Below is a table illustrating feature comparisons between AspDotNetStorefront and Commerce Server 2007.
| FEATURE/VERSION MATRIX |
STANDARD |
PRO |
ML |
CS 2007 Standard |
General
Features |
| Pricing Model, Reseller discounts available |
Per
Site |
Per
Site |
Per
Site |
Per CPU |
| Store management done by admin control panel on web site |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Windows
MMCs |
| Products Allowed |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Yes
Designed for Stores up to 100,000 Products |
5
Million SKUs per catalog |
| Source code included (C# or VB.NET) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
C Sharp
Starter Site and Windows-based MMCs for Admin. Site can be developed using
any .NET language. |
| Product Categorization Features |
| Unlimited Number Categories & Departments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Categories and Departments can also be fully nested to
any level desired (e.g. sub-categories, sub-departments) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Supports cross-matrix of products by category and
department. E.g. a product can be mapped to the shoe category, in the women’s
department |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Disable buy buttons for specific products |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Set Site to Wholesale Only (Prices not shown to general
site customers) |
|
|
Yes |
Customizable |
Shipping
Features |
| Custom/Configurable Shipping |
No Zip
Code customization |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Use Real Time Shippinh Rates |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Included
as part of SDKs from carriers |
Admin defined shipping methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day,
2nd Day, Priority, etc) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Real Time Shipping carriers can vary based on Domestic
or International shipping address |
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
Filter Real Time Rates You Want To Allow For Users To
Select |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Add Shipping & Handling Extra Fee To Orders |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Shipping Tracking #’s e-mailed to Customers |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Support for Download Products |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Batch Shipping Order Printing/Tracking Integration with
UPS WorldShip, Endicia for USPS, and FedEx Shipping Mgr. |
|
|
Yes |
Integration
Support |
Multiple ship-to addresses per order (a customer on one
order can ship some items to address A, and other items to address B) |
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
| Mark Customer Levels as free shipping (or tax exempt) |
|
|
Yes |
Customizable |
Bulk Product
Import Features |
| From Xml File |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| From Excel File |
|
|
Yes |
Customizable |
Gift
Registry Features |
| Gift Registry Supported |
|
|
Yes |
Multiple
baskets per user and named baskets to support gift registry scenarios |
Wish
List Features |
Customer Add To Wish List Supported (Persists over
Customer Visits also) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Multiple
baskets per user and named baskets to support wish list scenarios |
MaxMind
Integration |
Integration of invaluable industry leading MaxMind fraud
prevention/scoring technologies. Requires separate service agreement with
MaxMind.com also. It prevents about 10 fraud orders per week (!) on our own
production site, so we are very very pleased with this service, and the price
is very reasonable. |
|
|
Yes |
Customizable
using Web Services provided by MaxMind |
Multi-Lingual
Features |
| Multi-Lingual Support |
|
|
Yes |
Multi-Lingual
catalogs, ads, discounts, direct mail |
| Multi-Currency Support |
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
Search
Engine Features |
EVERY product, category, and department page can have
their own custom search engine meta tags (title, keywords, description, no
script blocks, etc)… |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Static Product & Category Pages: Designed to allow
search engines to fully crawl and index EVERY product & category page
in your store. This can have a dramatic increase in site traffic from
search engines. |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Google Xml Site Maps Supported: a direct Google search
engine submission method sanctioned by Google |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Yahoo! Xml Site Maps Supported: a direct Yahoo! search
engine submission method sanctioned by Yahoo! |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Product
Capabilities & Features |
| Support for 3 images sizes: icon, medium, large |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Supports multiple images per product (icon, medium, and
large) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Support for swatch color image changing |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Automatic image watermarking for protection |
|
|
Yes |
Customizable |
| Image Galleries Supported |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Restrict product quantities to preset values (e.g. 5,
10, 15, 20, 25, …) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable
w/ Pipelines |
Enforce product minimum order quantities (i.e. must
order at least 10, etc). |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable
w/ Pipelines |
Recurring products can have varying intervals (days,
weeks, months, years) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Downloadable products supported, with automatic e-mail
to customer with download instructions |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Text options on products (e.g. require initials for
monogrammed products, require text name for product customization, etc) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Sort products in any order desired (you can force
popular products to the top of the pages) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Fully dynamic site map (optimized for search engines) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Unlimited number of variants per each product |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Each variant can have a different price |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Each variant can have different attributes (e.g. size, color,
etc) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Each variant can require a text option input (e.g. monogram) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Each variant can have a separate SKU modifier, and
price, description, etc |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Tell store to use Image Filename Override for pictures
(medium pics) |
|
|
Yes |
Customizable |
| Support for sale prices |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Vary product prices for each customer level (e.g.
