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Main features and functions:

• Two-tier product hierarchy: section and category.
• On-the-fly calculation of item amount, totals, subtotals and integrants in price-list mode. On-the-fly calculation of sales tax and grand total in cart mode.
  
• Product description with HTML formatting (pictures, formatted text, etc.).
• Shopping cart allowing multiple selections across several price-lists or catalogs, forming a single final order.
• Up to 5 discounts for each product item, for all items within a category or for all items within a section. Discount item can be inherited from the discount category. In turn, discount category can be inherited from the discount section. Discount may depend on the item quantity or the item amount. Discount can be specified in percentage or fixed amount.
• Ability to attach a file to each selected item.
  
• Two ways to display the product list - as a list or catalog.
• Ability to create independent price-lists for various product groups with individual settings (assigned manager, output type, currency, etc.).
• Ability to insert price-lists into site publications or into other component's contents.
• Support for Joomla CAPTCHA for spam protection.
• Support for Joom!Fish for multilingual price-lists.
• Product data import from an CSV (Excel) file. Ability to update products from an CSV file.
• Ability to add extra import fields for item description with individual HTML formatting of each field.
• Integration with Smartresizer plug-in to automatically generate thumbnails for product pictures.
• Multiple currency support with automatic conversion depending on the database-stored exchange rates.
• Support for SEO URLs.
• Order management - review, removal, resubmission.
• Pagination for long product lists.
• Product filtering by a search string, sections and categories.
• Ability to predefine package orders for fast selection of all the items in a package.
• Fields "Short description", "Unit", "Discount", "Item amount" can be hidden in price-list view.
  

Additional component extensions:

• The content plug-in for an insert of price-lists and catalogues in articles and other site content.
• The shopping cart module.
• The table of content module.
• Order templates module.

Front-end.

1. Display product list with price-list layout.

The price-list layout allows the user to select the necessary items of the price-list, to set their quantity and to calculate subtotals on each category and total amount of the chosen items. The full description of the item is shown by a mouse click under the name.

2. Display product list with catalogue layout.

The catalogue layout allows to display items with the view of cards. Each card can be added in a shopping cart, and then to make the order of the chosen items.

3. The contact information and order.

After selecting items of the price-list, user can choose to save or proceed to сheckout. Order stored in the database and sent to the e-mail client and manager.

4. Shopping cart.

When shopping cart displayed selected products. In this mode it is possible to modify a choice, to remove the unnecessary products, to change quantity, to attach file for each item (need to enable file attachment for item in backend item managment) and to checkout having filled the contact information.

Back-end.

1. Management of sections.

2. Management of categories.

3. Managment of items.

4. Order managment.

Viewing of the list of orders and removal of orders. Administrator can re-send order e-mail to the manager and the customer.

5. Import items from a CSV (Excel) file.

6. Support of several currencies.

Currency managment

7. Additional import fields.

8. Discount managment

You can set up to 5 discounts for each product item, for all items within a category or for all items within a section. Discount may depend on the quantity or the item amount. Discount can be specified in percentage or fixed amount.

Additional component extensions.

IPrice cart module

"Table of content" module

The module allows to deduce the list of sections and categories of IPrice in various modes.

IPrice content plug-in

The plug-in allows to insert the price-list or the catalogue into site content (articles and other componets content wich support content pligins).

"Order templates" module

The module allows users of a site to choose the typical order from the list of templates of the order and to place positions of such order in a shopping cart.

System requirenments

• MySQL 4.1.25 or higher
• PHP 4.3.9 or higher