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Online DVD Rental System 5.1|WAP DRS 3.0|Streaming Media Solution 2.8
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DVD rental system is the world’s leading software for online DVD rental businesses. Our system already serves online rental brands in over 25 countries including the European market leader LOVEFiLM.

We offer three levels of DVD rental system software, a comparison table is provided below. Please also refer to the product descriptions page.

All packages are modular and any aspect can be upgraded. We also offer a range of add-on modules which are fully compatible with each platform including a shop module and a mobile module for WAP mobile phones.



  DRS PRO START 5.1
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DRS PRO BUSINESS 5.1
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DRS PRO VIP 5.1
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Size of catalogue of DVDs
up to 1 000 up to 15 000 Unlimited
Size of stock
up to 3 000 up to 50 000 Unlimited
Number of subscribers
up to 700 up to 10 000 Unlimited
Additional Features
 
  • Flexible rental plans
  • Ability to sell stock surpluses
  • Advanced management reporting
  • Promotion Companies
  • 80 bonus support hours
  • Flexible rental plans
  • Ability to sell stock surpluses
  • Advanced management reporting
  • Promotion companies
  • Loyaltly program
  • Multiple companies support
  • 100 bonus support hours

Shop Module
(retail DVDs, Games etc)

Can be added
upon request
Can be added
upon request
Can be added
upon request

Features List

Subscription model
Flexible rental plans
this feature is included only to DRS PRO BUSINESS 5.1 and DRS PRO VIP 5.1 packages
DRS supports different catalogue items types like ‘movies’, ‘games’, ‘TV series’ etc. There is advanced facility to create rental plans with different rules for these types like: ‘2 movies and 1 game’, ’2 movies, 1 TV series and 1 game’ etc.
Unlimited rentals Unlimited rentals for a fixed monthly charge. The system charges subscribers when subscription payment period (month or annual) expired.
Limited rentals Maximum number of rentals in a month can be configured for each rental plan. IDE DRS™ charges subscribers as soon as rents limit achieved or in case when subscription payment period expired.
Limited rentals (hold charges method) Maximum number of rentals in a month can be configured for each rental plan. IDE DRS™ holds rents for a subscriber at once rents limit achieved and charges him only when subscription payment period expired.
Pay for each rent

Subscriber pays for each new rent or number of rents (configurable for each rental plan)
*only one subscription model of described above can be applied



Package limitations
Size of catalogue of DVDs
IDE DRS™ Start and Business packages are configured for limited number of movies titles
Size of stock IDE DRS™ Start and Business packages are configured for limited number of discs in stock
Number of subscribers IDE DRS™ Start and Business packages have predefined restrictions for the maximum quantity of activesubscribers.


Business organization
Based on the most popular and robust technology
The technology used to create IDE DRS™ is a proven technology that currently powers thousands of web stores hosts millions of products online every day. Concentrate on running your business rather than focusing on technical issues.The technology used to create IDE DRS™ is a proven technology that currently powers thousands of web stores hosts millions of products online every day. Concentrate on running your business rather than focusing on technical issues.
Quick start at YourDomain.com This is your business and you can choose all of the branding, pick your banners, look and feel, choose the graphics, website information, and we work with you to adjust the IDE DRS™ framework to suit your business requirements. We can easy customize your site to look exactly the way you want, change brand name in all texts, mail and messages on the site.
User Friendly and Intuitive

IDE DRS™ is easy for your subscribers to use and easy for online business administrators to run. For you it means that your customers can spend more time renting and buying your stock instead of competitors.
User friendly interface of our system allows you to manage your content in multiple languages without involving developers.

Distensible architecture of the system  New modules and features can easily be added. This means for you that you can add any functionality that will make you site unique and distinguished and thus appealing to the subscribers, existing and new as well.
Multiple companies support
this feature is included only to DRS PRO VIP 5.1 video rental software

You can run multiple rental companies on one IDE DRS™ server, share the one stockand team between them. You can use multiple sites with various design, content and movies representation etc. This feature affords you to achieve unique business flexibility and multiple revenues from your companies.

