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Why Magento ?

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Many of you are going to read the text below and think “oh dear”, “complicated”, “it’s not for me”, or “what’s it all mean”. Well in simple terms this website solution offered below is called Magento and integrates all the latest technology and functions.
Yes you can buy cheaper but if you are serious about your business and you want your company to grow it’s the diffence between a £100 car and a £50,000 car. The performance, styling, technology is street ahead of the competition in terms of ecommerce solutions Magento is the best, the £50,000 car.
We are offering you a 100% custom built website that delivers results for £1,500
Read the text below, if you have any questions please feel free to contact us, we are happy to guide you

Magento is a feature-rich ecommerce platform offering complete flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of an online store.

Site Management
•    Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed
•    Multi-Lingual
•    Support for localization
•    Support for multiple currencies
•    Administration Permission System Roles and Users
•    Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application
•    Flexible tax rate management with support for US and International markets
•    Fully 100% customizable design using templates
•    Customer Groups
•    One-Click Upgrades
•    Content Management System for Informational Pages

International Support
•    Multi-Lingual
•    Support for Multiple Currencies
•    Tax rate support
•    Localization
•    Configurable List of Allowed Countries for:
•    Site Registration
•    Shipping Destination Addresses with ability to  specify per shipping method
•    Billing Addresses with ability to specify per payment method

Search Engine Optimization
•    100% Search Engine Friendly
•    Google Site Map
•    URL Rewrites give full control of URL’s
•    Meta-information for products and categories
•    Auto-generated Site Map for display on site
•    Auto-Generated Popular Search Terms Page

Marketing Promotions and Tools
•    Flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ability to restrict to stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories. For example: Percent Discount | Fixed Amount Discount |
Free Shipping | Buy x, get y free. | Buy x, get y with percent or fixed amount discount | Buy x, get free shipping on order | Buy x, get percent discount | Buy x, get fixed amount discount.
•    Catalogue Promotional Pricing by percentage or fixed amount with ability to restrict to stores, categories, products
•    Free Shipping Option
•    Multi-Tier Pricing for quantity discounts
•    Bundled Products
•    Customer Group-specific pricing and group-specific tier pricing
•    Landing Page Tool for Campaigns
•    Search Engine Friendly URL’s
•    URL Rewrites
•    Recently Viewed Products
•    Recently Compared Items
•    New Items Promotional Tool
•    Up-sells in Shopping Cart
•    Cross-sells on product pages
•    Send to a Friend for all visitors, or registered users only
•    Send Wish list to a Friend by Email or RSS
•    RSS Feeds for New Products, New Specials and New Tags
•    Auto-generated Site Map
•    Polls
•    Newsletter Management

Mobile Commerce
•    iPhone Optimized Theme

Checkout
•    One-Page Checkout
•    SSL security support for orders on both front-end and back-end
•    Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
•    Checkout without account/Guest Checkout
•    Shopping Cart with tax and shipping estimates
•    Checkout with account to use address book
•    Option to create account at beginning of checkout
•    Accept gift messages per order and per item
•    Saved Shopping Carts with configurable expiration time

Shipping
•    Integrated for real-time shipping rates from:
•    UPS, UPS XML (account rates), FedEx (account • rates), USPS and DHL
•    Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
•    On-site order tracking from customer accounts
•    Multiple shipments per order
•    Ability to specify allowed destination countries per method
•    Flat rate shipping per order
•    Flat rate shipping per item
•    Free Shipping
•    Table rates for weight and destination
•    Table rates for product sub-totals and destination
•    Table rates for number of items and destination Free Shipping
•    Table rates for weight and destination
•    Table rates for product sub-totals and destination
•    Table rates for number of items and destination

Payment
•    Order status and history
•    Re-orders from account
•    Recently ordered items
•    Address Book with unlimited addresses
•    Default Billing and Shipping addresses
•    Wish list with ability to add comments
•    Email or Send RSS feed of Wish list
•    Newsletter Subscription management
•    Product Reviews submitted
•    Product Tags submitted
•    Account Dashboard for overview of: recent orders, personal information, newsletter subscription status, primary billing address, primary shipping address, shopping cart, wish list, recently ordered items, recently reviews and recent tags

Catalogue Management
•    Inventory Management with Backordered items, Minimum and Maximum quantities
•    Batch Import and Export of catalogue
•    Batch Updates to products in admin panel
•    Simple, Configurable (e.g. size, colour, etc.), Bundled and Grouped Products
•    Virtual Products
•    Customer Personalized Products - upload text for embroidery, monogramming, etc.
•    Tax Rates per location, customer group and product type
•    Attribute Sets for quick product creation of different item types
•    Create Store-specific attributes on the fly
•    Media Manager with automatic image resizing and watermarking
•    Advanced Pricing Rules and support for Special Prices (see marketing tools)
•    Search Results rewrites and redirects
•    Approve, Edit and Delete Product Tags
•    Approve, Edit and Delete Product Reviews
•    RSS feed for Low Inventory Alerts

Product Browsing
•    Multiple Images Per Product
•    Product Image Zoom-in Capability
•    Product Reviews
•    Related Products
•    Stock Availability
•    Multi-Tier Pricing Up sell
•    Product Option Selection
•    Grouped Products View
•    Add to Wish list
•    Send to a Friend with Email

Catalogue Browsing
•    Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products
•    Static Block tool to create category landing pages
•    Ability to assign designs on category and product level (unique design per product/category)
•    Configurable search with auto-suggested terms
•    Recently viewed products
•    Product comparisons
•    Recently compared products
•    Cross-sells, Up-sells and Related Items
•    Popular Search Terms Cloud
•    Filter by Product Tags
•    Product Reviews
•    Product listing in grid or list format
•    Breadcrumbs

Analytics and Reporting
•    Integrated with Google Analytics
•    Admin Dashboard for Report Overview
•    Sales Report
•    RSS feed for New Orders
•    Tax Report
•    Abandoned Shopping Cart Report
•    Best Viewed Products Report
•    Best Purchased Products Report
•    Low Stock Report
•    Search Terms Report
•    Product Reviews Report
•    RSS feed for New Reviews
•    Tags Report
•    RSS feed for New Tags
•    Coupon Usage Report
•    Total Sales Invoiced
•    Total Sales Refunded
•    Best Customers Report by Total and Number of Orders

So you have read the features call us to discuss your requirements, we are happy to advise and direct you to other Magento website which have been completed by our company Magento-Specialists.com