Actinic e-commerce

Web site design specialists covering all of Somerset

Actinic e-commerce

Somerset Web Services have chosen Actinic as our preferred and recommended e-commerce solution for our clients wanting a powerful, secure and reliable online shopping website.

Somerset Web Services

Actinic is considered the world's leading
e-commerce solution and has many
thousands of online clients including
in the UK:

We are an Authorised Developer Partner and offer customised solutions specific to your business based on the Actinic product range. These include:

  • Bespoke website with unique designs fully integrated with either Actinic Catalog or Actinic Business
  • Development or maintenance of bespoke Actinic templates

Your store open 24 hours a day

Online spending grew by over 33% to £10.9bn in 2006, according to a report from retail analysts Verdict Research, read more on the BBC website.

Verdict Research predict "By 2011, the typical spend of an online shopper will grow to £1,056 per year with the clothing and footwear, DIY and gardening, and food and grocery sectors achieving the fastest growth".

If you are a conventional shop wanting to increase your revenue with an online shop consider some of the benefits a Somerset Web Services e-commerce solution will deliver:

  • Your shop open 24 hours a day, including Christmas Day, Bank holidays
  • No staff to employ. No problems with staff either on holiday or sick
  • No expensive premises to rent
  • Cheap online advertising to attract shoppers
  • A shop front accessible to everyone in the UK (and the world) - not just your High Street!
  • No additional floor space to extend your product range - just some product photos to upload!
  • Changing consumer buying habits - increased demand for online shopping without the problems of driving, parking, product availability

A Somerset Web Services online shopping website costs less than the typical rent for one year of a High Street premise. This can give you a Return Of Investment in typically less than a few months.

Why wait for your competitors to take your market share?

Actinic Business v8 key features

Actinic Business is the most comprehensive e-commerce product from Actinic and forms the foundation of our fully integrated and comprehensive solution. It supports high-volume transactions and contains advanced functionality in the areas of marketing, customer management and back-office integration.

Key features include:

Consumer benefits:

  • Best Sellers list
  • Related Product lists to encourage additional purchases
  • Also Bought lists to show products other shoppers have purchased
  • Customer accounts to increase shopper loyalty
  • Discounts based on order value
  • 'Remember me' option for returning visitors
  • Automatic email confirmation of order

Store management benefits:

  • Monitors stock levels
  • Alerts for low stock levels
  • Print invoices, packing lists and address labels
  • Shipping, handling and taxation costs
  • Support for up to 20,000 products
  • Unlimited product sections and subsections

Somerset Web Services offer these services as part of our comprehensive solution:

  • Comprehensive User Guide that provides full product information and help
  • Boxed software
  • One day customer training to manage the shop
  • Free technical support for one year
  • Free upgrades and fixes for one year

Actinic e-commerce