Standard – Meant for stores with low transaction volumes and limited product ranges and selling options.

Broad Features

Solution Approaches

Investment

Store Setup

Product and Catalog Management

Manufacturer and Vendor Management

Pricing and Taxes

Product, Order and Shipping Discounts

Inventory Management

Shopping Cart and Order Management

Shipping with limited integrations

Product Search

Limited Content Management

Customer Details Recording

Commonly used payment options (Credit card and Paypal)

E-mail Alerts

Role based security

Triple DES encryption for credit card

Application Service Provider (ASP) or usage based services

Investment includes:

• Monthly subscription cost
• Desktop computers
• Internet connectivity

Off the shelf shopping cart packages – no customization

Investment includes:

• License cost
• Customization and Implementation fee
• Desktop computers
• Server

Binary Spectrum’s customized solution

Investment includes:

• License cost
• Customization and Implementation fee
• Desktop computers
• Server

Premium – Meant for stores with medium to high transaction volumes, vast product ranges, variety of promotions and high on integrations

Broad Features

Solution Approaches

Investment

All the features of Standard above

Customer Loyalty Application

Advanced search options

Order History

Promotions module

Advanced Content Management Features

Support for 10,000 products

More Shipping Integrations

More payment options

Marketing and Data Feeds

Wish list and Registries

Data Import and Export

Rich personalization features

Sales Reports and Analysis

Off the shelf shopping cart packages with customization

Investment includes:

• License cost
• Customization and Implementation fee
• Desktop computers
• Server

Binary Spectrum’s customized solution based on Microsoft Commerce Server

Investment includes:

• License cost
• Customization and Implementation fee
• Desktop computers
• Server

Binary Spectrum’s customized solution based on J2EE

Investment includes:

• License cost
• Customization and Implementation fee
• Desktop computers
• Server

Enterprise - Meant for retailers with high transaction volumes, global presence, MNCs, huge product ranges and integrated marketing and sales cycles

Broad Features

Solution Approaches

Investment

All the features of Premium above

Affiliate, Franchisee, Cooperatives Management

Advanced Promotions module

Sales Force Automation

Load balancing and optimization

DW and BI

CRM and After Sales Service

EDI Message gateway

Multilingual

Distributed global deployments

Some of the vendors for high end requirements are

Blue Martini from Ecometry

Broad Vision

IBM Webspehere Commerce

ATG

Enfinity from Intershop

Investment includes:

• License cost
• Customization and Implementation fee
• Desktop computers
• Server