Many client’s ask us for our advice on the best Ecommerce solution for them. Obviously this is such an ambiguous question with hundreds of possible answers. However we believe that any organisation, whether they be a small scale enterprise offering a small selection of items for sale right the way through to large scale enterprises can benefit from using the Magento Platform.
Our design process combined with the flexibility of Magento allows us to make engaging and rewarding experiences for customers without compromising on back-end functionality that many systems just do not offer. The Magento system reduces the amount of design templates required for an ecommerce build and enables a more rapid design and development process and ensures consistency throughout the website.
The main areas where we believe Magento can help you to increase your profitability are:
- Access to functionality based on industry standard open source software.
- An excellent user experience.
- Access to a team of Magento specialists that understand and can help you optimise your digital environment.
- Ability to deploy products in a matter of minutes with a back-end system that requires little training.
The Magneto platform is an open-source, free to use Ecommerce platform with lots of different ways in which can contribute
to your profitability. To the right is the LSS Interactive architecture of a Magento Project built by our specialist team. As you can see the base Magento core application is installed and configured to your projects needs and requirements. Following this custom features can be installed and built to support the project. Along with this a tailor-made template along with all relevant styles are created and implemented into the system. We also have a range of our own extensions which can be added to the system if need be.
All of this then relies on performance, and we believe it is an essential component of your Ecommerce site. The importance of speed can be easily verified by research conducted by Amazon and Google. Greg Linden during his time at Amazon presented findings that 1second of latency costs Amazon 1% in sales. This leaves us with one simple conclusion: A faster website equals more sales.
We have spent over a year testing and optimising our hosting to make sure that speed and performance is not an issue for our customers. We choose the very best quality hosting, which is provided by our hosting partners.
The possibilities are endless with the Magento platform. Key features of the platform include:
- Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed
- Multi-Lingual Sites
- Fully 100% customizable design using templates
- One-Click Upgrades
- Content Management System for Informational Pages
- Flexible pricing rules with ability to restrict to stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories.
- Multi-Tier Pricing for quantity discounts
- URL Rewrites
- Up-sells in Shopping Cart
- Send Wishlist to a Friend by Email or RSS
- Polls
- Newsletter Management
- 100% Search Engine Friendly
- Meta-information for products and categories
- One-Page Checkout
- SSL security support for orders on both front-end and back-end
- Checkout without account/Guest Checkout
- Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
- Table rates for weight and destination
- Configurable to authorize and charge, or authorize only and charge on creation of invoices
- Integrated with multiple PayPal gateways
- Accept Purchase Orders
- SagePay Integration
- View, edit, create and fulfill orders from admin panel.
- Create one or multiple invoices, shipments and credit memos per order to allow for split fulfilment
- Print invoices and packing slips
- Email Notifications of Orders
- Forgot Password Email from front-end and administration panel
- Customizable Order Emails
- Create and Edit Orders from the Admin Panel
- Order status and history
- Downloadable Products
- Address Book with unlimited addresses
- Account Dashboard for overview
- Inventory Management with Backordered items, Minimum and Maximum quantities
- Simple, Configurable (e.g. size, color, etc.), Bundled and Grouped Products
- Virtual Products
- Downloadable/Digital Products
- Approve, Edit and Delete Product Reviews
- Integrated with Google Analytics
These are just some of the great features that make Magento such a great plaform to base an Ecommerce project on. It’s for these reasons, that Magento is our Ecommerce standard platform and all Ecommerce projects we undertake are built upon this plaform.
The platform is especially useful for small businesses who are looking for an all-in-one package to complement their other in-house systems and without the need to integrate expensive applications that sit outside the Ecommerce site to perform specific tasks.
To find out more information on our E-Commerce service, please contact us.
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