Overview - Magento E-Commerce Development

• Website design that accurately reflects your company’s image and product mix and creates an "eager to buy" atmosphere
• Product photos that give shoppers a clear and appealing image of each item
• Product descriptions that are loaded with product details and irresistible reasons to buy each item
• Site navigation that effortlessly guides visitors through the e-commerce cycle: from product descriptions... to filling their shopping cart …to the final click that submits their order. Confusion anywhere along the cycle will mean lost sales.
• Payment processing solution with services and fee structure that meets your needs and fits your budget

About the Magento Platform

• 100% Search Engine Friendly with full control of URL’s and meta-information for products and categories.
• Cutting Edge Features including product tagging, multi-address shipping or product comparisons.
• Catalog Management functions that make adding and modifying store products simple and effective.
• Comprehensive site security that ensures customers will have safe online transactions boasting SSL encryption and adhering to best practices for handling sensitive customer data.
• Scalability – whether your store grows overnight or over a year, don’t spend valuable time worrying about your solution not growing with you. With Magento, your site is completely scalable.
• Multi-site/Multi-Store Administration – control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed

For a full list of Magento application features, see www.magentocommerce.com.

Planning

Design

Custom Magento Modules

Individual Item Shipping Module

A custom shipping module was written to allow individual items in a single order to be shipped seperately, which required the shipping rate calculation to be handled in a much more specific way.

Featured Products Module

Enhances the core Magento functionality to allow for the administrator to select any number of products to feature on the homepage.

Contingency Shipping Options Module

Allows for contingency delivery options to be specified for time-sensitive orders in the event the order is delayed beyond a specific date (Example: Christmas present).

Wordpress Integration

Allows Wordpress’ brilliant content management functionality to be harnessed by Magento. Pages created in Wordpress are directly accessible on the Magento site via their page "slug" (ie, page url). Content from the Wordpress page is loaded into the Magento content section, effectively eliminating the need to maintain both a Magento theme and a Wordpress theme.

Order Listing API

This module was created to allow a third-party application to collect information about specific order sets. It exports an XML feed of an order collection and its associated items, addresses, payments, statuses, gift messages, and line item gift messages.

Barcode Generation

A barcode of the order number is calculated and inserted into the PDF documents that are used to print an Invoice, Packing Slip and Credit Memo in the admin interface of Magento. The printout is used for order fulfillment and the barcode is used at a shipping station to retrieve shipping address information from Magento.

Group Order Fulfillment Management

This administrative module allows for managing order processing in groups so that order fulfillment actions can be segmented and monitored more easily. This allows for operations on a group of orders to be executed on a specific set, and makes it possible to monitor the status and progress of that group through order fulfillment. These features make the fulfillment process much smoother, especially in a high order volume environment.

Email Campaign Monitor

This robust module provides integration with a third-party email campaign and list management service, rather than using Magento's internal newsletter functionality. Magento's built-in functionality only provides for a single customer list, whereas this module allows for multiple subscription lists. It also supports multi-store environments where each store may have different Campaign Monitor accounts or different lists.

Single Payments for Multiship Orders

In a standard multiship order in Magento, the client's credit card is processed for each separate shipment, resulting in increased transaction fees for the merchant and potential confusion on the part of the customer. This module modifies the ordering process to group all multiship transactions into a single transaction, improving profit margin and preventing confusion for the client.

Print Order Module

Magento provides the ability to print Invoices, Packing Slips, and Credit Memos, but does not have the functionality to print just an order. This extension adds those capabilities so that an order can be printed before or without the creation of the other sub-documents of the order. The module provides for a change in order fulfillment operations which allows an order to be printed first, picked out of a warehouse, verified that it can be filled, processed at a shipping station, and then have the sub-documents created in Magento for shipment and invoicing.

Digishop Import Module

Switching e-commerce solutions can become unfeasible due to the costly process of manually transferring customer and order data from the existing platform to the new platform. This import module eliminates that barrier for transitions from Digishop eCommerce systems by providing for the importation of customers and orders from Digishop into Magento.

Single-Step Authorize.net Refunds

This module saves the administrator a lot of time processing refunds when using Authorize.net. It enables Authorize.net credit card transactions to be refunded online through the admin interface when a credit memo is issued.

Order Status Changes

Extends the default set of order status options available so that better order management can be maintained by changing the status of certain orders for specialized fulfillment processing.

Serial Numbers Module

Extends Magento’s Virtual Product in order to significantly improve efficiency in selling software that requires a serial number for validation. When a customer purchases a Serial Number Product, a serial number is assigned to their order and a copy of that serial number is emailed to the client. An admin panel allows the administrator to manage all assigned/unassigned serial numbers. Without this module, the administrator would have to manually assign serial numbers and e-mail them to customers.

Shipping Integration Module

This integration was executed to allow shipping software access to the order information in Magento to retrieve shipping information for an order and to send back tracking details to Magento. It involves providing a "flat" view of an order for shipping software to reference since most shipping software import capabilities are very limited. It allows for an order number to be entered at a shipping station and for the shipping software to retrieve order details including the shipping address and other information needed to print a shipping label for a package. This is a very generic integration and though it has been setup for use with Endicia (USPS) and FedEx Ship Manager it could easily be setup for nearly any other shipping software or carrier.

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