Affino Ecommerce mixes up both physical and digital goods with a variety of saleable services (via Service Credits) and through various means of monetisation. This means you can monetise both upstream and downstream services and most everything in between. A typical example is the ability to sell Subscriptions in various ways - print subscriptions, as well as PDF versions or membership access to a large bank of related content, media and services.
You can sell the same digital goods on-demand, as an extended period subscription, or an annual membership. You can charge customers for accessing and downloading materials as well as having the ability up upload materials to certain Channels. Affino also has a funding element - which allows you to do crowd-sourced project funding (a la Kickstarter) or run the same service for a charitable organisation - for fundraising.
There are more than 20 commercial engines in Affino which allow you to bundle together digital and solid goods into a single Catalogue Item Bundle. Of course, as with everything Affino, the Ecommerce component is instantly on and seamlessly dovetailed into every part of the system, allowing for relatively quick deployment of a storefront. Affino also has a dedicated Product Search and various Ecommerce-specific Design Elements.
There are three key differences - the way Affino combines digital / subscription goods with physical goods and allows them to be bundled together. You can sell Subscriptions, Service Credits, Physical Goods, Downloads, Uploads, Events and Memberships all in a single transaction for example.
Beyond these hybrid digital / physical bundles, Affino is also fairly unique in just how many ways it allows you to sell. As an example for a commercial PDF or Video Library - you can have on-demand sales, short term subscriptions and/or longer-term membership options - i.e. slightly differently priced and targeted revenue streams. You can also tie in Affino's Sales and Marketing elements / Conversion Events to daisy-chain together some very unique incentives and sales workflows.
There are currently more than 20 built-in commercial engines which allow you to monetise pretty much any of your downstream or upstream activities. For the former, as mentioned - you can monetise downloads, services credits and various catalogue item sales. For upstream you can assign costs for uploading certain types of content - directory entries and listings. You can also derive income by taking service fees for various outbound services - these can be RSS-fed as well as API / webservices fed.
Of course all of this is responsive-design supported, and includes smart elements such as sticky pricing - which keeps the pricing in view on mobile as you scroll down the screen.
A great example of a more traditional physical goods retail site is the very recently refreshed and wholly re-configured Bathrooms and Showers Direct, as pictured above. Our Clients really use the full feature range of Affino to sell all manner of Items - in particular Events and Subscriptions.