Web Stores
Grow your promotional products business with aether – Our most advanced, feature-rich eCommerce web stores
Aether is the newest addition to the Antera business solutions family. Our Aether web store collection combines creativity and advanced technology to provide a robust eCommerce platform that delivers a satisfying web store experience for vendors and buyers alike.
Secure and Flexible Cloud-Based Promotional Products Order Management Solution at Your Fingertips!
Design
Create a fully customized, responsive and user-friendly experience for your B2B and B2C customers that can be easily viewed on any device.
Stable & Secure
Your system, content and data are maintained in a secure PA-DSS certified software, with safe streaming updated and unparalleled stability.
Integrate
Seamlessly integrate your eCommerce sites with critical and efficient management systems using Antera’s CRM and order management software.
Hosting
Experience the benefits of Amazon Web Services (AWS), hosting, featuring proactive hardware upgrade, 99.99% historical uptime with complete redundancies.
Streamline
Make manual data entry a thing of the past. Automating and integrating the order and fulfillment process saves time for everyone involved in the sales cycle.
Access
Run your site from anywhere in the world, at any time of day, with our 100% cloud-based SaaS.
Key Features
Add-ons are optional products that can be added to other products. An example would be an additional logo position, optional additional items that improve the product and increase the unit cost.
Setup fees, artwork charges, rush charges are all additional charges that can be added to any product. The admin user can set them to be identified separately or added to the main product cost and not disclosed.
Providing purchasing or HR departments approval over orders has never been easier. Set up user groups and user access levels to control all ordering and approval of orders. Access levels can provide multiple tiered approval levels.
Artwork can be uploaded on the stores. When synced with that, Antera’s order management system, enables you to give full artwork approval management on the front end of the store for selected users.
The stores manage multiple attributes for each product. Size, color and logo position are just a few of the attributes easily managed with each product.
Fixed or rotating banners are available for all menu items on the site. An admin has the ability to control the banner that is displayed, the size of the banner, the display timing and optional trigger buttons on the banners.
Breadcrumbs identify where the user has been on the site. They can be enabled or disabled on the stores.
Products can be grouped into categories for menu assignment. The system will auto-categorize products and build menus, or by allowing admin to control all menus, products can be enabled or disabled on the stores.
Products also can be assembled in collections. Collections gives the admin another level of segmentation for products. Please see the ‘Tags’ feature also.
Human resources, marketing departments and purchasing departments can authorize transactions and control company expenditures. Through the corporate approval feature, companies can authorize transactions easily and manage all purchases through the stores.
Certain products can be designated as ‘corporate buy’ products. You can select users who are authorized to use the corporate buy products over a specific time frame. The system tracks purchases and allows users to buy products based on those settings. This feature is commonly used for purchasing uniforms. For example, the corporate office gives a user the ability to purchase 15 uniforms per year that will be billed to the company. In the event the user attempts to purchase more than 15, the order would be sent through the store’s approval process if the quantity is over the allowed 15-item limit. Each year, the allowance would refresh and allow a new 15-item quantity to be billed directly to the company.
Corporate accounts can use cost centers to manage the approval process in stores. Advanced logic can be deployed to provide specific rules for the use and management of cost centers.
Mass upload information into the stores can be achieved by using CSV upload. User lists, points, and vouchers can all be uploaded to the stores in a .CSV format. A .CSV example is included for each location that provides .CSV upload.
Link to another page within the site or a third-party application or website.
USPS, UPS and FedEx shipping options can be enhanced by using custom shipping options. You can add additional shipping options like courier or local delivery.
The system is designed to provide the flexibility you require to make changes and configure sites as needed. With our development team, you are only limited by your imagination.
One of the purchase options is direct bill. A user is prompted to accept the billing, then the invoice is sent out by order management on a 3D open account.
Each module within the stores contain an editor allowing you to add special effects, text, images and video. The editor provides the option to upload data or establish links.
Images can auto-populate to provide multiple views and allow the user to showcase products specific to colors and logos.
Product pricing can be set up to auto-configure products dynamically by supplier or product types.
The ESP database connection allows you to search and select products from the entire ESP collection of products – or select preferred vendors and filter the results available to customers. You can also save products into categories or tags to display in various views.
Any product can be tagged as featured and available to be shown on the home page or specific pages.
