Services for Customers

Deastore – the big online Megastore

The new release 2.0, converts the deastore.com in a real multi-store!
  • 16 millions of books from all over the world
    • English, American, French, Italian, Spanish, German
  • 100 millions of used books
  • 600.000 music CDs
  • 120.000 DVD Film
  • 15.000 Video games
  • E-Books
  • New graphic interface
    • _Designed using the most advanced communication solutions and integrated with the new system for customized suggestions: “Deastore Recommendations”.
  • Gift Section, with millions of suggestions and proposals
  • MyDEAStore
    • _Thanks to the sophisticated feature “Deastore Recommendations”, a personal profile is defined for each user, based on his interests and activities on the website, to create a “micro-store” for each customer with customized products and suggestions.
  • New features and solutions
    • Title comparison, add a review/comment, send this title to a friend, notification when a titles is again available, advanced booking, multiple wishing lists for each user, gift lists by shipping address, customized catalogue for business users, solutions for libraries, universities and companies.
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    deastore.com Release 2.0 main features

    Big Online Bookshop!

  • Over 8.000.000 books (English, Italian, Spanish, German, French)
  • 3.600 subjects
  • Thousands of special offers for new and used books (Remainders)
  • Daily updates (40.000 new titles each month!)
  • Up to 100 information for each title (abstract, Table of Contents, bibliographic information, covers, first pages)
  • Saving of search strategies
  • Periodical update by e-mail or web on new publications
  • Multi language interface: Italian, English, Spanish and soon French and German
  • Prices in EURO even for foreign books
  • Payment with credit card or cash-on-delivery1
  • Delivery by courier or mail all over the world
    • 1cash-on-delivery only for Italian market

    And for Research Centres, Universities, Libraries and Corporate:

  • Opening with a credit account with payment at 30 or 60 days
  • Special conditions for libraries groups, companies societies (buying consortia)
  • Automatic Management of suggestions with 2 levels of users:
  • Administrator “1° level User”: can buy directly and authorize the purchase of suggestions from Business users
  • Business “2° level User”: select and send suggestions about books to be bought by the Administrator
    • Supplying of bibliographic record for cataloguing in MARC format (UNIMarc, UKMarc, Marc21, MAB, txt, xml, excel), for books ordered by deastore. This feature is very appreciated by libraries as it allows to reduce the time needed for cataloguing
  • Supplying of the accounting record for order and for electronic invoice in different format (EDIFACT, MARC, CIA, SAP, IBM, etc)
  • Automatic system for checking duplicates: it outline if books in shopping basket are already available in the library by checking the OPAC (OPAC – Online Public Access Catalogue) or if they are already ordered
  • Management of customer reference number
  • Automatic check of Budget: management of different Budget or for user groups
  • Deastore is SFX Target and Open URL Compliant