Reliability of investments Special IDE DRS™ Import/Export tools allow you to move your existing rental business to our platform. You can also export all system information to another system if required.
Globalization support With the help of our software you can easy realize a range of your activities including internationalization, localization, and myriad other tasks required to deliver products and content to employees, partners, and subscribers across multiple regions.
Our software allows you either to translate the entire site on one language different from English and thus localize your business under your target audience or with the help of IDE DRS™ “Multiple languages” module to have one site on multiple languages simultaneously. Your customers will have an option to choose their native language and your site will address personally to them worldwide.
By commissioning a multilingual site, you will maximize your global exposure and increase your revenue potential by over 50%!
You just translate - all the rest is done by technology!
Search engine friendly links support

All links are compatible with most search engines.
System can automatically create meta-tags for movies. At viewing the catalogue of the movies or the detailed information about the movies automatically adds the name of the movie in heading and the description of page.
This means that you will be well indexed by search engines

Ability to sell stock surpluses
this feature is included only to DRS PRO BUSINESS 5.1 and DRS PRO VIP 5.1 packages
IDE DRS™ allows your subscribers the ability to rent, buy and buy their rental copy of the DVDs you are sending them. This allows you as a business owner to maximize your revenues and profits with your signed-up subscriber base.Let your subscribers pay for discs that they want to leave at their homes by “keep disc”.


Secure Billing
Secure external payment gateways support. CC automatic validation, processing
IDE DRS™ supports secure connections to different external payment gateways (DataCash, Ptotx, VXSBill Verisign, Paypal, Authoroze.Net and others). Other payment processors also can be integrated. You can also offer a full range of Credit Card options to your subscribers with your existing Merchant Account
Enter credit card details in secure area User details and payment areas are encrypted with SSL to protect subscribers.
Secure authorization and permissions system IDE DRS™ encrypts information as you’re collecting it from the subscriber through the website. IDE DRS™ has flexible permissions system (admin, subscriber, expert, stuff, etc)
Supports automatic re–occurring billing  All payment procedures are atomized into the system: background charging, failed payment retrying, expire CC date notification etc.
Users payments management Ability to set payment details for users.
Automatic regular retrying of failed payments IDE DRS™ will periodically retry to make failed payments.
Automatic account charge/refund IDE DRS™ can automatically refund subscriptions fee without involving user (if supported by the payment gateway).
Manual account charge/refund Site administrator can manually issue a refund to a member.(If this is allowed by payment gateway you use)


Attract visitors and make them your happy customers
Promotion Companies
this feature is included only to DRS PRO BUSINESS 5.1 and DRS PRO VIP 5.1 video rental software
IDE DRS™ helps you to provide several types of promotion companies. This allows choosing the bonus strategy for new subscribers registered with promotion codes as ‘extra free days’, ‘free disc as a gift’, ‘special package’.
Gift Subscriptions Any your visitor or subscriber can buy subscription period and send it to his friend as a gift. This is a way your existing subscribers attract you new subscribers with your minimum efforts.
Refer a friend IDE DRS™ motivates current subscribers to invite new subscribers and gives special bonuses for each referred active subscriber. Possible bonuses are loyalty points, free discs and extra subscription period for free
Referrals Statistics The IDE DRS™ provides full referral statistics – shows you from where clients come. This feature allows you to estimate the efficiency of your external promotion companies and plan your further activity.
Loyalty Program
this feature is included only to DRS PRO VIP 5.1 package
A program designed to lower the turnover among subscribers of your service by rewarding your client with incentives for remaining a subscriber. Thus you create a subscriber who don’t need ongoing marketing investment and therefore are more profitable. Configure your bonuses as prizes and award your subscriber for this by: ‘extra free days’, ‘free disc as a gift’, ‘special package’
Testimonials

“There's nothing that gives us greater pleasure than when we receive an unsolicited comment from a user of your own site...”
A testimonial is a written statement, sometimes from a public figure, sometimes from a private subscriber, extolling the virtue of the site/service, which is used in the promotion and advertising of that site. You can manage testimonials received from different sources and make them visible for site visitors.

Members/Expert Reviews A review is a written statement that discusses the author's opinion on a piece of publication, such as a movie, video game, cd album, online book etc. In addition to the verbalized opinion there may also be a formalized assessment; for instance, the author may assign the work one to five stars to indicate its relative merit.
VIP members support

You can handle a special group of subscribers which has priority during dispatch procedures
Your VIP members will be especially happy with this.

