Christian Book Stores
Book Store Features
Service Features
Your store comes packed with a variety of great features designed to help you maximize your effectiveness. All our great tools are provided to you
totally free of charge. This is just a highlight of the features available, there are many more features beyond those listed:
Customizable Look and Feel
- Your own custom logo, name, address and identity
Your store is personalized with your own logo.
- Customizable content blocks
- Main Home Block
This is the top content area on the homepage and can be customized, replaced with your own content, or switched off completely!
- My Editorial Block
Where you can write your own editorial piece to appear on your homepage. This space is limited only by your imagination and artistic skills! Feature editorial, product reviews, fun videos from google video, myspace or other online sources!
- My Featured Product Block
Where you may highlight six feature products on your homepage
- My Home Link Block
If you have an existing website (such as a church homepage), then you can put a link on every bookstore page allowing the user to go back to your selected homepage.
- Customizable Pages
- Create up to 500 of your own webpages and link them to your bookstore through your editorial block. Use our Webpage Editor to create your pages quickly and easily.
- Your own "About Us" page where you can outline who you are and what your mission is.
- Your own "Contact Us" page, providing your online customers with details on how to best contact you.
- Your own "Store Policies" page which can be customized to add content to the standard online policies that we offer clients.
- Customizable Retail Discounts
Choose what discount you offer your customers. Will they buy at a 5%, 10%, 20% or higher discount? Set discounts by product category, for
example, sell jewelry at a 20% discounts and books at a 10% discount.
- Easy Home Page Update Tools
Want to customize the products you feature on your home page? Simply punch in the item numbers of the products you want featured on your homepage and our system
will do all the hard work and generate a flash carousel and page content that features your selections. How fast and easy is that!?
- Powerful Screen Template System
Your store comes with a powerful screen templating system that allows any experienced HTML programmer and Photoshop user to create a truly customized and one-of-a-kind
visual theme for your store.
- Option to buy templates from third parties
If you dont want to program your own template, then you have the option to purchase templates from third party developers such as Graphic SEO at
templates.graphicseo.com
- Choice of screen templates
Not a HTML programmer or a Photoshop user, Then dont worry - have you covered. Your store ships with several different designs
right out of the box. Choose the look and feel of your website.
Below is an example of the same site in six different templates! Our latest template style includes support for Righthand Content Blocks such as "Top 20 Sellers"
apple-esque (Wide Screen) |
deepBlue |
deepGreen |
Silver Surfer |
Orange Chiffon |
red Shift (Wide Screen) |
Packed with Search Engine Optimization Features
- Override Metatag Descriptions page by page
Set your Metatag descriptions on a page by page basis.
Customizing your site's keywords and metatag descriptions controls how you place in search results when your customers are searching Yahoo, Google or MSN/Bing
for your bookstore, or for the products you carry.
- Override Page Titles page by page
Set page titles and <TITLE> tags on a page by page basis.
- Override Page Content
Dont like the default content on a page. Enter your own HTML and customize it to your personal tastes. Works on every content page and every product page.
- Suppliment Page Content
Like the default pages in your store, but you want to add some of your own content? Add extra content to the top of the page or the bottom of the page quickly and easily.
Easy to run!
- Product Shipping
Products ship automatically from our warehouse distribution partners and go directly to your customer. You never have to touch the product, or make a trip to the post office!
- Fast!
Most products ship the same day if the order is received before 3pm EST on a business day.
- Packing Slips
Packing Slips have your store identity on them, complete with instructions on how to return the product should the customer desire.
- International Shipping
International shipping with discounted rates to Canada and the United Kingdom - Now you can reach the world! More countries coming soon!
- Your Own Online URLS
You can have up to 8 URLs for your store (such as www.mybookstore.com).
- No need for a Merchant Account
We process all sales using our merchant account - you dont need to enroll in expensive merchant account programs, or be concerned about internet fraud!
- No need to manage inventory or stock!
Who needs the hassle of managing inventory - we do all the hard work for you, maintaining a global network of products at our warehousing partners.
