Features

Vendo is a powerful yet simple web-based application used by many shopping websites in New Zealand. Here's a summary of Vendo's features:

Total Layout Control

• instant editing: browse your store and edit any page through the easy to use admin, the instant edit means pages are updated instantly.
• design customisation: total front-end control of HTML, CSS and Javascript
• standards compliant XHTML and CSS: valid to internationally recognised W3C standards
• multiple design templates: change the design instantly with alternate templates (e.g. allowing for Christmas themes, promotions etc.) or apply “skins” to sections or individual pages.
• smart tags: use built-in or custom smart tags for dynamic content
• add your own categories: create as many categories as you like with category text and URL automatically created for you, perfectly formatted for Google.
• sort categories: sort your categories to any order instantly
• unlimited info pages: instantly add/edit info pages like news or events.
• WYSIWYG editor: give your clients Word-like page editing with “what you see is what you get” editors

Powerful Search

• Google-like search: search by SKU, brand, product name or custom categorisations; Google-like algorithmic ranking sorts results by multiple factors including previously selected results by users, times viewed and keyword count
• custom redirects: add custom redirects for mis-spellings or alternate names
• custom error pages: add custom redirects for ‘404 error’ pages
• ‘did you mean’ synonyms: add "did you mean" messages for any search term
• automated redirection: adds 301 redirects for changed URLs (reduces 404s for pages cached in Google, applies to all product URLs for example when the parent category URL is changed)

Comprehensive Notifications And Reporting

• instant email notifications: customisable emails get sent for orders, new customers and orders shipped
• order tracking: view orders, customers and set status
• referrer tracking: view search terms for each order including PPC referrers and landing pages
• affiliate tracking: add your own tracking codes for affiliates
• extensive reports: see what visitors are searching for and where your customers came from
• yearly financials: see comparative sales reports by month and year

External Integration

• external reports integration: connect to Google Analytics for even more extensive reporting
• Google Site-maps integration: built-in Google's Site-maps for additional tools
• automatic meta description generation: for Google SERPS display
• RSS & XML feeds: customisable RSS live feeds by category, products limit, date; Google sitemaps XML feed.
• CSV export: export live data of your products, orders, customers and reports to CSV, XML or Excel spreadsheet, with delimiters including days, accesskey

Smooth Checkout

• automatic shipping calculator: set your own courier rates based on weight and distance with maximum size delimiters
• simple checkout process: smooth ordering process allows for better conversions
• instant payment: get your sales directly into your merchant account when an order is placed
• in-store pickup: allow customers to pick up as well as delivery option during checkout
• order restrictions: set minimum order amount and minimum quantities
• gift options: set optional gift wrapping, personal message and delivery date options
• handling fee: set additional handling fee to shipping for retail and wholesale, with option to set values for individual customers
• wish list: multiple options for customer wish list including registered-only and wishlist key
• automatic post-code allocation: customers don't need to know their post-code as it's automatically generated based on suburb - for highly accurate NZ Post-standard address formatting.
• assign ship-to countries: define which countries you ship to in case you want to deliver overseas in future.
• free delivery: assign free delivery on a per product basis or for orders over a set value
• Paypal payment gateway: use Paypal, DPS, bank deposit and "Charge to Account" as payment methods

Extensive Product Options

• add unlimited products: add as many products as you like, whenever you like, structured automatically with Google-friendly architecture and valid HTML
• spreadsheet-style product page: add and edit products in spreadsheet view for faster loading and updating.
• image uploading: upload product images, automatically resized for small, medium and large
• product status: set products to hidden, out of stock and featured
• stock limit: set the total in stock for each product, so products become unavailable when out of stock
• sale price: add sale price to any item, automatically assigning to the sale category
• multiple wholesale pricing: up to 10 wholesale rates, assignable to individual accounts or by issuing wholesale keys to your customers; customisable as bulk pricing also
• GST pricing: additional or inclusive GST for wholesale pricing
• customisable product variations: create your own custom product variations like size, colour etc.
• multiple categorisations: customise your browse types by brand, varietal, price, region or any categorisation you want.
• custom groupings: create browsable and searchable sets of attributes with groupings - group by size, price range, age group, brand etc.
• reviews and ratings: allow users to comment or post reviews, with moderator level accept/decline/delete/edit
• meta keywords: add words such as mis-spellings or alternate names to products to be included within internal searches

Advanced Functionality

• extensible functionality: custom-code your own PHP for extended functionality
• custom account fields: add custom fields to customer account profile
• customer discount: apply a unique discount rate for each customer
• custom subscribe form: customisable subscribe form for any type of service from emails to request information
• multiple admins: assign other staff access through their own admin login
• multi-language support: add additional translations via multi-language files
• discounts: set discount rates "for orders over" order totals; plus create discount codes for promotions with percentage discounts or dollar values
• customer credit: for refunds etc.

• gift vouchers: redeemable online or in-store
• backups: automated daily database backups with instant rollback
• built-in “mailouts” email newsletter application: includes template, multi-part (text and HTML) and reporting functionality
• multi-store capability: have more than one store sharing the same database; ideal for franchise and multi-store retailers
• multiple modes: set to ecommerce, multi-store, blog and static modes
• global functions: update your database with global SQL commands like search-and-replace and raw SQLITE statements

One Price, One Complete Package

• fully featured: you get the full version with all features included, no additional charges for using advanced functionality
• no limits: unlimited products, unlimited categories, unlimited bandwidth
• New Zealand-hosted: fast load times for your New Zealand customers with servers located in Auckland
• self-serve reseller control: create new stores instantly when you want through the Vendorama Core CMS
• phone and email support: first-hand reseller support backed up by phone and email technical support provided by Vendorama Limited

See some live stores running on Vendo