Taking a slightly different approach to Actinic, ecBuilder Pro offers a very simple, wizard-based approach that's ideal for the first time Web merchant. You simply complete the details required for your Web site a page at a time, choosing a layout and colour scheme from the 40 or so themes on offer.

Although ecBuilder Developer is, obviously, aimed at the developer, the software is still basically the same, easy to use catalogue builder seen in ecBuilder Pro 5 - apart from the added ability to edit templates and create whole new templates of your own. This Developer's Edition also utilises 'skins', and you can use the 'ecSkin Creator' to take an existing Web page and create your own design based on what the software finds.

Along with the usual multi-departmental product catalogue, you can relate one item to another for associated sale suggestions and provide multi-currency conversion for the international surfer. You will need a copy of Multiactive's Maximizer for processing orders and payments, but three copies are included to get you started and more are available at cost price to developers.

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Tax options are fairly basic and not really compatible with EU standards (assuming you really want to try to implement them) - although most delivery situations can be catered for. Real-time credit card authorisation is organised through a pre-selected range of US and Canadian banks such as Cardservice, ClickPay, E-xact, InternetSecure and PsiGate.