Register via friendly and easy registration procedure

Friendly step-by-step registration with detailed explanations on each step.
IDE DRS™ gives you also a wonderful package selection wizard! It helps visitors to select package which is more suitable for them and site owner.

One click rent procedure Subscriber can add item to the rental queue via easy one-click procedure
Favourites & Personal Recommendations: others movies you may enjoy

Every time subscribers search for movies, rate movies and rent DVDs IDE DRS™ stores the information about the movies subscriber visit, rate or rent. On the base of this statistical information the application creates personal list of recommendations: the same genres, same actors and actress, new films in film series, etc. The more activity from the subscriber, the more the application to be able to recommend other movies that subscriber will enjoy.
This means for you that you provide personal approach for each customer and thus make them love your service.

Family content filters Adult content may be restricted by additional password
Search by film details, categories, collections Your subscribers can quickly and effectively search throw movies database with the help of high-speed search engine.
View all movies by random choice Represent all movies to your subscribers by popular randomization principle. It will let them rent a movie they might even think of about
Request film Ability for users to request a movie which is not currently in the database. User will be notified when movie become available.
Manage account details Subscriber can manage all account details (name, password, shipping address, credit card information, etc)
Change subscription package Subscriber always can upgrade or downgrade own subscription package
Freeze account Subscriber always can temporary freeze own account and will not be charged while account is frozen. It is very convenient if for example your subscriber is on vacation and can not use your service. When he returns he comes back to your service without double passing the registration again
Rate film Subscriber can rate every movie and see summary rating of each movie
View rental history

Subscriber can view rental history list of all titled previously requested by him

Write reviews

Users under role “Expert” can write reviews which are available for others after confirmation by admin

Automatic mailing notifications Automated email system that sends personalized, integrated emails informing the subscriber of any daily events, such as disc returned/dispatched, titles requiring rating, recommendations, titles coming soon, etc Thus your members are always notified – it means they feel your care about them.
Cancellation procedure

Simple cancel
Ability to cancel account in 1 step

Obtrusive (advanced) cancellation procedure
With special efforts to keep subscriber active. Procedure consists of many steps:

  1. asks reasons of cancel (can be chosen from a list or write its own),
  2. propose change your Subscription  Level, option to choose specialized packages
  3. propose to o freeze your account:
  4. describes advantages to become a full subscriber
  5. Cancel Account itself


 Administrate your site
Subscription model set up Unlimited rentals for a fixed monthly charge, customizable rental plans – define new subscription packages; vary pricing, number of DVDs out at a time, number of rentals
Content filling

Site design and content management system
Integrated content management system (CMS) for all

  static web pages
dynamic web pages
site messages
email templates
menus
Based on Smarty template engine, all templates are stored into databases for best performance, easy management and secure.

This tool simplifies you the procedure of creation and administration of your online content and enables you to maintain the site in easy way.

Administration and maintenance
  Site settings control
Critical alerts
Regular automatic maintenance procedures
Regular automatic backup of database and other issues
System health check
Automatic checking of system integrity
Network Operation Center
might be integrated additionally by request
NOC allows integrate various types of statistics like server CPU load, Internet bandwidth usage, web and database service statistics, apache logs analyzer etc


Movies management
Manual add new film Movies can be added manually via friendly step-by-step wizard
Supports all types of film description information IDE DRS™ supports wide range of movie description information (name, description, main genre, additional genres, actors, directors, year of publishing, screen format, sound format, certificates etc.)
Automatic thumbnails creation When you upload full size images for movies, system automatically creates thumbnails to them.
Full featured films management
  genres
directors and actors
rating
reviews management

You can manually edit movies via friendly step-by-step wizard. Also lists of properties can be edited (lost of studios, list of genres, etc.)
Categories management Collections may be organized into categories, which can be treated top-level entries of movies catalogue
Collections management Movies can be organized into collections (both manually adding and automatically using search criteria)


