The VP-ASP Plus! & Option Pac is a powerful tool to assist you in developing your online shopping cart web site. By purchasing VP-ASP Plus! you not only get access to the powerful features you also save US$65.00!

These features could save days or weeks of development under some circumstances or provide a level of sophistication beyond the great range of features already in VP-ASP.

You get all this when you buy it together with the VP-ASP Shopping Cart.  (Save $US65)

Features of the option package are:

• Gift Certificates
• Discount Coupons 
• Affiliate processing
• Mailing by template
• Mailing Enhancements
• Product reviews and comments
• Mail to suppliers on order completion
• Order Tracking
• Image uploading
• Bulk Importing to any table
• Secure downloads
• Generate static HTML
• Project Payments
• Generic template processing

Gift Certificates
A customer will be able to buy one or more gift certificates. They can then be used to pay for any other products in your shop. They can be used multiple times until the amount is used up.
You can create your own unique gift message using a plain text editor such as notepad. Each recipient of the gift certificate will receive both the merchants message and the senders message.
The merchant can control gift certificates by specifying use-by date, a maximum amount of a certificate and whether to activate them automatically.

Certificates can be automatically activated on purchase or manually activated. If they are manually activated the merchant must simply update one field in the gift certificate record after verifying payment has been made. 

Coupons 
Any number of different coupons can be created by the merchant. They can provide a discount to a specific product, a category of products or all products. The merchant can control discount coupons by specifying a start date, an ending date and a limit to the number of uses.

Affiliate Processing
This allows you to associate sales you are making with specific affiliates or distributors. VP-ASP records from which other site the customer came to you site. It provides you with detailed reports on the number of visits, number of sales, commission, automatic registration of the affiliate

Mailing Templates 
You will be able to create your own unique message back to your clients or merchants using an editor such as Word or Notepad. Currently to alter the mail messages requires some knowledge of ASP programming. This requirement is completely eliminated using the mailing by template facility. A default template is supplied. 

Templates can be plain text or can be HTML. This allows you to create unique nicely formatted e-mail confirmations to your customers.

Mailing Enhancements
The standard VP-ASP bulk mailing facilities are enhanced to allow HTML formatted mails. Personalized bulk e-mail can be sent by merging information from the database with a mailing template that you create.

At the end of an order, you can create of list of people to be mailed in addition to the normal customer and merchant e-mails. Any number of e-mails can be sent on the completion of the order. For example you could e-mail the sales department, shipping department and your mobile phone. Each e-mail can use a different template.

Customer Product Reviews 
Customers can view and make comments on any product. The merchant can optionally be mailed each time a review is made. Review averages can be automatically displayed when a product is displayed.

Project Payments 
Use your shop to collect payments for non product services such as consulting, Ebay auctions or any case where someone needs to pay you.

Mailing to Suppliers 
At the end of an order, the supplier can be mailed the order information which will include only products ordered from this supplier.

Image Upload 
Upload images directly from your PC to you web host an assign then to products or categories.

Order Tracking 
Merchants can write messages to customers regarding delivery or shipping. Customers receive e-mail and can view order tracking messages using the VP-ASP service center.
 Messages can be hidden from customers and be directed to departments within the organization. Full database logging of all messages show a complete "conversation" or status of the order.

Bulk Import 
Products, categories and any other table can be imported into the VP-ASP tables. Field matching for individual tables can be selected per table.

Static HTML Generation 
Static Generation of HTML- All your products can be statically generated in plain HTML for better search engine indexing.

Secure Downloads 
Secure Downloads- The ability to deliver digital products via hyperlinks and applying date and count limits.

Mail on Processed 
Mail on Processed - The ability to e-mail customer when the order is processed using a defined template.

Merchant Restore Order 
Merchant Restore Order - allows the merchant to manipulate the order details

Generic Template Processing 
The ability to merge any database table with any HTML template to produce a formatted HTML display. This can be used in a myriad of ways to avoid the need to create HTML for newsletters, site information. Simply edit the information in the database and the new information will be automatically displayed. Non VP-ASP tables can be used.