Easy to use options for adding videos, photo's, or audio to your website.

We have a built in video and audio player.  Or you can embedd code from places like YouTube or Vimeo to put your video on your website.

Our built in video player supports:  flash video, mp4 video, avi video, flv, avi, wmv, mov, swf, mpg, .mp2, .mpeg, .mpe, .mpv

Audio player supports: MP3, WAV, WMA, M4A

Image file types supported by your website: PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF

We can also convert your video files to a universal format so your video will be viewable on ALL devices. INCLUDED

It's a built-in blog that is also easy to manage. Manage comments with moderation and spam protection, syndication, article feeds and much more.

A blog is a great way to get info out about your website, what it does, how it does it...tips for people....etc. 

It's like a hub to broadcast your message out to your website and social media all at the same time.  When you post your blog you can have it email your subscribers, create a post on your website, and send to Facebook and Twitter!  Such an efficient way to get messages out to your potential clients and clients about your classes, special offers, upcoming events, new products and so much more!

Our donations element gets you up and running accepting simple payments through PayPal as well as other methods in a matter of seconds. Set it to send thank you letters or messages once the donation is received.  Or use our Full Featured E-Commerce Shopping cart with all of the features listed below.

Catalog & Categories     UNLIMITED CATEGORIES AND SUB-CATEGORIES - Organize your products and services by category and sub-category.  Don't worry how many different categories you have.  Use what you need.    Complete online product catalog    Unlimited product categories and sub-categories     Category descriptions displayed upon category selection     Catalog published in search engine friendly format    Auto-display specific category descriptions based on selected category    Retail/Wholesale mode to allow a retail catalog and wholesale catalog     with special pricing per customer  Product Fields     NO PRODUCT LIMIT - Add as many products as you need.  There is no charge for adding more products. SELL ANY TYPE OF PRODUCT - Configure your e-store to sell ANYTHING.  From software to hard goods like shoes and clothing. We assist you with any configuration needed.  Customizable product fields to match ANY product or service    Product options to include size, color, conditional options (make/model), features and more     Multiple images per product     Rotating images can be used in product detail     No product limit     Completely customizable product page layout     Configurable product list and detail view (any fields)    Multiple product display layout formats    Product files may link to PDF documents (examples: spec sheets and links to external information)     Special discount codes to provide discounts by product, category, first time sale, free shipping, buy x and get y free, and more  Import & Export     IMPORT AND EXPORT PRODUCTS - Use a CSV (Comma Delimited) file using a program like Excel to import and export your products and images.  IMPORT AND EXPORT SUBSCRIBERS - Use a CSV (Comma Delimited) file using a program like Excel to import users into your system.  You can also export your user information to Excel for any reason including custom reporting or custom label printing.  Import and export products to Excel (CSV) format     Import and export customer lists to Excel (CSV) format     Import images and attach to products     Upload images via FTP or zip file via form  Inventory   INVENTORY CONTROL - Automatically handle inventory as the approach minimum and maximum levels.  Show items "out of stock" or remove them from your site automatically.  Real-time inventory tracking     Configurable out-of-inventory handling (sell anyways, show sold-out message, hide product) Shipping     EXCELLENT SHIPPING OPTIONS - Too many to mention.  Your site will automatically calculate shipping based on weight, qty, price and more!  Shippers include UPS, USPS, Fed-Ex and any table based option you can imagine.  Real-time UPS, USPS, Fed-Ex and table based shipping calculations     Zone based shipping conditions     Conditional shipping scenarios to allow free local shipping and other special cases  Checkout      Return customer tracking - Allow your customers to login to avoid re-keying their shipping address.  Allow customers to easily re-order from previous orders.  And more.    Optional customer account to avoid re-entry of shipping information     Optional separate shipping and billing addresses     Configurable fields upon checkout to collect data or simplify checkout Accept credit card payment/processing online      CREDIT CARD AND E-CHECK PROCESSING - Your customers will feel secure and comfortable when buying from your store.  The entire process is seamless throughout.  It is intuitive and easy to use just like any of the "big guys'" web sites. Fraud protection features like address verification and 3 digit code included.  Authorize.net    Amazon Pay    Stripe    2CheckOut    Verisign    Echo    Paypal    First Data Global    QuickBooks    SkipJack    PlugnPay    Manual Sell Downloadable Products    Sell software and downloadable products with optional expiring download link   Tax Calculations     CONFIGURABLE TAX CALCULATIONS - Be ready for any tax law change.  Calculate special tax considerations by state, city and even zip code.  Don't pay extra when the time comes.  All federal rules are handled automatically.    Configurable tax calculations to handle even local scenarios Avalara Integration TaxJar Integration Search   FLEXIBLE SEARCH - Unlike most solutions, you can configure ANY field in your product database to be searchable.   Drop-Shipping   DROP SHIPPING FEATURES - Automatically notify your drop shippers with new orders.  The shipping fees of multiple products from multiple dropshippers in the same order will correctly calculate.  Drop shipping is now a breeze! Quick Books   If you have Quick Books it can integrate directly with our shopping cart. Save time manually transferring information. Order Management    COMPLETE ORDER MANAGEMENT - Sort and view your orders.  Assign order status like "Shipped" or "Backordered" while your customer is automatically notified via e-mail.  Attach the shipping tracking number too.  Custom shipping options can be configured in seconds.    TRACK REFERRED BUYERS - With the use of a special URL you can track what web site or link your order originated from.  You can even export this report to EXCEL and calculate commissions. E-mail Status Notifications    ORDER NOTIFICATION - When a customer purchases from your site they will recieve an automatic invoice of the transaction.    CUSTOMER STATUS NOTIFICATIONS - When you receive a customer order, you can update the order to any user configurable status.  You can assign status per order OR per-line item.  Your choice.    E-MAIL SHIPPING/TRACKING NUMBERS - Notify your customer of his shipment tracking number via e-mail using the order status.  Your customer will receive this notification via e-mail and feel a sense of comfort knowing their order is on the way. Powerful Marketing and Re-Marketing Tools    Mass e-mail any previous customer with specials and newsletters.  Provide a powerful Mailer/Newletter Creator that will deliver 10 pre-written e-mails in 10 days (as an example). You can customize this feature to entice visitors to give you valuable contact information so you can include them in future promotions and newsletters. Eventually winning them as your client. You could pay $50.00 per month for ONLY this one feature. We provide this for FREE!  Provide suggested items and change specials on your web site pages anytime with our powerful content management features.  Leverage coupons and gift certificates   Use wish lists to determine when to put certain items on sale

