Alpha Software Makes Building an E-Commerce Site 'Push-Button' Easy.AlphaStore 2007 Gives Users Everything They Need to Create a Custom E-Commerce Site, Fast BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Nine years after the first online stores appeared, most companies still struggle to do business online. Building and managing an e-commerce site remains a costly, time-consuming, and technically daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin challenge for small, medium, and even large businesses. But with the 2007 holiday season shaping up as the biggest ever for online markets--sales will top $33 billion, up 21 percent over last year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Forrester Research--the business imperative has never been greater. And now, building and managing an e-commerce site has never been easier, thanks to Alpha Software. Today the company unveiled AlphaStore 2007, a complete e-commerce system built on the award-winning Alpha Five An application development and database management system (DBMS) for Windows from Alpha Software, Inc., Burlington, MA (www.alphasoftware.com). Noted for its ease of use and rapid application building, Alpha Five provides high-level, predefined scripts for creating desktop and Web-based Version 8 database, which costs only $199.00 through Dec. 7. AlphaStore 2007 provides everything an individual or organization needs to do business on the Web, because it's designed around a ready-to-go online store that users can easily customize to market their products and services. "In just a few hours, anyone with basic computer skills can be selling their products on the Web with a great-looking, secure online store," says Richard Rabins, Co-Chairman of Alpha Software Inc. "We made AlphaStore easy enough for anyone to use, and powerful enough for professional e-commerce consultants to use as a platform for rapid customization. Organizations can take control of their online fortunes, while professional developers can more efficiently serve clients, because they no longer have to reinvent the wheel." The store includes a secure online shopping cart pre-programmed to accept payments via PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. . It can also work with any other payment processor or merchant services Merchant services is the name given in the United States to a broad category of financial services intended for use by businesses. In its most specific use, it usually refers to the service that enables a business to accept a transaction payment by use of the customer's credit or provider. Users can easily populate To plug in chips or components into a printed circuit board. A fully populated board is one that contains all the devices it can hold. their online catalog Similar to an online library or databases in the information storage respect, ‘’’online catalogs’’’ allow potential customers to browse a company’s items for sale from a different location using the internet. with product names, item numbers, descriptions, and photos. Built-in search functions make it a snap for customers to find the products they're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. and quickly checkout. All of the AlphaStore 2007's features can be customized--including layouts, styles, colors, fonts, logos, and more--using drag+drop, simple "genies," and the built-in WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. Web page editor Software used to create and change Web pages (HTML-based documents). Low-level Web page editors are used to write HTML code directly. High-level Web authoring programs provide complete WYSIWYG design with the ability (in varying degrees) to switch back and forth between the page layout . A turnkey e-commerce solution, AlphaStore 2007 provides: * A Totally Customizable Look & Feel. Choose from 45 professionally designed, color-coordinated style sheets to instantly change the look and feel of your site. No programming or design skills are necessary to change the style of pages, components, headers, logos, photos, links, or anything else. And advanced users will be glad to find they can control virtually all the application's visual features and behaviors, using Alpha Five's built-in visual CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets. (2) (Content Scrambling System) The copy protection system applied to DVDs, which uses a 40-bit key to encrypt the movie. and HTML editors The following is a list of HTML editors with articles in Wikipedia. Text editors
Plain text editors may be used to produce webpages. , field validation rules, ActionScripts, xBasic language, and SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. query support. * Ready-to-Go Shopping Cart with Smart Checkout and Order Tracking. Shoppers will enjoy AlphaStore's familiar shopping cart metaphor, and standard forms common to all modern online stores. AlphaStore 2007 makes it easy for shoppers to provide their personal, shipping, and payment information; and select from over 10 shipping options, including UPS, FedEx, and the USPS (1) (Uninterruptible Switching Power Supply) A power supply for a computer that contains its own battery and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) circuitry. See power supply and UPS. . Shipping and sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. charges are automatically calculated by user-updatable tables. Built-in payment methods include PayPal and Authorize.Net (for MasterCard, Visa, and American Express). And every form and transaction can be secured using 128-bit SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. encryption, the global standard for secure Internet commerce. Lastly, customers and administrators alike will love AlphaStore's order tracking, which lets them see open orders, print picking and packing lists, and update orders before they're shipped. * Advanced Administration, Reporting, and Royalty-Free Source Code. Products can be added or updated using online forms in the administration section or directly from the desktop. Eight detailed reports are available, including invoices, product lists, vendor reports, picks lists, and packing lists. Custom reports for analysis of specific store data can be created with ease. Lookup lists for shipping and sales tax tables can be directly maintained online. And because 100 percent of the source code is provided on a royalty-free basis, experienced users and professional developers can use AlphaStore 2007 as an application framework to speed design and deployment of robust, scalable Web applications, such as membership systems, church systems, lead management systems, student information systems, HR systems, client managers, inventory tracking, directories, and more. Alpha Software's AlphaStore 2007 is available now at the introductory price of $199.00, through Dec. 7, after which it can be purchased at the regular price of $299.00. There are no monthly fees or commission charges. Instant e-commerce hosting is also available through Zebra Host, an authorized Alpha Software partner, starting at $49.95 a month. Discounts are available for a limited time to registered Alpha Software customers who buy any Alpha Software product along with a six-month hosting plan. For more information on AlphaStore 2007, visit http://www.alphasoftware.com/products/alpha_ecom_2007/. For details on discounted hosting plans, visit Zebrahost at http://www.zebrahost.net/alpha_five_coupon.php. ABOUT ALPHA SOFTWARE INC. Since 1982, Alpha Software has been providing developers of all experience levels with award-winning tools and technologies that make it easy to rapidly build robust database and business applications. Today over 1 million developers rely on Alpha Software's flagship platform, Alpha Five, to build desktop, client-server, distributed, and Web 2.0 applications for organizations of any size--from SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. to the Fortune 100. Every day, tens of millions of people and businesses rely on applications built in Alpha Five. With the introduction of Alpha Five Version 8 in 2007, Alpha Software sets new standards for speed of development, portability, reporting, and security for database applications of all stripes. The company is privately held, and based in Burlington, Mass. Alpha Software can be found on the Web at http://www.alphasoftware.com. 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