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Any website that engages in e-commerce by selling merchandise has need of an online shopping cart system. However, many small and medium size businesses do not need an overly complex system.

Instead, they are in the market for a low cost online shopping cart system that has a simple content management system. For these projects, the OpenCart E-Commerce system fits the bill. Instead of having the provisions for generating unique content, the OpenCart system focuses on simplicity and multiple options. Due to its minimal cost, it is an excellent software solution for businesses just breaking out into the realm of e-commerce. That is not to say, however, that the OpenCart system does not have a number of features.

The OpenCart engine is very flexible for a variety of applications. The ability to create specials and market via discounts and coupons is built into the system.

An unlimited number of products, categories, and brands can be arranged into the OpenCart database. OpenCart has a built in shipping weight calculator. For localization purposes, the engine supports multiple tax rates, currencies, and languages. Furthermore, there are options to configure the open source online store for product downloads such as movies, music, and software.

The operator of the website that the OpenCart E-commerce system is installed on can create invoices, track orders, and file product cancellations. The online merchants can also file reports and install modules to OpenCart. Similarly, customers can track their orders when they are logged into the system.

OpenCart is not only an open source development. It is a fully modular system. Website developers are able to create additional features for the website that OpenCart is going to be installed on. If an additional payment or shipping method is required, for example, the website developer is able to accommodate for this fact. In addition to this, the owner of the website can upload new modules and libraries at a later date.

The website pages produced by OpenCart are search engine optimized (SEO) to help the site perform better in search engine queries. The content is also arranged in such a way that the engine can resize images that are uploaded to the website so that the appearance can be consistent.

Likewise, products can be linked to appear on an individual page and used as a recommend product feature. It is this wide array of provided options that makes the OpenCart E-Commerce System so perfect for small businesses.

Online Bookstore Get Me Books

Challenges:

The getmebooks.com is a Yahoo eCommerce website. Get Me Books specialize in Russian Books for sell. Their customers are mostly in Toronto, Canada. This site provides pertinent information on books written in the Russian Language. Extensive graphic were needed for this site in replicating book covers on the homepage. International characters are not supported through the Yahoo small business services in databases used for merchant solutions. These characters can only be displayed by substituting it through use of the escape characters. In our research, we found that Starintek Corporation developed a C++ database managing program that allowed customers to create and modify texts in the Russian Language and export them to the HTML escape code. This new state of the art program also allowed our team to create cross links for the products automatically with minimum configurations. This was completed with no extra user intervention afterward. The newly developed program employs a flat-file transported from the website as a database. The new program can work on the flat file without using the database engines. This removes the costly need to install and support other databases. Once editing is complete the flat file is sent in a Coma Separated Value (CVS) format. That format is read by the Yahoo database engine allowing the client to continue to utilize the Yahoo e-commerce website. For the client, it is now the best of both worlds. We also had to make some minor changes to the Yahoo RTML-engine scripts. The changes allowed the HTML pages to start from scratch. This helped to make timely database changes that could be imported into Yahoo. Because of these upgrades and additions, the Yahoo e-commerce store now served dual purposes. It could be used to describe the products using the Russian Language, with all of the proper characters being used, and the website is absolutely ordered, in terms of page hierarchy and links. That fixed the common problem of lost and or broken links. Those issues don’t exist anymore for this site. Usually only HTML code is readable from most slow speed computer, but this fix allows for quick reading even using java from evem the slowest computer. The website is rocket fast and bullet proof from hackers utilizing the protection from Yahoo’s security system.