virtualro™ Flash Shopping Cart overview - Advanced Features Part 3
virtualro Flash e-commerce software allow most sophisticated customers to manage a large number of e-commerce sites, in different languages, using a single centralized web based administration.
In this post I’m going to foucs on three major topics, with some updates on upcomming posts for individual advanced features.
1. Multiple Store Front Management
virtualro Flash e-commerce software has been designed from the ground to allow creation of a different number of sites unique (or mini-sites) using a centralized, web based administration area.
Each unique site may have it’s own URL, design, products, prices and custom settings (shipping, discounts, tax, payment). The only resource shared between sites is product base, whith option to select which products are active on which sites.
The administration area is designed around this concept and is divided for ease of use in the following sections: products management, store management and specific website settings.
For each individual site it’s possible to specify which products will be published, what discounts/shipping/payment will be used as well it’s own design with customized templates (email, invoice).
2. True Multi-Lingual Experience
virtualro software allow complete creation and management of a Flash site in multiple languages, where all store data may be customized in a different number of languages.
There are three layers which may be personalized in different languages, to provide a true multilingual experience:
- Product data: all product related text informations, including product options, tags, descriptions, etc
- Store specific settings: templates (email confirmation, invoice), payment methods, shipping methods, tax (eq. VAT - in EU and TAX in USA)
- Front-end labels: all labels that are fixed in front-end shopping cart, checkout fields, confirmation screen
3. Advanced Product Management
In order to allow customers easily sell different kind of products the software allow customers to set a number properties that will apply only to appropiate product types.
Such properties includes: product attributes (size, color, width, height etc), products type (phisical goods, downloadable products or digital products) and product media (images, audio, video).
For example if we have store that market t-shirts, shoes and music (cd’s, mp3) we could have:
- On t-shirts:
- sizes: S, M,L, XL and colors: Red, Blue, Green
- media: 1 thumbnail image, 2 detail images, 2 big pictures
- On shoes:
- sizes: 8, 9, 10 colors: Velvet, Fucsia etc
- media: 1 thumbnail, 1 detail image, 1 big picture
- On music:
- product type: downloadable product (no shipping)
- media: 1 thumbnail, 1 video preview, single .mp3 file on purchase
Based on above settings once correct product type are set up the administrator is allowed to enter only product specific data (on music it’s not possible to specify sizes or colors).
Using together the multi-lingual with multiple store front features we give customers a powerfull e-commerce packages to run international websites, with minimum effort.
