E-commerce solutions are proving a very strong distribution channel for retail businesses, both in the consumer and business marketplace. Our solutions have delivered record return on our clients' online investment. In fact, many have seen their return on investment match and even exceed their expectations. The average payback time is 3 months with the fastest being 3 weeks!

So, what functionality do you actually get with our e-commerce solution, apart from the ability to efficiently sell your products?   Please see an abbreviated list of functionality you can get with our system:

• Very intuitive buying process for shoppers.
• Very flexible design evironment. Look and feel can be created virtually without limitations.
• very fast time-to-market.
• Very intuitive web-based back-end for administrators to maintain the site and process orders. Also detailed reports over sales.
• Registered users can track their order online, and see a history of past orders.
• Related items. Lets you cross-sell similar items your customers may be interested in.
• Sophisticated discount, special offers, and campaign schemes. Create discounts for individual items, certain types of users, coupon holders, etc.
• Sophisticated shipping charge rules. Create rules for different types of shipping, and different geographical areas.
• Affiliate schemes. Make additional money by tying in 3rd parties who refer shoppers to your site, and then get e.g. a percentage of any completed purchases. Automatic reporting for each affiliate.
• Wish lists. Give shoppers the ability to have a wish list for future purchases.
• Stock control.
• Unlimited product variations (e.g. size, colour, material, etc).
• Ability to do scheduled bulk import/export of data from other systems.
• Ability for site to remember abandoned shopping carts, so when they come back another day the products are still there.
• Ability to enable quick-buy, i.e. no registration required.
• Ability to have "zoomable" views of products, enabling the shoppers to
  view the products close-up without waiting for a huge picture download.
• Ability to have "spinnable" views of products, enabling the shoppers to
  view the products from multiple angles, if this is beneficial.
• Ability for registered users to store multiple shipping destinations.
• Supports multiple currencies simultaneously.
• Supports multiple pricing methods simultaneously (e.g. retail and wholesale).
• Customer notification upon order status changes.
• Ability to give your corporate clients a personalised reporting tool which will ease their administration burden. (e.g. your client's job numbers can be required to the entered with all their purchases, so they can easily assign the right purchases to their various job numbers).
• Instant SSL secured credit/debit card payment processing through payment gateways (e.g. Worldpay). Also support for non-card payment schemes (e.g. cheque, pay-pal, etc).
• Products can have custom parameters attached to suit individual needs.
• Easily create featured items, which will get highlighted on e.g. the homepage.
• Ability to enable shoppers to post reviews of individual products (like Amazon book reviews).
• Generation of invoices, packing lists and shipping labels.
• Automatic thumbnail picture generator.
• True multi-user system. Ability to assign different people to different tasks.
• Search facility.
• Detailed site traffic reporting.
• Scale to any size site.

And for the IT people:

• All data can be stored in MS SQL/ MySQL/ Oracle / Server.
• Based on industry standard software, giving regular updates and feature enhancements.
• Ability to integrate with 3rd party applications (fulfillment systems, stock control systems, etc).
• Intelligent caching to ensure maximum speed.
• Multiple options for belt-and-braces deployment to ensure maximum availability and scalability (clustering, load balancing).
• Maintains full audit trail of all modifications made in the back-end.