eShopsUK - The eCommerce platform for any size online shop

As with our other platform, eCarsUK, eShopsUK has been written from the ground up by our developers, evolving from our first version launched in 2004, to a major overhaul in 2008. The new online shop platform, we believe, is one of the most powerful online shop platforms available today.

 

It allows you to take credit card payments online* with real-time payment (no need to enter the details into your 'Customer Not Present' machine!). Full user account facilities with address books, email updates as the order progresses, PDF order confirmation, invoices and delivery notes which are automatically sent to the customer as the order is progressed.

 

You can add unlimited numbers of photos per product, products can be linked to multiple categories (meaning you don't need to create multiple copies of products that span multiple categories) and you can have the 'You may also be interested in' and 'you will also need' product links for each product.

 

eShopsUK platform features...

• Real time credit card processing*
• Multiple payment methods (credit card / paypal etc..)
  
• Payment can be taken on order placement or upon shipment
• Invoices can be automatically generated or if you need to tie the invoices into your system, it can be raised manually, once you've entered the invoice number
• Multi/part shipments (available for both payment on order or on shipping systems)
• Unlimited options per product; (i.e. size / colour / shape etc..)
• No practical limit to number of products or categories
• Full and automatic delivery charge calculations based upon basket weight or cost.
• Multiple delivery methods; (i.e. Next Day / 3 - 5 day / Royal Mail etc..)
• With the newsletter module, you can setup a mailing list which customers can opt in and out of.
• Ability to specify price breaks for products
• Trade and Retail pricing systems
• Customisable category and product sorting
• Affiliation system - when you advertise the shop on other websites, click throughs can be recorded and any resulting sales tracked.
• PDF invoice, order notification and delivery notifications generated by the shop automatically.
• Multi-currency capable.
  
• Capable on running multiple shops from the one installation.

Multi-shops

To expand on the last bullet point, the main website can have multiple shops setup which all point to the main website and use the same categories and products as the main shop. You can even select a category for each of the shops to use as their default 'root' category, enabling you to offer a sub-selection of the main products within the main shop.

 

The real benefit of this is that you setup niche shops under different domain names to make use of additional search engine coverage for those sites. All the orders places for all of the other sites then go through the same administration website, so you don't need to juggle multiple online shop administration sites etc.. They also all use the same merchant account.

 

* Requires registration with Protx and a merchant account