FUNCTIONALITY
amorphys : products : shopitCategories and products
The displayed products are organized into categories, categories depend can depend on other categories (thus becoming subcategories and can contain other categories). We will call both categories and subcategories “categories”, because they have the same behavior.
Each category can contain a limitless number of products and categories.
Only the categories that have visible products are showing.
Product description specifications
Each category has assigned a “product description specification”, a list of ordered fields that form the product description.
Obviously, each product has general characteristics, which are:
But a site can contain any number of products with different characteristic; a computer memory is characterized differently from a hard drive or a computer case. The application allows the administrator to add any number of characteristics lists that he can use for multiple categories.
The characteristics lists have many advantages, for one, similar products all have the same specifications, the administrators can’t forget to add a field for a product, similar products can be compared, one or more similar products can be placed alongside and their characteristics are clearly ordered and visible.
The product characteristics can be expanded further though: A product can have options, the same product can be packaged differently or have one or more small differences that aren’t big enough for the product to be split into multiple products. These options and the price differences can be added and changed from the admin easily.
Product navigation
The product navigation is very simple, the user has at his disposal a number of features to ease the navigation through the product database.
The menu (usually placed at the top left side) is a collapsible menu that shows the categories the user navigated through. The main categories are always displayed and, as the user goes deeper in the structure, he sees only the relevant categories and page links.
The path (placed under the title) shows the user the path he navigated. The path starts with the manufacturer (if available) and the product categories and subcategories and ends with the name of the product or category shown.
The Search option allows a user to seek in different categories by his desired criteria.
The Featured Products section shown in the categories that do not contain products features the featured products from it's immediate categories.
The Clients who bought this product also bought these products section shows (in the product description page) products that may be related to the displayed product.
The Similar Products section shows similar products set-up from the admin.
The Compare section allows the user to easily display side by side any number of products with the same description characteristics list.
The Send to a Colleague and Printable Version options allow the user to easily send and print information from the web-site.
Order product list : The product lists in a category are split by pages and can be ordered by Price, Name, Manufacturer, ascending or descending.
Product description display
The product description page displays all of the stored information on the specific product:
Image : the thumbnail and the zoom images (there can be more than one images / product, but only one is displayed automatically, for the rest the user has to click the "full image" and view the gallery.
Price and price information : displays the price, the former price, the discounts that apply.
Product description and pricing options : displays the information according to the product specification that apply. The pricing options will have a default value and the other options will be selected with a simple click of a mouse.
Compare pull-down : lists all of the products with the same description specifications. The user then clicks on "compare" and is directed to another page where he sees the 2 products listed side by side and the user can select other products to add to the comparison.
Product reviews : lists the product reviews for that product: A product review can be local (the content inserted in the admin) or on another site, and it links directly there with a short description on our site or not.
Related products : displays the products selected as related in the admin.
Clients who bought this product also bought these products : displays a specified number of products that have been automatically selected from the orders list as similar.
Manufacturers (brands)
The manufacturers section serves as a secondary navigation structure for the users. They can see the products and the product categories only for a certain manufacturer. The manufacturers are displayed on the left, the top 10 manufacturers as the number of products. A manufacturer has an information page, with a logo and the categories where it has products. Navigation through the categories is as same as before, but with only the products for that manufacturer showing. If a user clicks the "All manufacturers" button he will see a list of all the manufacturers, with the categories where they have products listed and the logo displayed.
Only the manufacturers that have visible products are showing.
Stock
The stock means the quantity of the products. If a stock value is 0 the product description displays an "Out of Stock" message or doesn't display the product, depending on configuration. Other messages can be configured, such as "Shipment in 2-3 days", "Special Order, please allow several days for shipment", etc.
Depending on configuration, the stock value can decrease as orders are marked as "Shipped" or not (in case some other application maintains the stocks).
Shopping Cart
The shopping cart is very intuitive and easy to use. A user can add product to the shopping cart without registering or logging in. If he chooses to check out, however, ne needs to register or log in. In each case, the shopping cart doesn't get altered. In fact, the shopping cart leaves a "cookie" on the user's computer so, if he returns within a month, the shopping cart will still have the products it had when he left (provided, of course, that the cookie is still there).
A user can add a product to the shopping cart from a variety of places. The shopping cart retains the products, the price options the user chooses, the applicable discounts, etc. Of course, the user can modify the contents of the shopping cart at any time, add, delete or modify it's content.
The shopping cart is displayed on the middle left side and it shows at all times the items the user selected.
User Accounts
The user account is a password protected section where the customers can login and:
Modify the personal data : a user can modify the personal details he supplied, name, phone, password, etc.
See the status of his orders : the user can see the status of the ongoing orders, modify them if the processing of the order hasn't started and see their status.
See the past orders : the user can see the past orders he submitted.
Add / edit / delete an address : a user can have any number of shipping addresses in use. When he submits an order he can choose from the addresses already registered or add a new address. It helps with users who ship to different locations regularly.
Product prices
Since products can have a variety of prices and price options, we have given the administrators and the users various options to ease the shopping process.
