E-Commerce Solutions
E-Commerce Overview
We offer a full range of e-commerce solutions, both based around our in-house shopping cart and Magento eCommerce Software.
Magento E-Commerce Software
Magento is open source software that can be freely downloaded and used by anyone on the internet to build and operate an online store.
Magento Features:
- Recently viewed products
- Product comparisons
- Cross-sells, Up-sells and Related Items
- Product Reviews
- Multiple Images with Zoom
- Product Reviews
- Related Products
- Abandoned Shopping Cart Report
- Sales Report
- Customer order status and history
- Order Tracking from Account
- Re-orders from account
- Newsletter Subscription management
- Google Site Map
- Search Engine Friendly
The full feature set can be downloaded from the Magento site.
If you choose Magento to power your store then we:
- Build your e-commerce store around Magento customising its templates to provide your site with a unique look.
- Remove the headache of installing Magento by doing this for you.
- Integrate your store with PayPal, Google Checkout, Protx or WorldPay.
- Import an agreed number of simple products into categories within your new store.
- Create an agreed number of additional static pages within Magento's CMS, these pages could include About Us.
- Host your site on our fast UK or US based servers depending on your target market e.g. we use UK servers if your market is the UK.
(Australian hosting can be provided on request)
The Magento store demo allows you to experiment with the software before committing to a site build around it.
All our business hosting plans are capable of hosting your Magento store either in the United Kingdom or the United States.
In-house Shopping Cart
Our in-house cart is designed as a simple low cost solution.
Overview of our shopping cart features:
- Solutions based on our in-house shopping cart system can be given a look to match your corporate identity.
- Our shopping cart is aware of the needs of search engines and is designed to allow them to index all the products in your shop.
- Web based interface to your shop, allowing you to update your products via your normal browser.
- Cross-selling options, via related product lists.
- Discount system, including vouchers.
- Product search.
- New and special offer products can be highlighted.
- Top selling product list.
See the full list of features for our shopping cart system.
Payment Processing
While our shopping cart supports offline payment methods such as pay by cheque, it is more normal for online stores to take payments directly from the shopper and clear the payment in real-time.
To take and process real-time payments online you will require a payment service provider account, and may need an Internet Merchant account from your bank. We can help you arrange this.
We believe in giving our customers choice, therefore our shopping cart is integrated with the following payment service providers:

