E-commerce & Shopping Carts
We aim to provide your business with an e-commerce solution specifically tailored to your requirements. We use commercial and bespoke solutions that allow you to grow your business as your market changes.
Our e-commerce systems provide a stable, secure, and easily updatable framework to put your products and services online. We can integrate with your existing product database or create a new product and order management system for you.
Our systems allow you to add or remove text and images on your pages, create new pages if required, add or remove categories and products, amend product information, update shipping details, manage orders, send newsletters and lots more. The bespoke design that we create for your website will be integrated into this system.
There are no additional license fees or monthly charges payable for the use of our systems as all costs will be included in your website quotation, and once complete the use of this system and all website files will belong to you. Updates are available for download when new features are added to the shopping cart software allowing you to keep your system software fully updated, or we can provide an updating service on your behalf if required.
To view some examples of the ecommerce websites that we have built for our clients, please click here.
Some of our shopping cart features:
- Built in search engine optimisation allows custom keywords to be added to each product and category
- Customer order history
- Inventory Stock Control
- Products can be easily enabled/disabled
- Add/Edit orders from admin control panel – useful for telephone orders
- Unlimited products, categories & images per product
- Product image gallery
- ‘Tell a friend’ button
- Built in email and newsletter marketing facilities
- Customer product reviews and comments
- Inventory stock control – on completed payment or order creation
- Admin dashboard notifications – low stock warning, new orders, new product reviews/comments
- Mini shopping basket visible on all pages (if required)
- Bulk product price update – by multiple category select or all
- Spambot flood protection and other essential security features
- Log website search phrases – can be viewed in admin control panel to see what your customers are searching for
- Statistics - sales (by hour/day/month), search phrases, product popularity (by views/sales)
- Advanced product search for visitors
- Related products
- Gift certificates, money off vouchers/coupons
- New/featured products – can easily be assigned to display on home page
- Flexible shipping modules – A variety of options available including: by price, weight, flat fee, by item or category, Royal Mail etc
- Courier tracking
- Payment modules – a complete range of payment provider options such as Paypal, Worldpay and HSBC are available
- Affiliate modules – for marketing and sales
- Quick and easy database backup tool
- Sale mode – per individual product or store wide percentage reduction
- Printable order invoice and packaging slip facility
- Google website analytics
- Image resizing and thumbnailing – our system lets you resize images and create thumbnails without the need for additional software
Training and support
Once content has been added to your website, we will contact you to arrange a training session. During this session we can also show you how to make any amendments to your website content before going live. Our shopping cart systems are very easy to use, but we also provide full instructions on how to use them and our quotes also include a full training session, and once your website is live we also provide free email and telephone support.
For a completely free and informal discussion on your e-commerce project, please contact us and we will be happy to demonstrate why Mid Wales Design is the e-commerce team of choice for so many companies.