Creating an eCommerce site may be a time-consuming process unless you've made that your specialization. You could have spent hours and days studying multiple offers from online Shopping Cart software developers in order to find the one satisfying your business requirements but not over-priced. And when you find the one it's very difficult to predict to what extent it satisfies the technical requirements of your online business unless you are an IT developer. In future you will need technical support and frequent (or less frequent) upgrades that may lead to extra charge.

ApicalWorks has developed its own software for online stores and other eCommerce sites in order to save our customers' time and money. The software is highly adaptable for a customer's needs. While planning a future online store its possible to foresee and provide for necessary features. Imagine, you have built an Internet house for your small e-Business but you hadn't expected such a rapid growth of your clientele and assortment. That won't be a great problem to redesign the house that your e-Business has outgrown. The thing is to realize that the time for changes has come.

Technical Requirements

Our Product is developed and works on highly-extensible ASP.Net 2.0 platform. Microsoft SqlServer 2000 or 2005 is used as database backend.

Technical requirements:

• ASP.NET 2.0
• MS Windows 2003 Server (MS Windows 2000 Server also acceptable)
• Microsoft SqlServer 2000 (or Microsoft SqlServer 2003)
• Internet Information Server 6 (or IIS 5)

All the site management tasks can be performed through the web-interface of the following Internet Browsers: Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher, Mozilla 1.5 or higher (except when working with the HTML editor component, which requires Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher).

The functional of the site and its management system doesn't depend on the database. The choice of database for your online store, should be determined by a duty cycle of your eCommerce site, security requirements, scalability The common set of features inherent to eCommerce sites developed by ApicalWorks:

For online store owner and stuff:

• Unlimited number of product categories and subcategories
• Cross-associations between categories and subcategories
• Unlimited number of information blocks (product info pages, articles, news, galleries of images, FAQs, etc. )
• Polls and surveys
• Attributes and properties used for simple navigation across multiple information blocks
• Easy file management: capability to upload, delete, copy or move files of various types (images, video, sound, text, etc.)
• HTML visual editor
• Security of media content
• Online Shopping cart and Wish List viewers
• Order, shipping and payment status tracking
• Unlimited number of e-mail templates (newsletters, out-of stock messages, coupons etc.)
• Spam control
• Invoice templates
• Unlimited number of registered users; capability to unite users into one or several groups
• Access permissions management for groups and individual users
• Unlimited number of currency
• Design templates
• SE's friendly design and content
• Administrator reports
• Sales statistics

For online store customers:

• Individual attractive design
• User friendly, clear navigation
• Powerful product search across the whole online store assortment
• Safe shopping and secure filing
• Integration of most popular Online Payment Systems
• Handy management of accounts by users
• Temporary wish list and shopping cart for unregistered users