About Actinic Software

Actinic products are boxed software solutions for setting up and managing a secure online store. They combine a desktop application with server software, which provides a powerful and familiar PC-based user interface.

The flagship product, Actinic Developer is a development tool for commercial web designers who deploy ecommerce solutions for SMEs and need an interface to Dreamweaver. For merchants Actinic offers Actinic Catalog®: a complete business-to-consumer ecommerce solution with catalogue, shopping cart, ordering, payment, security and order processing included as standard. Building on Catalog's functionality, Actinic Business® is a more sophisticated application for those wanting to integrate ecommerce and back-end systems. It is suitable for those selling B2B and/or B2C. Actinic Link and Digital Download are add-ons for Business. The former allows integration with popular accounts applications like Sage Line 50, QuickBooks and Exchequer Enterprise, and the latter enables stores to sell downloadable products like music, ebooks, films, etc.

Actinic, recognised as the UK ecommerce software market leader, is used on many thousands of live sites in 40 countries. Some of Actinic's better known UK users include the Royal Opera House, Hanna Instruments Plc, Land of Leather, Lloyds of London, Cricketdirect.co.uk, The British Library, Oxford University, Bill Wyman, Royal Navy, Help the Aged, Royal National Institute for Deaf People, Devon and Moray County Councils and many more.

Actinic uses around 45 Templates to drive the site, which are modified dynamically on-the-fly before the automated upload occurs. You can make changes to the site and back-up the site content on your laptop or PC. You can move your site hosting when ever you wish without complications.

Actinic also comes with pre set links to many payment providers such as Protx, Secpay, Worldpay and many more. You can also use an SSL certificate to secure customers' personal and credit card details (usually around £150 per annum).

The order end of Actinic is very effective and can link to Sage line 50 on the Business and Developer versions.

Actinic has two parts: the 'content' and the 'shop'. You can use Actinic to build the entire site using the content 'brochure pages'. This can be managed yourself from your office and uploaded instantly to the web site – no waiting for your web designer to do the work.

You can make use of the duplicate product facility in Actinic to help produce really effective navigation by brand, product and solution.

Using our services we can produce different product templates and shop templates (see Cricketdirect.co.uk manufacturers store section). Many PLC companies use Actinic – we are currently working with Hanna Instruments who are using Actinic as an e-commerce solution. Many of our clients are taking seven figure sums using this software.

Actinic comes with a set of default "themes" within the package which you can apply to your web site, but most customers require a more personalised theme. We will produce a complete design for Actinic including easy-to-use navigation and setting new variables to make it easy for you to enter content into the software. We can also advise you on web marketing for Actinic if you require this service.

Benefits Of A Professionally-Built Site

Whilst it is relatively easy to build your own site using an off-the-shelf package like Actinic, there are significant advantages to having one professionally built:

• It will take up less of your time, leaving you free to concentrate on running your business
• It will look more professional, with a look and feel unique to you
• A web designer can provide you with an integrated solution and handle any ongoing maintenance, reducing the hassle
• A web designer may be able to add features additional to the ones that are included out of the box
• Customers are more likely to shop from a well designed site