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Everything you need for a commerce-ready website. Installs a pre-built website with 12+ pages, already complete with integrated contact form and full e-commerce functions built in. Lets you automatically create product pages, manage orders, track inventory, and allow customer logins. Database driven content management system, rather than static, unchanging HTML pages. Allows real-time user postings of comments, blogs, news, product reviews, articles, images and more. Lets you login and edit your website from any browser anywhere in the world.

2 Reviews

C. Rauckis says:

March 16, 2010 at 12:00 am

FIRST THINGS FIRST. If you’ve gotten caught up in this mess and are looking for a way out, look up “account CHANGE” in the help wiki to find the change-request form you have to fill out. Be dead sure you fill it out completely and accurately, DATE IT and KEEP A COPY, fax it in, and pray they actually stop billing you. Your site will be turned off right away, but billing might be another matter.

Be sure to get all the information and get your site unlocked before canceling so that you can move it.

Now, the software itself works as claimed, but only if you’re already proficient enough in xtm to manipulate it on the back end. Well, if that’s the case, you certainly don’t need this product.

Otherwise, it’s kludgy and balky, produces often inconsistent or unexpected results and bloated code. (But most if not all autocoders produce bloated code.) The so-called support wiki is confusingly organized, and, if you do ever manage to find what you’re looking for, it’s a coin-flip as to whether you’ll get anything out of it.

There is no email address. Your only choice for contact is the Contact Us page on the web site, or the phone number. If you try the phone number (936-825-6539), you get two choices — both of which refer you back to the web site and then hang up on you; if you try entering any other numbers it hangs up immediately.

In their defense, if you manage to find the Contact Us page and get a support ticket open, the response is generally polite and cordial.

A reverse lookup on the phone number gets you to 209 West Washington Ave, Navasota, Texas. Check out the Google street view: some railroad tracks and a house back in the trees. This of itself is not alarming (think Mr. Gates’ garage), but might prompt further investigation.

Two businesses and two people are listed in said lookup — but no ZebraDots. A street address lookup matches two businesses and three people — still no ZebraDots. Hmm, why would a business have a phone number that doesn’t match up?

I delved further into the information available for both the businesses and the names, but you can easily do that for yourself. What I found might give you reason for optimism, but not me.

The only legitimate business reference I could find for ZebraDots was a 2007 article about Enteractive Distribution announcing its distribution of ZebraDots. But as of March 2010, ZebraDots is not listed on enteractive-dot-com. Enteractive gave me a different phone number for ZebraDots, 936-825-8044, which links back to one of the businesses named at that address, but again not to ZebraDots.

I’d like to know more about this outfit, but the Texas Secretary of State wants $1.00 to do an online name search for pete’s sake, and I’m not about to spend one more cent, much less one more buck, on this business. But you can do an email query for free (go figure). So, if I get any more info, I’ll add it to this review.

Does this sound like a company to which you want to give credit card information?

Next time, you can be sure that my own basic homework will turn into exhaustive due-diligence before I buy another slick-LOOKing product off the shelf!

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C. H. Kayali says:

January 11, 2009 at 12:00 am

I bought Zebradots at Fry’s and I was excited about the product. The user interface is eay to understand but there is very limited help/language support. The customer service is so poor that there is no phone information to talk to someone live and when you email the firm with questions noone responds to your emails when you need help. I am dumping the application to move to Dreamweaver.

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