Merchant Group Software

 

 

  • Management and Advertising System for Merchant Groups in U.S.A.

    Included Merchant Group Modules

Use of our fully integrated system will manage everything from:

  • scheduling downtown events,

  • to delivering the most beautiful monthly newsletters using the online template system,

  • to sharing your entire community through a website where all of your members are showcased,

  • and you receive a website that you can manage without a web-master. 

  • Have downtown events?  If so, then the system will let you sell exhibit areas with chairs, power or anything else, bill members via traditional invoices, or electronic billing for their participation. 

A premiere system that Merchant Groups want to buy because its affordable, and returns BIG benefits! 


More than a Member Database

EcTownUSA's Merchant Group Software includes a variety of features that can assist you in managing your organization.  It includes a full-featured member database system to allow you to track members and communicate with them, sophisticated content management tools to easily keep your website's information up-to-date, and an event registration system to handle downtown events, meetings, mixers, local sporting events, and even seminars.

In addition, our Merchant's Group Software is designed to be a seamless add-on to an exisiting website (or we create one for you that you manage). The Merchant's Group Software provides an online member's area where members can respond to polls, participate in message boards, change their contact info, update their traffic catcher site, add podcasting videos for advertising and much more.

Along with everything listed above, the following MODULES are also included:


Merchant Database- a full-featured member database system. Track member data, membership plans, business categories for shoppers, notes, and custom fields.

Merchant Directory - a powerful search appliance that not only works as a sophisticated member directory, but also includes full text search that extends into your members online presence. Also provides you with daily statistics on member business views and more.

Event Registration- allows members and non-members to sign up and pay fees for downtown events, planning conferences, seminars, and other complex events.

Member Billing System- a package to manage dues payments. Produce invoices for dues, track payments, send email renewal notifications, past due notifications, and more.

Online Dues Payment / Donations- allow your members to pay their dues online. Includes interfaces for PayPal™, Authorize.Net™, Linkpoint™ and other payment gateways.

Broadcast Email System- easily send a message to all members, or selected members via an easy-to-use interface.

Community Update Broadcast - easily send a community update to all public visitors who have joined your mailing list, to all merchants (even non-members), or selected members via an easy-to-use interface.

Email List-Services- can be integrated with the member database. Email list-serv's make it easy to send broadcast emails to members, prospects, and organization officers. 

Polling and Opinion Surveys- poll your members to get feedback or ask their opinions.

Custom Reporting- Set up an unlimited number of custom reports to print formatted member lists, address lists, mailing labels, and more...

Branding- seamlessly alter the look of the Merchant's Group Software to match the rest of your website by customizing the colors and adding customized headers and footers.

Integrated with ConstantContact HTML Email Campaigns- seamlessly work with your ConstantContact account to deliver the most beautiful communications possible.

Project Pages / Committee Pages- allow members to sign up for projects, classes, committees, and events. Easily update pages detailing your various projects/committees.

Event Calendar- easily updateable online, the event calendar features all of your organization's upcoming events. The event calendar can be public and/or members-only. Various formats are available. The calendar was developed to be shared throughout an entire community allowing limited access to other organizations of your choice in your community.  We put the Merchants Group in the center of every shopping community.

Content Manager- for many websites, this tool can be configured to allow non-tech users to easily update and format various sections of text within their website. Included with our latest release, the ability to manage your own website sections including; About Us, Important Information, History, Recognition, and Things to Do.

Moving News Scroller- Now you can create your own Merchant Group news that scrolls on your main website and any others in the community that would like to showcase the merchant news.  When the Merchants Group updates the news it updates all websites who carry this news instantly.

Online Member's Area- the member's area is where you can limit access to some of your information to "members only". The Member's Area also allows members the ability to change their own name & address info.

Message Boards- allow members to conduct ongoing discussions online.

Photo Album- publish an album of photos of your shopping areas, members stores, members, and projects. Photos can be labeled and the album can be published quickly to your website with no technical knowledge.

Job Board- may be posted on your website, or within the members-only area.  A terrific way for merchants to post jobs and the public to apply online.

File Archive- share documents with your board/officers and members. Post documents such as newsletters and meeting minutes.

Community Media and Posting Center- have you ever been approached to distribute flyers throughout your community? Now you have a very non-technical way to post media files on the Internet in a flash and then distribute them an various ways online.

Students Business Member Marketing- as a customer you can provide the local school district with the most powerful community promotional system ever seen from a Merchant's Group.  Convert your members into suppliers to the Schools Fundraising Program.

FREE Support Center- Unike many software companies we do not charge for technical support for both the merchants group, and its members.  We believe when our support costs get too high there must be something in our software that needs to be made easier.

 
All of these features are maintained via an easy-to-use web-based system.