Your Customers Can See a Shipping Amount and Check out Faster. Increasing your sales revenues!

In our E-commerce module you get the flexibility you want when it comes to choosing shipping options.

Calculate Real Time prices from all of the major shippers(such as UPS, FED EX, DHL, USPS, Freightquote)

You don't want to use real time calculations?  NO PROBLEM.  Setup shipping prices however you like.  Charge a specific price per product, or make some flat rates based on weight or Order total, or QTY.

You won't find a more flexible shipping integration!

Calculate shipping by region.  If you don't want to ship to certain states or countries...NO PROBLEM!

Want to offer Free shipping over a certain order amount? NO PROBLEM!

Want to offer new customers a Shipping discount?  NO PROBLEM!

With our E-commerce module you get:
UNLIMITED Products

UNLIMITED Product options (such as specifying size, color, etc..)

UNLIMITED Product Fields (such as Product description, Sku, Name, Manufacturer, etc..)

CUSTOM or AUTOMATIC Meta data

AUTOMATIC Product Image alt text from a field that you specify.
SUGGEST as many of your products

POPULAR PRODUCTS - See what items you sell that are most popular and FEATURE THEM!

UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH.  NO CEILING FOR YOU HERE WHEN IT COMES TO BANDWIDTH!

REAL TIME Traffic Monitor

Easy to use Webmail client created from RoundCube.  

   See a list of RoundCube webmail features below: 

E-mail Status Notifications

MEMBER SIGN UP NOTIFICATION -

When a customer Signs up to your site they will receive an automatic notification.

When a user makes a purchase on your site you will be notified, they will be notifed as well.

Vendors can receive notifications when an item is purchased

When a blog post is created, users that have subscribed to those posts will be notified via email

Easily add contact forms, information request forms and more with ease. No limit to how many forms you can have. Security included preventing hackers from accessing and stealing your data.

