PROGRAMMING -

Whether you need an e-commerce, auction or portal site, ABS team of professionals stands ready to develop enhanced and customized functionality for your business Website. Additionally, the ABS Custom Web Development unit can install and modify a number of pre-engineered components into your site. Included in this group are:

Banner Manager - allows the storekeeper to place multiple banners in multiple areas throughout the site. Banners can be assigned weights or percentages at which they are displayed. The number of impressions may be specified by the owner of the site. Reports can be generated to show actual clicks vs. impressions.

Mail Data Base- gives clients the ability to collect e-mail addresses from anywhere on their site and add them to a list for bulk emailing. Files may be attached to messages that are sent out to all or individuals.

The Administrator - this back office administration tool can take any pre-designed, pre-built SQL 92 compliant database (MS SQL or Oracle), and create a fully functional administration "back-office". The back office administration also allows for simple, hassle-free image uploading.

Membership Tracker - allows clients to keep track of all customers who have signed up for various levels of membership on a site. Membership can be paid or not-paid membership. Can be used to renew accounts that have expired and also can be integrated into Mail Data base and the e-commerce shopping cart.

Web Reminders - enables customers of a particular site to store reminders for themselves. Customers must be members to access their reminders. Reminders are e-mailed at a specific time before the event.

Themed Link Directories - allows clients to display a list of related or recommended sites.

FAQ Bulletin Board-take control of inquires, create topic's of interest. It allows customers to place questions to the owner, or other users of the site. The questions may be answered in real time or at your convenience. Once the administrator receives the question via automated e-mail notification; they can then update the answer in the back office. Once the question has been answered the answer will show up on the site. This takes away the need for filtering content on chat servers.

Newsletter Archive - enables clients to keep an archive of important newsletter articles for their customers to view. Articles can be updated at any time. Articles can also be set to expire at a certain time. eCommerce Solution - includes a product display or Sell Sheet. Each product can be added to a cart or the customer can be shown more details on the product. Once products are added to the cart they can be purchased using ExpressCheckOut.

ExpressCheckOut - incorporates the Customer Order Tracker to allow for the storing of multiple billing and shipping addresses. The checkout process is concluded with an authorized trip to the credit card gateway for credit card processing. This technology includes order tracking which enables customers to look up previous or pending orders.