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Magento is the hugely
popular ecommerce system
that forms the basis of all
our clients websites

Magento is a powerful, scalable and easy to use
ecommerce system that allows customers to browse
products, place orders and manage their account, whilst
allowing you to manage products, orders, customers
and much more.

Key features of Magento

Product catalogue

Our ecommerce system allows you to create and maintain a product catalogue, allowing customers to browse your store and purchase products with ease.

Product catalogue     
  • You can create, change and remove products at any time
  • Your customers can browse products using the categories you create
  • Your customers can search for products or use the tagging system
  • Your customers can filter products using options such as size, colour & price etc
  • Your customers can see their recently viewed products
  • You can up-sell, cross-sell & assign related items

Product features

Our ecommerce system provides a wide range of features at the product level to assist customers with shopping and using your ecommerce website.

Product catalogue     
  • Detailed product descriptions and codes
  • Products can have multiple images
  • Image zoom to allow people to see more detail
  • Product reviews and ratings
  • Product tags and product comparison
  • Stock availability
  • Send products to friends via email

Promotions and offers

Our ecommerce system allows you to create many types of promotional offers, such as 'buy one get one free' that can be used to increase sales and order values.

Promotions & offers     
  • Create promotions and offers at any time
  • Example promotions include 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
  • Limit promotions by customers, products and categories
  • Set expiry dates on promotions
  • Multi-tier pricing for quantity discounts
  • Free postage option

Shopping basket and checkout

Guest checkout, an intuitive and efficient one-page checkout process and the ability to integrate with a variety of online payment systems makes the checkout process a breeze for your customers.

Shopping basket and checkout     
  • Shopping basket with VAT and delivery estimates
  • Customers can save their basket for future use
  • Easy to use one-page checkout
  • Checkout with or without an account
  • Option to create account at beginning of checkout
  • Delivery to multiple addresses
  • Accept gift messages
  • SSL security support for orders on both front-end and back-end
  • Integrates with all online payment systems

Postage and delivery

Our ecommerce system allows you to offer a wide range of delivery options to your customers.

Postage and delivery     
  • Provide multiple delivery options, including free delivery
  • Table rates for weight and destination
  • Table rates for product sub-totals and destination
  • Table rates for number of items and destination
  • Customers can split orders to different addresses
  • Integrates with providers such as Royal Mail for real-time postage rates
  • Customers can track orders from their account

Order management

Manage your orders at any time and from any computer using the secure administration area provided by our ecommerce system.

Order management     
  • View, create, change and fulfill orders at any time
  • Create multiple invoices, deliveries and refunds per order
  • Customers kept informed via automated emails
  • Create one or multiple invoices, shipments and credit memos per order to allow for split fulfillment
  • Print invoices and packing slips
  • Call centre (phone) order creation
  • Create re-orders for customers from administration panel
  • Email notifications of orders
  • RSS feed of new orders

Customer accounts

Accounts allow customers to save orders and re-order previous orders. As a store owner you can keep track of your customer accounts with the secure, password protected administration area of our ecommerce system.

Customer accounts     
  • 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
  • Online customer accounts with order tracking
  • Order status and history
  • Re-orders from account
  • Recently ordered items
  • Address book with unlimited addresses
  • Default billing and shipping addresses
  • Wishlist with ability to add comments
  • Newsletter subscription management
  • Product reviews submitted
  • Product tags submitted

Analytics and reporting

Our ecommerce systems included reporting suite provides visibility into the store performance to enable actionable changes to react to your customers needs.

Analytics and reporting     
  • Sales reports
  • VAT report
  • Abandoned shopping basket report
  • Best viewed products report
  • Best purchased products report
  • Low stock report
  • Search terms report
  • Product reviews report
  • Tags report
  • Coupon usage report
  • Total sales invoiced
  • Total sales refunded
  • Best customers report by total and number of orders

Magento editions

Magento is provided in three editions to suit the varying types of businesses who will use it.

Magento Community

Magento Community is perfect for any startup business or small business turning over less than £250k pa through their online store.

We charge a small fee for the setup of the software, but the system is provided for free by Magento.

  

Magento Professional

Magento Professional is perfect for the small to medium sized business turning over in excess of £250k pa through their online store.

Magento Professional costs from £1900 per year which is payable directly to Magento.

  

Magento Enterprise

Magento Enterprise is the ideal choice for larger businesses turning over in excess of 750k pa through their online store.

Magento Enterprise costs from £8300 per year which is payable directly to Magento.

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