Sibilo e-Shop is a software package specifically designed and developed to meet all the needs of both potential and existing online traders.

A solution built with Sibilo E-Shop would be powerful enough to meet your aims, scalable to grow with your e-business, and flexible to readily adapt to changes in the e-market. Its strength lies within its reliability and simplicity of use.

With Sibilo e-Shop, you can open your online store with unlimited space arranged to meet your needs and preferences, onto a worldwide market within days and manage it with total ease.

Sibilo e-Shop is very easy to use, giving you the flexibility to alter your shop window everyday from anywhere in the world. You can change, update and renew your product details, rearranging the appearance of how they are presented in your customer's language and trade in their currency.

Once you start using Sibilo e-Shop you will wonder how you could ever have traded any other way.

Freedom of Design…

Shop front
The ways in which you present your business online is vital for building confidence; therefore, your web site should reflect the way you interact with your customers. With Sibilo e-Shop you will be able to post updates regarding your company and edit the content of your site anytime, from anywhere in the world.

Templates
For companies that require a rapid launch, Sibilo e-Shop comes with professionally designed templates. Sibilo and its business partners offer further template development.

Style sheets
For web designers, Sibilo E-Shop offers the style sheet technology developed by Sibilo. Style sheets allow the presentation of information in a database with ease. They can be modified with any HTML or text editor.

Sibilo Style Sheet v2.0 gives developers the flexibility to run ASP or VBA code within style sheets.

Product Catalogue

The manner in which you present your products online is vital for the success of your e-shop. Sibilo e-Shop makes it very easy to manage your products and monitor your inventory.

With Sibilo e-Shop you will be able to edit each product's code, price, VAT, name, description and photo. If your products have some properties such as size or colour you will be able to name these properties and edit them. You can choose the language preferred by your customers and the trading currency.

You can add new products whenever you want and hide them until they are ready for distribution.

It makes no difference at all if you want to sell a few items or thousands. Sibilo e-Shop has unlimited storage space, cleverly ordered to have each of your products displayed.

All this is done with a few mouse clicks and seconds of your time.

More Options for Presenting Your Products

Product Properties
A product property could be the size of a t-shirt, colour of a car, etc. Each property might have a cost associated. A black t-shirt, for example, might be more expensive than a white one. You can also have unlimited sub properties. A black t-shirt, for example, can be in sizes large and extra large.

Product Relationships
With Sibilo e-Shop you will be able to create product relationships, which will enable you to have price discounts or present related products to the one your customer might choose to view. For example, if you have similar pens with different colours you will be able to present this with the similar products relationship, or if you have electronic equipment, which requires batteries, you will be able to show this association using the bundled product relationship.

ISO 4217 Currency Specification
Sibilo e-Shop incorporates the precise format of 95 currencies, meeting an ISO International Standard. Adhering to the standard, which defines such features as exact signage and format for each currency means that Sibilo e-Shop is reliable and effective for all your worldwide trading.

Images
You can store and present an unlimited number of images for a product. Moreover, you may display these images in different ways should your store require this. An image you choose from your computer is uploaded to your e-shop, thumbnail and larger images are created from it and the source image is retained in your store database, all from a user-friendly interface.

Categories

Category Structure
You can organize your products in categories. Categories are similar to the departments of a store or isles in a supermarket. For example, in clothing, men's women's and children's garments may be placed in separate categories that you have created.

Any number of products can be associated to a category.

A product can exist in more than one category.

Unlimited sub-categories
Sibilo e-Shop can create limitless categories and sub-categories allowing you to create ordered and easy to navigate shops for your customers.

Different viewing options
Categories may be shown on a web page as a tree, or in any other way that you may prefer to view them.

Shopping Cart

Server Side
As soon as you store your products they will be available online for your customers worldwide. Your customers will only need to have standard browsers such as Internet Explorer or Netscape on their computer to be able to shop in your store - no additional add-on software such as java script, or Flash™ plug-ins will be required by them.

Database driven
Moreover, your customers may go away and come back to continue to shop from where they previously stopped. Your customers will feel completely at ease when they visit your Sibilo e-Shop.

Unlimited
To assist your customer's shopping, a cleverly designed shopping cart is built-in to Sibilo e-Shop. They will be able to choose as many products as they want. They will also be entirely in charge of their shopping from picking the products, choosing the quantity to deciding on methods of payment and a means of shipping best suited to them.

Real time inventory control
The Built-in inventory control system calculates for you the quantities of each product sold out and number of each product left in your stock at any point in time so that you know how much to order (replenishment quantities), when to order (timing) and how to control the stock for your store.

Order Processing

As soon as your customer places an order for his or her selected products, Sibilo e-Shop will promptly send him confirmation of receipt of the order. At the same time you will also receive a notification of the order.

You will be able to change the order confirmation text yourself at any time, to give the personal touch.

In cases where you ship your products directly from the manufacturer to your customers, Sibilo e-Shop can automate the order process by sending instructions to nominated parties.

Power up the process…

Real-time vs. Offline Payment
You can choose to have automated or manual credit card transactions. Sibilo e-Shop has built in checksum support for all major credit cards (VISA, Mastercard/Eurocard, American Express, Diners Club / Carte Blanche, Discover, enRoute, JCB). Sibilo e-Shop automatically checks the expiry date of these credit cards, notifying the customer where an error has been made entering the details.

Then as the order progresses, you will have the facilities to monitor order processing, where you can track down whether the transaction has been approved, if the billing has been processed successfully and if the product has been dispatched, returned or is on hold.

64bit encryption
On top of your 128bit SSL encryption, Sibilo e-Shop uses 64-bit private key based encryption while storing sensitive customer order data in the database to ensure privacy of customers and security of sensitive data.

Tracking
Customers can track their orders and see the status from the web. You can view every single order a particular customer has placed in the past, thus keeping a purchase history for each customer. This information can prove vital for your future customer service or targeted marketing should you choose to use it.

Shipping

Destination List
Sibilo e-Shop uses internationally recognized two-letter country codes and names for 224 countries.

Dispatch Options
You can choose various dispatch options such as Royal Mail First Class, Royal Mail standard, DHL, etc to be available for your customers.

Countries that a dispatch company ships to are grouped into zones and a price is assigned to each zone.

Cost Calculation
"Intelligent" cost-calculation functionality is integrated into Sibilo e-Shop, which will calculate the shipping cost in real time based on size (mm, cm, m), weight (kg, g, lb oz), volume (pint, quart, gallon) or the number of items in the customer's shopping cart. How the total cost is presented to the customer is entirely up to you.

User Manager

The user manager provides functionality to manage user accounts, perform user sign-in, sign-off and authentication.

Sibilo e-Shop supports an unlimited number of users and the details for each
user.

Advanced functions and operations

Address Book
Users can create address book entries that include a person's name, address, phone number, fax number, and email address, deleting those that already exist in their address book. They can then pick different shipping and billing addresses from their address book.

User Rights
You can assign rights such as USER, ADMIN, SITEOWNER, and SUPPLIER to each user to let them have certain privileges.

Account Activation
If you want to ensure users give the correct email addresses at registration, the system can send them an email that would require them to click on a link in the email they receive in order to activate their account.

Account Approval
Administrators may wish to approve accounts before users start using them. This option is popular with closed communities.

Groups
You can organize users into groups.

Mailing List
Apart from sending emails to certain users or user groups, you can also create opt-in mailing lists that provide opt-out functionality to comply with the Data Protection Act and assure customer privacy.

Return Users
Once your customer has registered with you, Sibilo e-Shop will quickly recognise them next time, simplifying his or her shopping at your store.