Novare Web Design builds custom e-commerce websites that will fast track your online business

Novare Web Design uses Virtuemart and Magento, both award winning ecommerce platforms that will give you the versatility and tools you need to acquire customers and grow your online business

Virtuemart

VirtueMart is an open source e-commerce solution used in conjunction with the Joomla CMS web platform. Virtuemart's fully-featured e-commerce engine is perfect development tool to sell your products online and drive your business to new heights. Virtuemart's powerful administration features enable you to handle an unlimited number of categories, products, orders, discounts, shopper groups and customers.

VirtueMart supports an unlimited number of products and categories, with products able to be assigned to multiple categories. It also permits the sale of downloadable products, and offers a catalog mode where the shopping cart features are turned off. VirtueMart supports multiple prices for a single product, based around shopper groups or a quantity range, and permits the use of a variety of different payment gateways. Because VirtueMart is an open source e-commerce solution all the application code is openly visible in PHP. This allows PHP developers to view, update or customize the operation of the shopping cart. In addition VirtueMart itself offers simplified templates ( called 'fly pages' in VirtueMart) that allows various shopping and cart pages to be edited as standard html and css.

Magento eCommerce

Magento is the leading open source eCommerce platform which enables individuals to operate feature-rich online stores. Magento is a feature-rich open source eCommerce solution, offering complete flexibility and control over the look and feel, content and functionality of an Online Store. Magento is a flexible and scalable platform, for those that are serious about E-commerce business. The Magento Ecommerce Platform combines the flexibility of open-source technology with rich features to provide the Clients an unprecedented control over online store operations.

Magento is based on ZEND framework; this allows great flexibility and the realization of large-scale features. The use of the ZEND framework ensures an easy upgrade capability to a new version of Magento. Thus Magento provides the best conditions for the optimal implementation of e-commerce projects and is perfect for helping increase sales conversions to allow your business to grow.

Some of the many e-commerce features provided by the Virtuemart and Magento development platforms that will benefit your online store are:

CMS for easy webpage updates
Search engine friendly URLs
Customer accounts and order history
Google Analytics integration
Batch product updates
Control of multiple websites from one panel
Printed packing slips
Up-sells and Cross-sells
SSL security support for all orders
Detailed reports for: sales, tax, coupon usage etc
Multi-lingual
Support for multiple currencies
Multi-tier pricing for quantity discounts
One page checkout
Shipping to multiple addresses