Commerce Vision BPD Feature Reference List

Capture and analyse the interaction users have with your site in real-time.

Widen Product Search results to include relevant content pages, e.g., articles and blogs. 

Easily import as many products to apply to a promotion as you wish from a spreadsheet when creating your promo code in the CMS.

You can upload one banner for all devices, or have one image for mobiles and another for tablets and desktop. 

Easy on/off toggle to add a draft mode step for content changes. 

Open Graph (OG) protocol tags for social media sharing of Product, Category, Article, and Menu Item pages. are standard to BPD sites. This provides richer attractive content when your site links are shared and re-shared.

Give your customers the ability to pay outstanding invoices online is an excellent way to encourage self service. They can reprint an invoice, pay off an overdue balance, and query an invoice.

Logged in users can view and check account info at a glance. Add info about account status, new articles, back orders, recent invoices and more to the Dashboard. 

The Online Returns feature has a range of settings and options available out of the box. You can configure the process to fit your business rules. Online returns are also integrated back to your ERP so they can be managed as part of your normal returns process.  

Administrators can enable or disable the setting to control whether B2B users can track orders for ALL customer accounts they have access to, or just those of the account they are currently in. 

The Order Documents widget lets an ordering customer attach files to their order. These files are stored on the server and can be accessed by administrators via a link on the Order Placed email.

Allow users to grant 'Authority To Leave' at designated location if unavailable, at checkout. This info can be mapped to a field in your ERP.

Allow your customers to submit feedback about a product. These can be vetted by an Administrator prior to publishing. 

Upload multiple files, edit images, drag and drop files from your device into your website's file directory on the go.  

Give your customers the ability to see product details instantly with a Quick View popup. As users shop your site, they can check product pricing and availability, then add the product to their cart, all without navigating away from the page they're browsing. 

Unique article system that allows content managers full control of how content and article structure are arranged. 

Easily maintain and publish articles, blogs and FAQs with flexibility offered by many widgets and options.

Let the user add a product to an order template on a product page and keep browsing. This saves on page loads and prevents them from having to go to the cart before they're ready. Useful for B2B customers.

Easily list a kit product's component products in its detail page with a widget.

Let users compare up to three products, with their features presented side-by-side. Products can be added to cart from here. 

Allows you to charge freight based on customer sub-groups defined in your ERP.

Just tick a box to add a ribbon flag to highlight a product to users browsing your site. Select one out of the box or upload your own.

Extensive set of email templates to meet ecommerce communication needs pre-configured for use out-of-the-box. 

Widget-based questionaire and form system that is easy to configure. Add captcha for validation, or require a digital signature (4.37+). 

Allow infinite scrolling to load extensive product list or vast categories instead of the user navigating through pages.

Position the PayPal Express button on strategic places on your site to allow users to complete their buying in fewer steps. There is no need to enter delivery and billing information as those stored with PayPal are used. This makes checkout quicker and more frictionless.

For sites that use the Eway or Braintree Payments gateway. this Credit Card Verification adds another security check for orders with new credit cards. 

Offer customers a discount on their total order value. 

Offer products for cross-selling (accessories) and upselling (alternates) on a product's page. 

Your master products can automatically be updated with images of their variants and tagged for image switching.

Upload a product document in the CMS to make it available to customers in one of many file types supported. 

Configure a tiered promotion where the discount (percentage or amount) levels arei based on cart value.

Administrators can set up and maintain budget limits against individual Customer Users for a set period. For Customers that allocate an amount per user to buy certain items on your site, e.g., uniforms. 

Give your customers a percentage off or dollar discount on their order when they reach a minimum spend amount.

Add a free product promo code for your customers.

Give your customers a percentage or amount discount on an individual product or special group of products when they meet the purchase criteria you set.

Free Freight promotion codes treat your customers to $0 shipping on eligible orders. All they need to do is meet a minimum spend requirement and apply the promo code to their cart!

Add a promo code that rewards customers with another promo code to purchase more when they spend a specified threshold amount.

Reward your customers with a promo code! Whether it's a discount, a free product, or zero dollar shipping, creating promotions is quick and easy in the CMS. 

Create product catalogues accessed only by specific customers, users and roles.

From version 4.15.00 onward, we have enhanced the "Show on Mobile?", "Show on Tablet?", and "Show on Desktop?" widget display options. When you toggle one or more of the "Show On" device type displays to OFF, the icons will display on the widget in the template page to indicate what devices will display (or not) that widget's content. 

Edit, compare and view HTML/XML elements, JavaScript, CSS and Razor syntax easily in widgets, pages and templates with our code editor. 

BPD websites use a jQuery plugin called Owl Carousel to render responsive sliding carousels in widgets.

The Commerce Vision Ecommerce platform has a wide variety of capabilities when it comes to calculating and charging freight, including custom connections to external freight provider APIs. 

This page describes at a high level what our platform can do.

Allows configuration of charges for shipping methods by postcode, order value, consignment size or a combination of these.

Have ready access to your site's CSS file so you can easily change base styles yourself. 

The Recently Viewed Products widget can be used to display a list of products the user has previously browsed. The fields shown on these product tiles are customisable thanks to the zoned layout template.

Allows for 2-way integration between certain Website Users and PRONTO debtors to ensure new debtors and website users are synchronised and consistent across the various retail channels. 

Bonus Items allow for the automatic addition of an item (or items) based on the purchase of another item. The bonus item is added at zero sell price (e.g. Buy item X, get item Y for free).

The Click & Collect functionality allows administrators to set order delivery/pickup modes and add freight restrictions against specific products. 

