Calligram Application Server is an integrated Content Management System and Ecommerce Server.

Main Features 

General Content Management

• Upload and edit text and images

• Create customised content and organise it by attributes you specify

User Accounts and Security

• Allow users to sign-up to your site.

• Provide custom content to individual users.

Advanced Content Management and Workflow

• Assign privileges to users to control which areas of the site they can visit and manage.

• Place content under revision control so that a complete history of all changes and who made them can be maintained.

• Enforce workflow rules to ensure that no item of new or changed content can be made available to the public before being signed off by users with appropriate privileges.

• Apply embargo dates to any item of content, so that they appear and disappear from the website automatically on the given dates.

• Offer your site in any language.

Discussion Forums

• Create and manage discussion forums

• Use advanced discussion forums for issue-tracking

Ecommerce

• Create ecommerce stores with built in integration with a range of credit-card processing companies.

• Let the ecommerce system manage keeping track of your stock levels.

• Take preorders for out of stock or future products, only charging customers when the new stock arrives.

• Create special offers giving customers discounts, three-for-two and many other types of promotion.

• Limit the availability of special offers only to customers with a given level of site membership.

• Sell site memberships with weekly, monthly or annual payments.

• Create incentive schemes for customers so that they accumulate points for each purchase. Points can be redeemed against certain products.

• Sign up affiliates and other partners to the site. Offer customers who have been referred by one of these partners a discount, and pay the referrer a commission on sales. Commissions can be paid in cash or points.

• Connect to external warehousing and fulfillment to automatically manage order delivery and stock control.

• Allow users to review any site content, posting their rating and a written comment.

• Keep track of sold products by storing e.g. Serial numbers. Let the system manage tracking each item's status e.g. Shipping, Delivered, Installed, Commissioned, Faulty, Returned etc.

Images and Files

• Make any sort of file available for download and track who downloads each file and when. Great for creating extranets.

• Easily manage image libraries, with the system taking care of generating thumbnails and other web-optimised versions of each image.

Forms

• Easily create and manage a wide range of forms which can be used to create new objects of any kind in the database. Use this to create questionnaires, ask for feedback, sign-up new users etc.

CRM

• Build customised mailshots and send them to registered users or previous ecommerce customers according to a wide variety of criteria.

Geographical Data

• Manage geographical information so that e.g. You can provide listings of all restaurants in the UK and let customers choose the nearest one to them by type.

• and much more