Product data maintained via Alterra PIM can be published automatically using the Web Catalog and Shop System modules. The website and webshop can include different profiles and provide customer-specific product data according to different customer groups. The combination of Alterra PIM and the Web Catalog / Shop System module combines the advantages of a professional data storage and a state-of-the-art eCommerce platform.
General Functions
- Multilingualism
- Multi-currency capability
- Own currency table
- Input of individual exchange rates
- Multi-currency capability, pricing in different currencies possible
- Assignment of password rules
- E-Mails during the whole ordering process
- Maintenance of product data and webpage contents
- Interface to ERP
- Users and user roles (with category and function-based permissions)

Customer account
- Status of current orders
- Messages as a list and via e-mail
- Order status as a list and via e-mail
- Financial statistics by customer
- Order list, order history for custom buyer
- Edit billing and shipping addresses
- Newsletter preferences
- Wish list
- Cost allocation
- Change password / login data
- Delivery assignment
- Open standard orders / individual product lists
- Personal list
- Create quick order
- Call-back feature
- Sign up for newsletter
- Get in touch
Pricing
- Rebates and bulk prices
- Individual prices by customer
Search functions
- Search across several catalogs, search in one catalog
- Search item short description
- Search item short description, texts and manufacturers
- Search for numbers
- Search for categories
- Search for “A to Z”
- Search by keyword
- Hierarchical search
- Combine several search terms
- Search by properties/attributes
Catalog management
- Variant representation at item level
- Detail text representation
- Preparation of customer-specific web catalogs
- Creation of category texts
- Creation of new catalogs
- Individual conditions with surcharges per customer
- n attachments per article
- Individual rebates on catalog and category level
- Compare articles
Ordering
- Shopping basket
- Search sales partners
- Search across several catalogs, search in one catalog
- Search item short descriptions
- Search item short description, texts and manufacturers
- Search for numbers
- Search for categories
- Search for “A to Z”
- Search by keyword
- Hierarchical search
- Combine several search terms
- Presentation of the category path
- Acquisition / transfer of products from supplier catalogs
- Acquisition / transfer of free text items
- Quick entry of products
- Acquisition / transfer of products from the archive
- Acquisition of products from favorites lists
- Simultaneously modify multiple items (such as suppliers, delivery date, cost center)
- Grouping of the shopping cart content (e.g., by delivery date)
- Update shopping cart quantities
- Delete shopping cart items
- Possibility of article detail view
- Optional presentation of budgets, individual order limits, available budget
- Possibility to store comments and attachments per item
- Comparison of multiple articles
- Order, dealer purchase requisitions
- Change order header
- Edit (modify, copy, delete) items
- Change quantities
- Execute order
- Execute price requests
- Sorting the shopping cart by item, delivery date, cost center, type, cost address
- List view of shopping cart and orders
- Filter by status of orders or requests

Orders
- Dialog-controlled order fulfillment process
- Recording of all activities via archiving system
- The ordering process is divided into the following steps:
- Order status: Conditional (special case: user via budget approval by superiors)
- Order status: New
- Order status: In process (at dealer)
- Order status: Dispatched (shipped by the seller)
- Order status: Received (e.g., partial delivery)
- Order status: Delivery overdue
- Status reports for dunning/clearing
- Comments per position on customer and supplier side
- “Cancel order” possible
- “Decline order” possible
- Online clearing process (change of quantity, price, delivery date between customer and dealer/supplier)
- Processing of partial deliveries (underdelivery / overdelivery)
- Indication of the current status of order processing
- Search for current processes
- Output of all process steps of order processing
- At transfer to purchase requisition, the shopping cart is checked for individual order limits, user budget, cost center budget, and cost type budget
- In the shopping cart: Indication of individual limit, user budget, available user budget
- Allocation of internal order number per order
- Allocation of delivery address on item level
- Delivery date specification
- Cost center assignment on item level
- Allocation of internal and external comments on item level
- Internal approval workflow
- Possibility of several workflow steps within an individual workflow
Reporting
- Reporting, period / time-based
- By supplier
- By item
- By purchaser / cost center
- Reporting on click paths
Marketing
- Site tracking and other analytical tools
- Automatic and manual cross-selling
- Tell-My-Colleagues
- Product bundles
- Product comparisons
- PDF product data sheets
Social Commerce [planned]
- Blogs, gadgets, RSS feeds, product ratings, forums, guest books, questions about the product, etc.
Other
- Inquiry about catalog items
- Inquiry with predefined dialog
- Creation of mini catalogs / parts lists by sales
Web Design
- Structured based on Single Source Principle Adaptation of the interface using stylesheets – direct connection of PIM and shop.
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