Profits Plus Add-On to PDG Commerce

Profits Plus adds several features to PDG Commerce, significantly enhancing Commerce's usefulness, your ability to draw traffic into your store, and your ability to close sales. You can incorporate one, several, or all of these features into your web site, depending on the needs of your business.

• Sitemaps & Google Base Data Feed
• Artwork Uploader
• Gift Registry
• Wishlist
• Dynamic Menus (DHTML)
• Advanced Searching
• Advanced Dynamic Menus (DHTML + Advanced Searching)

The Sitemaps module helps make your products easily findable on Google* by automatically creating both a sitemap for Google Sitemaps and a data feed for Google Base (f/k/a Google Product Search and Froogle). It can be extended to support other formats as well.

The Artwork Uploader allows your customers to upload graphics to your server after purchasing products which can be customized. Examples include monogrammed clothing and customer-supplied artwork for stationery.

The Gift Registry allows your customers to list items desired along with quantity still needed. Each product in the list includes options (e.g., size or monogramming) and comments. Each registry has a short simple URL which can easily be shared with friends and family. In addition, the Gift Registry module allows shoppers to search for registries and allows registrants to send a message, through your web site, to their friends and family.

The Wishlist allows every customer to build a list of desired products including comments and options (e.g., the correct clothing size or the desired color). Each wish list has a short, simple URL which can be easily shared with friends and family.

Advanced Searching allows you to construct complex search forms or links to tightly focus on specific products. For instance, you could use advanced search to display a list of denim shirts in sizes 6 or 8 which are on sale for under $20 (assuming, of course, that your store has material and size information in its database).

The Advanced Dynamic Menu module, composed of Advanced Searching and Dynamic Menu, allows you to build menu systems which are much more complex than supported by a normal category/product hierarchy, such as:

• New Arrivals
• Men's Clothes
  • Shirts
  • Pants
  • Accessories
• Women's Clothes
  • Blouses
  • Skirts
  • Pants
  • Dresses
  • Accessories
• Shop By Brand
• Formal Wear
• Casual Wear
• On Sale!

Additionally, the Dynamic Menu modules are "smart enough" to only display products which are in stock. (You can turn this off, of course, if you wish to allow backordering.)

Cost is just $495 with no recurring fees.

QuickBooks Point of Sale

Profits Plus "understands" QuickBooks Point of Sale (QBPOS) in several key ways. Perhaps most important, all of the modules will only display the "main" item and not each individual style of the item. For instance, if you sell tee shirts in small, medium, and large; and in red, blue and green, Profits Plus (and Commerce) will consider this just a single tee shirt item, not nine separate shirts.

If you use PDG Commerce to track inventory, the Dynamic Menu, Advanced Search, and Sitemap modules are aware of whether your products are "in stock" or not. This assures that Google only "sees" products which you can actually deliver. It also assures that your shoppers never stumble across a page of products, none of which can actually be purchased.

Target Audience

Profits Plus is a toolkit for web site developers. To use it, you need to have a good working knowledge of HTML and a little bit of JavaScript. Some modules also require some knowledge of SQL. If you are a merchant and not a web designer, please telephone us at (866)HENS-NET or (636)447-3030 or send email to info@hens-teeth.net so that we can discuss the costs of implementing Profits Plus in your store.

Requirements

Profits Plus requires PDG Commerce version 4 or higher, MySQL, PHP 5, and a UNIX-like operating system such as FreeBSD or Linux. Profits Plus does not run on Microsoft Windows or with Microsoft SQL Server.

Most Profits Plus modules require JavaScript in the customer's web browser.

Underlying Technology

Profits Plus is implemented in PHP; we recommend PHP5 but still support PHP4. Displayed pages, e.g., search results, are formatted with the Smarty template engine. We provide full source code, allowing you to make any modifications necessary.

All DHTML is implemented on top of the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). This provides a robust, well documented and well supported framework that web designers can use to perfectly match the new menus with the rest of your web site.

100% Guaranteed

Profits Plus is guaranteed 100%. Add it to your store with no risk.

* We do not guarantee that the Sitemaps module will make your store or its products show up in any particular place within Google. No reputable company will make such a promise. We only guarantee that the sitemap and the data feed comply with Google's specifications.