Gift cards can be issued and uploaded for sale on the site or authorized to give away to users. Gift card reports allow you to see the open status of all gift cards at any time.
Users placed into groups can receive discounts based upon the groups they are in. The same products can have a variety of discount levels based upon the group the users belong to.
User groups can have unique logos at login. The logo can be assigned per group or default to the main company logo.
You can change the pricing based on user groups. You can provide different discount levels for users based on the group that they reside in.
Within a group, you can restrict the products that are shown. For example, a marketing department could have special products only visible to them. When other users logged on to the site the marketing products would not be visible.
An admin can limit the purchase types that can be used by a user group.
Shipping types can be modified by user groups. A user group can have certain authorized shipping options and other ones not available.
Allows users to check out of the stores without requiring registration.
Users can sign in as a guest and create their own account, if authorized.
Admins can add images to a gallery that are authorized images for users to select. Users can be permitted to upload new images or restricted to use only the gallery images.
Provides the ability to have a variety of images scroll within any section of the site.
The stores can manage inventory and maintain details of minimum inventory levels, as well as auto-notify admins of orders that need to be fulfilled.
Reporting invoices provides the ability to view and approve invoices online.
Live chat with Zopim or Providesupport.com enables you to talk live and in real-time to your customers while they are on the stores.
Per product, or per order charges can be added to make sure stores are able to recoup miscellaneous costs.
Sell in any currency using our international exchange conversion.
Select the languages you want to authorize and display a link at the top of the page to dynamically change the language.
Select from standard or multi-select view options. Special fields can be enabled to include varying types of product requirements.
Each different type of order can undergo a different process and have dissimilar requirements. We give you the option to define order types for ultimate flexibility.
Rewarding employees or providing points for uniform purchase are two of the frequent ways points are used on the stores.
Determine the exact quantities you are willing to accept an order in: 250, 500, 1,500 and so on. Set any number of available quantities to limit the customers purchase.
Price breaks allow you to set a standard price for each product and control discount based upon the quantity ordered.
Suppliers’ pricing can be automatically adjusted, based upon the specific discounts and programs offered uniquely to you.
Products can be added to any page in a rotating scroller to highlight specific items. Settings control the number of products shown, the rotation levels and the display of the scroller.
Web stores can be open to the public or made to be private and require login credentials. Public stores can show pricing or also require a login to see pricing details.
Order management integration will automatically process orders including the generation of purchase orders to suppliers.
Sales are able to be identified easily on products with a colored banner overlay over the corner of the image. Any product can be designated a sale item and later returned to non-sale.
Detailed sales reports are available for view and advanced reporting can be accomplished through integration with order management. Detailed sales reports are available for view and advanced reporting can be accomplished with integration with order management.
Control over inventory in the shopping cart can be managed in the web stores and passed to order management for full inventory control. Stores can assign stock when placed in the cart or after completed checkout.
Social media feeds allow you to direct activity to your sites and keep potential customers informed of new releases or specials on products.
Customized fields can be added at checkout for cost center, budgeting or open text. Fields can give the customer additional controls over the approval or purchasing process.
Layouts allow the creation of components using widgets to accomplish any design elements required on the stores.
Static pages provide the ability to publish any static content and combine it with products, information or special effects.
Freeze the menu on the page to make it easy to view all options when scrolling.
Stores automatically manage stock levels on products and can provide notifications if stock levels diminish.
Tags can be created and added to any products to publish them in widgets or on specific pages.
Products that are not pre-decorated or provide the user the ability to customize, can have an ‘upload artwork’ option in the store to make it easy to
Users can be placed in user groups that control products viewed, discounts provided, purchase methods and even logos that appear.
User reports can provide detailed information on a user’s activity and points or voucher levels.
Business cards and forms are perfect for variable print sales. The end user will be prompted to add variable fields on checkout. This will provide a finished proof and camera-ready artwork emailed to the printer of their choice.
Vouchers are an addtional payment option. Vouchers are assigned to certain users. They can be used as currency to purchase products when authorized.
Voucher reports provide detailed information about outstanding vouchers, as well as the vouchers that have been redeemed to date.
Add text that can be changed easily and frequently on the site’s homepage. You can add images, videos and/or live html code.
Select any type of special effect or screen appearance with the widget builder. Each widget provides the ability to add custom text and Images to achieve your desired appearance or information flow.