| Products
Features/Comparison |
iMagicSite
Web Packages
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iMagicStore
Web Shopping Cart
Packages
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One time Setup Fee:
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$495 |
$695 |
$995 |
$795 |
$1495 |
$1995 |
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Monthly Site/Services Maintenance Cost:
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$29 |
$39 |
$59 |
$49 |
$89 |
$119 |
 Product
Manager |
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| Add unlimited number of products, Each product
can have 5 pictures. Each product can be cross referenced or associated
into different categories. Each product can have a custom html page |
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| Ability to edit up to 20 extra customized product
fields. Each custom field can be designated public or private. Useful
for products such as books for adding author name or other information. |
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| Product page layout can be customized. |
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| Products can be imported and exported, This is
handy for a large catalog or a large number of products. Imported
products can be assigned automatically to appropriate categories |
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| Product database is fully searchable with advanced
search capability. Searchable products can moved and or added to any
category or sub-category. Searchable products can be deleted or put
in a temporary holding folder |
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| Searched products can be put on sales to specific
discount sales tag |
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| These searchable products can be put on sale with
a specific discount. For example, products can be assigned a 25% discount.
The discount will appear as the customer is browsing the site. |
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| Catalog site can be set up with or without prices.
This is good for companies that want to showcase their products without
showing prices. |
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| Products can have up to 3 quantity breaks on pricing.
This is handy for companies that want to give discounta to customers
that buy a regular quantity of the product. |
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| Up to 5 different prices can be assigned to specific
products. Specific price tables can be assigned to specific customers,
allowing ability to assign different pricing to different customers. |
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| Such products as ‘information,” reports,
pictures, and software can be sold as downloadable products. Upon
confirmation, credit card processing allows the customer immediate
access to these products. |
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| Products can be set up as taxable or non-taxable,
depending on the product. |
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| ”Matrix” products with multiple variables
such as color or size can be set up with incremental pricing. Incremental
prices can be assigned to each variable, such as a higher price for
“Extra Large” or “Gold Plated,” above the base
price. |
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| The products database and image files can also
be FTPed into the site as a faster alternative to using the Store
Manager and entering items one-by-one. |
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| Category
or Page Manager |
Yes
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Yes
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| Unlimited number of Categories or Pages can be
added. |
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| Categories and Pages can be designated as hidden
or visible. |
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| Each Product Category can be set up as an html
page that includes an overall description of the category, with an
“index” and a link to the sub-categories under that category,
enabling buyers to “zero in” on the exact products they
want. |
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| A descriptive page for each Product Category can
be created in Microsoft Word and then converted to html code automatically,
using the MS Word function that can convert the page into html format,
which can then be easily uploaded to the site. |
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| Links can be set up from the Category descriptive
page to any other category with related products. |
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| An icon or picture can be used to illustrate the
Product Category. |
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| Category layout can be customized. |
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| Website manager has full control of category color,
mouse over, and sorting features. |
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| Homepage can be instantly changed to show a link
to any Product Category, even if it is hidden. |
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| Easily add Sub-Categories and even Sub-Sub-Categories. |
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| A Categories pull down menu allows visitors to
quickly jump to different pages. |
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| Miscellaneous
Features |
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| Easily view all items without pictures. |
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| Easily view products on sale. Website manager
can assign up to five “on sale” tags to the site that can
be set up to pop-up when viewing designated sections. |
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| Customer
Manager |
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| Ability to Import and Export customer list. |
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| Ability to view recent customers that have made
purchases. |
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| Ability to look up users by ID number assigned
to them. |
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| Fully searchable customer database. |
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| Can view any individual customer record. |
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| Can view customer order history. |
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| Can set up payment options for each customer.
For example, a “Net 30” payment option can be set up which
allows a customer to place an order on the site and they will be billed
for their purchase, payable in 30 days. |
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| Can set up a specific price table for a specific
customer. This allows different customers to “see” different
pricing and allows a wholesaler, for example, to only allow their
wholesale customers to access this wholesale pricing. Up to 5 different
price levels can be set up. |
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| Can create invoices for customers directly from
the Customer Manager feature. |
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| Ability to enable/disable custom pricing for each
product, depending on the customer. Ability to edit invoice to change
customer pricing before sending invoice. |
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| Can add notes to any contact or customer record.
