AbleCommerce Features
A no-nonsense ecommerce platform for serious sellers. All features included in every version with support for B2C and B2B.
Order Management is a big part of running an eCommerce store. We provide the tools needed to make order fulfillment easy, automated, and flexible.
- Advanced Order Search
- Batch Order Updates
- No fee Credit Card Processing
- Add and Edit Payments
- Shipping with tracking
- Edit, Split, and Merge Shipments
- Edit order items
- Recalculate Shipping
- Recalculate Taxes
- Create new orders for customers
- Process Item Returns
- Private or public order notes
- Manage Addresses and Payments
- Process Subscriptions
- Process Electronic Goods
- Custom order statuses
- Order status notifications
- Drop-ship orders
- Drop-ship orders
Use the catalog system to create unlimited categories and subcategories. Assign products to any number of categories, or use them to organize your content pages. The structure of your catalog can be simple or complex; use a single category or many thousands.
- Unlimited levels deep
- Organize products and pages
- Easily navigate the catalog
- Adjust category sort order
- Batch delete and move
- Hide visibility in catalog
- Advanced search form
- Category listing widget
- SEO support for meta tags
- Create custom URLs
A product can have a vast array of features, or it can be as simple as a name and price. Use the kitting system to create unique combinations of products, or use variants to offer options that can change depending on a user's selections.
- Subscriptions for autoship orders
- Digital goods
- Discounts at product level
- Specials with a start and end date
- Upsell and related products
- Product personalization
- Inventory Control for products and variants
- Complete Kitting System
- Drop-ship support with notification
- Digital goods and fulfillment
- Several shipping and calculation options
- Templates allow product data to be shared
- Shipping methods at product level
The user management system is a powerful feature. By assigning users to custom groups, you can offer special pricing, payment methods, shipping, discounts, and set page accessibility for members. Your store admin users can be given limited or full access to features within the Merchant Administration.
- Manage user addresses
- Purchase history report
- Edit and view user's basket
- Manage subscriptions
- Manage a user's payment profiles
- Page view report
- Search history report
- Disable or reenable accounts
- Details of login history
- Tax exemptions
- Custom group membership
- Advanced search form
- Create orders on behalf of user
- Affiliate referrals
We offer a complete eCommerce system with content management built-in. Create unlimited content pages and organize them within the catalog or use them a la carte. Easily setup a blog using the premade templates. You can even create content in advance and set a publishing date for the future.
- Unlimited content pages
- Page listings with image and description
- Change accessibility options
- Page author
- Publish date in future
- Built-in WYSISYG editor
- Easy find search form
- Custom design templates
- SEO support for meta tags
- Create custom URLs
Our latest feature is a new website design system that allows any person with limited skills to change nearly anything in the store without having to hire an expensive designer or developer. This feature cannot be described in words. Please watch this video to learn more.
- Change any text on-screen
- Design custom layouts and templates
- Drag and drop widgets into a page
- Easily change colors and styles
- Design globally or down to the page level
- Responsive Bootstrap supports all devices
- Import, export, and copy themes
- Customize workflow with application pages
- HTML snippets for sharable content
- Store logos for standard, mobile, and invoices
Our shipping features includes the ability to combine any number of shipping methods into a group and apply that ship group to applicable products. Create unique shipping scenarios and offer only those methods that the item can ship by.
- UPS, USPS, FedEx, Australia Post, and Canada Post
- Create custom shipping groups
- Shipping from multiple locations
- Customers can ship to multiple destinations
- Create shipping zones by country, state, or zip
- Integration with Shipstation
- Apply shipping to members of a group
- Shipping methods: flat rate, by weight, by price
- Minimum or maximum purchase requirements
- Handling fees: fixed or percentage
- Advanced UPS integration with label printing
Recent tax laws affect online retailers. Be prepared and use AvaTax to automate all your tax calculations and reporting. For states that have simplified taxes, you can use the built-in custom tax feature and create your own tax tables.
- Certified AvaTax integration
- Apply taxes to members of a group
- Compounding taxes (tax on tax)
- Address nexus: billing or shipping
- Rounding rules: common, up, even
- Per unit calculation (VAT)
- Create tax zones by country, state, or zip
- Tax settings for display options in the store
- Create unlimited tax rules and codes
- Tax reporting by country, state, or zone
- Report on the collection of tax and order amounts
AbleCommerce offers many different payment solutions including secure storage of customer payments. Additionally, payment methods can be set up for purchase orders, bank drafts, credit cards (foreign and domestic), gift certificates, Google Pay, and Apple Pay.
