Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet.

The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily since the spread of the Internet. A wide variety of commerce is conducted in this way, spurring and drawing on innovations in electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems.

Many Possibilities of use

Our solutions gives you the possibility of

• Selling physical goods from various sized product catalogs.
• Selling file downloads (i.e. music, videos, software).
• Selling site access for members only websites, including automatic renewals and expiration of user access.

Powerful e-commerce features

Current features include:

• Configurable product catalog includes catalog pages and a block to display product categories.
• Flexible product creation system. Create normal products by default. Add fields to store additional product information using Drupal's CCK system.
• Flexible product attributes system. Create user selectable attributes for your products that modify the price, SKU/model, and/or weight of items as the customer adds them to his or her cart. Set default attribute/option sets for each product class to easily create many similar products.
• Single page checkout. All checkout information gathered on a single screen composed of configurable checkout panes. Third party modules can define checkout panes to replace or add to the default set, making it easy to customize the checkout experience.
• Automatic account generation (anonymous checkout). Accounts and emails are automatically generated based on the customer's e-mail address. (Optional setting allows customers to specify account names and passwords in checkout.) For return customers, previously used addresses will be listed on the checkout page for easy access.
• Simple order processing. The order administration screens have been designed by and for our salesmen. We believe there is always room for improvement and will try to make it happen! Order screens use the "pane" model, so the screens are configurable and extensible to accommodate a wide variety of e-commerce applications.
• Simple order creation and editing. Easy to create orders manually for customers, adding products, shipping prices, etc. from a single screen. Line items system makes it easy to add fees, discounts, and coupons to orders.
• Integrated payment system that acts as a bridge between acceptable payment methods (check, credit card, cod, etc.) and payment gateways (Cyber Source, Authorize.net, PayPal, etc.). Configurable payment processing and tracking, and easy to use credit card terminal with varying levels of access.
• Activity logging. Enable logging to see all the changes made to an order, including payment processing. (Your accountant will love this!)
• XML import/export allows you import products, attributes, orders, and customers from your old store into our store or export products, attributes, orders, and customers from our store

Different Shipping Methods

You can use different shipping methods:

• Flatrate - The Flatrate module contains two methods:
  • Product - Assigns a shipping price to each product.
  • Order - Charges a shipping rate to every order placed.
• Weight quote - Gets a shipping rate based on the weight of the ordered products. Rates may be assigned to each product or fall back to the store default.

Third-party shipping quotes
These modules communicate with the transport company's server to get shipping rates for the orders.

• UPS - UPS Rates and Services Selection XML Tool
• USPS - United States Postal Service Rate calculator API
• FedEx - FedEx Ship Manager Direct

Intergration with many Payment Systems

You can use a variety of payment systems i.e.:

• PayPal - PayPal Website Payments Standard lets customers checkout remotely, and Express Checkout lets them pay through PayPal without sharing any payment information.
• Authorize.net - The current module works with Authorize.net's Advanced Integration Method.
• Payflow
• 2Checkout - A redirected payment system like Website Payments Standard.
• WonderPay
• Ogone
• and many more

Need more information? Don't hesitate to contact us.