E-COMMERCE

E-commerce or Electronic Commerce refers to the business conducted over Internet using the online websites. E-Commerce can be any business conducted between two or more people or organization. It might be transferring of goods, funds, services etc. Buying things online is also referred as E-commerce. Some of the E-Commerce business includes direct marketing, online banking and billing, ticket reservation, customer service, corporate purchases, secure distribution of information An E-Commerce Platform has to provide online service and professional expertise to run it successfully. This also provides as a crossroad for both the consumer as well as the vendor.

Salient features of E commerce websites.

• Highly cost effective.
• To display attractive and effective web catalogs those are directly attached to the database.
  
• It provides secure transactions.
  
• It provides round the clock service.
  
• It provides a flexible and extendable solution.
  
• It can provide automated service or reply like e-mail notification for theorder of confirmation and shipment..
  
• It provides editing of items from the shop cart.
  
• It provides credit card purchases online.
  
• The ability to catch web orders.

Dot Com Infoway has excelled itself in developing high quality E-Commerce websites which atisfies the needs of the clients and are above the standards by following the current trends in the business.

General Functionality

• Compatible with all PHP 4 versions
• All features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution
• Object oriented backend (MS3)
• Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default

Setup / Installation

• Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure

Design / Layout

• Template struture implementation to:
  • allow layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and quickly to make (MS3)
  • allow easy integration into an existing site (MS3)
• Support for dynamic images

Administration / Backend Functionality

• Supports unlimited products and categories
  • Products-to-categories structure
  • Categories-to-categories structure
• Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
• Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
• Administration area secured with a username and password defined during installation (MS3)
• Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
• Easily backup and restore the database
• Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
• Statistics for products and customers
• Multilingual support
• Multicurrency support
  • Automatically update currency exchange rates
• Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
• Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics

Customer / Frontend Functionality

• All orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval
• Customers can view their order history and order statuses
• Customers can maintain their accounts
•  Address book for multiple shipping and billing addresses.
• Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
• Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features
• Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience
• Forseen checkout procedure
• Secure transactions with SSL
• Number of products in each category can be shown or hidden
• Global and per-category bestseller lists
• Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown
• Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation

Product Functionality

• Dynamic product attributes relationship
• HTML based product descriptions
• Automated display of specials
• Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase
• Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters

Payment Functionality

• Accept numerous offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing, ..)
• Accept numerous online payment processing (2CheckOut, PayPal, Authorize. net, iPayment, ..)
• Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis

Shipping Functionality

• Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules
• Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx, ..)
• Free shipping based on amount and destination
• Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis

Tax Functionality

• Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis
• Set different tax rates for different products
• Charge tax on shipping on a per shipping service basis

Pantech team has customized and successfully deployed several osCommerce applications and in the process, has understood the underlying architecture osCommerce engine to further customize it to the client specific needs.

Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) involves a whole gamut of techniques and strategies that help websites gain search engine visibility. At Pantech, we provide effective, affordable and expert SEO services. We optimize websites to gain better visibility in search engines, increase search engine ranks, boost traffic, multiply business prospects and improve ROI.  Being a business firm, we perfectly understand the requirements of business professionals and hence our services are fully geared to meet your business needs, marketing needs and accelerate your Internet business revenue.

We offer a whole range of SEO Services. Our SEO package includes:

1. Website Analysis – A thorough analysis of your website from the point of view of design, content, programming and SEO
2. Site Quality Check – Checking the quality of your site in terms of SEO
3. Competitive Analysis – Analyzing your competitors, their competency levels and yours in comparison to them
4. Keyword Analysis - The most important part of SEO is finding the best-targeted keywords as visitors search over the Internet only using keywords. We target your website for related, effective and right keywords.
5. Web Page Optimization – Optimizing web pages for better Search Engine rankings
6. W3C Validation – World Wide Web Consortium is a highly acclaimed international Consortium that develops protocols and guidelines for the long-term growth of the Web. W3C Validation means making your site compliant to the standards set by W3C and thereby becoming a part of a reputed group of quality websites.   
7. Mod Rewrite / Search Engine Friendly URLs – We scrutinize your site’s URLs and rewrite them, if necessary, to make them more Search Engine friendly. 
8. Robots File Creation – Files and folders in your site that contain important information but need not be accessible to viewers or Search Engines can be kept away from search engine Robots through the creation of a Robots.txt file. We peruse your site, filter out the pages containing important information and create robots.txt files for those pages if necessary.
9. Sitemap Creation and Submission – A sitemap is crucial from the point of view of Search Engines as it contains data about the main content in the site. A sitemap makes it easy for Search Engine robots to read the content in your site. We create sitemap for your site and submit it to important Search Engines.
10. Search Engine Submission – We submit your website manually to all important and renowned Search Engines.
11. Content Development – We modify your site’s content (if necessary) and create SEO-friendly content with the right set of keywords.
12. Link Building Campaigns – We create effective Link Building Campaigns to get worthy back links for your site from related, reputed and better-ranking websites

We also promote your site through all the below techniques to gain better reputation in Search Engines, attract traffic and increase your web popularity.