Archive for the ‘eCommerce’ Category

• Avactis

  Date: 2010.05.21 | Category: eCommerce | Response: 0

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  Avactis is a open source ecommerce software solution (webshop).

  The software is sold either as a retail (owned) version or SaaS (hosted) solution. The full source codes and a free version with limited functionality are available at no cost.

  Avactis Shopping Cart has several different editions: Avactis free edition, Avactis owned license, Avactis monthly leased license and Avactis White Label (Private Label) Edition.

  The Avactis team was established in 2001 by Pentasoft Corporation. The company’s headquarters are located in New York.

  Pentasoft is MySQL Enterprise Ready Partner of MySQL AB and Sun Microsystems. Avactis is integrated into Parallels Plesk Panel

  Features

  Products, pricing, real time shipping, etc. are managed by the store administrator through the administration area.

  One of the Avactis features is the Avactis Tag technology, various dynamic parts of Avactis storefront can be integrated into an existing website through inserting of simple Tags into static pages. All Avactis Tags are described in the Avactis Tag Library (ATL).

  Other important features include:

  * Automatic web-based installation wizard
  * Easy integration of an online store into an existing design or website.
  * Built-in Content Management System (CMS)
  * ACL (Access Control List) for administrator users
  * Customer Reviews module
  * QuickBooks export
  * US zip based taxes, GB, Australia and Canada taxes support
  * Advanced Newsletter management
  * Multi-Currency
  * Special offers
  * Multi-language (export and import of language text labels)
  * Digital Content delivery system (downloadable products)
  * Newsletter manager
  * Advanced marketing and sales reports (with Microsoft Excel export)
  * Affiliate Tracking
  * Performance optimization (the cart is not resource-heavy)
  * Multiple storefronts. Merchants can have one admin area and many storefronts
  * Unlimited number of products and categories
  * Unique design for any category or product
  * Strong Blowfish (cipher) and RSA encryption of sensitive data
  * Fully PCI DSS-compliant design
  * Intelligent automatic upgrade system
  * 39+ payment methods support (including PayPal, Google Checkout and Maestro payment systems)

  System Requirements

  Avactis shopping cart system is built around PHP technology using MySQL to store data.

  * Web server should support PHP version 4.3.0 or higher
  * Web server should support MySQL version 4.0.2 or higher.
  * Avactis Shopping Cart supports web servers running PHP 5 and MySQL 5
  * Amount of memory available to PHP processes should be at least 32MB
  * SSH (Secure Shell) access or Cron job management is required for backup and restore
  * Apache mod_rewrite module is required for SEO URLs support

  Some of the features within Avactis require additional technologies, which may or may not already be provided by whichever hosting service you choose: HTTPS (security certificate), SSH (secure shell) access or Cron job management, the Apache mod_rewrite module. All reputable Web hosting services provide these components

  

• Ubercart

  Date: 2010.05.17 | Category: eCommerce | Response: 0

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  Ubercart is an e-commerce and web-based store management software program, available as a plug-in module for the Drupal CMF. It can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL  installed. It is available as free software under the GNU General Public License.

  Ubercart is fully integrated with Drupal, meaning you can fully integrate your store with the rest of your web site or community. It can be used to sell shippable goods, downloadable products, recurring memberships, event tickets, and enable complex interactions with Drupal through various add-on contributions, such as multi-seller stores, discount coupons, affiliate programs, software license codes, or customizable goods.

  As with Drupal, it can be set up to run in multiple languages, or to use an alternate currency. Numerous payment gateways and shipping options are available.

  The current stable releases of Ubercart are 1.9 on Drupal 5 and 2.1 on Drupal 6. Development of Ubercart began in 2006 and reached its 1.0 release on 4 June, 2008. The 2.0 release came out 16 months later in October 2009 and was largely a migration effort to the newest version of Drupal.

  Requirements
  * CMS Drupal 5 for Ubercart 1.x
  * CMS Drupal 6 for Ubercart 2.x

  

• Bots

  Date: 2010.05.11 | Category: eCommerce | Response: 0

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  Bots is a open source EDI/b2b  translator aiming to be complete EDI software. Bots is free software available under the GNU General Public License. Bots 2.0 is a major rewrite of the GUI; django is now used as a web framework.

