Electronic Delivery and Fulfillment

The sophisticated capabilities of AbleCommerce ESD module include an email manager, license manager, and file upload manager. It will automate tasks such as product installation readme's, download limits and timeouts, and fulfillment of software license keys.

Readme Files - Using the Readme's menu, you can define blocks of text or brief documents that provide valuable information about the digital goods you are selling. Information that might be placed here includes system requirements, installation instructions, and the like. By default, these associated documents are displayed as links on the basket and order screens.

Licence Agreements - Licensing agreements, terms of service, product disclaimers, and the like can be defined using the Agreements interface. If an agreement is assigned to a digital good, a shopper must accept the agreement before they can continue.

Gift Certificates NEW 5.5 FEATURE

Now you can offer Gift Certificates that are delivered and redeemed electronically through your store. Sell the gift certificates in any denomination the user wishes to purchase, or sell them in the denominations you choose.

AbleCommerce creates the unique gift certificate redeption number and makes it available for secure viewing after the order is processed. Then, your gift recipient can puchase anything from the store and use the redeption number to claim the cash value of the gift certificate.

Software Licensing Agent

AbleCommerce can also distribute license keys for software applications. This process is known as fulfillment. You can also configure fulfillment to be handled automatically or manually. AbleCommerce has a simple interface (provided by a “licensing agent”) for entering license keys into the database. Keys are then distributed to purchases and removed from the license inventory.

Email Notifications

Envelopes are a kind of wrapper for your email. Just like envelopes used for standard mail, they are used to specify address and delivery information. They can also provide an introduction (header) and a closing (footer) for your messages.

Email Contents lets you define the body text of your email messages. Content is generally specific to an action or product. For instance, you might have one block of content that you send when someone purchases a digital good and a different block of content sent when you validate their download. Or perhaps you have different blocks of content for each of your digital goods. With the Email Contents manager, you can define as many blocks of content as you like. Then from the ESD email screens you can select the content to send for each scenario.