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| Email/Lead
Generation Manager |
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| Customizable e-mail sign-up box on the homepage
captures email address leads from site visitors that can be added
to an email prospect list. |
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| Website visitors can self-assign themselves to
a category of products (group) to receive emails about their area
of interest, or the site manager can also assign them to specific
groups. |
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| Ability to configure the e-mail sign-up box by
font size, color, border thickness, and thank you message that is
automatically sent to them after they sign up. |
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| Ability to organize e-mail sign-ups and imported
email lists into various groups (no limit to number of groups that
can be created). |
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| Ability to enable/disable a group option to be
displayed on the home page |
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| Ability to view all email addresses displayed
in a specific group. |
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| Ability to add a comment or keyword to a specific
group member. |
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| Comments fields are time stamped, and are fully
searchable. |
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| Ability to send personalized emails to each group
assigned to a specific area of product interest. (Customers can assign
themselves to groups or the site administrator can also assign them
to specific groups.) A powerful tool to use in announcing new products
of interest to a specific group, sales specials, sending ezine newsletters,
and sending out discount coupons. Emails can be sent in html format,
with pictures and pre-formatted html text, or in basic text format. |
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| Coupons
Manager |
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Yes
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| Ability to create coupon codes for use in online
and offline marketing. Allows you to drive traffic to your site and
generate more leads. |
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| Unique coupon codes help track the effectiveness
of specific marketing campaigns. Both advertising and direct mail
can be easily tracked, using the coupon code assigned, to track resulting
sales and inquiries. |
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| Up to 10 different coupon campaigns can run simultaneously.
Each coupon can have a fixed dollars-off discount, or a percentage-off
discount. Also coupons can require a minimum order, and have a start
date and expiration date. |
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| Coded coupon discounts can be automatically deducted
at check-out during online sales transactions, and/or reflected on
invoices issued after sales are made online. |
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| Sales
Manager |
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Yes
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| Can set up to 5 independent campaigns with “sales
discount tags” notice appearing in various places on the website. |
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| Sales Tag can be used to tag a specific product,
a group of products, or your complete store, with a sale event. For
example, you can set up a “Red Tag Sale” to offer a 25%
discount on some products, or set up your complete store to be on
sale at a 25% discount. Discount amounts appear immediately next to
the products. |
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| Sales Tag campaigns can feature a discount, a
start date and an expiration date. Sales Tags can also have an icon
associated with them to easily identify products that are on sale
as customers browse the store. |
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| Items on sale are automatically discounted and
display the savings amount. |
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| Inventory
Manager |
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| Ability to add stock, remove stock, and generate
an inventory report |
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| Ability to set up inventory minimum amounts at
the product level . Notice is then sent to you when inventory is low. |
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| Statistics
Manager and Detailed statistics analysis |
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| Ability to view website visitor numbers and usage. |
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| Ability to generate a report of the most-viewed
items in your store. |
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| Ability to monitor server disk space usage. |
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| Access to a special “Statistics” link,
which gives you detailed information on the number of daily visitors,
how much time they are spending on the site, and which state/country
they reside in. You also can determine which search engine or portal
they used to find your site (e.g., yahoo!, aol, msn, google, others)
or which customers visited your site bt entering your specific domain
name. You can also track which “keywords” were used to locate
your site, important information for planning a web marketing campaign.
The Statistics Manager also allows you to monitor bandwidth usage.
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| Site
Info Manager |
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| Ability to upload graphics to the server, which
allows you to customize the look of your site and edit some of the
design elements, without knowing html or other website programming
“language.” |
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| Ability to easily add “keywords” to
your site, allowing search engines and web spiders to locate your
site when users search for these keywords on the web. |
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| Ability to easily set up a site entry message,
to be used as an intro page, with flash, disclaimer information or
other message. |
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| Ability to set up a custom welcome or home page.
A specific product or category page on the site can also be designated
the homepage. |
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| Ability to customize a “Contact Us”
page, which contains a picture of the business and/or contact information. |
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| Ability to Edit Site Configuration. This gives
you control over how your site looks and functions, including control
of features such as font, color, size, source shipping, notification
email and more. |
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| Ability to configure the shipping carriers you
use, such as UPS or FedEx, and to set shipping parameters by weight,
price or other. |
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| Allows you to control the look of the layout on
your site by displaying products or listings 1 in a row, 2 in a row,
or other. |
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| Ability to edit up to 20 extra customized product
fields. Each custom field can be designated public or private. Useful
for products such as books for adding author name or other information. |
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| Ability to change Passwords. |
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| Ability to set appropriate state tax rate. |
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| FAQ
Manager (Frequently Asked Questions) |
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| Ability to add unlimited Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQs) on the site. These questions and answers are accessed from
the home page through a special link named “FAQs.” |
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| Ability to edit and view FAQs. |
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| FAQs function as a fully-searchable and growing
knowledge base of all the possible questions and answers related to
such areas as company products or services. If an answer to a question
is not found, the site presents the user with a form to submit with
their question. The site administrator can then review it, and add
it to the main FAQ database. |
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| Company
Policy Manager |
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| Ability to add, view and edit a Company
Policy section accessed from a link on the homepage. Company Policy
allows you to promote your philosophy of business, as well as outline
ordering terms, returns policies and other company procedures. |
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| Order
Manager |
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| View pending orders and status of all orders.