wholesale/retail) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Phone Order Entry Module |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Product Descriptions can include HTML formatting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Support for Kits (build to order products). |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Support for Packs. |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Password Protected Products |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Disable buy buttons by product |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Set Site to Wholesale Only
(Prices not shown to general site customers) |
|
|
Yes |
Customizable |
Inventory
Features |
| Inventory Tracking |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Limit orders to quantity on hand inventory, or allow
customers to place orders for items out of stock (admin configurable) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Manage Inventory by variant or attribute (e.g. size,
color, etc) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Show inventory on hand status on product page to
customer (optional) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Coupon
Features |
| Order Based Coupons (apply to entire order) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Product Specific Coupons (apply to only specified
product) |
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
| Coupon discounts by amount or percent |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Coupons can offer free shipping |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Coupons can offer tax exception |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Coupons have start date |
|
Yes
(pending) |
Yes
(pending) |
Yes |
| Coupons have expiration date |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Coupons can be marked as use once per customer, use once
by only one customer, use N times, etc. |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Skinning
& Page Layout Customization |
Completely customize the layout & appearance of any
category, section, manufacturer, or product page using XmlPackages (XML/XSL
rendering engine) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
User defined skin replacement tokens, topic tokens,
AppConfig tokens, etc. (e.g. skin Regular Expression token parser) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Design skins in Dreamweaver or FrontPage |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
N/A |
Web form controls can be used within skin template user
control |
|
|
Yes |
N/A |
Integrated support for ComponentArt horizontal menu,
vertical menu, site map, and tree view navigational controls |
|
Yes |
Yes |
N/A |
Skin Based UI Customization: Store site styles and web
design can be completely customized by external HTML skin template and style
sheets. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
N/A |
Change skins in real-time. You can conceivably have 100+
skins for a single store if you need to. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
N/A |
You can link to the cart "pages" from your
existing site pages, or use the storefront to run your entire site |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Add page header/footer HTML blocks to cart page, and all
checkout and order confirmation pages, to provide special notes/text specific
to your store or business |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Use custom receipt formats & templates |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Use custom "your order has shipped" e-mail
formats and templates |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Automatic e-mail notification to customer with receipt |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Receipt can be fully customized |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Automatic e-mail notification to store admin of new
order received |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Notification to Cell Phone of new order received |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Mini-Cart (optional small box on every page showing cart
summary contents and checkout link) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Customer
Accounts |
| Customer can view Order History |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Customer has address book |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Customer can easily re-order any prior order |
|
|
Yes |
Customizable |
| Integrated .NET Forms Authentication |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Multiple billing/shipping addresses per customer
(similar to Amazon.com style checkout) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Recurring orders (e.g. for auto ship products, monthly
subscription fees, monthly service type products, etc) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Skip account creation on checkout |
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
| "One Page" Checkout |
|
|
Yes
(pending) |
Customizable |
Payment
Methods Supported (types of payment) |
Credit Cards (Accept Credit Cards in Real Time: Cards
can be processed & verified in real-time, or you can delay processing
until a later time) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Check By Mail |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| e-Checks (Authorize.net and Itransact gateways) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| C.O.D. |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Purchase Order |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| PayPal |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Can be
integrated using SDK |
| PayPal Express Checkout |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Can be
integrated using SDK |
| Request For Quote |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| MicroPay |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Gift Cards |
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
Support for Verified By Visa/MasterCard Secure
initiatives. |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Can be
integrated using SDK |
Payment
Gateways Supported |
MANUAL Gateway (just collects order & payment
information for offline processing) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authorize.net Gateway |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Support
for most payment gateways through pipeline components and/or .NET SDKs |
Transaction
Features |
| Integrates with your own merchant account |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Store can be set to authorize only, or auth-capture
credit card mode. You can then capture payment at shipment if desired |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Void & Refund supported |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Partial Refund and Add-Hoc Charges Supported |
|
|
Yes |
Customizable |
| Mark Transactions As Fraud |
|
|
Yes |
Customizable |
| Ban Fraud Users from Site |
|
|
Yes |
Customizable |
Support for CVV2 (credit card security code) entry and
checking (fraud prevention) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Address Verification codes reported to administrator
with order |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Credit card numbers never displayed on site, but
remembered for user in an encrypted state (shown as ****1111 on site) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Disable storing of credit cards if desired (recommended) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Force billing address to be the same as shipping address |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Set a minimum order total threshold for proceed to
checkout |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Misc
Features |
| Customer Subscriptions for protected content |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Password Protected HTML Pages |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
General Site Disclaimer Message (Agree Before Entering)
supported |
|
|
Yes |
Customizable |
Can set a minimum order total threshold for proceed to
checkout |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Can set minimum order product quantities before allowing
checkout |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Order options supported (e.g. gift wrapping, ship in
unmarked box, etc). Additionally, each order option can have a price
associated with it. User can optionally select order options during checkout. |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Order Export to Xml |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Customer Record Export to Xml |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Customer e-mail lists to XML (i.e. produce list of all
registered customer e-mails for your mailing manager) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Product & Site Photo Galleries: Create photo
galleries of products, activities or other important corporate or store fun
events. Showing prospective customers more than just a "store
facade" is VITAL in creating brand loyalty |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Recent Products Page |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Best-Seller Products Page |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Shopping cart can persist over visits |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Shopping cart can be told to age in N days |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Built in support for the most common display formats:
grid, table expanded, table condensed, simple form, right variant bars, and
you can completely customize the product pages by altering the output code
HTML |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Store News Items Supported (editable via Admin Site):
Add real-time news announcements, and items to the site. Inform customers
about important new items, or promotions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Order notes can be entered by customer with special
instructions |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Each cart item can also have notes entered by the
customer |
|
|
Yes |
Customizable |
Can require customer to agree to Terms and Conditions
block (user defined) before proceeding with payment |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Support for subscription products. Each product can add
N months to a customer subscription. Administration control panel allows
override of subscription expiration date |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
External Product HTML description files supported (e.g.
