e-Commerce, shopping online in a search engine friendly environment
Our search engine friendly e-Commerce system has been used by many companies looking to move into the fastest growing area of retail with more people now buying online than ever.
There is definately an art to e-commerce, with a number of factors work together to define your success. You don't have shop assistants in person but you can utilise tricks from retail shops such as well presented shop fronts as shown here.
- Strong, well presented pictures of a product, not home snaps and clip art
- Short and meaningful description with well written promotions
- Good use of cross selling
- Personalisation
- Clear and concise layout
- Clutter free interface
Business benefits include
- Improved turnover due to a wider viewing audience
- Reduced costs
- 24 x 7 shop front
- Options for immediate global trading
- Huge array of media options for promotional pieces
- Search Engine Friendly pages
Check out a complete working site recently produced.
This particular site has been heavily customised with many extra features added such as the Social Utility.
Contact us to find out more about our packages and services or read on to find out more.
Our own e-commerce system has evolved over the past few years into a comprehensive and competent front end and admin application for all sizes of business no matter what you are selling.
pricing schemes
(A) Standard installation
- Out of the box solution with products and your logos added, along with colour changes to the layout
- Pick from one of our templates
- Perfect for a startup looking to get going for less
- Comprehensive online administration and control panel
- Paypal or other payment gateway
- £1995.00 plus vat
- Includes one years hosting (see hosting fees)
- This package includes the functionality as can be seen in our online demo only.
- Try the demo
(B) Fully customised solution
- Fully customised design and functionality
- Upto 30 products added
- Comprehensive online administration and control panel
- Paypal or other payment gateway
- From £3500.00 plus vat
- Includes one years hosting (see hosting fees)
- This package includes the functionality as can be seen in our online demo plus any additional features you wish to include. See below for charges.
- Try the demo
Customisation charges
- Any additional features or customisation may incur an hourly charge of £90.00 plus vat.
- A full quote can be given before proceeding with a project.
e-Commerce system specification
Installation/Summary
- No plug-ins or system updates
- Just unzip files.
VP-ASP is ready to use - Browser based administration
- Unlimited products, categories
- Use as complete storefront
- Integrates into any existing web
- Full open source
- Easy installation from a zip file
- Developer Discounts
- Reseller and ISP discounts
- Free add-ons for gateways, languages and real-time shipping
- No ongoing fees
- Free upgrades for a year
- Customer forum
- Turn on shopping features as you need them
- Simple shops can be up and running in an hour. Just add your products.
Payment Options
- Paypal
- 100+ electronic gateways such as Paypal, Authorizenet, Verisign
- Offline credit card processing
- Bypass payments
- Any other non credit type of payment
- Real time currency conversions
- Dual currency displays
- Reusable gift certificates
- Any currency type
- Service payments (take payments for auctions and non product services)
- Digital downloads and attachments
- Secure digital delivery
- Pin Number delivery
- Recurring Billing
- Points Rewards
- 3-4 digit card verification number optional or required
Products/Inventory
- Unlimited products
- Unlimited categories
- Unlimited product features such as color, size or any attribute you decide upon
- Features as drop down lists, radio buttons, fill in text, quantities, check boxes
- Feature based prices and weights
- Cross selling
- Coupons
- Gift Certificates
- Customer based pricing (retail, wholesale, etc)
- Quantity based pricing
- Delivery address per product
- Stock Control by product or feature
- Discounts based on order amount
- Product rating and reviews
- Top Sellers
- Wish lists
- Display products as a catalog only
- Call for price
- Dependent products
- Ask a question
- Make an offer
- Buy one get x free
- Multiple images per product
- HTML editor or product and category descriptions
- Out of stock messages or auto hide products when stock depleted
Shipping and Taxes
- 15+ shipping calculations- price range, quantity range, weight, weight range etc
- Real time shipping - free add-ons
- UPS, FedEx, Australia Post, Canada Post, Thai Post, Intershipper for DHL and many other shipping companies
- Tax by state
- Tax by country
- Tax by product
- Handling fixed or by product