Fill your Warehouse with discs
Add new discs procedure with automatic label print IDE DRS™ system will automatically create printable labels for all added discs.
Film popularity statistics Effective engine allows you viewing rental statistics and sorting films on popularity
Discs Ordering System System will prepare orders for suppliers for ordering new discs based on specially developed logistic algorithms
Full featured discs management All procedures are based on barcodes.
Management and print discs labels Each disc has label with barcode which will be prepared by the system automatically.
Your Stock management
All procedures are based on discs barcodes. Manual input is not required!
Stock statistics Special reports show you all aspects of stock utilization
Discs times rented report You can view full rental history for each of discs.
Repaired discs support Discs can be marked as damaged and repaired without necessity of making changes in the database


Users tracking
Users statistics Wide range of reports which allows you, as site owner, viewing all user-related issues.
Incomplete registration reports, automatic processing Administrators can view and manually process all incomplete registrations
Users account details management Effective system of tracking different issues confirmed by users
Mass mailing to different types users by email Can automatically send predefined or newly created messages by email both for individual users and groups
Mass mailing to different types users by mail by post Supports printing of mail labels for mailing be post both for individual users and groups


Management Information Statistics
Management Information Statistics

IDE DRS™ Statistics reports include detailed tables and graphs displaying results in years, months and days
These reports will help you efficiently coordinate your business and achieve good results:

  1. Revenue earned
  2. Number of new subscribers registered
  3. Average rentals per month
  4. Number of rentals, and percentage of rentals damaged
  5. Distribution of new release rentals vs back-catalogue rentals
  6. Subscriber rent list sizes
Number of ratings and reviews by subscribers
Advanced MIS, created by marketing specialists
this feature is included only to DRS PRO BUSINESS 5.1 and DRS PRO VIP 5.1 packages

You will be able to click on "Marketing Report" (like "Promotion Codes") and see the following, at a glance:

  1. Snapshot of your customers:
  2. Last 3 months & this month to date customers:
  3. Trial lists by URL:
  4. Time profile of active members:
  5. Cancelled within last 3 months:
  6. Packages, no. of custom?mers:
  7. Packages, average no. of turns:
  8. Marketing programmes, new active members:
  9. 10 selected promotion codes:
  10. 10 selected on-line sources:
  11. Customer service (trend) measures:
  12. Site visitors:
  13. Average page-time spent (non-members):
  14. Top 10 requests:
Requests, New Release v Back Catalogue


Dispatch and logistics procedures
All procedures are based on discs and orders barcodes. Manual input is not required. It’s realized as standalone high performance software for processing all dispatch and stock procedure in one environment. Friendly and easy for your staff, special computer skills are not required.
High performance standalone software for stock and dispatch procedures

System includes high performance standalone software, which has no special requirements other than a Windows XP operating system. Your staff can efficiently carry out all dispatch procedures with the help of this software, which is very easy to use. Special procedures for ‘today returns’ – so discssorting procedures not required!
DRS dispatch is based on ‘Picking and Packing orders List’ creation and processing.
This allows increasing dispatch procedures and decreasing expenses to stock team, and thus reducing you the cost of each operation. All this gives you advantage–background before competitors that use expensive juke boxes, automated warehouse carousel

Ability to configure subscribers’ satisfaction rules Intelligent dispatch algorithms compute a matching between titles in stock and subscribers rent requests, taking into account subscribers’ types, satisfaction rules and rent activity history.
Special procedures for ‘today returns’ – so discs sorting procedures not required!

System tries assign today returned disc first of all in order to make stock operations more effective.
It supports boxes for ‘today returns’. This allows dispatch today returns discs right after their return without sorting and putting them into stock.

Flexible confirmation of packing

Each order which is sent to subscriber must be confirmed by staff.
You can also use alternative confirmation of packing by batch via web interface feature

Discs conditions checking processing during reception Tracking all discs received from subscribers. Disc condition may be set for each disc during receiving
Easy and friendly for stock team

Multiple working places are supported. System allows multiple clerks to use dispatch software simultaneously.
All dispatch procedures have built-in error control of staff actions. Dispatch system and procedures are easy for learning. You can easy involve new employers in you stock team.

Multiple printers and formats support Each type of output (report and lists, mail labels and discs labels) could be printed on different printers. You can define page settings and formats for each printer.

 


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