E-commerce shopping cart websites

E-commerce websites - with the facilities to sell your products directly to customers online - are unique and different from other types of website. E-commerce sites require a different set of technologies - in terms of their programming and their hosting architecture. They need to be secure, with payment processing encryption. They need to handle perhaps thousands or tens of thousands of products, categorized, ordered, searchable and browsable quickly and effortlessly by potential customers.

When we provide an e-commerce site and system to a client, the entire project is based on one key principle - return on investment (ROI). The success of an e-commerce site can be measured purely on how much revenue it generates for your business. As such, you can easily measure how and when your e-commerce investment is being returned. This is the cornerstone of our offering - ensuring you get a measurable payback within a realistic timescale - and significant future growth thereafter.

What you get from our e-commerce sites...

This is not an exhaustive list of features. We have a detailed proposal document that outlines everything our e-commerce sites do. Please fill out the form on our contact page and we will e-mail you with a copy.

Manage your Products

Categorize and organize products easily from your online Product Editor
Upload products in bulk or edit them individually
Assign single or multiple images to products
Configure pricing options like tax rates, bulk-buy discounts, etc
Manage stock quantities (either manually or automatically)
Display different pricing schemes for different customers (e.g. wholesale/retail)
Assign minimum or maximum order quantities

Control your Site's Layout and Appearaance

Have full control over site design and content with no technical skills required
All pages can be edited via a simple 'Microsoft Word'-type interface
Add new pages, remove pages and products quickly and simply

Manage your Customers

All customers are automatically assigned with an account, enabling you to...
Customize the site with personalized messages and content for logged-in users
Show different pricing levels to different individuals/groups of customers
Allow only approved customers to see pricing/confidential product details
Offer 'premium content' to registered users only
Enable certain approved customers to buy online and pay on account by invoice

Processing Orders & Payments

Get auto-generated order notification e-mails
Set auto-response e-mails to customers placing orders
Send automatic dispatch confirmation order e-mails
Easily integrate with online shipping services (UPS, FEDEX, DHL and USPS) to enable order delivery tracking
Integrate with all major payment processing services (Paypal,Authorize.net, 2Checkout, etc.)
Process payments manually offline if preferred

Built-in Marketing Tools

Display featured products to promote specific items or categories
Allow electronic 'gift certificates' to be redeemed against orders on your site
Online 'coupon codes' enable you to offer discounts based on certain order criteria
Built-in bulk e-mail campaign manager to send personalized e-mails to customers
Display related items with products to facilitate better 'cross selling'
Automatically display top-sellers/most-viewed items

Preferences & Business Rules

Use quantitiy discounts for bulk-purchase reductions
Display pricing in multiple currencies
Multiple delivery charge options based on weight/quantity/value/destination etc
Support for multiple tax options, dual pricing, different taxation rates
Use contract pricing to display different price levels to different customer types
Display stock levels, auto-suspend out-of-stock products, show delivery times
User management and complete audit-trail functions for back-office management

Full Suite of Reporting Tools

Built-in user and financial reports
Analyze buying behaviors of groups or individual customers
Full product popularity/sales reports
User demographic information (geographic locations etc)
Track how users found your site
Track performance of first-time and repeat customers

Fully Search-Engine Optimized

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a top priority for all our sites
Correctly coded to ensure all pages and products show in search-engines
Keyword density is perfected with dynamic 'tags' to insert keywords automatically
Every page and product has its own meta-tags, title tags and individual descriptions
An automatically-generated site map
Contact us for demonstrations of some of our top-performing search engine listings

Offline Systems Integration

We can integrate your site with offline accounts and stock-control systems
We are experienced integrators with Sage, SAP, Tropos, AS400, Cosmos and more
Have online orders and customers automatically inserted into your offline system
Synchronize stock-level data between offline and online systems

E-commerce Hosting & Security

All our sites use industry-standard SSL encryption for card/payment details
Daily data backups taken for quick disaster recovery
Server monitoring every 20-seconds to highlight errors or problems

Technical Support & Maintenance

24-hr technical support by phone and e-mail
A site support and maintenance agreement for ongoing assistance

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