Satchmo Features

Current Features

Satchmo strives to be extremely flexible.

• All display items are driven by templates using the powerful Django templating language
• All urls can be custom configured to your desired naming convention
• The checkout process can be tailored to your specific needs

Satchmo support many payment modules including:

• Authorize.net
• Trustcommerce
• Google checkout
• Cybersource
• Paypal

Satchmo has flexible shipping options and allows you to create your own. Satchmo includes:

• UPS integration
• Fedex integration
• Flat rate shipping
• Multi-tiered shipping

Satchmo’s has robust support for multiple product types including:

• Downloadable products
• Subscription products
• Custom configured products
• Product variants
• Gift certificates

All products offer you the opportunity to have:

• As many images per product as you would like
• Automatice thumbnail creation for the images
• Unlimited categories and sub categories
• Support for multiple pricing and discounting tiers based on volume
• Inventory tracking including SKU’s and preventing users from ordering out of stock items
• Meta data support for SEO
• Featured items
• Tax tables
• Related products
• Arbitrary attributes
• Multiple translations per product
• Flexible variant creation (shirts with sizes and colors) including price changes for combinations
• Allow user to comment and rate products

The customer model allows you to:

• Have multiple ship to and bill to addresses
• View order history
• Update account profile online
• Reset user passwords
• Require email verification for account creation

Satchmo supports discount codes which allow you to:

• Set amount of percentage discounts
• Limit the number of uses
• Allow free shipping
• Set start and end dates
• Limit to certain products

Satchmo includes extensive Internationalization and translation support:

• Multiple translations are included:

  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Bulgarian
  • Portuguese
  • Korean

• Full country specific information

• Translation support for all products and categories

• Support for date and currency formating based on locale

Satchmo takes security seriously:

• Django provides built in support to prevent many common attacks such as:

  • SQL injection
  • Automatic HTML escaping to prevent cross-site scripting
  • Session forging/hijacking

• Satchmo encrypts all credit card information

• Satchmo does not store ccv data in the database

• Fine grained ssl support for as many or as few urls as you need

Django is a proven scalable and robust system. Satchmo takes advantage of this by using:

• Django caching
• Opportunity to easily split out the tiers of the application (database, web, etc)
• A large suite of unit tests

In addition to these items, Satchmo provides:

• Generation of PDF invoices, packing slips and shipping labels
• Full store product searching
• Google analytic integration
• Google adwords support
• Google base feeds
• Newsletter support via mailman or custom database
• Recently viewed items
• Wishlists