Actinic Business - A highly functional and feature-rich online business system. It has very flexible design engine which allows easy integration of available solutions. Also it has very rich import/export and integrative features.

The main problem is that this product is extremely overpriced according to the current ecommerce market standards. Since this product is not open sources, you will be unable to modify it to suit your needs as the support service is very poor and no custom development services are available. Most of extra features available in Actinic (and any other functionality you may need) can be developed by ViArt team in a short time and with much less expenses.

Features

Actinic Business

ViArt Enterprise

License fee

  1,199.00 USD

  299.00 USD

Multi-site

Need to upgrade 1,499.00

Yes

Trial period

30 days

Free version with restriction

Technical support

Support is limited to bugs and
errors in the Actinic software. The company is not responsible for supporting customized html, web design or any configuration issues. Expensive flat-rate subscription for phone support on a yearly basis

Authorized technical support service, forums, FAQ, online manual, free unlimited support

Installation service

Not available

Installation service 50.00 USD. Free installation service for paid hosted clients.

Design & development
services

Only design services

Comes with  20 pre-define templates plus 97% of source code, Custom development service and web design service

Store Operation Features

Support for downloadable
egoods

Yes

Yes

Affiliate system

Yes

Yes

Real time shipping rates calculation

UPS, USPS

Fedex, UPS, USPS V3, Customizable shipping modules and methods

Moderated product reviews
and ratings

Not available

Yes

 Statistics tools

Reports on products, sections,
orders

General statistics and shop summary, Shop statistics, Top Paths Through Site, Top Pages Views, Shopping Cart Conversion Funnel, Visitors environment statistics, Search statistics. customized reports available.

 Taxes

Various tax zones for different geographical zones, tax-inclusive
and tax-exclusive prices

Ability to set tax by state, country, product type, advanced tax structures including VAT.

 Orders management

Automated order notifications, automated and manual credit card processing, only manual order processing supported

Order status system, automated order notifications, automated and manual credit card processing, order search and filtering, possibility to export/import all and filtered orders, support of recurring orders, PDF invoices and packing slips

 Inventory tracking

Stock availability report, bestsellers, number of products in stock, low stock level for every product

Reports for number of orders, number of products,  options, product /category views sorted by date period, bestsellers, Out of stock messages, number of products/options in stock for every item.

 Security

SSL/HTTPS support

Full HTTPS/SSL support
Encrypted customer data (Blowfish encryption)
PGP-encrypted e-mail notifications
Customer/admin access restriction by IP

For complete details

Catalog & Storefront

Number of products in
catalogue

Up to 20,000

Unlimited

Storefront customization

Fully template-based, CSS-compatible store design
Several built-in design and color variants Template are editable with Macromedia Dreamweaver Static HTML pages

100% template-based storefront
100% CSS-based
Customizable menus
Customizable logo and
templates layout from browser
Built-in text editor

Multi-language support

Not available

Store interface, messages
completely multi-lingual

Extended product
specifications

Product options and variants

Extra custom fields, product options and components, dependant options, filters for products.

Marketing & Promotion

SEO Tools

Ability to set different meta & title content for each section page in the store, site map generator

Catalog, title and meta tags definition, URLs, site map generator

Marketing and promotion
tools

Discounts, Featured products

Merchant Module, Rewards and Bonus Points Functionalities, Call Centre modules, 

Added Features

 HelpDesk Modular

No built-in components

Included

 Forum Modular

No built-in components

Included

 Classified Ads

No built-in components

Included