E-Commerce and On-line Shopping

Online shopping is exploding, accounting for 40 per cent of all retail sales by 2020, according to a survey by uSwitch.com.

We've been helping our clients own their bit of this huge growth area by producing varied, reliable and secure online shopping sites, using a wide range of shopping cart systems since 2004.

We've also modified and supported existing on-line stores helping their owners improve both the customers experience and more importantly our clients sales figures.

Helping clients get from idea to sales as painlessly as possible is our goal and once we have your site live we go on to support you and are always available to discuss changes or additions to both design and functionality.

Magento is THE ecommerce platform for 2009, with more features and the customisation opportunities than any platform before it.

Using Magento we can build a fully PCI compliant online store that promotes your businesses brand and provides an excellent store front for your products.

Whilst Magento comes with many features "out of the box"", it's not pre-configured for the UK and needs specialist development work to get the best return on the time you invest in your online shop. Forget osCommerce, Actinic and other store packages, Magento changes everything with easy to use reliable administration and solid code design.

Here's a summary of some of Magento's features

• Shop front
• Custom designs, your design NO compromises and NO 3 columns only rule!
• Multiple images per product
• Lightbox zoom and gallery
• Search engine friendly filenames, page titles and metatags
• Simple and advanced searchs
• Embeded video and other media, YouTube etc
• Single or Multiple payment processors
• Payment modules for:
• Google Checkout
• HSBC
• Secpay
• PayPal
• Worldpay
• Secure Trading
• Local PDQ
• Finance
• And we're happy to add you favourite
• Custom Product Attributes, like size and colour
• Account creation and access
• Custom basket rules
• Postcode Anywhere address validation (custom V4 development)
• Weight/location based Shipping calculator
• Multi Currency
• Multi Store
• Content managed information pages, which you can edit
• Separate billing and shipping addresses or just the one


• Backend - Administration
• Secure
• Search for orders, products, categories all from the same search field
• Content management, no need to call the designer/developer to change a piece of text
• Site wide VAT on/off
• Google base, Kelkoo feeds
• Dashboard
• Shows number of orders and their stages
• Any issues with the shop like:
• Hidden products
• Missing Images
• Zero priced products
• Categories
• Categories and multiple sub categories
• Image, Title, description, Meta-tags
• Hide/show
• Products
• Products with instances in multiple categories
• Simple stock control
• title, description,
• Hide/show manual or based on stock level
• Multiple images, auto-resized in code, you only upload one version!
• Drag and drop sort order or A-Z
• You Tube video embedding
• Current Stock (optional)
• Weight
• Cross/up selling
• Orders
• Customer details
• Payment information
• Order stage management
• Invoice print
• Packaging slip print
• Full order history/audit trail

Download the full Magento Feature List

And if it's not on the list we can build it in-house for you!

Why not give us a call today on 01394 382400 and find out more?

osCommerce was a popular ecommerce platform a few years ago but it lost it's way and has ended up being a bit of a mess! If you have an osCommerce site it's likely to be a jumble of additional contributions that don't play well together making osCommerce unreliable, inflexible and ultimately unmaintainable.

With PCI requirements & your competition using better tools, it's time to upgrade your site!

We can build you a new Magento site with a modern clean design and import your existing osCommerce catalogue into Magento along with other data. Adding many new features, securing your store and increasing your search engine rankings through Magento's SEO friendliness.

New V4 Cornershop site

Jules and Sharpie commissioned us to provide an ecommerce site built around their new brand identity for their delicious hot preservaments.

With a small but diverse range of jellies, chutneys, jams and marmalades

The original Jules and Sharpie site had a simple PDF order form that needed printing and faxing/mailing to the company, the new site provides a true on-line store. Usually we'd use Magento to build stores but because of the small size of the catalogue and new products are introduced on an annual basis we built an all new custom mini-store.

Our small store solution called V4 Cornershop represents the variety, small product range, intimacy and high quality of service of the sellers that use it.

Using V4 Corner shop kept the project costs within budget but still provides big store functionality like the ability to search for the nearest stockist, content management for the news and events page and a mailing list sign up.

Order management and payment is handled by Google Checkout which is fully integrated into the site and further reduces the complexity of the development and therefore the costs and timescales involved.

The content management tools allow the client to edit their own events and news without getting us involved and to drive the nearest retailer page they also have ability to add, edit & delete retailers to be shown on the nearest retailer page.

www.julesandsharpie.co.uk

With a wide range of experience with many shopping cart designs we can help you with your existing site or help you build a new one.

Why not give us a call today on 01394 382400 and see how we can help?