WEB-TO-PRINT / ECOMMERCE SOLUTIONS
EFI Digital StoreFront
Premium or Essential
Choose the Best EFI eCommerce
Platform for Your Business Needs
Cutomizable Submission and
Communication Platform
EFI™ Digital StoreFront
®is a customizable platform for print businesses that
provides a unique online shopping and ordering experience for your customers
and serves as a seamless onramp to your production workflow. It comes in two
versions to meet your specific needs.
Digital StoreFront Premium
is for print businesses that need the full range of procurement
and production capabilities immediately. The flexible solution can be deployed from the
cloud and includes an eCommerce shopping cart, pricing, approvals, job ticketing, tracking
and status, a variable data engine, the credit card gateway module, an unlimited number
of brandable storefronts and content and file management capabilities to enhance your
customer experience and increase productivity. In addition, Digital StoreFront Premium can
be enhanced via optional modules such as additional print shops.
Digital StoreFront Essential
is an entry-level web-to-print solution that is deployed from the
cloud and provides a standard eCommerce shopping cart, approvals, job ticketing, tracking
and status, pricing, and content and file management capabilities. This solution allows you to
upgrade to Digital StoreFront Premium as your business grows.
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EFI Digital StoreFront provides a complete, streamlined workflow from the document creator,
through the print production environment, to finishing and delivery. The feature-rich and
industry-leading web-to-print functionality provided by Digital StoreFront is described below.
Digital StoreFront Features
Branded Store Front Web Site
One of the first needs a printing operation has in choosing a Web solution is to be able to project its corporate identity via the web site. Digital StoreFront provides the ability for you to extensively customize the look and feel of your site, and to provide a unique branding for your online presence. Customization of your Digital StoreFront site extends beyond home page text and color schemes to allow you to change virtually each and every text string and button in the product.
Online Catalog
Digital StoreFront provides web-based online catalogs of graphics, documents, forms, files and even non-print items like advertising specilaities, corporate logo merchandise or apparel. Simply browse catagories, select a catalog item, add it to the shopping cart and place the order. It’s that easy.
Job Submission
Digital StoreFront provides an end-to-end workflow solution for first time job submission. But expecting end users to create their own PDF files from native applications (like Microsoft® Office Word and PowerPoint®)
presents challenges—the files may or may not be optimized for production on your output devices, and may not include the vital assets required to print properly. Digital StoreFront addresses these challenges by providing Print Messenger for files coming into the system.
Print Messenger
EFI’s PrintMessenger PDF generating print driver is included standard with Digital StoreFront and provides unlimited distribution to your user community. PrintMessenger lets you determine the settings that will be used for PDF conversion, removing the burden of asking users to figure out PDF settings, and eliminating the need for your staff to troubleshoot native or PDF submissions. PrintMessenger provides clear communication to the user during file conversion and upload. The ability to send multiple files, from multiple desktop applications to the Digital StoreFront server in one easy workflow, is standard. This enables you to support a variety of office documents and image formats.
JDF-Based Job Tickets
Even novice users can explain to the print center how they want their job produced with Digital StoreFront’s revolutionary JDF-based job ticketing and visual job ticket wizards. Pre-defined tickets can be deployed as “product” choices (e.g., “brochure” or “three ring binder”) with graphics that help the user decide which ticket is most appropriate for the job they wish to produce.
Order Status, Order History and Re-Order
Customers can manage their jobs, see the production status of submitted jobs, and place re-orders via the Web browser interface. Order history also makes it easy for users to view and accept price quotes automatically.
Shopping Cart and Approvals
Customers are accustomed to using Internet sites that incorporate shopping carts. Digital StoreFront makes it easy for users to experience the power of online print ordering by providing a familiar storefront and shopping cart user interface - making it easy to deploy the application enterprise-wide, without the burden of extensive end user training.
Credit Card Processing
Digital StoreFront includes support for multiple payment methods, including support for major credit cards and corporate purchasing cards through the deployment of the Credit Card Processing Gateway module. Customers enter their credit card information into an SSL-encrypted, secure site and the transaction is processed directly with the credit card vendor (a separate merchant account is required).
Standard Features
Continued
Order and Operator Views
Digital StoreFront provides your staff with unparalleled visibility into incoming orders from the Web site, and gives them the control they need to seamlessly flow jobs into your production operation.
The Order View clearly provides a configurable screen where operators can view, control and manage entered jobs, edit and print job tickets, see what has been printed (and where), move jobs from one facility to another and much more.
Workflow Integration and Fiery Connectivity
Digital StoreFront provides one of the most important missing pieces in a complete print center workflow: the integration of the customer’s job information with your production systems. A standard, included feature with Digital StoreFront is integration with EFI workflow solutions. In facilities that have Fiery®, EFI Fiery Central and/or EFI MicroPress®-based
digital printers, jobs flow directly from Digital StoreFront to the appropriate production device with the click of a mouse. There’s no manual
intervention required to put jobs into production.
