E-Commerce

The concept of e-commerce is fast becoming advantageous for both the vendor and consumer in today's fast moving and electronically-connected world.

 

For many businesses, e-commerce is becoming the only option, as companies become more and more interested in expanding their operations online. E-commerce has many benefits and advantages not found in the typical brick and mortar location, and therefore, explains why so many businesses are flocking to the web.

 

E-commerce offers buyers maximum convenience. They can visit the web sites of multiple vendors round the clock a day to compare prices and make purchases, without having to leave their homes or offices from around the globe. In some cases, consumers can immediately obtain a product or service, such as an electronic book, a music file, or computer software, by downloading it over the Internet.

 

For sellers, e-commerce offers a way to cut costs and expand their markets. They do not need to build, staff, or maintain a physical store or print and distribute mail order catalogues. Automated order tracking and billing systems cut additional labour costs, and if the product or service can be downloaded then e-commerce firms have no distribution costs involved. Because the products can be sold sell over the global Internet, sellers have the potential to market their products or services globally and are not limited by the physical location of a store. Internet technologies also permit sellers to track the interests and preferences of their customers with the customer's permission and then use this information to build an ongoing relationship with the customer by customizing products and services to meet the customer's needs.

 

E-Commerce Shopping Carts provide you with a platform to sell your products online. There are many e-commerce solution providers that charge an arm and a leg with outrageous set-up costs and ongoing monthly fees, but we are not one of them. We love and use open source standards and technology in all of our projects and because of this, we are able to pass on significant savings to you. We have a range of experience with shopping carts, but our preference is to work with osCommerce and OpenCart.

 

Online commerce isn’t just for the big guys, we have created effective, profitable, easy to use e-commerce solutions for many small businesses. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us, we look forward to hearing from you. Your server should support the powerful PHP web scripting language, fast MySQL database, and use a stable Apache web server to run an e-commerce website.

 

What you can expect with every e-commerce development project:
•  Great, fast loading, modern design
•  Content management system to easily edit your information pages
•  Product admin to add/delete/updated all product information and photos
•  Searchable product database for visitors to find what they need
•  Basic search engine optimization to help you rank better
•  Professional stock photography as needed during design, to help establish site theme
•  User friendly/search engine friendly navigation menu
•  Email/information request forms to allow visitor inquiries
•  Manual submission to Google, Yahoo, and Bing
•  Free minor changes for one month following launch of new site
•  Ongoing support for questions and issues

 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us, we look forward to hearing from you.

Magento

The Magento eCommerce platform is an open source eCommerce web application that was launched in March 2008 and reached 450,000 downloads by September 2008, making it the fastest growing eCommerce platform on the Internet. Magento provides lots of useful shop maintenance features, among which are site management, marketing and promotion tools, international support, useful payment, checkout and shipping features, customer service features and much more.

 

OpenCart

OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online shopping cart system. A robust e-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost. OpenCart is designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface. The backend has a really nice simple design and is very very easy to use.

 

 

 

osCommerce

OsCommerce is an open source project that delivers online shop e-commerce solutions absolutely free of charge. It is powered by the osCommerce community and is currently the leading solution in its field. Everything you need to get started selling any goods over the Internet - from the Catalog frontend that is presented to your customers, to the Administration Tool backend that completely handles your products, customers, orders, and online store data.

 

PrestaShop

PrestaShop is a full-featured, cross-platform open-source eCommerce shopping cart solution for the Web 2.0 era. PrestaShop is free, is customizable, stable, and "weighs" only 2.2MB for a quick and easy installation. It's by far the best eCommerce solution for small and medium online stores. PrestaShop is so lightweight and speedy, even customers with slow connection speeds will enjoy buying from you.

 

 

VirtueMart

VirtueMart is a free open source e-commerce extension of Joomla content management system (CMS) developed in PHP and implemented with MySQL storage database environment. VirtueMart plug-in supports an unlimited number of products and categories, sale of downloadable products, catalog mode, use of a variety of different payment methods, multiple prices for a single product and much more.

 

Zen Cart

Zen Cart is a free, user-friendly, open source e-commerce system that provides the best all around solution for on-line ecommerce. It is less complicated than other ecommerce systems and it is easy to set up, even if you have only basic computer skills. Zen Cart offers many features: Improved Template System, New Merchandise Pricing Options, New Attributes and Options, New Layout Settings, and Demonstration Mode.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

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