Forms can have many purposes, such as:

Survey's

Contact form

Questionaire

File submit form

Feedback

Testimonials

Suggestions

The forms are completely customizable and can fit your needs.  You will get an email notification of the form when its filled out, along with the tracking information of the user on how they got to your form.  And the data will be stored in your WebsiteForge members area in the "Posted Data" area as well.

You can export posted data to excel.

Advanced users will appreciate the ability to upload and manage files and designs directly on the web server via FTP.

Code view gives advanced editors direct access to the HTML and CSS. Just click an icon to switch between visual editing and code view.

Easily Embed widgets, videos, and any 3rd party Iframe or CSS code to give you the ultimate control over your pages.

This is a FREE HTML Mass Mail option included with your website!

Make sure everyone that visits your web site has a chance to leave their "footprint". Offer a newsletter so you can market and re-market to people interested in your products and services.

Mass e-mail any previous customer with specials and newsletters.

Unlimited Members (no charge for this)

Unlimited Mailings (no charge!)

Unlimited Campaigns

Provide a powerful Mailer/Newletter Creator that will deliver 10 pre-written e-mails in 10 days (as an example). You can customize this feature to entice visitors to give you valuable contact information so you can include them in future promotions and newsletters. Eventually winning them as your client. DON'T pay $50.00 per month for ONLY this one feature! We provide this for FREE!

 Provide suggested items and change specials on your web site pages anytime with our powerful content management features.

 Leverage coupons and gift certificates.

 Use wish lists to determine when you should put a certain product on sale.

You can utilize ANY HTML newsletter design that you can find online.  You are not limited by any 1 particular design or template!

Upload, resize and Insert Images.

Easy to use Java Uploader will upload large quantities of images at a time.  Or the individual image uploader will upload single images at a time.  Both are very easy to use. 

You can also upload and manage files.  Such as Pdf, Doc, Docx, xls, and MORE...

Easily link images and text to your documents for quick downloads.

Image sliders, Rotating images, Carousel image animations are very popular.  Almost every site has some variation of images going across a website.

Our custom image slider has a lot of great features!  

You can link your images to pages or external URL's. 

You can show text over, under or to the side of your slider.  

You can format that text however you like.  

You can size the slider and the individual slides independently.

Multiple transistions between slides.

We are adding new features to this tool all the time.

With our membership module you can have some flexibility with how your members interact with your site.

You can setup "sign up packages".  Members can join for free.  Or you can charge a one time, monthly or charge every (x) days for membership.  You can also give a "free trial" period.

You can give members access to specific pages.  You can choose which members can have access to which pages.  You can give special pricing in the in the E-Commerce module based on a specific group. (For example you can have a Retail member group, and Wholesale member group.  then grant different pricing to each group)

Members can create Gift lists and Wish lists in the E-Commerce module.

Members can subscribe to blogs

You can mail your members several different kinds of notifications.  Some automated some manually generated.

If you need to display popup messages when people enter or exit your web site, we can help. No custom programming required.

You can have an entry pop up, exit pop up on ANY page in your site that you want! included!

Advanced photo gallery is packed with features and easy to use!

The absolute simplest photo gallery tool. Just upload your digital images and you've got an instant slide-show built right in. Choose from a variety of ways to display your images. Also, you can reorder, rename, and even add rich-text captions to your images.

Website Forge's Photo Gallery is very versitile and available on every Website Forge website.

With the Photo Gallery you have the ability to add a Slide Show to highlight your products, services or anything you'd like.

