E-commerce Solutions

Have an idea to build an app or website and sell some goods online? A basic app or website will not do; you need an e-commerce solution. “e” refers to an electronic medium and “commerce” refer to the buying and selling of goods. “Commercial” refers to best business practices intended to make profits. Thus, an e-commerce solution is a web software that allows a company to sell its goods (or the goods of other sellers) online, expand their consumer base and then make profits on the same. The goods involved can be digital or physical goods. Amazon and Flipkart are the well-established players in this space in India.

But nowadays, everyone who has a brick and mortar store needs to take their business online for better visibility. They go to a reputed web development company that deploys a suitable e-commerce solution based on their needs. There are also many who have an online store only. Swiggy, Zomato, Foodpanda and Uber Eats are mobile apps designed to let you order food and get it delivered from the restaurants to your home or office. Myntra and AJio are exclusively for buying clothes. Grabon, Mydala, Nearbuy, DesiDime, etc. offer us coupons and deals to other e-commerce sites. There are also many local websites that sell groceries, fish and meat! For the consumer, all of this adds to the convenience to buying goods with a few clicks sitting in the comfort of the home or office.

OpenCart is an open source online store management system. It is based on web technologies like PHP, MySQL and HTML. It sports an Administrator dashboard where all important information can be seen at once. Other salient features of the admin interface are User management, multiple stores, options, attributes, affiliates, discounts, coupons, specials and Backup and restore. It is free to download and use. It allows us to create unlimited products and categories. It can be used to sell digital products too. Product reviews can be added to a product page. There is also a reward points program.

Customers will find it a great shopping experience. You may set up filters to filter the product list. You may sell in multiple currencies and languages so that the customer has more choices. 36 payment gateways come integrated with OpenCart. Hundreds more are available via the OpenCart marketplace. Recurring payments or subscriptions are supported. There are hundreds of shipping options that can be integrated with OpenCart. Comprehensive Sales reports can be viewed along with reports on viewed products and purchased products. OpenCart is responsive – it renders well for the web, mobile and tablet screens. It is SEO and Digital marketing friendly.

Developers will also find it easy to develop on. There are over 13000 extensions and themes on the OpenCart marketplace. You may also sell your own extensions and themes here! OpenCart is built on an MVC-L (Model-View-Controller-Language framework) architecture. It also features a API which allows third party applications to talk to your OpenCart store for better integration capabilities.

Magento is an e-commerce solution that is available as an open source edition called Magento Community Edition. There is also an Enterprise edition called Magento Commerce; it is available as an on-premises edition and as a platform-as-a-service cloud edition. The salient features of Magento are Customer Segmentation and Personalization, Dynamic Rule-Based Product Relations, Instant Purchase, Content Staging and Preview, Visual Merchandising, Elastic search, Responsive Design Themes, Integrated B2B Functionality, Powerful Admin Experience, 24×7 Technical and Account Support and Managed Cloud Solution.

OpenCart and Magento are popular platforms and are used by many famous sites. Sites that utilise OpenCart include AskMeBazaar, Tbuy, Edurite, WholeSaleBox, Trendybharat and Ninecolours. Sites that use Magento include Coca-Cola, Ford, Fox Connect, Olympus, Nike and Nestle.

At Brahmaa Infotek, we provide the best E-commerce Solutions and Services in Cochin that is entirely customized to the client needs. Visit us or contact us today to talk about the best E-commerce solutions in Cochin, Kerala that is tailored to each business domain.