- Get your revenues quickly!
Your store revenues for the trading month are paid to you within two weeks of the end of that month!
- Fraud Watch!
Transactions failing CVV, AVS or AVSZIP tests will be placed on the fraud list for manual followup before being dispatched.
Flexible and Powerful Configuration Tools
- Censorship
Object to a particular book? No worries - just censor it out of your bookstore with a few clicks! Our Censorship Module gives you complete control over whether a specfic item can be viewed and sold from within your bookstore.
- Control which products you sell
Don't want to sell Christian Jewelry? Not a problem. Just two clicks and all references to Jewelry are instantly removed from your site. You have full control over which product categories you wish to sell including
books, fiction, bibles, jewelry, giftware, apparel, food & gourmet, Church supplies, Healthy Living, Toys, Dvds, VHS, Cassettes and Music.
Free Online Marketing & Business Building Tools!
- Customer Management Database
Get a downloadable list of all of your customer's details including their name, billing address, shipping address and email address. Use this list for your own postal or email campaigns as frequently as you like.
- Coupon Creator - to encourage repeat business
Design and offer your own online coupons using the Coupon Center! Coupons can be applied to all products, a specific product, or a group of products such as all DVDs, all CDs or all Jewelry. The coupon center is a fun and easy to use tool that will help you keep customers coming back again and again to see your special offers. Use our free Email campaign tools to let your customers know about your new Coupons.
- Email Campaign Center
Send your own email campaigns to your online clients. Our email campaign center is fully compliant with the CAN-SPAM act. Create and save campaigns and use them again and again.
- Fast Email Campaign Creator
Create a beautifully formatted email listing all your specials and coupons in just three easy clicks. Completely personalized with your store details!
- Automated Campaigns
We will automatically create fresh marketing campaigns for you, and deliver your campaigns to your customers - complete with your own store branding to drive the business back to your store - again and again. You dont even have to worry about creating campaigns - we'll do the hard work for you!
- Campaign Sales Reporting
Track sales based on campaigns. For example if you send 1000 emails to your customers, you can see that perhaps 500 customers responded to your email and 50 customers actually purchased something.
- Affiliates Program
Affiliates program. You can create affiliate codes for groups that support you such as Churches, Reading Groups, Scouting/Guide Troops, Christian elementary/middle or high schools and even Colleges.
Track traffic from your affiliate, and even sales as a result of your affiliate linking to your site!
- Free Give-Aways for your customers
Take advantage of our loyalty programs, enabling you to increase the number of internet customers you attract by offering your new customers free coupons,
free downloads and even free merchandise - all at our cost! Our customer acquisition tools allow you to dramatically increase your store's attractiveness to new customers.
Reporting and Sales Management Tools
- Set the discount levels you sell to the public at, either across the board, or by product category / configuration.
- See your customer orders in real time, and even track the process of the order through our distributors warehouse.
- Track your store earnings in realtime. See profitability up to the minute!
- Get automatic email notifications for all new orders on your site.
- Monitor both your sales and earnings from anywhere in the world - just log into your Administration Center to see how your business is performing
- Comprehensive Web Traffic Analysis - See how many customers are on your site, how many pages have been viewed, top searches your customers are performing,
top products being viewed and much more.
Exclusive Shipping Rates
- We've pre-negotiated special SuperSaver shipping rates for customers of our Christian Bookstore Service.
Provided your order comprises Books, Bibles, Software, Music or DVD's, and ships from our New Kensington,
PA warehouse to a domestic USA address, shipping rates are:
- Free Super-Saver Shipping on orders over 49.95
- 99c Super-Saver shipping on orders over 24.95
- $3.00 Super-Saver shipping on orders under 24.95
- Discounted shipping to Canada - GST Free for our Canadian customers if shipping from our New Kensington Warehouse, saving you even more money!
- Discounted shipping rates to the United Kingdom featuring Airmail and Fedex. Fully customs cleared with our own VAT information.
