Different B2C/B2B options | - AB Commerce can be purely B2C or purely B2B or can be a Dual B2C/B2B platform
- Dual B2C/B2B means that trade customers can log into the B2C platform and then the products and /or prices can change specific to them
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Linked B2C Shops / Microsites | - Your customers can have their own B2C websites that pull products directly from your B2B website
- Includes real-time stock integration with your stock system
- Incldues real-time changes to product details such as product descriptions and changes to product images
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Systems Integration | Automatically integrate the following with your ERP: - Products + Versions/Variants
- Stock
- Product Categorisation
- Related Products
- Customers
- Pricing / Price Plans
- Offline/Telephone Orders
Real-time web services for: - Downloading Orders
- Downloading Shipments (when multiple orders are grouped into 1 large order)
- Downloading Stock ordered but not yet assigned to an order in ERP
- Updating Order Status
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Trade/Contract Pricing | - Can set Trade Pricing for products which are used for all trade customers
- Or can use a more advanced price plans system where you can create different price plans consisting of groups of products and their prices - and assign price plans to specific customers
- Or can give an overall discount to a customer for specific product categories
- Can also have different price plans for different currencies
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Pay on Account | - Customers can pay on account
- Customers can provide PO number during checkout
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Taxation | - Can assign different tax rates to different products
- Can allow the customer to view prices EX or INC tax
- Can set default EU VAT Number for customers
- Can set certain customers to not be charged tax
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Private Catalogues | - Can create private catalogues for specific customerrs
- Customers can have products specific to them and/or also purchase from the public catalogue too
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Grouping Multiple Orders into Single Large Order | - Customers can place many small orders during the day
- Web admin can group all their orders into a single order after their close off time for delivery
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Multiple Lists Manager | - Customers can create their own lists of products
- Customers can then order quickly from these lists by adding parts of the list or all of the lists to their basket
- Sales Reps can build lists of products and share these lists out to groups of customers
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Sales Rep / Account Manager Login | - Sales Reps and Account Managers can have their own login
- They can search customers and log in as them - and then place orders on their behalf, or create baskets in their accounts for them to complete
- They can build up lists of products with their List Manager either for themselves or for their customers so that they can create orders quickly from their lists
- They will automatically get emailed a copy of each of their customer's orders as they are placed
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Back in Stock Alerts | - For products that are out of stock, customers can request an alert for when the product comes back in stock
- Once the product is back in stock, they will get an email automatically
- Also, when they log in, they will be alerted that there are products in their Back in Stock list that are available to purchase
- Web admins can view the full list of email alerts requested by all customers to see which products have the largest demand for getting back in stock
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Fast Order Entry | - Customers can make large orders very quickly
- As well as the List Manager functionality above, they can also fill in an order spreadsheet by just entering product codes and quantities
- They can also add to basket from the list page so that they can create large baskets from the one product list screen
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Fast Reorder Screens | - For customers that make repeat orders, they can view previous orders and create baskets from these orders
- Includes the option to reorder from telephone/offline orders and not just online orders
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Display Order History while browsing | - When customers view products, they will see the quantities ordered for each product over the last 15 months
- The products that they have ordered before are highlighted too
- Can set up links on their menu bar for the following:
- Top Products ordered before
- Top Products that you have not ordered before
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Display RRP Prices | - Can display RRP prices to customers
- Option to use a separate RRP price plan
- If using Linked Websites for your customer websites, they can use RRP as their default price on their website
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Inner and Outer Pack Sizes | - Can show inner and outer pack sizes
- When adding to basket, the customer is encouraged to order quantities in multiples of these
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Free Shipping | - Can configure a customer to not be charged shipping
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Sub Accounts | - Can set up multiple logins for customers
- Each login can view their own order history
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Setting Budgets for Customers | - Can set up a monthly and/or quarterly budget for accounts so that they are allowed to order on account up to the maximum budget level
- Budgets can be shared across multiple sub-accounts
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