LavaBlast can integrate with existing shopping cart / online store e-commerce solutions but we’ve developed our own online store solution that is based on our point of sale software. Both are web-based applications that take the franchisor’s product line and make them available for sale. Most of our key features derive from this simple fact.

Features:

• Simple and easy-to-use online store.
• Reduce overhead because your online store product line is the same as your store fleet.
• Website sales are accumulated with the brick & mortar store sales made in LavaBlast’s POS and allow you to use a single reporting platform for all your franchise activities.
• Your franchisees place orders from their POS or in FranchiseBlast; you dispatch the orders to various suppliers / warehouses.
• The franchisor controls on what can be sold in retail stores and online.
• Integration with in-store frequent buyer program.
• Supports multiple languages (currently English, French, Spanish and Danish).
• Supports multiple currencies for global franchisors.
• Industry-specific features can be added, such as teddy bear birth certificates.
• Integration with shipping carriers (UPS, FedEx, etc.)
• The feature set evolves with our customer’s needs!
• Create distinct websites for different brands, using different subsets of the products offered in stores
• Let your master franchisees create and manage their own e-commerce site for their territory (in their language and currency)
• Create private member-only marketplaces.

For security purposes, we don’t store any credit card information on our servers as we delegate this to credit card gateways like BeanStream and PayPal. We even made our BeanStream integration code freely available to all on our blog because we dislike re-inventing the wheel and knew this would help others!

Our infrastructure treats online stores exactly the same way as a point of sale. You can have as many sites as you need, each adapted to a specific purpose (country, currency, language, product lines, resellers) while retaining control over the supply chain.

Possible Extras:

• Your franchisees can pay their monthly royalties on FranchiseBlast
• Your franchisees can transfer funds to each other to pay for item transfers