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Actinic
Catalog		 Actinic Business Business
Multi-Site
$525.00
$1,225.00
$1,525.00
GENERAL FEATURES
Windows-based application that installs on any standard PC.
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Compatible with the majority of standard commercial web servers
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Quick Start Tutorial to guide through web store creation process
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Create multiple sites from the same application without purchasing additional license keys
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QUICKBOOKS INTEGRATION
Built in 2 way QuickBooks integration
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QuickBooks Pro
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QuickBooks Premier
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QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions
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Q-POS, QuickBooks Point of Sale (Must purchase Q-POS Interface separately, to connect Enterprise with Actinic)
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PRODUCTS
Support for up to 20,000 products with product images
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Create links to external files or URLs
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Write questions for customers to answer online
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Hide products and sections on the website if you do not want customers to view items
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Specify the shipping weight of each product
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Use a different layout for each product in the store
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Create pop-up windows containing supplementary information about a product
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Specify minimum and maximum order quantities
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Create links to other products or sections in the store
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Specify digital files for customers to download after purchasing the product online
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Hide products from selected groups of customers
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Support for quantity-based discounting
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The ability to categorize products in order to set specific data only on that type of product
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Create pop-up windows containing supplementary information about a product
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SECTIONS
Unlimited depth of sections and sub-sections
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Manually set the filename of each section page
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Manually set the HTML page title of each page
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Set different meta content for each section page in the store
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Each store page can look different
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Select how products are added to the cart by editing the "shopping mode"
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‘shopping mode’
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Set up a section to add multiple products to the shopping cart in one go.
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Customize the layout of each page of section links
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Change the way your section links appear in your online store.
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PRODUCT CHOICES
Define a range of attributes and choices for each product
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Assign a different price to each choice or combination of choices
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Generate radio-buttons, drop downs or button grids for choice selection
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Define which combination of choices is valid or invalid
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Define additional components that are supplied with your products
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Associate these components with products in your store
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Set components as optional or mandatory
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Allow components to inherit key properties of an associated product
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Display additional components within their own separate line in the online cart
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IMPORT/EXPORT
Import products and sections from a CSV spreadsheet file
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Import more sophisticated store information via a hierarchical import file
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Export products, sections, customers and shipping tables as a text file
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Import customer account information via a hierarchical import file
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Import products and customers from Sage Line 50 with Actinic Link
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EXTERNAL LINKING
Dynamically link products to an external database
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Update the external database with stock level changes from within Actinic
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STOCK MANAGEMENT
Support for offline stock monitoring, with alerts for low stock levels
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Automatically suspend ordering on out-of-stock products
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Generate stock availability reports
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NON-COMMERCIAL CONTENT
Create information items within the product pages
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Create information items within section pages and content pages
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Show/hide information items based on who is ordering
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Create a range of content pages alongside your store pages
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Customize the layout style for each page
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Link information items to products and sections in your online store
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GENERAL COMMERCIAL SETTINGS
Enter detailed company and contact information
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Set up detailed terms and conditions for your store
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Auto-generate product references, or enter your own
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Set minimum and maximum spend limits
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Temporarily suspend online ordering for the entire store
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DISCOUNTS AND SURCHARGES
Apply a discount to an order based on how much the customer has spent
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Set up a range of trigger values for a discount
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Charge a surcharge on an order, which can be restricted to certain payment methods
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Give discounts a start date and end date
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Display relevant discounting messages in the shopping cart
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Apply a discount based on the products that a customer has ordered
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Set up a range of coupon that trigger your online discounts
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Restrict discounts to certain customer groups
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Display relevant discounting messages in the store pages
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MARKETING FEATURES
Create Best Sellers list for publication to the website
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Automatically generate a Best Sellers list based on order history
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Create a list of Related Products for any product in order to support up-selling
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Create a list of Also Bought items to support up selling
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Creation of a New Products list to promote new products added recently to the site
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Automatically generate a list of New Products added recently to the site
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Automated generation of mailing lists including mailing labels, envelopes and campaign reports
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Advanced mailing list generation allowing filtering based on order value, products purchased, address etc
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Search logs enhanced in order to allow merchants to see what kind of searches were done by shoppers in order to tune the search settings to match common searches.
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SECURITY AND PAYMENT
Process credit card transactions online with a selection of payment service providers
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Taken credit card numbers securely online via a shared SSL server
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Limit certain payment methods to specific locations in order to cut down fraud
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Run the entire store, or just essential pages, on your own secure server
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Option to encrypt Credit Card data stored on the desktop
