E-Commerce

Make money from your website by selling your products online. If your company is successful in the real world then it's time to transfer that success into your online presence. With full shopping cart setup, including credit card processing, order tracking, and full site-design integration your shop can rival the high-street brands!

What we do

• Shopping cart systems installed
• Accept credit cards on your website
• Full site-design integration
• Secure Server Setup
• Integrate your third-party merchant account

Why you need it

The total online sales in the UK last year topped £15 billion pounds!^[1] Online retail sails are increasing at ten times the rate of traditional retail sales, with e-tail ers now accounting for around 2.5% of the total retail sales^[2]. These statistics are for the UK only! With a storefront that can stay open 24 hours a day, and also serve people around the globe, you have to ask yourself if your company can afford to miss out on this kind of business opportunity.

If your company is currently selling products in the real world then it is absolutely the time to make the move over to selling on the world wide web. The best way to sell on the world wide web is with a professional, high quality, feature packed shopping cart install.

It's time you talked with rtpDesign about moving your company into the world of online retailing.

^[1] Source: The Observer Business News
^[2] Source: E-Consultancy

Integrating with your website

If you have a website online already that you are happy with then we can integrate that design with your e-commerce package. Alternatively you can investigate the possibilities of getting a unique custom designed website for your company.

Shopping Cart Features

• Design / Layout
  • Template struture implementation to:
    • allow layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and quickly to make
    • allow easy integration into an existing site
  • Support for dynamic images
• Administration / Backend Functionality
  • Supports unlimited products and categories
    • Products-to-categories structure
    • Categories-to-categories structure
  • Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
  • Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
  • Administration area secured with a username and password defined during installation
  • Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
  • Easily backup and restore the database
  • Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
  • Statistics for products and customers
  • Multilingual support
  • Multicurrency support
    • Automatically update currency exchange rates
  • Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
  • Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics
• Customer / Frontend Functionality
  • All orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval
  • Customers can view their order history and order statuses
  • Customers can maintain their accounts
    • Addressbook for multiple shipping and billing addresses
  • Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
  • Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features
  • Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience
  • Forseen checkout procedure
  • Secure transactions with SSL
  • Number of products in each category can be shown or hidden
  • Global and per-category bestseller lists
  • Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown
  • Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation
• Product Functionality
  • Dynamic product attributes relationship
  • HTML based product descriptions
  • Automated display of specials
  • Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase
  • Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters
• Payment Functionality
  • Accept numerous offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing, ..)
  • Accept numerous online payment processing (2CheckOut, PayPal, Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)
  • Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis
• Shipping Functionality
  • Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules
  • Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx, ..)
  • Free shipping based on amount and destination
  • Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis
• Tax Functionality
  • Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis
  • Set different tax rates for different products
  • Charge tax on shipping on a per shipping service basis

 

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