EFI Pace Connector
EFI Digital StoreFront is fully integrated with EFI Pace® to provide the
automatic, bi-directional exchange of order and inventory information. It enables both systems to deploy in a shared production environment without minimizing production. This offering alleviates the need for manual data entry.
Reporting
Reports provide a key channel for sharing information between managers and senior staff. Digital StoreFront comes standard with a host of useful pre-defined reports.
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Capture and Manage More
Work with a Unique Customer
Shopping Experience
Digital StoreFront offers your customers a unique print-centric shopping experience that allows them
to easily order print products and services in a single, centralized platform – a unified “storefront.”
Check out the Digital StoreFront advantage for your business model:
Facilities Management (FM) Service Providers
You need a compelling way to drive print volume from corporate customers to your facility. Digital StoreFront answers the need by providing a single “branded” look and feel to users for on-site manned print room or off-site closed-door facility. It makes job submission easier for users, while streamlining production to increase margins and improve staffing flexibility.
Corporate Enterprises
Digital StoreFront can reduce the loss of volume and dollars to desktop and external resources by making it easier for customers to take advantage of your sophisticated production options, while lowering your enterprise cost-per-page.
Retail and Commercial Print Businesses
Digital StoreFront extends your retail counter to the Internet and builds customer relationships. Digital StoreFront provides the platform that you need to attract new customers, secure additional business from existing clients, and generate higher margins through improved efficiency.
Digital StoreFront provides the tools
you need to succeed with your
customers, capture more print work,
and produce it more efficiently than
ever before.
Grow your business with a solution that fits your needs. Whether you’re an in-plant
printer, a small commercial printer or part of a larger print franchise, you’ll face the
same pressures of delivering top quality work under tight deadlines to demanding
customers. EFI makes offering Digital StoreFront to your customers easy with a
SaaS deployment model.
Get Instant Access to
EFI Digital StoreFront
Sit Back and Let EFI Do All the Work
with a SaaS Solution
With Digital StoreFront no hardware investment, maintenance, nor local database expertise are required. You don’t have to hire staff to manage a web server and there are no capacity planning, backup or security concerns.
EFI ensures that Digital StoreFront is up and running 24/7 so your customers can place orders whenever and wherever they want. Predictable on-going costs and rapid time-to-deploy can be advantageous even for a large IT organization. It means you can concentrate on providing your customers with the best print solutions in the business and EFI can concentrate on making sure everything runs smoothly.
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Which Digital StoreFront eCommerce Platform Is Best for You?
EFI Digital StoreFront
PLATFORM Premium Essential
Deployment
SaaS/EFI-Hosted
3
3
Reports
Online Administrator Reports
Dynamic Query Tool & Standard Pre-Defined Reports Standard Pre-Defined Reports
PROCUREMENT Premium Essential
eCommerce
Print Procurement Platform
3
3
Multiple Payment Methods
3
3
Pricing Engine Unlimited
Price Lists Price ListSingle
Credit Card Processing
3
3
StoreFronts
Number of StoreFronts included in
Platform Purchase StoreFrotnsUnlimited StoreFront1
Approvals
Print Shop Approvals
3
3
Financial Approvals
3
3
Job Ticketing
Job Ticket Template Creation and
Management
3
3
Saved Jobs
3
3
Content / File Management
Native File Upload
3
3
EFI PrintMessenger (PDF Driver)
3
3
User Saved Files Repository
3
3
Server Side PDF Conversion
3
3
Job Tracking & Status
Email Notifications
3
3
Job History3
3
Re-Order/Cancel Orders3
3
Products Ad Hoc Products3
3
Oversize Products3
3
Catalog Products: Static, Non-Print,
Kits, Inventoried Items
3
3
VDP Products: FusionPro
3
Upgrade to PremiumVDP Products: XMPie (Option) Optional Upgrade to Premium
PROCUREMENT (cont.) Premium Essential
Users
Users Unlimited Unlimited
Transactions (Orders) Unlimited Unlimited Companies (Groups of Users) Unlimited Unlimited
PRODUCTION Premium Essential
Production Portal
Operator View for Print Production
3
3
Order View for Order Management3
3
Print Shops
Number of Print Shops included in
Platform Purchase 1 PrintShop 1 PrintShop
Additional Print Shops (Option) Optional Upgrade to Premium
Output Engines / Hot Folders
Unlimited Output Engines
3
3
Hot Folder Support
3
3
Production Integration
Fiery Controller Connectivity
3
3
EFI MicroPress Connectivity
3
3
EFI Fiery Central Connectivity
3
3
EFI Pace Connector
3
3
External System Connector (Option) Optional
um Upgrade to Premium
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Black Text: Items are included in the platform purchase (either Premium or Essential).
“
3
”: Denotes which platform includes this item.Blue Text: Items are optional modules which can be purchased with Digital StoreFront Premium (do not come standard).
Green Highlight:
Denotes an item which requires an upgrade from Essential to Premium to support.
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EFI Digital StoreFront
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