Clive at Expose has a wealth of experience designing and deploying E-Commerce websites using applications such as Magento, OpenCart, Actinic, X-Cart, CRE Loaded & VirtueMart. Each shopping cart solution has its strengths & weaknesses and after consultation on your specific requirements we can recommend the best package to suit your needs and budget. Heres a couple of applications we love to use on our projects:
OpenCart
A powerful open source shopping cart system that is designed to be feature rich and user friendly. OpenCart is a robust e-commerce solution for Internet Merchants with the ability to create their own Online business and participate in e-commerce at minimal cost. Features include: Unlimited Categories, Unlimited Products, Unlimited Manufacturers, Multi Currency, Multi Language, Product Reviews, Product Ratings… the list goes on! This is the e-commerce solution of choice for sme clients who are looking for a simple to use yet powerful solution for selling Online.
Magento Commerce
Magento has taken the E-Commerce market by storm. Built apon the Zend Framework Magento provides a wealth of features and sophistication straight out the box …as well as being really easy to customise. Suited for larger online shops with hundreds of products, allows for easy filtering and searching Ebay or Amazon style. Already powering thousands of websites around the world, Magento is a pleasure to work with for both clients and developers! Magento is our tool of choice.
Actinic
Actinic is a PC-based system with a familiar windows user interface enablng site owners to maintain and expand their online store. Actinic Catalog is widely regarded as the best value ecommerce package available today and includes everything a small business needs to design, build and manage its own secure web store. Actinic Catalog provides ease of use, flexibility and a comprehensive range of features to deliver a powerful ecommerce store with capacity for growth in the future. Easily integrated with Sage Line 50 or Quickbooks and can be customised to communicate with other systems such as Pegusus Opera and ProspectSoft. Multiple user versions available. EPOS integration and Actinic payment solutions also available.
X-Cart
X-Cart is a web based shopping cart application that can be extended to incorporate multiple vendors and complex product component building. The software produces web pages that are particularly well optimised for search engines. Features an advanced administrators back end for total control of your store. Multi-lingual ready.
CRE Loaded
Based on the OSCommerce engine this is the supercharged, modern brother with full PCI compliance for on-site credit card transaction processing. Produces websites that rank fantastically with search engines, easy to configure and has a host of add-ons available for extended functionality. Like OSCommerce is multi-lingual ready. Can be integrated with most payment gateways, including SagePay.
VirtueMart
VirtueMart is a shopping cart component for the popular open source content management system called Joomla! It is best suited to CMS style websites where e-commerce is not the primary aim, but you would like to offer products as a value-added service (such as a news website selling branded t-shirts etc).
About Expose Design
Clive Newitt is a freelance web developer based in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. He has over 12 years experience in the industry and loves building E-Commerce Systems using software such as Magento, OpenCart, Actinic & CRE Loaded. For sites where the main focus is not E-Commerce but you’d still like to sell Online then perhaps a Content Management System such as WordPress or Joomla! with a ‘plugin’ to provide the shopping cart facilities is the right way to go. Clive can advise you on the right platform for your requirements and help you every step of the way – from conception to realisation. Give him a call on 07725 547 889 or email over details of your requirements today!
