Ecommerce simply means selling over the Internet - goods, services, information, whatever.
RIPL has handy experience in developing B2B and B2C ecommerce website application.
Unique features of E commerce web site:
Search Engine Optimization
- Search Engine Friendly™ URLs
- Full control over title tags, meta description, meta keywords
- XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant
- Google Sitemaps
- Search Engine Friendly internal site search URLs
Site Management
- Administration permission roles and users
- Complete sales tax calculation by state and zipcode in designated states
- Advanced content management system for informational pages
Content Management (CMS) Components
- Add informational pages and categories
- Dynamic, Google-friendly navigation
- Extensible architecture
- WYSIWYG content tools
Marketing Promotions and Tools
- Flexible price management with ability to restrict by product and price-level (retail, wholesale)
- Percent discount
- Fixed amount discount
- Free shipping
- Customer discount groups
- Free shipping option: global, by product, by subtotal
- Multi-tier pricing for quantity discounts
- Search Engine Friendly URLs
- Recently viewed products
- Recently viewed categories
- Recently viewed searches
- Cross/up-sells
- Send to a friend
- Send wishlist to a friend
- RSS feeds for new products
- Google Sitemaps support
- Flexible eNewsletters module
- Support for multiple product feeds
International Support
- International shipping options
- UPS international shipping label printing
- Disallow ordering from/shipping to designated countries
Checkout
- Amazon-style checkout
- Express/guest checkout
- Sales tax by state, county, municipality based on zipcode
- Flexible shipping quotes
- Address book
- Automatically apply customer balance to order (unused portion of gift certificate)
- Downloadable and shippable products in same order
Shipping
- Integrated real-time shipping rates from UPS, USPS, Fedex
- Multiple packages per order
- Multiple packages per product
- Flat rate shipping
- Subtotal-based shipping rates
- Markup shipping rate-quotes by percentage or flat amount for transparent handling charges
- Free shipping
Payment
- Authorize-only, Authorize and Capture
- Paypal
- Multiple gateways, including:
- Authorize.net
- Cardservice International
- Verisign
- Card and Check Services
- Online checks
- Purchase orders
Order Management
- View, edit, create and fulfill orders from administrative tools
- Print invoices and packing slips
- Phone orders
- Email notifications of shipment, status changes
- Correspondence logging
- Backorders and partial shipments
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Contact us form
- Customer accounts with address book
- Order history
- Order tracking from account
- Forgot password email
- Order and account update emails
- Customizable order emails
- Create and edit orders from tools
- Gift certificates
Customer Accounts
- Order status and history
- Address book with unlimited addresses
- Default billing and shipping addresses
- Customizable wishlist/gift registry
- Newsletter subscription management
- Product reviews
- Tax exempt
- Multiple price levels (retail/wholesale)
Catalog Management
- Inventory management including minimum quantities and backordered items
- Bulk import/export of catalog
- Flexible product utility for changing parameters on entire categories of products
- Configure sales tax states
- Product cloning to quickly create similar products and attributes
- Automatic resizing of images
- Approve, edit and delete product reviews
- WYSIWYG product description tools
Catalog Browsing
- Recently viewed products, categories, searches
- Product reviews
- Set product and category listing attributes globally and per category
- Product and category listing in list or grid
- Cross-sells, also-purchased and related items
- Breadcrumbs
- Unlimited images per product with multiple image treatments
- Inventory in-stock and out-of-stock notices
- Quantity pricing
- Add to wishlist
- Send to a friend
Analytics and Reporting
- Integrates with popular analytics tools including Google analytics
- "Show me the money" dashboard report shows what search terms are converting
- Sales tax report
- Sales reports
- Customer reports
- Save any report as quick report for future use
- Product performance reports
- Support for custom report creation