- Individual delivery address by product
- Product based shipping calculations
- Free shipping over a certain amount
- European VAT exemption handling
- Call for price shipping cost
- Enhanced product excludes for shipping and taxes
- Short term delivery date and time with exclusions for certain period
- Markups for real-time shipping
- Free shipping by product
- Free shipping by order amount
- Country based shipping
- Tax exempt products
- Canadian tax free add-on
- Australian GST free add-on
Mailing
- Mail to merchant on order completion
- Mail to Customer on order completion
- Mail to others (mailing list) on order completion
- Mail to suppliers on order completion
- Mail on customer buying a gift certificate
- Mail to Tell a friend
- Mail on order tracking message to merchant
- Bulk mailing by merchant
- Mail to merchant on new customer registration
- Mail to merchant on new product review
- Mail to customer on order tracking message by merchant
- Mail to merchant on new gift registry creation
- Mail to merchant on affiliate registration
- Mail to affiliate on registration
- Mail on order received for affiliate
- Mail on processing an order by
- Mailing attachments
Customer Service
- Orders stored in database
- Customer history of all orders
- Customer can restore orders
- Repeat customer recognition
- Discounts and loyalty programs
- Affiliate Program
- Gift Registry
- Wish List
- Join mailing list
- Pre-sales registration
- Forced login before shopping
- Logged order tracking messages
- Customer based discounts
- Pin Number delivery
- Express Checkout
- Wish list per product
- SMS messaging
Design and layout
- Fully flexible design
- HTML template formatting or no template formatting
- Unlimited products
- Unlimited categories/subcategories
- Unlimited subcategory depth
- Advanced Search facilities
- Customizable search facility
- Thumbnails and larger images
- Automated extended descriptions
- Add to cart button on existing sites
- Order multiple products with one click
- Mouse only ordering
- Random product displays
- Mini cart always visible
- 350+ configuration options
- Your own database fields dynamically used for forms, search, display and editing
- Auto alphabetic links
- Dynamic headers
Back Office
- Update products using browser
- Update any table via browser
- Browser reporting
- Bulk Updating from files
- Bulk mailing- text or HTML
- Bulk Imports
- Display and print orders
- Order tracking messages
- Send message on order processed
- Configure over 400 Shop options using the browser
- Multiple administrators with different privileges
- Advanced SQL reports
- Export any table
- QuickBooks integration via export or
third party software - Static HTML generation for search engines
- Add and modify languages
Reports
- Sales reports
- Search query reports
- Total sales
- Total sales by product and supplier
- Affiliate Reports
- Recurring Billing
- Content management
Database and System
- Open ASP source
- Access, MySQL and SQL Server
- MYSQL & SQL Server support not available in Starter Pac
- MYSQL can be used on Microsoft Windows
- Full SSL Support
- Full shared SSL support
- Separate products database
- Split orders database
International
- Use any language
- Automatic language switching
- Dual Currency displays
- International shipping calculations
- International date formats
- Any currency symbol
- International Paypal support
- Auto currency conversion in real time
- Multi Currency
Anti-Hacker Security
- Prevent hackers from order based on e-mail or IP address
- Dual password login to Administration
- Totally hide administration
- Prevent certain countries from ordering
- Always use database prices
- Other internal security checks to prevent SQL injection
- IP to country checks
- Email admin owner when someone tries to access admin log in page
- Security alerts if unsecure pages found on server
- Security notices delivered directly to admin
Content Management
- Full Content management on any page you choose such as privacy, about us, what's new
- Template driven or non template driven with images and text
- Merge any table with any template
- Dynamic menu for content pages with full control via the new Navigation Manager
Affiliates
- Commission reports over any time period
- Affiliate registration, change details and forgotten password
- Review Orders
- Email on order
- Two level commission
- Commission by percent, by product, by category
- Affiliate status including links, last order, orders
- Bulk mail to affiliates using HTML, plain text or mail merge
- Affiliate based look and feel
- Coupons can be associated with affiliates for advertising campaigns
Contact us to find out more about our packages and services or read on to find out more.