IT4 Shop solution allows Merchants to efficiently build, manage, and personalize powerful and scaleable Internet storefronts, serving businesses (B2B) and consumers (B2C). IT4profit offers for B2B or B2C online trading the complete intelligent solution which fosters increased corporate and customer value by facilitating customer communication and satisfaction while reducing costs.

IT4 Shop helps optimize and ease for your customers the processes of search, comparison and selecting products. Your customers can configure new computers, make orders and check order statuses. You can retain and expand your current customer base and increase sales by offering products and services tha t meet your customers’ needs; reduce commercial cost of each transaction; have visibility of demand; forecast sales volume and optimize the stock of your goods - and all this with the affordable IT4 Shop.

B2B & B2C functionality

IT4 Shop supports both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce and enables Merchants to take advantage of multi-channel sales. Your customers can create orders at your Online Store. With seamless integration to your ERP system, order management solution enables orders to flow from the web storefront to the back office in real time. IT4 Shop leverages Order Management's key fulfillment functions including inventory and warehouse management. This gives your customers the ability to track and trace their Purchase Order statuses.

ASP model and connectivity to ERP

IT4 Shop can be rented on ASP model. IT4 Shop is integrated with IT4 Content Factory, IT4 System Builder, IT4 Site Management and provided with adapters to customers ERP systems. This suite enables your company to efficiently manage customer processes, ship orders, collect payments and more — all from applications that are built on the platform with the unified information architecture. Whether you implement selected modules or the entire suite, IT4 Shop enables you to share unified information across your sales channels and to improve your customer service.

Main features of IT4 Shop

IT4 Shop provides 24-hour storefront for your latest product data, including prices and availability, exclusive discounts and promotions in your Online Store. This is a professional solution that helps manage easily product-, trade-, transport-, company-, and consumer related
information.By means of IT4 Shop solution you can offer your customers:

• Simple and advanced search, and search by keywords
•  Product comparison & f ltering
• User Basket and Wish List
• User Bookmarks and Personal Pages
• Pricing based on your customers’ pricing categories
• Price-list distribution
• Customizable Product Tree
• Management of product categories
• Access determination to each product category by setting f lters
• Multi-language, multicurrency features

Prices & Availability
You, as the owner, manage categories of the online Catalog and determine access for companies - sellers to each category by setting filters. These companies can have access to the category, if they have products of this category in their trading catalog.

Search Capabilities
e-Catalog provides several powerful specific search engines that simplifies product search: Simple search lets users execute the search within one or two search criteria. The simple search engine will search within the Manufacturers Product type pattern. Advanced search utilizes the sophisticated cross-search procedure allowing complex search schemas.  Your users will also be able to search for products/services containing specified words and product reference numbers.

Product comparision
Products can be interactively compared by product attributes within one product category. The search will not mak e sense and will not work on items from different categories. Items are compared by identical parameters. You can vary the viewing option to have a narrow view on the attributes to compare. You also can hide Identical Attributes to bring to the forefront only varying attributes.

IT4 System Builder
Customers want product information but having got it also want to compare products and get qualified advice while purchasing. To be successful in online selling, you have to guide your customers to the exact product that meets their unique requirements, regardless of the complexity involved. IT4 System Builder is a complete intelligent solution designed for companies to sell simple to complex products and services online and helps your customers and salespeople themselves assemble PCs with specific configuration. IT4 System Builder is able to instantly manage thousands of combinations associated with customizable products. It ensures the compatibility of all components, systems and subsystems and the reliability of the final configured solution.

Basket
While purchasing, user can use the Basket to reserve products if required products are displayed on different pages in e-Catalog. The user can create several baskets, add products to his basket from the Catalog, view the full description of the selected products, change the quantity of product units in the basket, delete products from his basket, create an Order to purchase (assemble) the products placed into the basket.

Wish List
The wish list is used to accumulate selected products in the most efficient way. It is similar to the way you go shopping with a shopping cart. The wish list serves as a container for the favorite items. It can be accessed at any time, can be saved for future use and
allows to overview the payment history.

Personal Pages
The personal page allows user to view the order information, statuses of his current orders. On this page the user can also store answers of the technical support team to his requests/questions and other random documents supported to his profile.