E-Commerce Magento Offshore Development

Magento Community is a latest to arrive in the world of open source e-commerce. Developed by the American SSII Varien, Magento Community is part of this new generation of professional open source solutions carried by an editor.

E-Commerce Magento Community

Launched on 31 March 2008, Magento Community has gained recognition rapidly as the e-commerce reference solution. Many major advantages justify this large adoption by the community, functional richness, excellent ergonomy and very good technical design that relies on Zend Framework. Magento Community has been elected "best new Open Source project " by the Source Forge Company Inc in July 2008.

Magento Community is today the most evolved solution in the e-commerce domain. The choice of this open source content manager will thus be essential for development of complex online commerce site and should present a large number of products. Other php applications for electronic commerce exist, easier to implement, like Prestashop or Drupal but none of these solutions can today compete with Magento the leader of E-commerce!

Magento Community is a modular e-commerce solution (it is written in PHP with Zend Framework) which develops rapidly. It in fact profits from an active community of professional developers and users, meeting around the forums. Numerous modules regularly enrich many functionalities and the almost unlimited possibilities of this powerful e-commerce open source.

Hangar 17 has a team dedicated on the Magento e-commerce open source solution. We have a solid experience and well known expertise on Magento and undertake the complete creation of your web site, web design and developpement.

We create the web e-commerce sites from Magento Community and the customised innovative stores, satisfying the requirements of your online sales activity.

The functionalities of Magento Community E-commerce

All, in Magento Community, enable to facilitate the management of your online commerce on Internet. Several sites and several stores can be managed from the single administration interface, giving you the opportuniy to share the information or not.

Management of the Store

• Manage multiple sites and several shops from a single administration interface with the ability to share information or not.
• Multi-language Site
• Location (time zone, date format, figures, etc.)
• Multi-currency
• Managing roles and permissions of the user administration interface
• Web service API for integrating third-party applications with Magento
• Flexible tax (VAT)
• Full customization of the visual appearance with templates
• Customer Groups
• Content Manager for information pages
• Integration of Google Website Optimizer (A / B and Multivariate Testing)

Support International

• Multi-language
• Multi-currency
• Tax management
• Location (date format, figures, etc.)
• Customize the list of countries approved for:
  o the creation of customer account
  o the destination address of delivery depending on the mode of delivery
  o billing address depending on the mode of payment

Basket

• Regulations on one page cart
• SSL security for orders (back office and front office)
• Possibility of delivery to different addresses
• Order with or without customer account
• Basket with display taxes and shipping cost estimate
• Ability to create a customer account at the beginning of the command
• Ability to add a message per order and product (gift)
• Save the basket (customizing the period of validity)

Delivery

• Integration of real-time delivery rate: UPS, UPS XML, FedEx, USPS and DHL
• Integration with manual management of the delivery rate (available in Magento Extension): Colissimo Chronopost and Export 3J
• Delivery to different addresses of an order
• Ability to specify delivery method for each country or delivery is allowed
• Flat rate per order
• Free Shipping
• Schedule of rates to be applied according to weight and destination
• Schedule of rates to be applied depending on the amount of the basket and the destination
• Schedule of rates to be applied according to the number of items in the cart and the destination

Payment

• A choice collection in order, or the receipt of the invoice issue
• Integration with PayPal payment solutions: Website Payments Standard, Website Payments Pro (Express and Direct), Website Payments Pro UK (Express and Direct), PayFlow PayPal Pro
• Integration with authorize.net
• Integration with Google Checkout (Level 2)
• Backup method of the bank details for payments offline
• Payment by check or money
• Payment of French banks available in Magento Extension : Atos SIPS, CyberMut, SPPLUS, CIC
• Many method of payment available in Magento Extension

Marketing

• Flexible management of coupons (pricing rules): restricted to certain stores, certain groups of customers in certain periods of time, certain products or categories in the catalog
• Promotional offers the catalog by reducing the percentage or fixed amount to some small shops, category or product
• Free shipping option
• Price reduction on the number of items purchased: price per lot
• Assembled product (product bundle)
• Prices and package price for a specific customer group
• URL optimized for search engines
• Rewriting URLs
• Recently viewed products
• Products recently compared
• Tool to promote new products
• Cross-selling on the basket page (cross-sells)
• Sales incentive on the product page (up-sells)
• Send this site to a friend to all visitors or only to registered customers
• Send a wish list to a friend via email or RSS feed
• RSS feed for new products, new special offers and new tags
• Automatic generation of site map
• Google SiteMap
• Polls
• Management newsletters

SEO for Search engines

• Optimized for search engines
• Google SiteMap
• The URL Rewriting allows full control of URLs
• Meta-information by product category
• Automatic generation of site map
• Automatic generation of the most popular search terms

Order Management

• View, edit, create and fill orders from the administration interface
• Create one or more invoices, packing slip and assets per order
• Print invoices and packing slips
• Call center order management (call center), ability to create a new account or select an existing account, to consult his cart, his gift list, his last ordered items, assign custom prices or discounts
• Renewing an existing order
• Email notification of new orders
• RSS feed for new orders

Customer Service

• Contact Form
• Customer account feature-rich
• Orders history and their status
• Order Tracking from a client account
• Send the password (forgotten) email from the store or the administrative interface
• Email Notification: order, invoice, shipping, ...
• Customize notification emails
• Create and edit orders from the administration interface

Customer Account

• Status and Order History
• Recommend a previous order
• Recently ordered items
• Unlimited Address Book
• Billing address and delivery default
• Wishlist, possibility to add comments
• Send the gift list via email or RSS feed
• Subscribe to a newsletter
• Submit a Comment proceeds
• Submit a product tag
• Dashboard

Product Catalogue Management

• Inventory Management with product out of stock, maximum and minimum amount
• Import and export batch Catalog
• Updated product batch with the administration interface
• Integration with Google Base
• Advanced Product Management : Product Group, Configurable product, Virtual Product, Assembled Product
• Tax by country, by customer group and by product type
• Group attributes product for fast creation of different types of products
• Creating-the-fly product attributes
• Manage your photos with automatic sizing and watermaking
• Advanced pricing rules and promotional offers (see Marketing Tools)
• Accept / Edit / Reject a product tag
• Accept / Edit / Reject a product review
• Inventory Alert RSS (while supplies last)

Catalogue Consultation

• Browse by product attributes (Layered Navigation)
• Tools for creating blocks static pages for categories
• Ability to assign a specific visual appearance to a category or product
• Setting up the search engine and automatic suggestion of search terms
• Recently viewed products
• Product comparison
• Products recently compared
• Cross-selling (cross-sells), upsell (up-sells), related products (related product)
• Search Terms Most Popular
• Browse by Product tags
• Browse by Product comments
• Display products as a grid or list
• Current position in the catalog (breadcrumbs)

Product Consultation

• Multiple images per product
• Focus on the product images
• Product Reviews
• Product Tags
• Related Products
• Available stock
• Price per lot
• Products with configurable options (advanced product)
• Products grouped (advanced product)
• Add product to wish list
• Send to a friend by email

Statistics and Report

• Integration with Google Analytics
• Admin Control Panel
• Report Sales
• RSS feed for new orders
• Report on taxes (VAT)
• Shopping Cart abandoned on order
• The most viewed articles
• The best selling items
• Report on the depletion of stocks
• Most popular terms of Searches
• Report on the products comments
• RSS feed for new products comments
• Report on product tags
• RSS feed for new products tags
• Report on the use of coupons
• Total invoiced sales
• Total sales repaid
• Best customer based on the amount and number of orders

Mobile E-Commerce

• Magento for iPhone

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