Avactis, the easy-to-use PHP shopping cart system (now with hosted solutions), is giving away 3 "Owned" licenses ($249/license) to WRD readers with celebrating the launch of their hosted version and hosting bonuses.

What is Avactis?

This previously-shared application is a very flexible shopping cart which can power any type of e-commerce website whether it has few or 1000s of products.

It lets you to create unlimited categories, add unlimited products and define detailed + categorized (thanks to the "custom fields" feature) information about them.

Avactis

The application has many tools to help selling the products like the ability to create any type of promotions (discount codes, price-based or quantity discounts), built-in affiliate system, newsletter management and more.

Its interface is totally customizable with the support for theming, integrated with 40+ payment systems and can be extended with modules.

To sum up, Avactis is a robust enough to create and control an online store. And, besides the paid ones, it also has a free version.

Avactis Payment Systems

Announcement of hosted plans and hosting bonuses

Avactis used to be only a downloadable product where you can install to your own servers. Right now, they are offering a hosted version where setup, backup, optimization, etc. are taken care of.

And, until April 28th, there are special hosting bonuses offered:

  • Standard plan, 1 month
    • Bonus: Free Setup
  • Standard plan, 6 months pre-pay
    • Bonus: 3 extensions pre-installed for free* (worth $82.85)
  • Standard plan, 1 year pre-pay
    • Bonus: SSL Certificate pre-installed for free (worth $149.00)
    • Bonus: 3 extensions pre-installed for free* (worth $82.85)
  • Professional plan, 1 month
    • Bonus: Free Setup
  • Professional plan, 6 months pre-pay
    • Bonus: SSL Certificate pre-installed for free (worth $149.00)
    • Bonus: 5 extensions pre-installed for free** (worth $118.75)

The good part is, every hosting plan includes free support from the company besides the included license.

The giveaway of licenses

In order to get a chance to win one of the 3 "Owned" licenses being given away, simply comment to this post and winners will be selected with the query below on 26 April 2011 (1 week later):

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2202 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3

Good luck to all.

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