These are the features included in the E-Deal-Shop v1.1.0 based on the platform being developed.

Products/Categories:

• Add as many Products and Categories as you want
• Can also be used just as a catalogue (without cart features)
• Unlimited Category/Subcategory depth, products can be assigned to multiple categories
  
• Sort your Categories the way you like
• Sell downloadable Products like MP3s, Templates, Videos or Software
  
• Add a Thumbnail and a full size Image to every Product via your Browser
• Add Attributes like Size or Colour to your Products to offer product variations
  
• Use Product Discounts (percentage/total, time limited or not) 
• Show Details & images for every Item 
• Stock Management
• Manage the Stock Level for Products and Items
• Automatically Notify Shoppers when a Product is back in Stock
• Feature specific products by setting them "on special"

Shopper Groups / User Management

• Add Shoppers and assign them to different shopper groups
• global Shopper Group Discounts 
• multiple prices can be added to a Product, each for an own shopper group or a quantity range
• Restrict "Display prices" to specific user groups
  
• Access Management: assign users to user groups like "admin", "storeadmin", "shopper" or "demo" to allow the administration by other users
  (Soon: assign products to vendors and allow those vendors to maintain only their products)

Easy Configuration/Customisation

• Manage your shop through an easy integrated interface
• A "Welcome Screen" shows your daily Shop Statistics: A Summary with "number of customers", "number of orders", "5 newest customers" and the new ones you may require on demand.
• capable of Frontend Administration (without backend administration login)
• global Price/Currency Display Formatting 
• Templates for Product Display Pages 
• Extend the Shop with other Modules and Functions
• Manage different Currencies, Countries

Shipping Addresses / Rates

• Shoppers can add individual Shipping Addresses
• Fetch Shipping rates live from Parcel Force, The Royal Mail or others
• Customisation of the shipping module

Tax Rates

• Product prices can be displayed "including tax" or not (set for each shopper group)
• Choose between Shipping-Address-based tax calculation (city/state & country/region)
  OR
  
• Store-Owner-based tax calculation
• Add your own shipping carriers and shipping rates

Payment

• Use safe SSL encryption (128-bit) and Shared SSL
  
• Capable of live credit card processing
• Supported Payment Providers:
  
• authorize.net online Credit Card Processing (AIM)
  
• 2Checkout 
• PayPal (with IPN gateway)
• Paymate
  
• NoChex
• WorldPay "IPN" 
• PayMeNow
• eCheck.net
• eWay (XML transactions) 
• eProcessingNetwork
• and more...
  
• Payment Module API for custom payment modules...
  

Order Management

• Complete Order Management
• Automatically notify your customers when the Order Status changes
• See who has ordered: IP address storing
• Extend the pre-defined order statuses with your own ones

"Nice" Features for Customers...

• Let your customers easily search for products through a search form
• Shoppers can see, in what time a product will usually ship, on product-details page (with nice images!)
• Shoppers can manage their user accounts
• Shopper can view all their orders (and order details)
• Order Confirmation mail (customizable!) is sent to shopper and store owner

Manager features

• Random Products
• Featured Products
• Special Products Manager for phpShop
• Report Basic (for statistical purposes)
• Report mailing (click a button to send automatically a statistical report to your address)