eCommerce Website
Design
Put your store
online with an Internet shopping cart!
eCommerce is growing more and more everyday. There are literally
millions of online stores on the web today, most of them managed by
small businesses. Providing your
customers with an Internet resource for purchasing your products,
not only can you increase sales but also lower cost and overhead.
Although we work with several
pre-existing shopping carts such as Volusion and OsCommerce, we proudly
recommend using Joomla's VirtueMart.
General Features
- capable of using Secure Sockets Layer (https)
Encryption (128-bit)
- flexible Tax Models
- Model 1: ShipTo Address-based Tax Calculation
- Model 2: Store Address-based Tax Calculation
- Model 3: EU Mode (Store Owner based Tax
Calculation when Customer comes from an EU Country)
- Shoppers can manage their User Accounts
(registration required)
- Shipping Address Management (Customers can enter
their own Shipping Addresses)
- Order History: Shopper can view all their previous
Orders (and Order Details)
- Order Confirmation Mail (customizable!) is sent to
Shopper and Store Owner
- Multiple Currencies (you can allow Customers to
change the Currency and buy using an alternative
Currency)
- Multiple Languages (using the Joomla! Component
Joom!Fish or Nooku).
Product Catalog Features
- Powerful Web-Administration Interface
(Javascript-powered)
- Manages an unlimited Number of Products and
Categories
- Can be used as a Shop or just as an Online-Catalog
(you can even turn off Price Display)
- quick Search for Products, Categories and
Manufacturers; filter by features or discounted Products
- Product Ratings & Testimonials (moderated or
auto-published)
- feature specific Products by setting them "on
special"
- Product Availability: show how fast a Customer can
expect delivery
- Handles downloadable Products (virtual Goods)
- "Product is back in Stock"-Notification for
subscribed Customers
Administration Features
- multiple Images and Files (like Spec Sheets and
Flyers) per Product
- Product Attributes (like Size or Color) can be added
to Product
- Product Types for Classification (like "Car",
"Motorbike" or "Music Album")
- Shopper Groups for Customers (allows different Price
Levels and Payment Options),
- multiple Prices per Product (Quantity-based and/or
Shopper Group-based Prices)
- flexible Price Display (number & currency
formatting; including or excluding tax)
- On-the-Fly Price Conversion between different
Currencies using Live Rates from the ECB or other banks
- Shop Statistics / Control Panel with a Summary of
new Customers, new Orders....
- Stock Level Control for Products and Item
- Order Management with Order History, Customer
Notification and Order Edit Functionality
- basic Reporting Feature: sold Items, monthly/yearly
Revenue
- Order Status Management
- manage different Currencies, Countries & States
Payment Modules
- capable of live Credit Card Processing
- pre-defined Payment Gateways like authorize.netŪ,
PayPal, 2Checkout, eWay, Worldpay, PayMate and NoChex
- extend your Shop with other Payment Modules using
the Payment Module API!
Shipping Modules
- flexible Shipping Carriers and Rates Configuration
- Live-Shipping Rates using Shipping Modules (e.g.
InterShipper, UPS, USPS, FedEx or Canada Post; Modules
can use the Shipping Rate API).
- extend your Shop with other Shipping Modules using
the Shipping Module API!
Having an online store gives you the competitive edge you need to
increase sales and grow. The system used for your online
store is called a shopping cart. It provides customers with photos,
descriptions and options for all of your products. Once the customer
has selected their products, they can proceed to the checkout where
the can pay using any methods of payment.