  Features

  * Highly configurable.
  * Very powerful mapping.
  * Any-to-any-format conversions.
  * Very flexible by using user scripts (in Python).
  * Plug-ins for easy configuration of EDI and examples/learning.
  * All edifact messages and X12 transactions are available.
  * Convert to readable/printable format (‘EDI-fax’).
  * Conversion of codes, e.g. EAN/UCC-numbers. Maintenance of codes in user interface.
  * Platform independent.
  * Web based user interface.
  * Receive (email) reports in case of errors.
  * Uses Unicode.

  Supported data formats

  * EDIFACT
  * XML
  * ASC X12
  * TRADACOMS
  * Fixed records a.k.a. flat file or ASCII records.
  * CSV
  * SAP idocs
  * GS1 EANCOM
  * JSON

  Supported communication

  * SMTP (incl TLS, SSL)
  * POP3 (incl TLS, SSL)
  * Value-added network: X400, ipmail, InterCommit, Sterling Commerce, Inovis
  * FTP
  * File I/O
  * Database connector (direct communication to database)
  * External communication modules
  * User scriptable communication

  Dependencies

  * Python
  * PostgreSQL (optional)
  * MySQL(optional)

  For bots version 1.*:

  * Turbogears including all TurboGears dependences.

  For bots version 2.*:

  * Django version 1.1 and up
  * Cherrypy version 3.*

  

• Zen Cart

  Date: 2010.05.10 | Category: eCommerce | Response: 1

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  Zen Cart is an online store management system. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Support is provided for several languages and currencies, and it is freely available under the GNU General Public License.

  Zen Cart branched from osCommerce as a separate project. Beyond some aesthetic changes, the major differences between the two systems come from Zen Cart’s architectural changes (e.g. a template system) and additional included features in the core. Among the modules already included are a Gift Certificate/Voucher module which allows to create, send and manage the digital coupons. A module to sell downloads (pdf or other media files) is included as well. The release of the 1.3.x series further differentiated Zen Cart by moving the template system from its historic tables-based approach to one that was largely CSS-based.

  Features

  Zen Cart’s default installation provides everything needed to maintain a shopping cart web site, however no warranty is given that the software fulfills its purpose. Products, pricing, shipping, newsletters, sales etc. are managed by the store owner through the administration area. The shopping cart is set up to receive payments from major credit cards and several payment gateway services are also provided.

  The following is a list of some of the key features of Zen Cart as stated on their website:

  * multiple language support
  * multiple customer modes
  * unlimited category depth
  * multiple sales and discounts
  * multiple display modes
  * XHTML 1.0 compliant template system
  * extra pages
  * multiple ad banner controller
  * multiple shipping options
  * multiple payment options
  * newsletter manager
  * discount coupons
  * gift certificates
  * featured products
  * quantity discounts
  * phpBB integration through external module

  Although Zencart improved the shop management and administration with the template system, still it suffers from the fact that editing core files for customizing is often required (no real modular structure). Therefore, in case of heavy customizing, the software is cumbersome to maintain and update.

  

• VirtueMart

  Date: 2010.05.07 | Category: eCommerce | Response: 0

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  VirtueMart (formerly known as mambo-phpShop) is an open source e-commerce solution designed as an extension of the Mambo or Joomla! content management systems (CMS). VirtueMart is written in PHP and requires the MySQL database environment for storage. It is best suited for low to medium level traffic web-sites.

  History

  VirtueMart began as off shoot of the stand-alone phpShop e-commerce web application. Originally dubbed mambo-phpShop it became the first substantial native e-commerce component for the Mambo CMS system. After the community forked Mambo into Joomla, the developer re-branded mambo-phpShop as VirtueMart, officially supporting the newer Joomla CMS. While current implementations may still function with Mambo CMS, and older editions of mambo-phpShop are still available to download, they are no longer actively supported.

  Features

  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) structure that allows various shopping and cart page(s) to be edited as standard html and css.

  Notably new to VirtueMart 1.1.0 was the inclusion of the ability to quickly change themes for category, product, checkout and cart pages.

  Requirements

  As VirtueMart is only a plugin for Joomla! / Mambo, it has the same system requirements, which are currently:

  * Joomla! 1.0.x or Mambo (>= 4.5.1) recommended: Joomla! 1.5.x (VirtueMart will soon only work with 1.5 or above).
  * PHP 4.2.x or above – recommended: PHP 4.4.x
  * MySQL 3.23.x or above -recommended: MySQL 4.0.x
  * Apache 1.13.19 or above -recommended: Apache 2.x

  Several other required supporting libraries or extensions include MySQL, XML and Zlib support built into PHP. Support for https (openSSL) and cURL is recommended.