo
Payments
PrestaShop is integrated with numerous payment options and business owners can install a desired payment option with one-click. Ensure payment is received and customers are comfortable providing their information.

• Authorize.net
• PayPal pre-congured
• Moneybookers/Skrill pre-configured
• Google checkout
• DIBS
• Hipay
• Ogone
• PaysafeCard
• Allied Wallet
• Klarna
• Set pricing rules
• Taxes set by country, state, county
• Unlimited payment options, including check and bankwire
• Filter payment by country or currency
• Filter payment by customer groups
• Payment upon delivery (COD)
Marketing
PrestaShop offers a variety of marketing and promotional tools built in. A successful merchant is the key to PrestaShop’s growth and guaranteeing effective marketing tools will build a path for online success.

• Videos with Treepodia
• E-mailing with Mailjet
• Retarget your visitors with Critéo
• Google Adsense
• Export product to major search engines with Shopping Flux
• Export product to Twenga
• Export product to eBay
• Automated follow-up email
• Newsletter subscriptions
• Loyalty programs
• Refer-a-friend program
• Bundle products
• Recently viewed products
• Coupons and vouchers
• Integrate Google Adwords
• Aliate programs
• Product presentation videos
• Postage coupons
• Promotional tools
• SMTP e-mails
• Set minimum order amount
• Order products out-of-stock
• PDF invoices and delivery slips
• Special offers
• Ajax cart
• Ability to upsell
• Gift wrap
• Billable gift wrap
• Saved shopping cart congured via expiration time
• Place sales conditions at checkout
• Automatic form filling with ReversoForm
Customer Log-in
Customer satisfaction is key to keeping customers loyal and increasing sales all year around. Provide customers with an easy check-out through their own personal account and tailor messages to their needs.

• Customer log-in
• Customer accounts
• Ability to send messages via a customer account
• Manage returns
• Online chat with iAdvize
Translations
PrestaShop is a global community and is proud to have community members in over 150 countries. A single store can be translated in 41 languages. Offering various translations will improve user experience and overall sales.

• Numerous translations available. Over 40
• Geolocation
• Customers can choose desired languages
• Import and export language packs
• Online translation tools
Security
Make customers feel secure about shopping online. A secure connection is critical to begin accepting payments. From PCI to SSL compliance, PrestaShop comes equipped with everything a merchant needs to be secure.

• Fia-Net order analysis
• Multiple users
• Set security permissions for users
• Maintenance mode
• PCI compliant
• SSL compliant
• Secure back office
• Set password expiration
• Password and cookie encryption
• Resistance to attacks as XSS, CSRF, SQL injections, distant inclusions, path transversal
• E-mail header injections blocked
• Passwords encryption in database
• Cookies encryption
• Blocking repeated attempts to recover passwords
• Online fraud tracking with Secuvad
Localization/Taxes
PrestaShop’s advanced tracking system can detect where a customer is located and calculate taxes or promotions set by the merchant. Additionally, congure exchange rates and let customers choose their preferred currency.

• Unlimited taxes
• Address format according to country
• Unlimited currencies
• Exchange rates synchronization
• Taxes per state, county, or country
• Timezone set by location
• Currency formating
• Configure Eco Tax
Analytics & Reporting
Reporting is key to tracking and optimizing performance. Merchants must monitor sales and visitor interactions to understand what eorts are working and which have room for improvement.

• Export newsletter lists
• PrestaShop update notifications in the back office
• Track visitor activity
• View customer profiles
• Order and sales reporting
• Affiliate statistics
• Newsletter statistics
• Google carts visualizations
• Integrated with Google Analytics
• Keyword reports
• "Pages not found" management
• Geolocalization
• CPC management
• Searches in the shop
• Carrier statistics
• View best suppliers
• Best performing categories, coupons, products, etc.
• Conversion rates per category
• Customer interaction statistic

BB DIAMONDThe cost of a website is perfectly reflected in the amount of time it takes to create.

Therefore it will often be difficult to estimate this without knowing the full brief. We do however, produce very competitively priced solutions and can usually find a solution that will suit most budgets. We pride ourselves in making every one of our sites a true beetlebrow site with CMS, responsiveness and experience to match.

To help us, we develop new gadgets and bespoke components that enable us to continue to work competitively and produce great looking sites.