Building Internet Store

Vital-Webmaster builds custom Internet Stores to meet your needs. For most part in designing your web store Vital-Webmaster uses open source Commerce tools available today. Vital-Webmaster can create or implement a shopping cart to fit your needs within your budget without having to seek outsourced - and many times inferior - programmers, which is a common practice with may Web designers and firms. Once the agreement between the Client and Vital-Webmaster is signed the process of building a new website is taking place. Most importantly, if Vital-Webmaster remains your personal Webmaster, your store will be Search Engine Friendly Optimized to attract more visitors to your website through major Search Engines.

All steps for designing/redesigning an Online Store follow the same pattern as designing/redesigning a custom website. They are listed under Website Design/Redesign category.

Internet Store Features

Products/Categories:

• Add as many Products and Categories as you want
• Can also be used just as a catalogue (without cart features)
• Unlimited Category/Subcategory depth, products can be assigned to multiple categories
• Sort your Categories the way you like
• Sell downloadable Products like MP3s, Templates, Videos or Software
• Add a Thumbnail and a full size Image to every Product via your Browser
• 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
• CSV Upload (Batch Product Import & Export)
• Manage the Stock Level for Products and Items
• Automatically Notify Shoppers 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)

Easy Configuration/Customization

• Manage your shop through an easy and completely Store-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 Store)
• 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
• Fetch Shipping rates live from Intershipper, USPS, UPS, Canada Post, ...
• Write your own Shipping Modules using the Shipping API

Tax Rates

• Product prices can be displayed "including tax" or not (set for each shopper group)
• Choose between Shipping-Address-based tax calculation (city/state & country/region)
  OR
• Store-Owner-based tax calculation (e.g. in european countries)
• Add your own shipping carriers and shipping rates

Payment

• Use safe SSL encryption (128-bit) and Shared SSL
• Capable of live credit card processing
• Supported Payment Providers:
  • authorize.net online Credit Card Processing (AIM)
  • 2Checkout
  • PayPal (with IPN gateway)
  • Paymate
  • NoChex
  • WorldPay "IPN"
  • PayMeNow
  • eCheck.net
  • eWay (XML transactions)
  • eProcessingNetwork
  • Chronopay
  • and more...

  Order Management

  • Complete Order Management
  • Automatically notify your customers when the Order Status changes
  • See who has ordered: IP address storing
  • Extend the pre-defined order statuses with your own ones

  "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