- Certified Braintree integration
- Apply payment methods to members of a group
- Built-in credit card validation (all types)
- Create unlimited custom payment methods
- Recurring payments via Authorize.net CIM
- Square Payments, secure and PCI Compliant
- PayPal IPN, Express, and PayPal Payments Pro
- Support for Google Pay and Apple Pay
- Authorization, Capture, Partial Capture, Void, and Refunds
There are many different reports to assist the merchant, including sales, products, customer, marketing, and system reports. Most reports offer a time selection, visual graphing, as well as detailed data which can be exported to a CSV file.
- Monthly sales
- Annual sales
- Sales over time
- Daily sales
- Taxes
- Sales by product
- Popular products
- Popular categories
- Low inventory
- Sales by customer
- Coupon usage
- New and existing users
- Page views
- Browser popularity
- Search history
- Affiliates' sales
- Affiliate details
- Sales by referrer
- Sales by country
- Sales by state
- Abandoned baskets
- Who is online?
- Orphaned items
- Audit log
- Database
Generating new sales is a constant part of running a successful business. Use our marketing tools to create a featured product listing and offer product specials, coupons, and targeted discounts.
- Unlimited coupons: order, product, shipping
- Repeat coupon for BOGO offers
- Restrict coupon to members or products
- Unlimited discounts: global, category, or product
- Apply discount as percent or amount off
- Manage featured product listings
- Unlimited mailing lists for email signup
- Public or private mailing lists
- Automatic product feed for Google
- Upsell with accessories and related items
Many search engine optimization (SEO) options are available, everything from custom URLs to advanced dynamic redirects. Every page, category, and product will have a title, URL, and meta information. New URLs are generated to be search engine compatible and benefit most from the use of additional keywords via the catalog structure.
- Create custom URLs to retain past links
- Customize the page title for any page in the store
- Add meta descriptions and keywords to any page
- Include custom css or script in the HTML head
- Automatic generation of the XML sitemap
- Support for multiple site map files with index
- Several change frequency options for the sitemap
- New URLs conform to best SEO practices
- Unlimited fixed and dynamic redirects
- Support for custom file extensions
- Second level cache to improve redirect performance
- Statistics tracking for each redirected URL
- Built-in test form to confirm URL redirects
- Support for Google Universal Analytics
Use the inventory management features to track and control stock. Display to customers the details about each product's inventory levels.
- Unlimited warehouse locations
- Manage inventory at the product or variant level
- Custom inventory messages for customers
- Set a stock availability date
- Restock notification for customers who request it
- Low inventory report with advanced search
- Batch adjustments stock levels
- Email inventory notifications to customers
- Allow product to be purchased if back-ordered
- Google Feed for product variants
The data exchange features are very powerful and open up many opportunities for further integration. We make it very easy to import or export using our built-in wizard. If you are moving from another ecommerce solution, please contact us for assistance.
- Import or update products
- Import or update product options
- Import or update product variants
- Restock notification for customers who request it
- Support for compressed CSV file upload
- Export products
- Export orders
- Export users
- Publish orders to ShipStation
- Sync order shipping statuses
AbleCommerce has a vast number of store configurations and settings. A favorite feature is the ability to customize internal business operations and work-flow using order statuses and triggers.
- Restrict access to store members
- Checkout terms and conditions
- Site disclaimer for age restrictions
- Units for weight and measurement
- Adjust timezone
- Catalog preview mode
- Custom order statuses and triggers
- Language translation resources
- Allow partial or multiple payments
- Currencies with automatic exchange rates
- Temporarily close store for maintenance
- Product review reminder system
- Configure custom zones (regions)
- Context-sensitive documentation and tooltips
Finally, covering the last of the system features, including application certification (in progress) for the latest PA-DSS requirements with Multi-Factor Authentication via Google's 2FA service. The PCI certification process takes approximately six months from start to finish. AbleCommerce software has been PCI certified since 2009.
- Upgrade manager for downloads
- Anonymous user maintenance
- Removal of expired subscriptions
- Page tracking with archive/delete logs
- Performance and tuning settings
- Secure SMTP and email authentication
- PA-DSS certification in progress
- Encryption key backup/restoration
- Separate merchant and admin password policies
- Google reCaptcha or standard image CAPTCHA
- Multi-factor authentication service
- Block IPs using the firewall
- Secure SSL per page or all of store
- Restrict file types allowed for upload
