Interchange will give you a full-featured eCommerce solution - a working and profitable shop - utilising its database-driven application server architecture and full web-based control panel able to administer your databases, sales, shipments, reports, affiliates, and everything involved in your shop. Interchange is a cost-winning choice which compares with IBM Websphere, Intershop, Mercantec,

Open Source and freely available, running securely and safely on Unix

Products, databases, images

- uses any SQL database, eg, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2, Oracle - unlimited number of products, large images, thumbnails, descriptions - view products by category, group, multi-level menus - products may include various options, variants, linked products, etc - customer may buy just one or many items - customer may save the basket and recall it later - soft goods download option included - import/export of data in various formats: Excel, tab separated, CSV, etc

Prices, taxes

- prices read dynamically from database tables - prices may include discounts, price breaks for quantity, options pricing - prices may display taxes separately and included - prices may be converted dynamically to other currencies - taxes may be applied on a county, country, or regional basis - products may be individually marked as taxable or non-taxable

Administration / Back-end reporting

- full orders listing, pending or archived - edit any order; enter an order manually - view or update full information on every customer with order history - add or edit any items for sale - create, edit, upload and download pages - organise and manage the site layout - set up quantity pricing, up-sell, promotions, and affiliates - view statistics on orders and site traffic, create custom reports - configure and administer tax, shipping, payment methods, etc - edit and administer customer surveys - allow staff access with different levels of permission - administer general preferences, mailings, site colours, CSS, etc

Payment Operations Terminal

- list all transactions with type (card, cheque, direct debit, direct credit) - list by preauth, deferred, paid, settled, repeated, refunded, revoked, confirmed - list all settlements/repeats in sequence after the original, with sequential IDs. - mark a transaction as shipped, paid, etc; send email as receipt, refund, shipped, etc; add extra comments into the email sent - view expanded details on every transaction or subsequent payment operation, including card, cheque or debit/credit information, billing and shipping addresses, notes with order, return codes from the payment processor; running totals of nett, tax, and gross amounts;

Localisation

- fully multilingual, using templates - fully multi-currency, handling as many currencies as you want - tax/VAT fully localised, through built-in routines - shipping handled through database look-ups with your choice of system

Customising and Extending

- everything can be customised to suit your own requirements - change system-wide colours and styles with simple configuration editing - completely change the appearance and style with new configuration files - extend the functionality with embedded Perl or custom 'Usertags' - add other payment or shipping systems - customise anything that your imagination and skill suggest