ecommerce web design

We have been developers of ecommerce web site applications since 1996 and in that time we have learned an enormous amount about what makes a successful ecommerce website.

Traditional product based inventory ecommerce

The VG Scienta website we developed and have maintained for 8 years has an enormous amount of built in features. There are a variety of discount structures at product and category level. Furthermore it operates in multiple currencies. The site allows for account management of Business to Business (B2B) clients along with a Business to Consumer (B2C) payment gateway. Each of the products not only stores the usual price and description information but also an enormous amount of technical data including PDF documents, dimensional and specification data. Since 2000 we have been responsible for maintenance of the fully featured B2C ecommerce application at Art Republic search engine positioning is also a key part of the Nexus remit along with the hosting and maintenance of service packs etc.

ICG Searle Nexus are the ecommerce developers that provided ICG with their multi-lingual ecommerce application. The website has a variety of features including back office content management system (CMS) with which to maintain the ecommerce inventory. There is an XML link to the legacy invoicing and inventory management system which delivers current price and availability direct from the factory. An existing Visual Basic application was rewritten and adapted by our software team into a COM object accessible via the website which provides product chooser data to help with selection. Find out more about this ecommerce website and the internationalisation in our case study on multilingual ecommerce.

Jointing Technologies are a supplier of electrical connectors and electrical components who came to us with an existing detailed product catalogue that was developed into a bespoke ecommerce website in around six weeks. This site includes a unique "point of sales " option which allows the administrators to take credit card orders in the field or on a trade show booth. The Content Management Solution (CMS) allows for price and product updates as you might expect, along with promotion of products to the front page as special offers. To find out more about this bespoke ecommerce website development (PR) follow the link to the press release.

Quorum technologies is a ecommerce website providing facilities for its own product range along with its sister company Emitech. The web sites share a common content management system and order administration facility. Our experience has shown us ecommerce provides new opportunities to use collected data to drive future sales. Information such as the value, frequency and timing of products bought enables companies to find out a great deal more about their customer base. They can then take this information and use it to help them refine targeting of products and services to customers in the future.

Other ecommerce website development and travel website ecommerce

Not all ecommerce website design falls into the traditional category of a product catalogue, with product inventory, shopping cart purchase and shopping cart checkout. We have a great deal of experience with travel websites and travel online booking systems. Our clients SkiBeat, Ernalow ski holidays, Barwell leisure, with their sites at La Manga, Humber Valley, Dubai and Mauritius. Villa holiday Centre, Solmar Villas and Acacia Holidays to name a few all have a holiday inventory with up to the minute booking data. This data is often held in a third party provider database such as Travelink or increasingly in their own bespoke databases. Many of these sites require live XML datafeeds that pass and update booking data and pricing information. They all feature content management systems (CMS) to update the holidays, tours and website details.

Our experienced development team and travel website specialists have an enormous amount of domain knowledge in this area. Travel is like many other ecommerce applications that we develop in that the fulfilment may be a "soft product deliverable" such as a booking. The same rigour is applied to all of our applications regardless of the product or service.

To find about the Solmar Villas live flight availability datafeed and up to the minute pricing, click the link live airline flight data for tour operators. Unlike many flight datafeeds in the UK travel website market this tour operator website can confirm direct seat prices and availability as the flight fills up.

We have a variety of bespoke ecommerce websites such as the H Tempest graduations photography website where students can book their photographs on line and pay before the ceremonies to avoid the queues.

E-rocks and Thames Valley Minerals are live auction web site development taking advantage of e-bay integration tools and live feeds to up to the minute worldwide currency exchange rates. To find out about another unique ecommerce website development for Customerking please click the link.

To arrange a no-cost initial consultation to discuss an e-business strategy for your company, contact us today by calling Andy on 0800 096 0850 or via our contact page.