Ecommerce Website Design and Development Scotland

We provide a variety of e-commerce services, ranging from easily deployed solutions to advanced custom billing and invoicing systems.

We build custom eCommerce systems, as well as installing bespoke shopping carts.

Sitellite Siteshop

The new Siteshop application from Simian allows the possibility of completely integrating your online shop, with your content management website.

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Zen Cart

We work mostly with Zen Cart, an open-source shopping program, which is one of the most flexible and full-featured ecommerce application available on the internet.

Zen Cart is particularly good for those people interested in squeezing the utmost out of their web catalogue. It comes with newsletters facilities, and is rich in marketing tools, stock management options, secure server gateways and admin capabilities.

As well as being suitable for B2C purposes, Zen Cart also works well for B2B. The number of products and product options it can hold is only limited by the power and capacity of your database server. Some people have stocked Zen Cart stores with several hundred thousand products. Most of our Zen Cart stores involve only a few hundred products, but it is reassuring to know there is room for expansion.

For those who do not require a fully equipped ecommerce application, then we have four or five different systems which can be used for the sale of single products, or for smaller stores.

For those who require Content Management with Ecommerce, then try VirtueMart

VirtueMart - Ecommerce with CMS

This system integrates with Joomla, to give you all the power of OpenSource Content Management with your web shop.

Features of VirtueMart

  • Unlimited number of Products and Categories
  • Catalogue Mode allows you to turn of the Shopping Cart Features
  • Unlimited Category/Subcategory depth
  • Products can be assigned to multiple Categories
  • Sort your Products and Categories the way you like
  • Sell downloadable Goods like MP3s, Templates, Videos or Software
  • Add Images and Files (e.g. Data Sheets) to every Product for your customers’ convenience
  • Add Attributes like Size or Color to your Products to offer product variations
  • Use Product Discounts (percantage/total, time limited or not)
  • Show Details & images for every Item
  • comfortable and flexible Product Import & Export using CSV Files
  • Manage and control the Stock Level for Products and Items
  • Automatically notify Customers when a Product is back in Stock
  • Feature specific products by setting them "on special"

Shopper Groups / User Management

  • Add Shoppers and assign them to different shopper groups
  • global Shopper Group Discounts
  • multiple prices can be added to a Product, each for an own shopper group or a quantity range
  • Restrict "Display prices" to specific user groups
  • Access Management: assign users to user groups like "admin", "storeadmin", "shopper" or "demo" to allow the administration by other users (assign products to vendors and allow those vendors to maintain only their products)

Affiliate Tracking

You can integrate the 3rd Party Software "iDevAffiliate" into virtueMart and keep track of your visitors and affiliates.

Easy Configuration / Customization

  • Manage your shop through an easy and completely Joomla!/Mambo-integrated interface
  • A "Welcome Screen" shows your daily Shop Statistics: A Summary with "number of customers", "number of orders", "5 newest customers" and so on
  • capable of Frontend Administration (without having to login into the Backend of Joomla/Mambo)
  • global Price/Currency Display Formatting
  • Templates for Product Display Pages
  • Extend the Shop with other Modules and Functions
  • Manage different Currencies, Countries

Shipping Addresses / Rates

  • Shoppers can add individual Shipping Addresses
  • Add your own Shipping Carriers and Shipping Rates using the “Standard Shipping” feature
  • Fetch Shipping Rates live from Intershipper, USPS, UPS, Canada Post, and more...

VirtueMart has a documented Shipping Module API for your own custom payment modules.

Tax Rates

  • Product prices can be displayed including taxes or not (set for each shopper group)
  • Support for different Tax Modes:
    • Shipping-Address-based tax calculation (city/state & country/region)
    • Store-Owner-based tax calculation
    • European Tax Mode (Tax Rate of the Originating Country is used)
  • Support for multiple Tax Rates (7% for food or books, 19% for other goods)

Payment

  • You can use safe SSL encryption (128-bit) and Shared SSL
  • Capable of Live Credit Card Processing


Virtuemart supports a lot of Payment Gateways.
This is a list of pre-installed Gateways (maybe not all listed):

VirtueMart has a documented Payment Module API for your own custom payment modules.

Order Management

  • Complete Order Management
  • Automatically notify your customers when the Order Status changes
  • Order Change History
  • Custom Order Status Management

"Nice" Features for Customers...

  • Let your customers easily search for products through a search form
  • Shoppers can see, in what time a product will usually ship, on product-details page (with nice images!)
  • Shoppers can manage their user accounts
  • Shopper can view all their orders (and order details)
  • Order Confirmation mail (customizable!) is sent to shopper and store owner

Joomla! / Mambo Integration

  • Registration while checkout automatically registers the user to the global user table (registration is necessary for purchasing items)
  • Complete integration of the layout using Joomla's standard CSS styles
  • Easy installation / uninstallation using the Joomla/Mambo Installer

If you would like any further information on opening your own online shop, please contact us and ask what we can offer you.

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