Discounts
The administrator can add any variety of discounts, arbitrarily select products or categories and add :
Quantity discounts : if a user orders x products he gets a x% discount or a x$ discount.
Multiple quantity discounts can exists, only one is used (let's say that a user gets discount x for purchasing 10 products and discount y for purchasing 20, if he purchases 15, the x applies, if he purchases 25 y applies, if he orders 5 no quantity discount applies.
User discounts : the administrator can add discounts for users, let's say that resellers have a 10% price reduction. He selects the resellers from the user list, the products and the discount. A user can have discount x% for some products, z% for others, d$ for others and so on.
As above, if multiple discounts are set for a product, only one applies.
The discounts can be a fixed sum or a percent.
User discounts and quantity discounts can both apply for a product. In which case they are both valid. Let's say that a user has a 10% discount for a product and a 10% discount for a quantity. He then gets a 19% discount because the first that applies is the user discount, and then the quantity discount from the already discounted sum.
Price options
All products can have price options. The price options are tied with the description specification. The administrator can add different options for a specification with the attached price difference. If the administrator adds a price difference to the only option of the specification that specification is optional, otherwise, the first option is selected and at least one option is mandatory. The price options are only fixed sums.
News
The news engine is standard. The "Latest news" box is located on the top-right of the site and lists a configured number of the latest news. The news are configured from the admin.
Users can subscribe to receive the news and newsletters by e-mail who are sent by the admin.
Compare
The product comparison tool allows the users to display any number of comparable (that share the same specification definitions) products side by side so that the user can easily compare them and choose the one that suits them best.
Content Pages
The content pages are the text pages, presentation, testimonials, etc. They can be added on the top-side (if the design allows it - some sites have images for buttons on top), on the bottom or in any product category.
Search
The search function allows the users to search any keywords in selectable sections of the site. The search can either display simple text links to the products or the short description of the spawned products.
Computer Builder
The computer builder section is meant for the e-commerce web sites specialized in computer hardware. It allows the administrator to create full computer "receipts" in an easy to use and set-up manner.
All the visitors have to do is go through the steps, select the components they need with only the use of the mouse and check-out.
They will see at all times the final price, the image of the product the mouse is over, have the possibility to read more information on a product, etc.
Please read more of the computer builder in the administration section, because the administrative section is much more complex than the section available to users.
Languages
The site has language files for Romanian and English. The addition of another language is of-course, not a problem. Please consult with us on the price and the options.
The displayed products are organized into categories, categories depend can depend on other categories (thus becoming subcategories and can contain other categories). We will call both categories and subcategories “categories”, because they have the same behavior.
Each category can contain a limitless number of products and categories.
Only the categories that have visible products are showing.
Product description specifications
Each category has assigned a “product description specification”, a list of ordered fields that form the product description.
Obviously, each product has general characteristics, which are:
- Name
- Manufacturer
- Price
- Old Price
- Stock
- Short Description
- Flag to mark that the short description is in HTML format and doesn’t need further formatting
- Flag that marks that the product is featured on the immediate category it belongs to
- Flag that marks that the product is featured on the homepage of the site
- Other products that the product is related to
- Thumbnail image
- Full image
But a site can contain any number of products with different characteristic; a computer memory is characterized differently from a hard drive or a computer case. The application allows the administrator to add any number of characteristics lists that he can use for multiple categories.
The characteristics lists have many advantages, for one, similar products all have the same specifications, the administrators can’t forget to add a field for a product, similar products can be compared, one or more similar products can be placed alongside and their characteristics are clearly ordered and visible.
The product characteristics can be expanded further though: A product can have options, the same product can be packaged differently or have one or more small differences that aren’t big enough for the product to be split into multiple products. These options and the price differences can be added and changed from the admin easily.
Product navigation
The product navigation is very simple, the user has at his disposal a number of features to ease the navigation through the product database.
The menu (usually placed at the top left side) is a collapsible menu that shows the categories the user navigated through. The main categories are always displayed and, as the user goes deeper in the structure, he sees only the relevant categories and page links.
The path (placed under the title) shows the user the path he navigated. The path starts with the manufacturer (if available) and the product categories and subcategories and ends with the name of the product or category shown.
The Search option allows a user to seek in different categories by his desired criteria.
The Featured Products section shown in the categories that do not contain products features the featured products from it's immediate categories.
The Clients who bought this product also bought these products section shows (in the product description page) products that may be related to the displayed product.
The Similar Products section shows similar products set-up from the admin.
The Compare section allows the user to easily display side by side any number of products with the same description characteristics list.
The Send to a Colleague and Printable Version options allow the user to easily send and print information from the web-site.
Order product list : The product lists in a category are split by pages and can be ordered by Price, Name, Manufacturer, ascending or descending.
Product description display
The product description page displays all of the stored information on the specific product:
Image : the thumbnail and the zoom images (there can be more than one images / product, but only one is displayed automatically, for the rest the user has to click the "full image" and view the gallery.
Price and price information : displays the price, the former price, the discounts that apply.
Product description and pricing options : displays the information according to the product specification that apply. The pricing options will have a default value and the other options will be selected with a simple click of a mouse.
