What we do - Ecommerce

Foresite has a pedegree in creating feature-rich and enterprise class ecommerce websites. Whether you require a web-based store for a small indpendent shop or a multi-national, multi-lingual ecommerce site for a large high-street retailer, our e-commerce solution will meet your needs.

Our ecommerce solution, based on the award-winning Magento Commerce platform, has a huge range of features and capabilites that allow retailers of any size to manage their ecommerce websites. Although the platform ships with a vast array of functionality straight out of the box, it is also wholly customisable and any required feature can be added to it.

Features




Marketing Promotions and Tools

  • Private (Club) Sales including Events, Invitations and Category access permissions
  • Flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ability to restrict to stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories. For example: Percent Discount | Fixed Amount Discount | Free Shipping | Buy x, get y free. | Buy x, get y with percent or fixed amount discount | Buy x, get free shipping on order | Buy x, get percent discount | Buy x, get fixed amount discount.
  • Catalog Promotional Pricing by percentage or fixed amount with ability to restrict to stores, categories, products
  • Free Shipping Option
  • Multi-Tier Pricing for quantity discounts
  • Bundled Products
  • Search Engine Friendly URL's
  • URL Rewrites
  • Recently Viewed Products
  • Recently Compared Items
  • New Items Promotional Tool
  • Up-sells in Shopping Cart
  • Cross-sells on product pages
  • Send to a Friend for all visitors, or registered users only
  • Send Wishlist to a Friend by Email or RSS
  • RSS Feeds for New Products, New Specials and New Tags
  • Auto-generated Site Map
  • Google Site Map
  • Polls
  • Newsletter Management


Catalogue Management

  • Customer Group-specific pricing and group-specific tier pricing
  • Landing Page Tool for Campaigns
  • Private Sales including Events, Invitations and Category access permissions
  • Inventory Management with Backordered items, Minimum and Maximum quantities
  • Batch Import and Export of catalog
  • Batch Updates to products in admin panel
  • Google Base Integration
  • Simple, Configurable (e.g. size, color, etc.), Bundled and Grouped Products
  • Virtual Products
  • Downloadable/Digital Products
  • Customer Personalized Products - upload text for embroidery, monogramming, etc.
  • Tax Rates per location, customer group and product type
  • Recently compared products
  • Cross-sells, Up-sells and Related Items
  • Popular Search Terms Cloud
  • Filter by Product Tags
  • Product Reviews
  • Product listing in grid or list format
  • Breadcrumbs

Site Management

  • Content Staging and Merging. Support for both on-demand and scheduled merges and rollbacks of content.
  • Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed
  • Multi-Lingual
  • Support for localization
  • Support for multiple currencies
  • Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application
  • Administration Permission System Roles and Users
  • Flexible tax rate management with support for US and International markets
  • Fully 100% customizable design using templates
  • Customer Groups
  • One-Click Upgrades
  • Content Management System for Informational Pages
  • Google Website Optimizer Integration for A/B and Multivariate Testing

Full Analytics and Reporting

  • Logging of Administrator Actions
  • Integrated with Google Analytics
  • Admin Dashboard for Report Overview
  • Sales Report
  • RSS feed for New Orders
  • Tax Report
  • Abandoned Shopping Cart Report
  • Best Viewed Products Report
  • Best Purchased Products Report
  • Low Stock Report
  • Search Terms Report
  • Product Reviews Report
  • RSS feed for New Reviews
  • Tags Report
  • RSS feed for New Tags
  • Coupon Usage Report
  • Total Sales Invoiced
  • Total Sales Refunded
  • Best Customers Report by Total and Number of Orders

Product Browsing

  • Multiple Images Per Product
  • Product Image Zoom-in Capability
  • Product Reviews
  • Related Products
  • Stock Availability
  • Multi-Tier Pricing Upsell
  • Product Option Selection
  • Grouped Products View
  • Add to Wishlist
  • Send to a Friend with Email

Checkout & Payment

  • One-Page Checkout
  • SSL security support for orders on both front-end and back-end
  • Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
  • Checkout without account/Guest Checkout
  • Shopping Cart with tax and shipping estimates
  • Checkout with account to use address book
  • Option to create account at beginning of checkout
  • Accept gift messages per order and per item
  • Saved Shopping Carts with configurable expiration time
  • Customer Store Credits
  • Configurable to authorize and charge, or authorize only and charge on creation of invoices
  • Integrated with Amazon Payments (Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay)
  • Integrated with multiple PayPal gateways
  • Gift Certificates/Cards (Physical and Virtual)
  • Integrated with Authorize.net
  • Integrated with Google Checkout (Level 2
  • Saved Credit Card method for offline payments
  • Accept Checks/Money Orders
  • Accept Purchase Orders
  • Payment Extensions Available through Magento Connect:

Shipping

  • Integrated for real-time shipping rates from:
    UPS, UPS XML (account rates), FedEx (account rates), USPS and DHL
  • Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
  • On-site order tracking from customer accounts
  • Multiple shipments per order
  • Ability to specify allowed destination countries per method
  • Flat rate shipping per order
  • Flat rate shipping per item
  • Free Shipping
  • Table rates for weight and destination
  • Table rates for product sub-totals and destination
  • Table rates for number of items and destination

International Support

  • Multi-Lingual
  • Support for Multiple Currencies
  • Tax rate support
  • Includes support for WEEE/DEEE in EU
  • Localization
  • Configurable List of Allowed Countries for:
    • Site Registration
    • Shipping Destination Addresses with ability to specify per shipping method
    • Billing Addresses with ability to specify per payment method

Customer Accounts

  • Order status and history
  • Re-orders from account
  • Recently ordered items
  • Downloadable Products
  • Address Book with unlimited addresses
  • Default Billing and Shipping addresses
  • Wishlist with ability to add comments
  • Email or Send RSS feed of Wishlist
  • Newsletter Subscription management
  • Product Reviews submitted
  • Product Tags submitted
  • Account Dashboard for overview of: recent orders, personal information, newsletter subscription status, primary billing address, primary shipping address, shopping cart, wishlist, recently ordered items, recently reviews and recent tags