virtualro - Flex and Flash E-commerce Blog

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.

virtualro it’s a full Flash E-commerce Content Management System which give customers the freedom to create rich, interactive e-commerce sites without any programming knowledges.

virtualro it’s a complete e-commerce solution built on LAMP technology,  and it has three major parts:

•  the client interface: a  Flash front-end interactive e-commerce site used to present products, shopping cart functionality and checkout (including payment)
• the administration interface: a comprehensive administration area for products, orders, users and store management 
•  the design interface, which is separated by content 

The system has been designed for minimum no changes within the code, all store operations are being performed using  the web administration  interface.

virtualro software work only with it’s own back-end and it can’t be embedded, loaded, included or otherway be part of another existing Flash file.  

You may, however fully  customize the store through Flex CSS  and include your own Flash files  as part of the application.

The store design  may be customized in the following ways: 

•  through custom CSS (Flex) 
• by using  your own Flash movies or  Flash files in the CSS style template
•  you may overwrite parts of the site with your own custom Flash files (homepage, each category or product, about and contact us page, etc)
•  custom Flash files may “talk” with the main store. Flash files are  uploaded  in administration areaand it can perform actions through a few AS3 functions (go to category, product list, product page, search, search by tag, add to cart).

The system has been designed to allow designers express their creativity and be able to update the site through a simple administration pannel in almost no time, with no coding.

virtualro software is licensed as a complete e-commerce system, without the source code.

A typical install include: a full Flash website, store main style design,  web administration module, a series of import scripts, along with all scripts and web services necessary to run the site.