Checkout messages that are formatted to your site style. Multiple messages can be created and displayed where applicable.  

Configure the confirmation email to be sent to customers upon submission of new orders.

Add additional hidden recipients for the 'Order Confirmation' email, e.g., Customer Service team, to advise that a new order has been placed and successfully integrated. 

Customer Self Service features Track and Trace links for carriers that support this functionality on their own websites. This page describes the setup for those tracking links.

Optimises load speed for sites that make live pricing calls. 

BPD websites offer Product Review functionality via widgets.  

Reviews are submitted by online users and feature a star rating, title, and summary text.

Let users complete their purchase without first logging in or creating a user account. Lessens friction for the buying process. Suited for B2C.

Have the option of bringing up your site's login functionality in a modal.

The Cart Summary link can open a popup window for the user to preview cart contents and costs. 

 The 'Notify Me' functionality lets users choose to receive an email when unavailable products return to stock.

Allow users to remain logged in, overriding the usual session timeout period.

Let your B2B/B2C customers log into your site with their Facebook credentials. Reduces user 'login fatigue'.

Tool for easy import and export of product metadata, store location, and user data from the web database. 

The website's widget-based gift card system makes online gift cards easy to create and maintain.

Organise variants of a product as a single master product for online display and search purposes on your site. This way, you don't have to upload and maintain 20+ variations for dozens of products on your site, saving time and effort. 

Add product features online in the CMS rather than retrieve them from the ERP. These features are used by filters to help customers narrow down their search results to the products that are best matches. 

The Theme Layout gives your site its unique and consistent look and feel across all pages.

Individual products such as gift cards and digital products can be flagged for electronic delivery. 

Each page of your BPD website is based on a template, and each template is broken up into sections called 'zones'.  This design gives the site its structure AND allows page content to be shrunk, expanded and customised depending on the look and feel desired and device used. 

Use the Layout Creator in the CMS to create custom layouts for content pages. 

Wisdom of the Crowd was written to help automate the display of related products.

The program, in conjunction with the Cross Sell / Up Sell widget, will suggest products to your customers based on the common behaviours of other users.

Allow users to log into your site with Google Sign-In to reduce friction and "login fatigue".

Our platform comes pre-integrated with the Braintree payment gateway for easy implementation. 

Yes

Yes

Yes

Let your B2B customers reprint invoices for all otheir orders online 24/7 - regardless of the entry point (Online, POS, etc).

No

Add one or more Buy Now, Pay Later payment options on your Commerce Vision platform. Zip, Openpay, Afterpay, Payright and PayPal Pay in 4 are seamlessly integrated.

Yes

The option for a particular Customer account to pay by credit card can be toggled on and off.  This is especially helpful where some Customers allow payment by Corporate Credit Card and others prefer orders to go on Account to be reconciled at a later date.

Yes

The Customer Self Service eCommerce Platform (versions 4.01+) supports the use of a credit card authorisation / capture mode whereby the credit card is not charged until goods are shipped.

Yes

Surcharges (or discounts) can be set up for different online payment methods. You may wish to recoup the charges passed on to you by various credit card merchants, for example.

Different charges can be applied to different payment types as you see fit. A common scenario might be 1.5% surcharge for Visa & Mastercard, and 3% for AMEX.

No

Start with the set of standard user roles included with your website to distinguish between different user types on your website. Add custom ones when you need them.

yes

Add and maintain store locations and other sites such as warehouses for Click and Collect delivery and pickup modes and calculating product availability.

No

Flexibility to add a Product to a Category when maintaining the product in Product Maintenance. 

Yes

Add, remove, and import products in Category Maintenance.

Yes

Choose between maintaining product categories entirely online or integrated from the ERP. 

Yes

Website administrators can implement different category templates based on a user's role. For example, having the website display one category template for B2B users, and another for B2C users.

Yes

Display an indicator on the Dashboard so B2B users scan easily see how many orders are on hold, require approval, or are awaiting payment.

Yes

Administrators can set up and maintain budget limits against individual Customer Users for a set period. For Customers that allocate an amount per user to buy certain items on your site, e.g., uniforms. 

Yes

Online order tracking to let customers search orders history. Filters to narrow search by order status, date, product, order status are standard.

Yes

Many payment types can be added and configureed on your Commerce Vision website. 

No

Additional order data (such as the user's name, address, and email) is sent to Eway to assist their Beagle tool in fraud detection and prevention.

No

Site Structure

Handy little reusable modules that display content and user interface (UI) elements on your BPD website and emails. 

Site Structure

Layers are used by all widgets and various functions to filter or restrict the content or access to a particular audience. A layer can be based on conditions such as the user's authentication status (logged in vs. public), their role, and/or their customer code, just to name a few.

B2B

Punchout capability is supported on our platform but is not a standard function. Consult with Commerce Vision to implement.

Provide your customers, distributors and sales reps with the tool to produce simple product flyers directly from your website. 

B2B

Both

Order Approvals allows Customer accounts to add an approval process for its users' orders when their order limits have been reached.

B2B

Limit the number of failed payment attempts on an order.  Users making failed payments will be locked out from any further attempts for a set time.

Once the lockout period expires, the user can retry their card payment. 

B2C

Use builtin SEO features to improve your site's search results.

Both

Add the facility for your account customers to dispute outstanding invoices.

B2B

Canonical URLs to help SEO crawlers index public pages automatically implemented.

Both

Canonical URLs to help SEO crawlers index public pages automatically implemented.

Both

Add a popup window with timely and personal alerts that will automatically display after a user has logged into your website

Both

Manage products sold on your website on a subscription basis. 

B2B