eCommerce

eCommerce, the right way...

eCommerce has come a long way. It is no longer primarily the domain of large businesses with the money to invest in $100,000 eCommerce builds. Small businesses now have powerful shopping cart solutions available to them.

There is a wide variety of eCommerce software available to the small-to-midsized business today, and we have worked with a lot of it. All the eCommerce options available to you today can be a bit overwhelming; so, to simplify things a bit, we'll say this: at its core, an eCommerce platform should be easy to use, should let you update your own products easily, manage orders easily and should provide a secure, simple checkout process for the customer.

We have those solutions, and are very experienced at customizing them to our clients needs.

Our eCommerce sites are not popped out of a mold-- we custom-design each one to our client's specifications. Let me repeat that: that's a totally custom-designed web store with a giant set of really professional features for a price many charge for a non-ecommerce-enabled site.

eCommerce App Roundup

We've spent years working with the internet's most popular opensource software, osCommerce; in fact we've added over 30 features to the osCommerce core-- a flavor we call idCommerce. The vast majority of our eCommerce sites are built in the idCommerce platform. It's popular with our clients because of it's ease-of-use, stability and relative affordability.

In more recent years, we've spent ample time working with various Flavors of the Day, in an effort to find the best possible eCommerce options for our clients. As such, we've recently built some of the most advanced websites in our portfolio, leveraging the fairly promising Magento Commerce platform, building in custom features like the ability to sell video on demand through a Magento store (Pranamaya Studio).

Even more recently, we've begun digging into the Shopify hosted commerce platform. Shopify has thus far shown great promise due to its modular architecture and flexible API, which lets us build new features into the core despite the software being a proprietary, hosted solution. Shopify is a great way for us to help a client with very little budget enter into the eCommerce world, and it will scale well into a more advanced, customized eCommerce experience, should that be where our client's needs lay.