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The Sage systems have the ability to store the supplier part number which may be different from your stock code for the part. This field is synchronised and is included...

Most of the Sage systems have a field to store a barcode. If this is populated Shopfront will synchronise it.

Some Sage systems offer the option to configure product alternatives. If these are configured then the Alternative in Shopfront can be synchronised with these....

Shopfront has a Category and Sub Category field on each product. These can be synchronised from a variety of fields in your sage system and then used to create a dynamic...

A bread crumb, from the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, lets you customer know where they are on the site.

A sitemap for your site can be automatically generated. This is a single page with links to all the departments and products on the site. These work well for small catalogues but are of limited value for large catalogues as the resulting huge page is slow to load and difficult to navigate.

Mega Menus are a popular way of giving your customers an at a glance view of your catalogue. They are a 2 dimensional drop down grouped menu based on the department structure of your site. They can be made to look very attractive and we have enhanced them with images for some customers.

We have designed our search algorithm around our customer base. 80% of our customers are B2B or a combination of B2B & B2C so searching by product code is important for regular customers (or agents) looking for known stock-codes. So Stock Code and Manufacturer’s (Supplier’s) Part Number are prioritised.

You may have items that you can quickly obtain for your customer when you are out of stock or they may be items that you never stock. In this case you can mark the item as ‘Back Order’. This will cause the site to show that product as ‘In Stock’ or show a more accurate message such as ‘Back Order’ or ‘Order for delivery in 3 days’ depending on your requirements.

Shopfront supports the Sage system Bill of Materials (BOM). When a stock query is made for a BOM item the stock of the made up item is checked first and then the BOM is...