Agfa Graphics has just released the newest version of its cloud-based, web-to-print workflow system StoreFront 3.0, designed for the Commercial Printing (Apogee) and Display/Signage (Asanti) markets. Apogee and Asanti StoreFront 3.0 give printers a series of new features to promote their service offerings to their customers and reach new markets online.
“At the moment our largest StoreFront account is a print service provider who is running 51 B2B stores for different clientele,” said Andy Grant, Head of Software at Agfa Graphics. “Today, StoreFront serves more than one million pages per month, a number that illustrates very well the potential of this market.”
One of the new StoreFront 3.0 features is the use of animated ‘carousel banners’ and the ‘custom footer’ function on store pages. The ability for print shop owners to either provide information to shoppers or promote specific products or services allows them to optimize their store for their needs and use it as a marketing tool as well. The HTML5 banners are easy to set up and display properly on mobile devices. The footer function can be used to add contact data or payment and shipping information on store pages.
“From the start, our StoreFront solution was developed with automation in mind,” Grant added. “The tight integration with the Apogee or Asanti workflow is extremely powerful and saves printers a lot of time because incoming orders are automatically processed. With the new releases, we focus more on the business side of web-to-print, enabling printers to create bigger, more efficient stores, operate in larger markets, support electronic document creation and distributions, and handle various payment models and invoicing.”
StoreFront 3.0 now also supports price rounding, either per item or for the total order value. Business customers with stores aimed at international visitors now have better control over international value-added taxes (VAT). In countries where it’s customary to add a surcharge for credit card payments, such fees can now be added to the order total.
Agfa Graphics launches Version 3.0 of its StoreFront web-to-print workflow
