Actinic vs. LiteCommerce

Revision date: Jul 30, 2007

Actinic Business is a very popular, feature-rich out-of-the-box ecommerce platform. This online business solution is equipped with powerful template system fit for easy design creation and shopping cart integration with existing schemas. One of the highlights of this store builder is a powerful data export and import system and easy design integration.

The main weak side is that this ecommerce software is extremely expensive in comparison with other competitors. Moreover, since the program code is not open-sourced, its impossible to customize this ecommerce product with your own features. Any extras contained in Actinic (as well as any other custom features) can be developed by our team with much less expenses. LiteCommerce store builder also has many ready-made plug-ins and design schemas at affordable prices.

General

Features

Actinic

LiteCommerce

Cost & licensing

USD 1,199.00

109.00

Installation and maintenance

No installation service available
Only one, very expensive recommended hosting

Authorized installation service
Wide range of recommended hosting companies offering affordable hosting plans

Technical support

Support is limited to bugs and errors in the Actinic software. The company is not responsible for supporting customized HTML, web design or any configuration issues. Expensive flat-rate subscription for phone support on a yearly basis.

Authorized technical support service, Forums
Knowledge base in the Private Members Area

Store operation

Features

Actinic

LiteCommerce

Custom look & feel

Fully template-based, CSS-compatible store design
Several built-in design and color variants
Built-in text editor
Template are editable with Macromedia Dreamweaver

100% template-based storefront
100% CSS-compatible design
4 predesigned skin sets
Category & product thumbnail images
Build-in template editor: preview, edit
and restore templates
Built-in image and CSS editors
Support for WYSIWYG web editors (MS Frontpage, Dreamweaver and others)

Product presentation

Up to 10,000 products in catalog
Unlimited number of categories
Real-time preview of your store
as you build it
'Point and click' changes to add your own company style

Unlimited number of products and categories
Optimized for smooth performance with up to 7000 - 10000 products and 10000 categories
Unlimited category nesting
Unlimited number of product images
Member-only categories
One-click changes for products and categories presentation (lists, icons, tables, multi-column), menus and navigation bars layout, quick selection of product options to be shown to a customer (Showcase Organizer free add-on)
Unique WYSIWYG-editable layout for any product and category (Layout Organizer add-on)

Security

SSL/HTTPS support

Full HTTPS/SSL support
Secure HTTPS/SSL administrative access
Password-protected administrative access
Real-time security notifications of all failed login attempts
List of recently logged admins
Backup sub-system
Storing images in DB or on the file system

Payment options

Online and offline credit card transactions

Accept payments in any currency
Real-time credit card processing
(Payment gateway support add-on),
dozens of payment gateways supported)
Manual (offline) credit card processing
PayPal payments
(Payment gateway support add-on)
Checks, purchase orders and phone orders

Shipping

UPS, USPS
Automatic shipping and handling calculation

Real-time USPS, UPS, Intershipper, Australia Post and Canada Post shipping calculation (Real-Time Shipping Quotes add-on) Unlimited number of custom-defined delivery methods
Flate rate, weight, order total
and range based shipping
Different weight limits for different delivery methods
Handle international, domestic and local shipping
Allow your customers to choose delivery methods

Taxes

Various tax zones for different
geographical zones
Tax-inclusive and tax-exclusive prices

Customizable tax calculation
Import/export predefined tax schemas
Product-specific taxes
Taxes & shipping fees depending on client's location
"Tax exempt" feature
GST/PST (Canadian tax system)
VAT (European tax system)

Custom functionality

Authorized design services
Source code cannot be opened or modified

Authorized custom development service
Authorized web design service
Dozens of available free and commercial open source add-ons for extended functionality
Open source code you can modify by yourself

Marketing & Promotion

Features

Actinic

LiteCommerce

Promotion & Advertising

Discounts
Featured products
Product options
Wish List
Product variants
Newsletter
Search engine

Advanced multi-parameter product search engine (Advanced Search free add-on)
New arrivals, related & featured products, price changes and availability notifications
(Product Adviser add-on)
Powerful news management system
(Newsletters add-on)
Wish list for every customer
which can be opened to others (Wish List add-on)
Configurable gift certificates
(Gift Certificates add-on)
Special offers, bonus points, discounts, coupons (Promotion tools add-on)
Product options system, wholesale prices for various conditions and membership levels
(Wholesale Trading add-on)
Flexible multi-tier affiliate system
(Affiliate System add-on

SEO

Static HTML pages
Ability to set different meta & title content for each page
Site map generator

Autogenerated static HTML catalog
(HTML Catalog free add-on)
Autoupdate static HTML catalog feature
(Auto Update Catalog add-on)
Configurable context dependent meta tags

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