StoreFront 5.0 SE for Microsoft Frontpage

by LaGarde

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000059MW0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 26, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,993 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #36 in Software > Web Development > e-Commerce
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Product Description

StoreFront 5.0, LaGarde's powerful new version of its market-leading StoreFront product line, makes building professional, dynamic, database driven web stores easier than ever. StoreFront's FrontPage-integrated store creation and management tools, in addition to its advanced web store functionality, make it a feature-rich, end-to-end e-commerce software solution for Microsoft FrontPage developers.

Building an E-business
Manage business rules, including payment processing, sales tax and shipping rates, using StoreFront's administrative tools.

Merchandising Products
Catalog a virtually unlimited number of products in the StoreFront database. Shoppers can browse dynamically created product pages or use the advanced search utility to find specific items.

Marketing Effectively
Use StoreFront's affiliate program and promotional mail utility to drive web store sales. Offer special sale prices, storewide discounts or free shipping as customer incentives.

Serving Customers
Allow customers to save items for later, e-mail product information to friends, login to retrieve previous orders and use foreign currency conversion services.

Processing Orders
Automate shipping and tax rate calculations, off-line or real-time credit card processing and automated e-mail order confirmation.

Managing Sales
Utilize StoreFront's advanced reporting tools to manage sales and customer records. Print e-checks, invoices, sales and product summaries and credit card transaction reports.

Securing Online Operations
Ensure the security of customer and business data using StoreFront’s sophisticated support for SSL, credit card encoding, and customer data management.

E-commerce for Microsoft FrontPage

Don't Just Build a Web Store: Launch an E-business
Design, manage, and market your online store with StoreFront's powerful end-to-end e-commerce solutions.

Recommended for Web Merchants and Professional Developers
Merchants are pleased with StoreFront's ease of deployment and flexible design controls, while professional developers appreciate the unlimited opportunities for customization.

Capture Global Markets
Support for all windows currency types, foreign currency conversion, varied payment methods and two tier tax systems make it easy for merchants to do business around the world.

Awards

Quotes:

"We received our first international order within a week. Wow! StoreFront allowed us to build a site that is dynamic and responsive to our customer's varying needs." -Dave Purscell, Technology Navigators

"StoreFornt gives business users, consumers and web professional a great way to create professional e-commerce web sites faster and easier with FrontPage 2000." -Nancy Buchanan, Lead Product Manager, Microsoft FrontPage

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Storefront Makes My Life Much Easier!, July 12, 2001

By 

Desiree Scales (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: StoreFront 5.0 SE for Microsoft Frontpage (CD-ROM)

I've been using Storefront 5.0 for almost a year. I run a web design corporation ... in Atlanta and 5.0 has made our design lives much easier. This ecommerce store creation tool works seamlessly with FrontPage. (We use FrontPage 2000.) We have upgraded all of our ecommerce sites from StoreFront 2000 to 5.0, created new sites with 5.0 and have seen a real difference in the way our sites are executed as well as how the advanced marketing tools enable our customers to keep in touch with their clients.

Some of the best marketing tools available with the program are the Email a Friend, Newsletter and Affiliate Program features.

The Email a Friend actually allows people to instantly email anyone about a product they see on a Storefront site. This gives the merchant instant crediblility and one of the best ways to advertise, through word of mouth.

The Merchant Tools used in Storefront also allow merchants to access and edit their Newsletters as well as send them to a database of people who have opted-in during the order process. INSTANT ONLINE MARKETING LIST!

The Affiliate Program is great because it allows merchants to generate a buzz about their site on reciprocal sites by offering incentives for people to easily add a link to the merchant's site. Very easy to manage and extremely easy for people to register themselves as affiliates.

The last thing I want to mention is the support that is offered with this program. It is top-notch! Our questions are answered right away and hold times are non-existent.

Storefront 5.0 has allowed our company to offer our clients the best in ecommerce capabilities and marketing techniques. I would highly recommend this product to anyone in need of setting up an ecommerce store for themselves or for others!

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Flawed product - not fully upgradeable, June 22, 2002

By 

Randy Boyd (Corvallis, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: StoreFront 5.0 SE for Microsoft Frontpage (CD-ROM)

We operate two web stores, one with over 1000 individual products, and used StoreFront 2000 Merchandiser Edition because we needed inventory tracking. We upgraded to the StoreFront 5.0 Advanced Edition. This requires that we update our database using a StoreFront provided utility program.

We've been using StoreFront because it had the features we needed at a competitive price. Prior to this upgrade, we've been satisfied with their product.

The Product Manager in StoreFront 5.0 is unable to read our inventory information in the converted file (a MS Access file). This is forcing us to manually re-enter inventory info on over 1000 items.

How hard can it be for programmers to read one database and write the info into another database? All their Product Manager needs to do is read their own database and transfer the quantities to the new database. ...
This is our third upgrade of their product and we feel they're providing inadequate support for existing customers. We'll shop around next time.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Oops, we forgot to mention..., August 27, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: StoreFront 5.0 SE for Microsoft Frontpage (CD-ROM)

After you read all the reviews and read the site info, you think that this is a can't miss product. Well it all started out when I purchased this product straight from the publisher... After completing the checkout, I realized that I didn't get asked about shipping. A few minutes later I received and email with a link telling me where I could download this software. The bundle is an 11Mb file.

After downloading the software and installing it....oh wait, it doesn't install. This product doesn't work with Windows XP Home edition. You only find that out after some careful reading on LaGarde's website under product support. You would think that this is something that you might want to know before you get this far.

It just so happened that I had a copy of XP Pro as well. So I tried to install in under XP Pro. Nope....same errors. I used LaGarde's online chat technical support. Their advice was to go out and get the web extension from Microsoft for FrontPage. Did that and installed them. Still can't install StoreFront. At this point I sent an email asking for a refund under their 30 day money back guarantee. I am still waiting for my refund.