Compare pull-down : lists all of the products with the same description specifications. The user then clicks on "compare" and is directed to another page where he sees the 2 products listed side by side and the user can select other products to add to the comparison.
Product reviews : lists the product reviews for that product: A product review can be local (the content inserted in the admin) or on another site, and it links directly there with a short description on our site or not.
Related products : displays the products selected as related in the admin.
Clients who bought this product also bought these products : displays a specified number of products that have been automatically selected from the orders list as similar.
Manufacturers (brands)
The manufacturers section serves as a secondary navigation structure for the users. They can see the products and the product categories only for a certain manufacturer. The manufacturers are displayed on the left, the top 10 manufacturers as the number of products. A manufacturer has an information page, with a logo and the categories where it has products. Navigation through the categories is as same as before, but with only the products for that manufacturer showing. If a user clicks the "All manufacturers" button he will see a list of all the manufacturers, with the categories where they have products listed and the logo displayed.
Only the manufacturers that have visible products are showing.
Stock
The stock means the quantity of the products. If a stock value is 0 the product description displays an "Out of Stock" message or doesn't display the product, depending on configuration. Other messages can be configured, such as "Shipment in 2-3 days", "Special Order, please allow several days for shipment", etc.
Depending on configuration, the stock value can decrease as orders are marked as "Shipped" or not (in case some other application maintains the stocks).
Shopping Cart
The shopping cart is very intuitive and easy to use. A user can add product to the shopping cart without registering or logging in. If he chooses to check out, however, ne needs to register or log in. In each case, the shopping cart doesn't get altered. In fact, the shopping cart leaves a "cookie" on the user's computer so, if he returns within a month, the shopping cart will still have the products it had when he left (provided, of course, that the cookie is still there).
A user can add a product to the shopping cart from a variety of places. The shopping cart retains the products, the price options the user chooses, the applicable discounts, etc. Of course, the user can modify the contents of the shopping cart at any time, add, delete or modify it's content.
The shopping cart is displayed on the middle left side and it shows at all times the items the user selected.
User Accounts
The user account is a password protected section where the customers can login and:
Modify the personal data : a user can modify the personal details he supplied, name, phone, password, etc.
See the status of his orders : the user can see the status of the ongoing orders, modify them if the processing of the order hasn't started and see their status.
See the past orders : the user can see the past orders he submitted.
Add / edit / delete an address : a user can have any number of shipping addresses in use. When he submits an order he can choose from the addresses already registered or add a new address. It helps with users who ship to different locations regularly.
Product prices
Since products can have a variety of prices and price options, we have given the administrators and the users various options to ease the shopping process.
Discounts
The administrator can add any variety of discounts, arbitrarily select products or categories and add :
Quantity discounts : if a user orders x products he gets a x% discount or a x$ discount.
Multiple quantity discounts can exists, only one is used (let's say that a user gets discount x for purchasing 10 products and discount y for purchasing 20, if he purchases 15, the x applies, if he purchases 25 y applies, if he orders 5 no quantity discount applies.
User discounts : the administrator can add discounts for users, let's say that resellers have a 10% price reduction. He selects the resellers from the user list, the products and the discount. A user can have discount x% for some products, z% for others, d$ for others and so on.
As above, if multiple discounts are set for a product, only one applies.
The discounts can be a fixed sum or a percent.
User discounts and quantity discounts can both apply for a product. In which case they are both valid. Let's say that a user has a 10% discount for a product and a 10% discount for a quantity. He then gets a 19% discount because the first that applies is the user discount, and then the quantity discount from the already discounted sum.
Price options
All products can have price options. The price options are tied with the description specification. The administrator can add different options for a specification with the attached price difference. If the administrator adds a price difference to the only option of the specification that specification is optional, otherwise, the first option is selected and at least one option is mandatory. The price options are only fixed sums.
News
The news engine is standard. The "Latest news" box is located on the top-right of the site and lists a configured number of the latest news. The news are configured from the admin.
Users can subscribe to receive the news and newsletters by e-mail who are sent by the admin.
Compare
The product comparison tool allows the users to display any number of comparable (that share the same specification definitions) products side by side so that the user can easily compare them and choose the one that suits them best.
Content Pages
The content pages are the text pages, presentation, testimonials, etc. They can be added on the top-side (if the design allows it - some sites have images for buttons on top), on the bottom or in any product category.
Search
The search function allows the users to search any keywords in selectable sections of the site. The search can either display simple text links to the products or the short description of the spawned products.
Computer Builder
The computer builder section is meant for the e-commerce web sites specialized in computer hardware. It allows the administrator to create full computer "receipts" in an easy to use and set-up manner.
All the visitors have to do is go through the steps, select the components they need with only the use of the mouse and check-out.
They will see at all times the final price, the image of the product the mouse is over, have the possibility to read more information on a product, etc.
Please read more of the computer builder in the administration section, because the administrative section is much more complex than the section available to users.
Languages
The site has language files for Romanian and English. The addition of another language is of-course, not a problem. Please consult with us on the price and the options.
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