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What is an E-Commerce Website?
An E-commerce means commerce with internet i.e. selling over the Internet — goods, services, information, whatever. E-Commerce can also be said as the business in the online environment. And hence E-Commerce website can be considered as the tool used over internet for the selling of goods, services and information.
An E-Commerce website is a website that can also be helpful in promotion of the particular product. An E-Commerce website can only be used if it is providing any option for online payment.
Features / Advantages of an E-Commerce website
An e-commerce website provides the below enlisted features:
Generalized Features:
In an E-Commerce website some features are provided as generalized by which user can manage at its own using the following features.
a.) Category Management
- User can add/edit/delete the unlimited number of categories and sub-categories.
- Products can be linked to multiple categories and have multiple options.
b.) Product Management
- Set the order in which products display.
- Support for "text" options which allows a customer to enter text when they order a product.
- Ability to choose the "Featured Products" on your homepage
- Support for product Ratings & Reviews per product
- Support for product suppliers
- Support for product manufacturers
- Support for product brands
- Maintain inventory levels by product and product options
Salient Features:
Here are enlisted the salient features of an E-Commerce website:
a.) Shopping Cart Facility
- Support with the Shopping cart facility
- Multiple options for adding a product in Shopping cart
- Options can be given a weight which will be factored into the shipping cost calculations along with the Product weight
b.) Image Management- Multiple product images
- Zoom product images (multiple zoom options)
- Integration with social media website
c.) Secure Transactions
- Session based login system for high security
- IP trace for location point out
- 3 level administrative login for different-different criteria
d.) Payment Collection
E-Commerce applications require mechanisms for payment. iSolution e-commerce solution provides seamless integration of PayPal with your website and any other payment gateways.
E-Commerce Technologies
The technologies that iSolution uses for developing an e-commerce website are shown below:
iSolution Customized Code
- If you are looking for standard features based on e-commerce shopping cart then you can select any one of CMS. In case you need some changes then iSolution will also develop it according to your requirement. But in some of cases no any CMS or open source is compatible with your requirement to fulfill your own requirement, iSolution makes as per your needs.
Open Source
a.) Open Cart
- Open Cart is an open source online shopping cart system in PHP. Open Cart is a robust e-commerce solution for users with the ability to create online business for own and can take the benefits of e-commerce within an appropriate budget. iSolution works on its features to make it rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with an interactive interface.
b.) Magento
- Magento is an open source eCommerce solution that comes with a variety of tools necessary for building a successful online shop. To create an online store with Magento you need reliable web hosting services. Magento holds huge array that can help in storing and management of online stores. iSolution makes its features customized and work upon to make your application more attractive with the help of different payment engines and shipping options.
c.) Zen Cart
- Zen Cart is an online store management system. It uses PHP-MySQL and HTML components. Zen Cart users can take several benefits of various languages and currencies. It is freely available under the General Public License. There is an administrator area for the online store manager in order to manage the Sales, pricing, Products, Newsletters, Shipping etc. iSolution customizes it by providing attractive options that can be set up to receive the payment from credit cards and various payment gateway services are also provided.
d.) X Cart
- X-Cart provides pre-built solutions allowing you to put a better developed e-commerce solution to market, cheaper and faster than your competition. X-Cart shopping cart is fast. For most web stores there is no need to arrange a dedicated server. X-Cart has a W3C-compliant storefront with a CSS-based layout. And it comes with several professional e-commerce design templates. X-Cart is search engine friendly. iSolution makes it more specific so that you can add meta-tags and define custom titles and URLs for product and category pages, which improves standing of your web store with popular search engines.
e.) os Commerce
- osCommerce is an Open Source online shop. It is an e-commerce solution which is freely available under the General Public License. It can be used by any web server having PHP-MySQL combination. osCommerce is popular for rich set of broad functionality for online shopping cart that allows online store owners to maintain online stores with minimum effort and within estimated cost. osCommerce provides a basic set of functionality that meets the common needs of online businesses. iSolution makes it customizable to meet the specific needs of any business.
Major Sectors / Areas for the use of E-Commerce Technologies
E-commerce is getting very popular now a days due to its easy and user friendly way for online transaction regarding selling and purchase of products and hence it has covered almost every area where transaction is required. iSolution covers the major sectors as shown in the below list:
- Enterprise content management
- Newsgroups
- Online order tracking
- Online shopping
- Online banking
- Online office suites
- Domestic and international payment systems
- Shopping cart software
- Teleconferencing
- Electronic tickets
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