Order status can be changed easily from one state to another. |
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| Orders can be viewed by customer ID, and by order
number. |
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| Orders can be charged instantly when customer
buys, or can be charged directly from the invoice upon verification
that items are available. |
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| Upon shipping or charging, customer automatically
receives email notification about the new status, including the tracking
number for shipped orders. |
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| Invoices can be printed and edited. |
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| Ability to edit prices on invoice and automatically
add edited prices as part of the special pricing set for a particular
customer. Useful feature for wholesalers that have preferential pricing
for some customers. |
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| Ability to track coupon codes which can help determine
the effectiveness of a specific advertisement, special mailing or
emailing campaign. |
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| Store/Site
Front Functionality |
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| Store or Site front layout is fully customizable.
Pre-set layout also helps in easily getting the site up and running. |
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| Catalog and product display layouts are fully
customizable. Catalog layout is very flexible and can be organized
in different ways depending on the desired look. For example, catalog
can feature 3 thumbnail pictures in a row with short descriptions,
or 1 thumbnail picture with a longer description. Detailed product
layout is also customizable [?]. |
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| Store Manager function easily adds links to pages
or product categories that can be set up to automatically appear on
the left side of each page on the site. |
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| Customers or leads that register on the site are
automatically stored in the customer database. The site automatically
recognizes returning visitors. |
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| Customers who regularly buy products from the
site do not have to re-enter their contact information. Using their
username and password, the site will recognize them. |
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| Customers that login on the site can check their
order status online as well as check their previous order history. |
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| Customers that login also have access to a personalized
category called “My List” which contains products they have
ordered in the past. Useful for recurring customers who know what
they want to order. This personalized category gives them an easy
way to re-order. |
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| Shopping Cart Link for customers to buy products
and view all items in their shopping cart. Ability to pay directly
by credit card or on net terms…you set the options. A lace to
enter an optional Coupon Code is also available. Shipping costs and
taxes are automatically calculated on the invoice. |
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| A Quick Order Form link makes it easy for those
customers who want to order by item number and/or use their printed
copy of your merchant catalog.. Also useful for the merchant, allowing
sales people to take orders directly from the site. |
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| Simple Search and Advanced Search boxes available
for searching site content. |
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| Email Lead address sign-up box is also available
on the homepage, allowing the site owner to build a mailing list for
a newsletter, or email customers discount coupons, sales information,
or new product announcements. |
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| “My Account” Link allows customers to
see their previous order history, change their password, or even add
additional shipping addresses. |
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| Online registration is available in an easy 3-step
process. |
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| Ability to enter as many shipping addresses as
needed. Handy for customers who want to ship to multiple locations.
At check out, the customer has the option to select which shipping
address to use. |
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| Hard Disk Space: Sites come with 100 and 200 megs
of disk space, more than enough for 1000’s of products. Additional
100 megs of disk space is oavailable at additional $10 per month. |
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| Bandwidth Usage: Sites come with 1 and 2 GB capacity
for bandwidth traffic. More than enough to support a very busy site.
Additional 1 GB of bandwidth traffic capacity is available at $10
per month. For a normal site, 2 GB is suuficient. If site exceeds
that figure the additional traffic can easily justify the extra cost. |
1GB
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| All sites come with 3 to 5 POP email accounts.
Additional POP email accounts iare available at $1.50 per month per
extra email. Unlimited email forwarding offered. |
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| Site hosting comes with unlimited email technical
support. |
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| Automatic integration of online payment gateways
such as authorize.net, iBill, and netcommerce. Also comes with PayPal
support. Site can be configured to instantly charge order to credit
card, or only after invoice and product availability verification
by the site manager. |
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| All site manager and credit card transactions
on the site are secured via 128 SSL Certificate, meaning sensitive
cusdtomer information is encrypted. |
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| Many forms, such as Comment Form and Product Request
Form, are built in. |
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| Built-in Credit Application Form is ideal for
retail, wholesale and business sites. |
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