product descriptions can be stored in external HTML files) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Hide products, categories or departments (publish or
un-publish capability) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Integrated Product Search |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Advanced Product Search Page (by category, section,
manufacturer, price range, SKU, etc) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Full Export to QuickBooks |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Quantity discounts on products |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
E-Mail Product To A Friend: Product pages can be
e-mailed to friends by site visitors |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Tax
Features |
| Apply Tax by State |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Apply Tax by ZipCode |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Apply Tax by Country |
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
| Tax can be applied to shipping costs |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Individual Products can be marked Taxable or tax-exempt |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Customer Levels can be tax-exempt |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Pricing
Feed Support Features |
Froogle Feed (now called GoogleBase) Supported -w-
automatic generation and FTP upload to your Froogle account |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Add other product feeds (e.g. ShopZilla, shopper.com,
etc) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Upsell
Product Features |
| Related Products |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Show Upsell Products Directly On Cart Page |
|
|
Yes |
Customizable |
| Product prices can be set to "Call for Price’ |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Product prices can be hidden until product added to cart |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Products can require that other products are added to
the cart (e.g. Product X requires Product Y) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Affiliate
Tracking Features |
Affiliate sign-up/account pages provided in store and
admin site |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Customers can be tracked to affiliates |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Orders can be tracked to affiliates |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Products visible on the site can be filtered by
affiliate source id |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Real-Time skin changing based on
URL/invocation/affiliate id |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Customer
Level Features |
Unlimited number of customer levels (e.g. wholesale,
retail, or gold, silver, platinum, etc..) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Customers can be tracked to customer levels |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customer levels can have special product pricing, can
offer percent discounts, free shipping, tax exception, etc. |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Products visible on the site can be filtered by customer
level |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Operational
Features |
Manage your store via easy to use Administration control
panel web site |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Windows-based
management consoles |
Customer Service Web Administration: Comprehensive
administrative reports, including revenue trends & graphs, visitor trends
& graphs, customer order percentages, affiliate revenue reports, tax
reports, etc. You can also search for order by almost any customer record
criteria to assist with customer support calls |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
SQL
Server Analytics and Reporting (built-in standard reports) |
Built In Customer Mailing Manager: Send e-mails or HTML
newsletters to registered customers. Design your newsletter in FrontPage or
DreamWeaver and send to registered customers, or send to only customer with
orders |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Administrators can edit customer profiles, delete
customers, update their address books, billing information, etc. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Administrator can edit/enter service notes visible by
customer regarding order status, special notes, etc |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Product
Ratings & Reviews |
| Customers can review & rate products (if enabled) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| User Polls (find out what your customers are thinking!) |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Administrator can moderate comments |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Profanity checking provided on comment entry |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Security
Features |
PABP VISA/MasterCard Final Certification Approval In
Progress for v7.0. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
N/A |
PABP release fully tested in PCI compliant environment
for VISA/MasterCard Certification |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
N/A |
Supports SSL Encryption for secure ordering. Cart
automatically switches into secure mode appropriately. Supports any brand SSL
certificate. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
IP Address Tracking: For safety and auditing, IP
addresses are logged (PABP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
AVS (Address Verification) reporting from gateways in
all orders |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Integrated MaxMind Geolocation Fraud Detection Metrics |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Require periodic password changes (PABP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
| Password Salting + Hashing (PABP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Store Admin can lock out any customer account for
security/fraud reasons (PABP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Any order can be marked as fraud for later forensics
(PABP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
CAPTCHA Image login protection (protects against
automated BOT login attacks (PABP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Comprehensive 1 Year Aged Read Only Security Log built
into admin site. Viewable only by admin Super User. (PABP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Give individual admin operations permissions to view
full credit cards or not (PABP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Allow Customers to individually select if they want
their credit card information stored (overrides by store admin possible)
(PABP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| All Password Change Operations Logged (PABP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
RegEx AppConfig control over strength of passwords
required for store logins and admin logins (PABP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Support for dynamic encryption key changes via admin
site (PABP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Store Admin specified encryption salting so every order
record contains a separate encryption key (PABP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Encrypted database connection strings in web.config
files (PABP) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Customizable |
Secured password protected Store Administrator Control
Panel |
Yes
(Web) |
Yes
(Web) |
Yes
(Web) |
Yes |
| Integrated .net security roles and support |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
