Our custom ecommerce website design solutions will enable you to run an ecommerce website on the internet in a user friendly manner. Our affordable solutions will enable you to get your ecommerce web site up and running with the minimum amount of fuss, enabling your business to start selling online immediately.
Online Shops are becoming one of the premier uses of the internet, with existing businesses or companies expanding into the internet sector. It is a great vehicle for making extra money for your company and has the advantage of being open 24 hours, 7 days a week and reaching a worldwide audience.
Our Online Store is very affordable - from just £499. This includes everything required for an online shop - A domain name, hosting, website design, a database driven shop, integration with a payment processor, basic optimisation and submission to Google.
We design our ecommerce web design solutions using a combination of an industrial-strength SQL Server database and the programming language ASP.NET. All our ecommerce sites encorporate a shopping cart which is robust and very stable. We don't use any of the 'out the box' solutions as offered by some design companies, we offer a custom solution, which means that the site can be designed to your wishes and our shopping cart software can be integrated into your own unique looking website.
Crucial Solution Online Shopping Cart is a professional application that allows you to quickly and effortlessly sell online. It is fully-featured with a list of features that put many other so-called “Shopping Carts” to shame. We offer unparalleled levels of support – whether you are an experienced software developer or someone who just doesn’t want to “get their hands dirty”!
Features of the Crucial Solution Online Store
General
- Products and categories can be automatically uploaded to the online store from your existing product data (whether this is stored as a spreadsheet or other database)
- Supports
categories, sub-categories and manufacturers
- Products can be mapped to more than one category or manufacturer
- Customers do not have to login/register to make a purchase
- Multilingual and Multicurrency support - your customers can choose to see prices in their local currency using real-time currency exchange rates
- Support for secure transactions (SSL)
- Fully customisable to your company design and colour scheme
- Can select which countries you will sell to
- Complies with the latest WS3 guidelines for accessibility (for customers who may have visual or physical limitations)
Product Features
- Product attributes (e.g. color, size, weight etc)
- You can have multiple images for each product
- You don't have to worry about resizing your images - the website will do this for you
- 'Downloadable' products are supported - for example, instructional leaflets, instructional video, your own software products etc.
- 'Text options' supported - for example, some products may allow engraving of a customer's own text
- Products can be 'simple' e.g a single fishing fly, or 'complex' (where there are multiple options - different designs, shapes, materials of construction etc)
- Promotions such as discounts, sale-prices, featured products, new products etc are supported
- Customers can search through all products using a simple search box
- Individual products can have their own specifications - for example materials of construction, flexibility etc
- Customers may compile their own 'Compare Lists'
- A variety of promotional activities are supported from newsletters through to volume discounts
- Supports 'related products' - for example 'Customers who bought this, also bought ....' or 'You may also be interested in the following products ...'
- Supports 'free delivery', 'tax exempt', 'discounts' for selected products, types of customer, customer location etc
- A variety of discounts can be applied - as a percentage, as a fixed amount, with starting and ending dates, for selected products, for selected customer types etc
- Supports tier prices - for example, 'the more you buy, the more you save ...'
- Displays recently added and recently viewed products
- Supports RSS - use this to notify your customers of new products, promotions etc.
- Customers can review products (subject to your approval of their comments)
- Fully search engine optimised(e.g. Google) - 'friendly' URLs - every product, category and manufacturer page can have their own custom search engine meta tags, page title
- Supports the addition of your News items which can be fed to customers using a RSS feed as well as being displayed on the website
- Supports polls, a blog and a forum
- Also supports 'affiliate programmes' - where customers can earn a commission when someone is diverted to your store from a link on their site and a sale is achieved
- There is a full, comprehensive and easy-to-use admin control panel where you can manage all aspects of the store yourself
Delivery Features
- Calculate delivery cost by order total, order weight or country & total order weight
- Can allow free delivery if the order is over a set amount
- It is possible to have additional delivery charges for chosen product types
- You can specify a choice of delivery methods (UK First Class, Recorded Delivery, Next Day etc)
Tax Features
- Tax can be applied by country, by county/state, by postcode
- Individual products can be marked as Tax-Free
- Supports VAT
- You may choose to allow your customers to specify the tax display type (either including or excluding tax)
- You can specify whether prices include tax, whether delivery is taxable, whether delivery prices include tax, whether to hide zero tax, whether to hide the tax summary when prices are shown as tax-inclusive
Payment Methods
- Cash On Delivery
- Cheques, Postal Orders, Money Orders, Bank telegraphic Transfers
- Accepts ALL major credit and debit cards
- Paypal (Standard, Website Payments Pro, PayFlow Pro, Express)
- Google Checkout
- SECPay
- 2Checkout
- Authorize.NET
- CDGcommerce (Quantum Payment Gateway)
- eWay (Australia or UK)
- PSI Gate
- Worldpay
- Moneybookers
Customer Service Features
- Customers can register/login by email or by username
- Wish list
- Customers can view their order history and order status
- Customer has an address book - each customer can have multiple delivery and/or invoice addresses
- You can easily customise your order emails
- Built-in forum (if you choose to enable it)
- Password recovery facility
- IP Blacklist - you can ban customers form accessing your site
- Automatic registration (customers do not have to wait while you approve their registration)
- You can enable email validation during registration
- "Email a friend" feature
- Compare product feature (if you choose to enable it)
- Automatic RSS Feed (Recently-added products, News)
- Contact Us form