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AspDotNetStorefront is not just a shopping cart; it is a fully implemented e-commerce store siteand e-commerce toolkit for developers, including shopping cart classes, database, and administration site. This solution is a professional, high performance, fully customizable solution for professional developers. It can support a wide range of store types including general merchandise, clothing, music, software, food products, automotive products, books, computer products, etc. It includes a full store administration module that allows adding/editing of all store information, shipping, taxes, categories, manufacturers, products, affiliates, coupons, orders, etc.

System Requirements

• .Net framework 3.5
• Windows NT Server 2003 or 2008, Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista Home Premium
• IIS 5, IIS 6, or IIS 7
• Databases Supported:
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 Express
• Internet Merchant Account
• SSL (for security)
• Optional: Visual Studio.net or other asp.net development tool if you want to change source code.

Features Included

AspDotNetStorefront have many features for both the merchants and developers which cause them to choose it from the list of available storefronts.

General Features

• Provides complete web site solution, including shopping cart, content management, customer management etc.
• Dynamic data driven pages via XmlPackages
• Source code option available (either C# or VB.NET)

Multi Lingual Features

• Multi-Lingual: Store site can support dynamic run-time language switching. Customer can select store language at run-time. Store administrator controls allowed languages.
• Multi-Currency: Customer can select store currency to view at run-time. Allowed currencies are under control of store administrator.

Search Engine Features

• Every product, category, and department page can have their own custom search engine Meta tags (title, keywords, description, no script blocks, etc).
• Fully dynamic page titles, and search engine meta-tags
• Google Analytics Site Metrics & E-Commerce Tracking Compatible

Product Capabilities & Features

• Supports multiple images per product (icon, medium, and large)
• Automatic image watermarking for protection
• Ajax Shipping Estimator allows customers to get an idea of how much shipping would cost right on the product detail page.
• Mini Cart allows customers to quickly view the contents of their cart from any page on the site. Without this page element, customers must go to the shopping cart page to see what they have in their cart currently.

Skinning & Page Layout Customization Features

• Free skins included, custom skins can be designed and integrated easily.
• Completely customize the layout & appearance of any category, section, manufacturer, or product page using XmlPackagesCustomer Account
• Customer can view order history, also can reorder the previous order.
• Skip account creation on checkout (Anonymous Checkout)

Payment Methods

• Credit Cards: Accept Credit Cards in Real Time: Cards can be processed & verified in real-time, or customer can delay processing until a later time.
• PayPal, PayPal Express Checkout, eChecks and many more.

Payment Gateways

• Manual Gateway, Authorize.net, PayPal, PayPal Express Checkout, Secure Net, PayPal , Pay Flow Pro and many more.

Security Features

• PABP VISA/Master Card Certified PABP certification indicates adherence to strict security policy and procedural guidelines outlined by VISA/MasterCard to help ensure PCI compliance in your installation.
• Supports SSL Encryption for secure ordering cart automatically switches into secure mode appropriately. Supports any brand SSL certificate.
• Encrypted database connection strings in web.config files.

Notifications

• Order receipts automatically e-mailed to customer
• E-mail notification sent to store Administrator when new order arrives
• Cell-Phone SMS Messages sent to store Administrator when new order arrives.

Limitations

Because of hundreds of features included and providing full control over the source code AspDotNetStorefront price is competitively high; the pricing structure will keep it beyond the reach of most new site developers. Another limitation of the AspDotNetStorefront (other than cost) is new developers who are still learning can struggle with configuration, making modification of the templates and the back end difficult for the newcomer to properly execute.New developers have to spend some more time to understand AspDotNetStorefront features to make any modification.

Conclusion

Since many years of its release, AspDotNetStorefront is one of the best ecommerce software with its upgraded versions to support multiple languages at regular time intervals.AspDotNetStorefront has a large customer base and has proven to be technically innovative. A beta versions for multi store is released, using this software you can host many stores using different domain name and can manage all them from a central place. Now verified with Visa and having secure checkout with PayPal, Google, authorize.net and many other services it has complete solution for your store. However AspDotNetStorefront team still needs to work on speed of the store site to compete with the storefront available in other technologies like php.