Photo Gallery Features
	Intuitive and simple user interface.
	Clean, lightweight and extremely fast loading by pre-loading photos
	Easy to create thumbnails of all your images and choose the size you wish the thumbnail to display at.
	Highly customizable layout; The look and feel of gallery controls can be customized to seamlessly blend into your website design.
	Automatically rotate images with autostart option.
	The Java Uploader in Image Gallery allows you select and upload multiple image files and cancel running file uploads, add new files during uploading.
	Visitors can comment on your photos
	Creates unlimited galleries and upload unlimited photos.
	Real time progress bar keeps track of every photo upload and allows users to watch how much of photo has been uploaded.
	Optimized with Google Page Speed
	Ability to resize the upload images.
	Customize Image Category views by: Fully Expanded, Dropdowns, or Level by Level
	Image layout options such as: Show as many Rows as you like, Show as many Columns as you like, Show Thumbnails, Detailed View will allow a full description of your images, User Controlled Sort Order, User Controlled Qty viewed on page, Image shown as "Zoomed", Show image in a larger image field.
	Powerful admin functions allow you to add, edit and delete photos.
	Adds captions to each photo.
	Details view fully customizable with features like: External and Internal Linking, Full Detailed Description about your image, Adjust Size (choose thumbnail size and full image view size)
	Easily Import or Export Images including all of the information associated with your images such as, Name, Links, SEO data, Active Status, Category Name.
	Image SEO couldn't be easier and gives you TONS of control.  You can: Specify Alt image text by Field. (this simplifies and expidites your process), Update Page title and Meta Data based on The image info selected or Category Selected.  You can choose. Customize Meta Description info or use the Images Description for Meta Data, Customize Meta Keywords or use the Image Title field for keywords.  You CHOOSE! :)  Share your images via Social Media

Search Engine Optimization is not a one and done kind of thing.  Your website should grow and change with your business.  The search engines look for certain elements in a website.  Our system is designed to make it easier for you to keep these key elements updated so that the search engines can easily know about your products and services.  Whether you are looking to offer a local service or want to sell products worldwide.  Our tools will help you get organic results in the search engines.

Why are organic results important?

Organic search results are important because it's a ranking that you don't pay for, you earn.  When you earn a good ranking it's longer lasting than paying for a couple click ads that may or may not help your sales.

Initial Search Engine Setup and Submission.

The initial setup and submission is included with your website, this will include a walk through and training on how to use the built in tools for SEO.  Ways to find the most optimal keywords and keyword phrases for your business.  And submission to all the major search engines.

Overview of some of the awesome features we offer for SEO:

Your Sitemap file is automatically updated every time you make a change, save and publish your site.  those changes are submitted to the search engines regularly.

A unique URL is automatically made for all of your categories, products, blog posts, AD(if you have the AD package), and Image Gallery items.  This saves you HOURS of manual input to create a unique URL.

You can easily customize a URL for any page.

Meta Data is easily accessible, and for many processes in our system you can choose to generate that information automatically based of of information already supplied on your site.

You are supplied with real time visitor tracking, abandoned carts, search history and inactive sessions (and that information can be emailed to you regularly)

Site stats are also available with lots of valuable information like links from, unique visitor history, pages visited and SO much more!

You can create an automated search page for your 404 page, this can help visitors find stuff on your site when you make changes or if you remove pages.

There are many more advantages our system has but we can't give away all of our secrets.  Let's just say our system is power packed and you won't be disappointed!

Our website backend is easy to use. You can edit text, images, add videos, links, and more — very simple to use.

With our easy to use content editor you can make changes to your web site easily on YOUR schedule.  And with unlimited support you can get assistance as often as you need it.  Upload images, videos or change content with simplicity and ease.

CMT - Content Management Tool Includes:

Create unlimited pages, add, edit content, and manage your website with ease. Getting started is easy.

Setup Automatic New Product Notifications to send to Facebook and Twitter

  Push Blog Posts to Facebook and Twitter

  Allow users to "Like", "Google+" and "Pin" your individual Items(Advanced Gallery Items and E-Commerce Items) AND Pages

  Allow users to subscribe to your Blog as an RSS Feed

   Allow users to Share your pages via Email

  Link to, or feature your Tumblr account

  Push a notification to Facebook and Twitter when you Publish your site, enticing people to come and check out something NEW on your site!

Link to, or feature your LinkedIn account

Link to, or feature your Instagram account

Link to, or feature your YouTube account

Link to, or feature your Yelp account

With our built in website analytics powered by AWStats, there is an ubundance of information available to you about visits to your website.  See some details below:

WebsiteForge has a tool that can share your E-commerce database with multiple sites.  This allows you to target different audiences easily with different sites using your core product base.

This tool makes it easy to manage your products for many sites in 1 place.  Imagine you add a new product and BOOM all sites have the new item.  And they can even have different prices!

There is a masking option so you can control what information goes to what site.  

This will allow you to be more flexible with the target audience you are looking to capture with your websites.  Best of all this doesn't mean doubling the amount of work, at least not in the back end of your member's area.  This option will give you a master area where you can update and add your items and inventory, that will update across all of your sites.  You can choose how unique you want the data to be per site TOO!

