Product Catalog

Publications and subscriptions constitute a significant source of revenue for most associations. Many associations build a substantial catalog of products to be sold at conferences, by mail, or online. Placing this catalog on your website provides members and customers with easy access to the information they want, which increases sales.

Before ISGweb, many associations had to choose whether they wanted real-time integration between the products and financial processes defined in iMIS or a flexible, information-rich product presentation online. ISGweb lets you have both.

ISGweb applies best practices from leading e-commerce vendors like Amazon.com to implement layout of product details, pricing, advanced product searching, and fulfillment. It also supports the unique business needs of associations, placing emphasis on publications, subscriptions, free information and electronic content.

With ISGweb, you can organize your product catalog for the Web by setting up multiple overlapping categories, such as product type, topic, audience, media, and special sale status. You're not limited to the one product category set up in iMIS for staff processing purposes.

Your product catalog is fully searchable. Users can search quickly using shortcuts for common catalog searches or use advanced search that combines selection criteria.

Your catalog can display full product details, including illustrations, publication demographics, abstracts, excerpts, and related products. People can subscribe or renew subscriptions to periodicals and purchase back issues of journals and magazines at the same time. Purchased pdf files are automatically presented to the user for download upon checkout.

Online sale prices automatically reflect member/non-member pricing and other special pricing, such as quantity discounts and pricing by customer class.

The payment screen is bypassed for any items in the catalog that are available for free.

Users can view a list of invoices comprising their complete history of purchases, drill down to details, and submit payment online for any invoices with an outstanding balance.

Links to more information about ISGweb for iMIS:
Fact sheet (PDF, 1.05 MB)
ISGweb for iMIS FAQ
ISGweb architecture
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