ProStores

ProStores™, an eBay® company, provides a suite of online store building applications that enables small-to-medium sized businesses to sell products and services online through a completely customizable virtual storefront using their own internet domain.

This award-winning online store administration tool is designed for all user-levels and needs and is perfect for merchants who want to accelerate the growth and profitability of their overall business, reach new customers, and extend their brand.

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Store Management
ProStores comes complete with a set of wizards to simplify the process of building your customerÕs store. Then, the browser-based administration interface provides access to an array of more sophisticated tools to maintain their catalog and inventory, manage accounts, create comprehensive promotional campaigns, handle order fulfillment responsibilities, and generate detailed sales and website traffic reports.

Customer Management
ProStores allows merchants to have complete management control. They can create a store manager with full authority and multiple user accounts to handle the normal day-to-day operations of running their store. Also, customer accounts can be set up to provide special customer pricing, customer content specialization upon login, and automated password lookup.

Catalog Management
Users can create categories, products, and attributes within ProStores using wizards, the ProStores administration interface, or the product import utility. Detailed product descriptions can be created using text and HTML and attributes can be assigned to products to allow users to identify their products' characteristics more accurately to their customers.

Merchandising
Merchandising is key to success of all stores and ProStores has the capability to implement a variety of programs to increase your customerÕs sales. With ProStores users can associate complimentary products to give shoppers the opportunity to purchase others that are similar. Users can also create an upsale process when shoppers meet pre-defined criteria such as purchasing specific products, or exceeding specified dollar amounts. Pricing groups can be used in combination with select shopper availability groups to qualify them for discounts on any or all products in the store.

Order Fulfillment
Processing credit card payments is easy with ProStoresÕs pre-configured payment processing solutions from industry leaders. ProStores also configures multiple sales tax methods and provides store customers with multiple shipping options. Checking order status is also simple with ProStoresÕs instant order email confirmations that are sent to both the merchant and customer.

Business-to-Business
ProStores provides merchants with the ability to simultaneously run a B2B site in conjunction with their retail site. Special pricing can be implemented and purchase and department orders are facilitated. Sales tax can also be automatically waived for orders marked for resale.

PRIMARY FEATURES

ProStores is an award-winning solution that enables anyone to sell products and services online through a fully customized web store. ProStores has everything you need to create your own branded web store at your own web address.

Full ecommerce functionality, including shopping cart, full tax and shipping support in checkout and order management
Secure credit card processing
Built-in wizards to make it easy to set up, design and maintain your ProStores web store
Professionally designed templates for you to use to design and customize your store
Tools to allow you to list products from your ProStores web store onto other marketplaces, including eBay

PRIMARY BENEFITS

Grow online sales and accelerate business growth by adding another sales channel with a ProStores web store.
Gain a powerful e-commerce solution tiered to fit your growing business. ProStores offers several tiers of service to accommodate businesses at every level, from the small hobbyist to the retailer selling millions each month. Features at each tier can be added on seamlessly, so it's easy to upgrade as your business grows.
Connect with Internet shopping directories. At the ProStores business tier and above, merchants can easily submit their product catalogs to major online shopping directories, including Yahoo! Shopping, Shopzilla, Shopping.com and Froogle.
Turn single-purchase shoppers into repeat customers. Creating a consistent buying experience is important for repeat business and can do wonders for your bottom line. Merchants can direct their eBay customers to their ProStores web store for checkout, and creating lasting customer relationships.
Automate repetitive business tasks. Scaling your business requires efficiency, so you can sell more and increase profits. ProStores offers sophisticated time-saving operations tiered to meet the needs of your growing business.
Create a customer loyalty program. Offering regular discounts as a thank you to high-value customers can keep those customers coming back again and again. ProStores Pro Plus tier lets you display special pricing to select buyer groups based on login ID.
Maximize affiliate promotion opportunities. Many websites post affiliate ads in exchange for a commission on sales that come from their site. At the Pro Plus level, merchants can take advantage of this value marketing tool and automatically calculate variable commission from affiliates.