AutoShip Products

Do you want to sell your products on a recurring basis?

This amazing feature let's you offer your users the ability to have an auto-shipment that will send out the item on a recurring interval.  You set the intervals that you want to offer for your products.  You choose what products you want to allow an auto ship.

You can even offer a discount specifically for items that are autoshipped. (such as 5% off when you add to Recurring shipment)

You can setup shipping specifically for the Autoshipped items. (such as Free shipping for orders over $XX, or Flat rate shipping on auto shipped orders)

This feature is only included in our premium hosting package.  Contact Us today if you are interested in upgrading or buying a new site that can automatically collect recurring revenue for you.

Companies that use this type of feature is the Wine of the month club, chewy.com, dollarshaveclub.com, amazon.com and so many more!

• Setup recurring billing for products
• Setup recurring billing for memberships
• Offer discounts for products that are ordered with autoship
• Create recurring revenue with your products
• Order reports included Instant shipping calculations from all major shippers (UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL)
• Integration with social media (Make it super easy for users to Share, Tweet, Pin or G+ your products!)
• Unlimited Products Unlimited Bandwidth

• Connect to their 150+ dropship supplier network or add your own private supplier.
• Auto-upload product data & keep inventory in sync; no manual file imports.
• Auto-send orders and sync shipment tracking.
• Push supplier products to virtually any online store, platform, or marketplace.

Google Shopping has a way for users to submit their products.  WebsiteForge has a way to AUTOMATICALLY submit your products to Google Shopping for FREE!  This can happen on a scheduled basis and can help your products rank better with Google.

This integration will put your products on amazon for sale.  Think of WebsiteForge like a master dashboard for your sales.  You can see your sales from your website and from Amazon all in one place.  Your inventory updates no matter where the sale is made.

Inventory tracking: QOH values are synchronized automatically every 15 minutes. This means if an order is placed on your website,  QOH values of your items are sent to Amazon. Also if an order is placed on Amazon, QOH values of your  items are decreased automatically in WebsiteForge.

Import Amazon Shipped orders: There is an option "Import Amazon Shipped Orders". If it's on, successfully shipped Amazon orders are exported into your WF orders list with the status defined in the "Order Status for Imported Orders" setting.

This feature is included with our upgraded managed services package or as an Addon to your Hosting Plus package for an additional fee.  For more information about the different monthly managed service packages please feel free to contact us. 

Our concierge service can be used to send us any content changes that you would like us to do for you.

Such as updating a phone number, email address.  creating a new form for you.  uploading one of your images and applying it to a page.  Adding or adjusting shipping options. Adding or adjusting coupons and discounts.

AND MORE....

concierge service covers content/page entry or editing existing content/pages from your WebsiteForge Member's Area

concierge service when purchased with the Advanced Hosting Package for E-commerce includes an unlimited amount of time of changes that we do for you.

Turn around time on requests can vary depending on the request made.  Requests are not handled immediately on demand.

Remote hands can be used to send us any content changes that you would like us to do for you.

Such as updating a phone number, email address.  creating a new form for you.  uploading one of your images and applying it to a page.  Adding or adjusting shipping options.  Adding or adjusting coupons and discounts.

AND MORE....

Remote hands covers content/page entry or editing existing content/pages from your WebsiteForge Member's Area

Remote Hands does not cover graphics edits, product entry (if eCommerce site), design changes, or help with custom programming..(unless you have accumulated enough time to cover the cost of them).  Also, Remote Hands does not cover any SEO work.
 

Security - Locked Down Code Hacker Prevention System w/5 Levels of Security. With over 30,000 Hacker attempts per month no Hacker has ever made it past Level 1. When you invest $500 - $5000 in having your site created isn't it a good idea to protect it from being taken down and deleted by a Hacker? Lower level services charge up to $49/mo for this feature alone. Once again, no other hosting company on the market offers this level of protection for you site

The Age Verification pop up is required for vape, vaporizer, and e-cigarette websites. 

This feature throws up a verification box that requires a user to click 1 of 2 options.  

If the user clicks the option indicating they are not of age to be on your site making purchases, you can direct them to an external URL.  This can also be useful if you have a wine or online liquor store.  Giving you peace of mind that your shoppers are of age. :)