E-commerce / Shopping Cart Systems

VirtueMart is THE e-commerce component of choice for many South African e-commerce stores. Because of its seamless integration with Joomla online stores can now offer a great deal more than just on-line sales.

For your information and research we have setup a demonstration store using VirtueMart at http://www.virtuemart.co.za

VirtueMart allows you to easily manage all aspects of your online store. Among the many administrative functions you can:

• Accept payment for your products via EFT, Cash Deposit and Credit Card
• Add multiple photos per product
• Add downloadable product documents
• Track customer order history
• Automate customer invoicing
• Track order process
• Monitor stock levels
• Manage back-orders
• Notify customers of order updates
• Automate product thumbnail images
• Set up various delivery fees and options
• Add gift vouchers redeemable at your store

For a full administrative demonstration please contact us on 041 373 8192.

Magento Commerce ia a stand alone e-commerce platform with a little content management thrown in. If you are in need of a website where your products and online store are the absolute focus then Magento may be the product for you. Magento Commerce is an enterprise level e-commerce platform with many syphisticated features that are vital to the functioning of a top multi-national organisation.

Magento is available in two additions:

Enterprise Edition: The software rights start at about US$8 000 per year. All the functionality is in place to rus a large multi-nation corporate online store.

Community Edition: The software is available for free as open source with all the important systems in place to run a small to medium sized online business.

Some great out of the box features included with Magentoi Commerce are:

1. Side by side product comparisons
2. Add to wish list / wants list
3. One page checkout with out the need for customer registration
4. Detailed admin sales reporting and charts
5. Nifty product image zoom function
6. Customer generated product tags

There is a great deal more that we need to include here and we will be updating this page continuously over the next two weeks. In the meantime please check out our demo store at http://magento.visability.co.za. Please feal free to place orders and mess arround as much as you like, you won't be billed for any purchases!

Please contact us for a free guided tour of the Magento Commerce admin area.