Every online storefront has unique business and integration requirements. Using Multifront's Flexible Architecture and Standards-based ASP.NET/C# source code, developers have the ultimate flexibility to customize their online storefronts to virtually any business requirement.
Multifront includes a rich, fully-customizable product catalog to showcase virtually any type of product or service being sold or promoted on your ecommerce storefront. The UI can be customized to match complex look and feel requirements using Standard ASP.NET Master pages and CSS stylesheets.
Multifront includes an innovative Store Multiplier plug-in that enables you to "push" your storefront to other devices such as mobile phones, kiosks, and more. Mobile applications for iPhone and Android based smartphones are included right out of box.
Multifront online storefront software allows you to modify virtually every aspect of the storefront's behavior using the included C# libraries and SQL Server database. The libraries are structured using N-Tier best practices for the ultimate flexibility.
Multifront features an innovative rules engine that allows you to customize and deploy rules using independent DLLs. This allows developers to deploy complex rules including Taxes, Shipping, Suppliers, Promotions and more without re-deploying the entire ecommerce storefront.
Managing multiple ecommerce storefronts is simple with Multifront’s easy to use administration tools. Virtually anyone on the team can upload and manage products and promotions. The best part? No training is required.
Using Multifront's admin, you can create, manage and push-store content to mobile phones including iPhone, Android, and other devices in real-time.
The Multifront Dashboard has role-based security giving you control over who can change what content. Pre-defined roles include Customer Service Rep (CSR), Content Editor, SEO Agency, Store Manager, Executive and Administrator. With the Multifront ecommerce storefront software, you can create your own custom roles as well.
Faceted Navigation provides Multifront administrators with the ability to assign and customize product attributes. These customized attributes empower customers to better filter their search results when searching for a product—so customers can find what they are looking for faster.
With Multifront, you can add optional add-ons (ex: "gift wrapping") or require a user to select a set of pre-defined attributes (ex: “size” and “color”). The combination of attributes can be tied to an inventory item (SKU). You can also manage the available inventory for each combination of items.
We understand that shipping options are unique for every business. Multifront includes a fully customizable shipping rules engine. Real-time integration with FedEx® and UPS are also included out of the box.
Multifront includes a highly configurable tax engine that can compute taxes based on product class, country, state, county and more. You can even opt to retrieve taxes from external tax services using the advanced middleware web services included in our ecommerce storefront software.
Steps and status information has been added for orders. With this enhancement, an employee can place an order, and the order will have a “Pending Approval” status. This order will then be routed to the manager, who can approve or decline the order placed by the employee.
Multifront features an advanced multi-store system that enables you to launch unlimited stores from one instance of the software. Multifront is fully customizable, thereby allowing you to implement complex multi-store strategies that can adapt to your business as necessary.
Whether it’s multiple brands, catalogs or SEO micro-stores, Multifront helps you build and manage them all through a single interface. Create, customize and manage multiple ecommerce storefronts based on brand, promotions, demographics, seasons, affiliates and other attributes.
Allow your customers to easily locate your physical stores with the included store locator and zip code radius search. Automatically display your store location on a map as well as store hours for the convenience of your customers.
Multifront ships with a fully-functional starter demo store out of the box that illustrates the rich multi-store capabilities of the system. The starter demo includes a B2C store, B2B store and promotional micro-store.
Enterprises with a global presence or localization requirements can now take advantage of Multifront’s powerful Globalization capabilities. With Multifront you can create a single store with multiple languages or multiple stores personalized for different regions. Multifront allows you to localize virtually every aspect of your online storefront.
Znode has partnered with a leading U.S. SEO company to ensure that all generated code is optimized. Multifront is loaded with powerful out-of-the-box SEO best practices like an advanced 301 redirect feature to automatically update pages when products have been switched in the catalog.
A SEO login allows external agencies to constantly manage SEO campaigns without requiring development. The SEO login also restricts the agency from seeing sensitive information such as customers and orders.
It is easy to create complex product pricing schemes for different customers, seasons, promotions or quantities using profiles. Multifront supports multiple pricing options including retail price, sale price, wholesale price, tiered pricing and promotional pricing.
The marketing department can easily and quickly create promotions using Multifront's administration tools. Create promotions based on seasons, coupons, customers, dealers, quantities, total order amount and more. Easily extend Multifront to add your own custom promotion logic that may be unique to your ecommerce storefront and business needs.
With the Multifront ecommerce storefront software, you can promote related products on various catalog pages and drive traffic to those products. Your marketing department will have precise control over which products are promoted and where. Promote using home page specials, best seller lists, related products and more.
It’s easy to integrate Multifront’s ecommerce storefront software with other systems thanks to a True Integration Middleware API. This allows smooth integration with both Microsoft and non-Microsoft based systems including ERP, CMS, accounting, suppliers and more.
It's easy to download or upload catalog and customer data using Multifront's data manager. The Multifront online storefront software uses CSV format to allow you to easily edit the data using popular desktop tools such as Microsoft Excel.
Product ordering and checkout just got simpler using Multifront. Customize virtually every aspect of the checkout process to complement your website’s appearance and business workflow.
Multifront's user-friendly, PCI compliant shopping cart reduces abandonments by ensuring that customers can complete their purchase quickly and securely.
Create optional add-ons like "gift wrapping" or require customers to select inter-dependent attributes like “size” and “color”. The combination of attributes can be precisely tied to an inventory item (SKU) hence enabling precise, no-hassle fulfillment.
The Multifront ecommerce storefront management system includes a rich, user-friendly product catalog to showcase virtually any type of product or service. The product catalog can handle millions of SKUs with outstanding performance.
Present a variety of payment methods to your customers including credit cards, PayPal, Google Checkout, purchase orders and more. Major payment gateways supported include Verisign/ PayPal, Authorize.Net, PSI Gate, WorldPay, Paymentech Orbital and Nova. Easily extend the payment system to connect to other gateways.
Products now have quick view information, which allows the customer to see detailed product information without leaving the product page. Upon product rollover, the quick view provides a brief summary of the product and shows the customer summary details such as color swatches and the option to see different views of the product. For example, for a shoe, the customer could see the sole, a front view, a side view, etc. Also included in the Quick View are tabs that display related products and items that other customers ordered, increasing your ability to cross-sell and up-sell.
Multifront's mini shopping cart feature visually displays the products in the customer's cart in a scrollable format. The mini shopping cart also shows the total cost of the cart’s items (not including taxes, shipping or any promotions).
Multifront has been designed and stress tested to handle very large traffic and catalog sizes. Multifront can support 4+million unique visitors per month on a single server and can easily scale as your business grows.
Multifront supports web farms for enterprise applications that have very high traffic and redundancy requirements. Hardware load balancers such as F5 can be configured to use sticky sessions or use SQL Session management.
Multifront’s ecommerce storefront software fully supports international currencies, dimensions and weights. The database is compatible with unicode characters for international languages. You can utilize the WorldPay integration for credit card processing in 80 countries.
Your internal or external call centers can use Multifront's customer management system to handle customer service requests and take orders over the phone or by email.
Multifront supports single sign-on with other membership databases using the ASP.NET membership and personalization engine. You can also extend the membership provider to connect to custom stores such as active directory.