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In today's rapidly expanding business world, many businesses and stores wish to extend their activity to the domain of Internet. Global Bit is an off-the-shelf software for e-commerce management supporting both B2B (Business-to-Business) and B2C (Business-to-Client) activities.
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Global Bit is intended for small, medium and large businesses who wish to open a virtual store on the Internet, as a separate or an integral part of the real (physical) stores operated by the business.
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Global-Bit is installed on an Internet server located at the business site. Site owners are provided with site management and control tools which enable them to manage the site with no special training or dependence on software manufacturers, and at a very low cost. The system also features XML and or TXT interfaces.
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Technological and financial advantages
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Capable of operating on central server database or another designated database |
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Full multi-lingual support (both on interface level and on database level) |
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Multi-browser support. HTML pages generated by Global Bit appear identical in Internet
Explorer, Netscape, and Opera |
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The software is based on the state-of-the-art Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g database |
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Global-Bit is based on a wide, smart database giving it administrative and marketing power |
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Global-Bit supports different web servers running on various operating systems (currently tested web servers include Apache and IIS running on Windows 98, Windows NT, and Novell) |
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Flexible architecture: the web server and the database server may be hosted on the same machine or on separate machines |
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Flexible dynamic menus constructed at run-time from database tables |
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An imaginative use of frames enables scrolling each menu separately |
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High level graphic design |
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Low costs - low investment |
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Global Bit site
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| The Global Bit website is a powerful media for sales and marketing in both B2B and particularly B2C mode. |
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The site offers the following options
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Selecting an interface language. |
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Sophisticated engines for finding items and products quickly and accurately |
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Advice on selection of gifts and other products according to personal preferences and
budget limitations |
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Finding and displaying alternative products |
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Comparing items using pre-defined attributes lists |
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Information about the customer club |
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Joining the customer club |
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Managing general and personal special offers |
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Ordering, including standing orders - daily/weekly/monthly or periodically. |
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Follow-up on status of orders and expected supply dates |
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Displaying a customer's credit/debit account balance |
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Managing and following orders of services |
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Bidding for products |
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Mail box for complaints, comments and suggestions |
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Personalization of prices and deals
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Prices and deals displayed in the Global Bit site are adapted to individual clients, taking into data on account discount agreements and special deals, stored in the database and updated using Global Bit Back Office.
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System options
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Assigning different prices or discounts to a product, a group of products or to price lists |
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Assigning different prices or discounts to a client or a group of clients |
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Defining special offers for individuals or groups of clients, as well as special offers for a particular client (buy x - get y offers, vouchers, coupons etc) |
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| Payment Methods |
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Customers may choose a payment method according to the business' policy:
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Payment by credit-card (the site is SSL-secure, verification of credit cards is performed immediately using NIBIT's interface to credit card companies) |
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Payment by credit card, the details of which are recorded in the system, saving bother for the customer |
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Payment by bank transfer. |
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Payment by client obligo (Global Bit manages obligo and client accounts on-line) |
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Payment on supply |
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| Global-Bit Back-Office |
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Global-Bit Back Office is part of the Global Bit package. It features management and control tools which enable site owners to maintain the site without being dependent on the software developers/distributors.
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Global Bit Back Office features:
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Tools for creating and maintaining a catalog of items and prices for e-commerce including graphics, images and sounds |
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Tools for guiding, managing and controlling the site's search engines including images
and sounds |
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Tools for managing and controlling the site's advertisement engine |
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Tools for managing the customers and customers club |
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Tools for managing and controlling site-generated orders and supply |
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Tools for managing and controlling payment and collection methods |
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Tools for managing obligo and collection from regular clients |
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XML/TXT interfaces to external financial and logistical systems |
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Tools for controlling and managing the site's information engine, allowing the business to stress its advantages its products' advantages over competitors |
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Ability to integrate HTML pages written by the business as part of the business' Global Bit site |
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Tools for managing vouchers and coupons in e-commerce |
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Statistical data on visitors: number of visitors, average surfing time, average buying, etc. |
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