pinkdylan are able to provide you with full ownership of a portable e-commerce solution at modest cost utilising Actinic - providing you with peace of mind - vital with such a mission critical application.

There are (sometimes) cheaper "online" solutions available - but you are at the total mercy of the financial stability of the provider and never able to move your solution elsewhere. We never get involved with such third party services.

Actinic is often ideal for small to medium sized e-commerce sites handling up to 10,000 products. It provides all of the mechanics involved with the shopping cart and checkout together with giving you the facility to update your shop on your own PC before uploading changes. It also handles order retrieval, can print packing notes and invoices. The "Business" version also makes integration with Sage Line 50 Accounts possible.

We will develop a bespoke website for you, and "bolt on" your Actinic Shop. We configure Actinic cosmetically to fit the design of your bespoke site. We also configure functionality to fit in with your individual needs.

Typically we set up the first 24 products, then install the software and site on your PC and provide training to enable you to expand and change the shop as required. Training typically takes just half a day. We can naturally set up as many products as you wish, but obviously at additional cost.

Actinic makes it easy to set up product options such as "size" and "colour", and these options can change pricing as required.

There are three main versions of Actinic - a summary of features is below:

Feature
	Actinic Catalog	Actinic Business	Actinic Developer
General Features
Windows-based application
Host site on standard commercial web servers
Create multiple sites from the same application	x	x
Product Catalog
Support for up to 20,000 products
Unlimited sections and sub-sections
Set section-specific meta content
Hide individual products and sections
Define product attributes and choices
Assign different price to each choice
Define additional product components
Use a different layout for each product
Create links to other products or sections
Purchase and download digital products	x
Hide products from selected customer groups	x
Discounts and Tax
Set up tax rate for all products
Exclude tax from zero-rated products
Display tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive prices
Set up unlimited tax rates and geographical tax zones
Apply a discount to an order based on order value
Apply discounts based on the products and/or quantity ordered	x
Set up a range of online discount coupons	x
Restrict discounts to certain customer groups	x
Store design and layout
Range of pre-designed themes
Creates search engine-friendly static HTML pages
Automatically generate site map
High-speed index-based online searching
Create additional content pages
Create information items within section and content pages
Customisable 'clean layouts' for new designs
Ability to edit site templates and text prompts
Save and export custom themes	x	x
Store management and operation
Process orders and search order history
Base shipping charges on geography and weight
Base shipping charges on order quantity or order value
Edit order details and enter new orders offline
Create reports on products and customers
Stock monitoring and stock reporting
Customer accounts
Create accounts for your regular customers	x
Display different products, store content and prices to different customer groups	x
Shopping cart and payment
Online shopping cart
Process credit card transactions online
Take credit card numbers securely online via a shared SSL server
Import / export and linking
Import and export data
Integrate with Sage Line 50 and Quickbooks	x
Dynamically link products to an external database	x

Please see our Portfolio page for examples of our work.