An internet shopping script “ShopCMS” is one of the most advanced products in e-commerce, that have many unique features without analogues at any other similar system. At the beginning we would like to determine the main differences of ShopCMS, helping the ordinary user to draw his attention right to our offer in the wilderness of similar offers.The following system requirements are standart and are available on most, if not, all servers these days. If an operating system or library isn't available on your server contact your host. * Web server Apache 1.3+, Apache 2+. Component: mod_rewrite. * PHP 4.3+, PHP 5+. Components: GD 2.0.28+, Zend Optimizer 2.6+, XML, ZIP, GZIP. * MySQL 4.1+, MySQL 5+ * PHP settings: safe_mode=off, register_globals=off Instead of considering the technical aspects of a script’s work let us evaluate it that from the point of view of an ordinary user.The main benefits of ShopCMS platform: * No web programming skills necessary for work with a system * Works properly on the “Windows”, UNIX, “FreeBSD”, and “Mac OS X” servers * The work with DBMS (data-base management system) of MySQL which can process even some hundreds of thousands products * An absolutely open source-code, except two files * Intuitive administration control panel * Modern and user-friendly supplied design * Pseudostatic addresses of pages, categories, and goods * Visual editor for product information After considering the main characteristics of shop’s technical performance it would logically to proceed with the functional features of “ShopCMS”. Special attention must be paid to the unlimitedness of product categories and unlimited nesting of sub-categories (although in the context of SEO it is not worth abusing this function). Each category has its own static (permanent) address. By adding products it is possible to add one product to several various categories that surely is a comfortable feature for filling-up of a shop. An adding page has a clear visual editor for adding products. So there is no necessity for studying html, editor interface recalls the work with a popular editor “Microsoft Word”.In the context of SEO (Search engine optimization) the fact must be mentioned that metadata (tags, keywords, descriptions) are set for each product separately – there is a separate page for each product.By filling-up a catalogue of production or carrying out the campaigns with price discounts it is possible (and even recommendable) to use a function “old price” – the previous price for product is shown as crossed out but an existing one is seen with half an eye.In order to ease the searching in catalogue it is possible to set a “goods selection” by determined characteristics (measurements, weight, colour) – this will help the buyer to orient himself in catalogue.If you are planning to sell the products with separately sellable accessories, a “cross-marketing” function will help you – by viewing a product, the links to compatible (recommendable) accessories are shown.An automatic price-list generation of your shop will allow you to get closer to the client, who has the bothered access to web.A products comparison function is provided for the “doubtful” customers. Not only the products of one category but also the products with similar characteristics might be compared. This is an irreplaceable feature if the customer cannot choose the producer.The functions of goods export/import from “1С-Enterprise”, “Excel” by using a popular format CSV are provided as well.Fluently going to the differences in formatting, the autonomy of design from a script must be mentioned. In the design of a platform a “Smarty” library is used. Not so much of our competitors use it.An ordering system is easy-to-understand in use for both the administrator and the customer: * Immediate notification for administrator on incoming order * Distinction of order status (e. g., sent, in process, delivered) * The automatic discount calculation for total order sum depending on previous purchases or participating in shop’s bonus system * Configuration option of the good before its adding in a cartThe comfort in the work with the buyers shouldn’t be passed over as well. There are the following functions: * Derived fields at the ordering form * Discount system * Confidential data storage in encrypted form
