Even with intuitive navigation and bulletproof security, your site might not have all it takes to make the sale. That’s because up to 60% of online transactions are abandoned because of poor functionality. People are inherently reluctant to part with their money - if your site complicates the process of purchasing, your potential customers may decide that your product or service is not worth the confusion.

At Shield Web Design, we know how to develop the kinds of e-commerce systems that keep visitors moving through the sales process. With our e-commerce development packages, we’ll make sure that your site’s purchasing system is personal, highly functional, and familiar to your visitors.

With our proven cross-selling and up-selling strategies, we’ll give you the tools you need to boost the value of your sales, leading you to higher profits and satisfied customers.

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 via our control panel.
• 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
• Multi currency commerce support
• Automatically update currency exchange rates on website
• 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
• Secure transactions with SSL - you may use SSL certificates
• 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)
• Westpac, Commonwealth bank, St.George, National Australia Bank, Eway are all supported as modules which can be installed.

Shipping Functionality

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

Tax Functionality

• Australian GST configurable
• 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