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Password protect Actinic to prevent unauthorized access to Credit Card data
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SHIPPING AND HANDLING
Define a range of geographical shipping zones
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Offer a range of shipping classes within each geographical zone
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Base shipping charges on weight
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Calculate shipping charges for your orders
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Base shipping charges on order quantity or order value
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Allow free shipping for large value orders
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Set up separate handling charges
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Define detailed tax charges to apply to shipping and handling
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TAX
Set up tax rate for all products
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Exclude tax from zero-rated products
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Display tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive prices, or both
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Set up unlimited tax rates and geographical tax zones
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Allow shoppers to exempt themselves online
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Choose which taxes apply to which products in your product range
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Define a custom tax rate for some products
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Improved tax reporting to assist in calculating the merchant’s tax liability
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CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS
Create accounts for your regular customers
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Set up a range of customer groups
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Assign discounts to certain customer groups
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Manually alter how much each product costs within each customer group
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Write a message targeted at customers within each customer group
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Hide some products from customers within specific group
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Designate different methods of payment to different customers
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Set up multiple invoice and delivery addresses for each customer account
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Limit customers to pre-defined addresses, or allow them to enter their own
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Create a customer account from an order that has been received
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Pre-define the tax-exemption status for your customers
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Set up multiple buyers for each account – each with their own secure username and password
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own secure username and password
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Set a spend limit per buyer
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Specify where order confirmation emails are to be sent
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Limit your store to only your registered customers
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THEMES AND COLORS
Range of pre-designed themes
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DESIGN FEATURES
Creates search engine friendly static HTML pages
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Choose a corporate logo for your store
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Display prices in a second currency
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Create a link to a home page
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Automatically generate site map
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Use an HTML online ‘contact us’ page
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Customize where your terms and conditions appear in your store
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Choose from a range of pre-configured marketing messages
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SITE SEARCH
High-speed index-based online searching
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Decide how many results are shown per page
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Include images in the search results
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Choice of simple or more advanced searching
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Search based on price ranges
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Choice of simple or more advanced searching
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Search based on price ranges
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Search based on custom search properties
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FULL SITE CUSTOMIZATION USING A POINT AND CLICK INTERFACE
The ability to import pieces of design
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PREVIEWS
Preview the entire store
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SHOPPING CART & CHECKOUT
Online shopping cart
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Require customers to agree to terms and conditions before checking out
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Customers receive email confirmation of order
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Online address book and ‘Remember Me’ feature
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Support for P3P privacy policy
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Unordered items remain in cart between browser sessions
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Ability to set how long online carts stay active for
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Ability to save/retrieve shopping lists
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Support for SMTP password authentication
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ORDER PROCESSING
Full demonstration and testing supported for all order processing functionality, including;
Search through your order history for specific customers, dates and ordered products
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Generate and send an email to the customer informing them when their order has been shipped
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Email alert when a batch of orders is waiting
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Download orders into your local PC and decrypt them after they are downloaded
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Enter new orders directly into the Actinic application
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Edit details of orders within the Actinic database, including the ability to add new items
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Transfer orders into Sage Line 50 or QuickBooks using Actinic Link
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Manually adjust order details after the order is received
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Maintain a payment history for each order
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Make comments about orders in the ‘Journal’ tab
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Split the order into back-orders if you are unable to ship the entire order in one go
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Highlight orders with specific colors in the order summary
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Write and send emails to your customers from within Actinic
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Set up a range of custom emails
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Print packing lists and invoices
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Generate credit card schedules containing the credit card numbers that require processing
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Print single-page data-entry reports containing the entire details of an order
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Create reports on your fastest moving items and best customers
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Report on all the business in your site within a set time period
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Export orders as text files for processing in external applications
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Choose a program to automatically run after you export a batch of orders
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Support for stick on labels in order processing
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One click order processing to allow fast processing of orders
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Order line price editing from the desktop
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Bar coding on standard reports
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SITE DEPLOYMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Backup your work with a ‘Site Snapshot’ that saves your database, templates and images as a single transportable file.
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Use Snapshots to transfer Actinic sites from one PC to another.
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Helena, Montana

406.495.3525
1 Engineering Place
Helena, Montana 59602

Billings, Montana

406.656.6000
315 N. 25th Street, #102
Billings, Montana 59101

Bozeman, Montana

406.587.0721
901 Technology Boulevard
Bozeman, Montana 59718

Tempe, Arizona

480.517.5800
80 E. Rio Salado Prkwy, #201
Tempe, AZ 85281

  
   

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