V Commerce 2.0 Provides Powerful .NET E-Commerce Solution

BV Softwares latest release includes over 25 new features, enabling web merchants, developers and hosting providers to create professional, easily customized e-business solutions.

RICHMOND, VA (PRWEB) March 13, 2003 -BV Software LLC announced today the release of BV Commerce 2.0, the newest version of its powerful, open source ASP.NET e-commerce software for web merchants, developers and hosting providers. BV Commerce 2.0 includes over twenty-five new features, as well as an elegantly redesigned user interface. Gracefully written, polished source code makes it simple for developers to modify. BV Commerce 2.0 enables web merchants to sell like Fortune 500 companies without spending a fortune. BV Software offers a free trial version available at www.bvsoftware.com.

BV Commerce 2.0 offers seamless integration with Microsoft® FrontPage and Macromedia® Dreamweaver MX, as well as streamlined store creation and product management, robust discounts, promotions and reporting, smart customer and partner management, powerful purchase process and order fulfillment, and strong security, content management and development features.

Smooth Installation and Store Creation
Built with ASP.NET, BV Commerce 2.0 delivers advanced performance, saving merchants and developers time and money. Visual Studio .NET project files and full source code are included with BV Commerce Pro, for easy modifications and customization. 100% managed code enables developers to achieve better performance and stability. Over the web administration enables merchants to manage their stores from anywhere, and support for .GIF, .JPG, .PNG, .SWF, and .SVG graphics allows administrators to import and display a variety of image formats. The BV Commerce administration includes direct links to the support section of www.bvsoftware.com, as well as news and updates. BV Commerce supports both SQL Server and free Microsoft® Desktop Engine, so businesses can easily move to SQL Server as their companies grow.

Sophisticated Management
BV Commerce includes a variety of robust product management tools, including the direct upload of 3 unique images at a time and automatically generated thumbnail images in small, medium and large. Unlimited product attributes, price and weight sensitive product attributes, and the ability to sort custom attributes for products makes managing similar products simple. Inventory tracking is powerful with the ability to track by both product and product attributes. Content management tools allow merchants and developers to add custom pages with one click, as well as easily upload custom menu buttons through the web interface. Merchants will appreciate the ability to add and edit customer service information, such as frequently asked questions, e-mails and privacy policies, as well as the option to require customers to accept terms before checkout. Promotional features include e-mails to friends about recommended products, related items, which encourage cross selling and up selling and e-coupons. Discount options include store, category, product, shipping and total orders. Other useful tools include featured products for the home page, convenient value based shipping, handling charges per order or item and customer specific pricing for affiliates and top selling customers.

Powerful Customer/Partner Management and Reporting
BV Commerce 2.0 makes it simple for web merchants to communicate with customers, manage partner programs and track sales, with features such as the ability to quickly add and generate affiliate links, send HTML e-mails and unlimited, customer specific mailing lists. The ability to add, edit and delete users makes it simple to walk customers through the shopping process and handle groups, such as partners, employees and affiliates. Full-featured reporting tools include monthly, weekly and daily sales tracking, and the ability to track sales by affiliate, coupon, top selling products and top customers.

Refined Purchase Process and Order Fulfillment
BV Commerce 2.0 is shopper friendly. Features such as a keyword search with advanced options, an elegant user interface and streamlined checkout process make shopping quick, easy and pleasant. Other useful features are a remember me" function that saves return customers the time of logging in, saved shopping carts, an easy to use address book and self-administering account, anonymous checkout, the ability to register after checkout, a running cart total, and optional product images in shopping carts. Order fulfillment is flexible and robust with a variety of payment processors, PayPal integration, the electronic delivery of software, online and offline credit card processing, offline orders, real time shipping calculations, the ability to print receipts with one click, and the option to charge credit cards at checkout or authorize them only.

Smart Security
BV Commerce is safe and secure. It uses encrypted data storage and includes SSL support. It allows for multiple store managers with different permissions for each administrator, as well as permissions for groups and users such as affiliates and employees. Passwords are auto-generated, and a new event log traps errors and audits store events.

Pricing
BV Commerce Pro is priced at $1,499. It includes Visual Studio .NET project files and full source code. BV Commerce Standard is a turnkey solution priced at $499. For more information contact BV Software at 1-866-NICE-WEB or www.bvsoftware.com.

About BV Software
BV Software LLC was founded in 2002 by Marcus McConnell, an e-commerce expert, and experienced web architect based in Richmond, Virginia. The companys focus is the development of low-cost professional e-commerce solutions. After years of designing million dollar e-commerce sites, Marcus was able to harness the power of top tier e-commerce software in a way that provides small to medium sized businesses with the same powerful technology and quality design at a fraction of the cost. This new way of doing business led to the creation of BV Commerce. For more information visit www.bvsoftware.com or call 1-804-740-4393.