The ecommerce shopping application (VirtueMart) is a Shopping Cart Application for selling goods over the internet. It's intended for use in small / mid-sized Online Businesses / Online-Shops, and is both fexible and scalable, so every user who wants to build up a Online Store can use this software for selling their goods to customers.

Standard Features

• Manage an unlimited Number of Products and Categories.
• Use it as a Shop or just as an Online-Catalog (you can even turn off Price Display).
• Sell downloadable Products.
• Powerful Web-Administration Interface.
• Product Import & Export using CSV Files.
• Add Images and Files (like Spec Sheets and Flyers) to a Product.
• Add Attributes (like Size or Colour) to your Products.
• Manage your Customers in Shopper Groups.
• Assign more than one Price to a Product: each Shopper Group has its own.
• Display Prices either including or excluding tax (manageable for each Shopper Group.
• Shop Statistics / Control Panel with a Summary of new Customers, new Orders....
• Manage the Stock Level for Products and Items.
• Notify Shoppers when a Product is back in Stock.
• Related Products show related products with that being viewed.
• Discount Coupons the ability to offer and process discount vouchers.
• Use Zone based VAT Calculations (city/county & country/region), or Store Owner based VAT Calculations (e.g. in european countries).
• Manage your own Shipping Carriers and Rates.
• Use InterShipper or UPS Shipping Rate API.
• Complete Order Management with Order History, Customer Notification and Order Edit Functionality.
• Basic Reporting Feature: sold Items, monthly&yearly Revenue.
• Manage Order Statuses.
• Shoppers can add their own Shipping Addresses.
• Let your Customers easily search for Products through a Search Form.
• Feature specific products by setting them on special.
• Let your shoppers know when a product is available again.
• Shoppers can see, in what time a product will usually ship, on product-details page (with nice images!).
• Shoppers can manage their User Accounts (registration required).
• Shopper can view all their Orders (and Order Details).
• Order Confirmation Mail is sent to Shopper and Store Owner.
• Manage different Currencies, Countries & Regions.
• Use Paypal or google checkout for taking payments.

Optional Features

As standard we will integrate your checkout with the popular Paypal & Google Checkout payment providers (accounts can be opened for free). These providers allow for the payment transaction to take place using their own SSL (Secure Server License), thereby negating the need for your own SSL certificate and the associated costs.

To accept other payments such as credit and debit cards in your online store you will need to open a merchant account with one of tha main banks (or use your existing card facilities / merchant account if you have one). We can offer you advice on opening and operating merchant acocunts.

SSL Certificates will be required should this option be required and are an additional cost of £175. this will enable:

• safe SSL encryption (128-bit).
• Capable of live Credit Card Processing.
• Use mainstream banks.

To get you going we will create up to 50 items (categories / products) as part of the package. Should you require further assistance we can offer the following items:

• Have us add +10 new products to your store (at one time)* - £20
• Have us add +20 new products to your store (at one time)* - £30
• Have us add +30 new categories to your store (at one time)* - £20
• Other store management or general design work, etc - £POA

*Based on client providing product images and information to us via email or CD-Rom