Our work process
Specification & Quotes

A no-obligation discussion and quote for the website project

Design

Visual mock-ups of 3 pages of the suggested design for review

Build & Set-up

On design sign off, website is built and available online for review & testing

Populating & Testing

Upload of products and page content by website owner, and website testing.

Launch & Support

Launch of new website, followed by bug-fix support for 12 months.

ReadyCart - a reliable eCommerce website!

ReadyCart is built on the osCommerce platform and has been developed since 2005 to provide an easy to use shopping cart system. Modules such as the WYSIWYG editor, Mail List Manager, URL rewriting, Reports etc will make a real difference to how easy it is to manage your shop.

Features marked with * (asterisk) are available on request. For a quote, please get in touch.

Professional Design

  • Creative professional designs tailored to your business
  • Artwork in Adobe PhotoShop or Illustrator format
  • Visual mock-up of 3 pages (homepage, category and product pages)
  • * Optional professional logo design
  • * Optional site promotion artwork e.g. Christmas makeover

SEO friendly

  • URL rewriting into SEO friendly format (my_product_name.html)
  • Site map
  • All products listing
  • Automatic metatag creation
  • NEW! H1 tags for product & category names
  • * Optional Google Analytics integration

Manage your website from the admin area

  • Customer / order management
  • Order status update & email notification
  • NEW! Reports for orders, sales, tax, products in HTML and CSV (Excel) format
  • Easy content management - update content from within admin
  • WYSIWYG editor support
  • Active/inactive status for products & categories
  • Showcase of featured products on homepage
  • NEW! Attribute Manager with Ajax & bulk management
  • Quick product updater (update category on one page)
  • * Optional Easy Populate integration for bulk upload
  • * Optional attribute stock module available

Marketing Tools

  • NEW! Multiple product images (up to 4) with lightbox effect
  • Affiliate Scheme
  • Contact Form
  • Discount Coupons and Gift Vouchers
  • PDF catalogue to download
  • Product Search on website
  • NEW! Cross Sell module with Ajax & category bulk application
  • Integrated mail list subscription
  • List products by brand/manufacturer name
  • Specials prices including saving in % and £
  • Customer product reviews & star ratings

Professional Mail List Manager

  • HTML newsletters
  • WYSIWYG editor support
  • Subscription with email / name
  • Double opt-in or simple opt-in setting
  • Throttleing and Pause/Resume functionality
  • Multiple mail lists supported
  • Public or private list setting

Payment integration

  • Multi-currency support
  • VAT support
  • Pay Pal IPN
  • WorldPay
  • NEW! SagePay (Protx) Form
  • PayPoint Fast Track / Lite
  • Nochex
  • 2CheckOut module
  • Pay by Cheque/Postal Order
  • Pay by Bank Transfer (BACS)
  • Authorize.Net: payment processor for sites in the US
  • * Optional integration with SagePay VSP Direct, PayPoint Professional, HSBC, Barclays and PayPal Pro

Charge shipping on your orders

  • Flat rate
  • Per item
  • Based on weight or order total value
  • Based on delivery country
  • UK Royal Mail shipping module for 1st & 2nd Class Standard or Recorded, Special Delivery, Standard Parcels, Surface Mail, ParcelForce 48, Airmail International Signed For

Website Performance

  • Website optimised for shared hosting
  • Image thumbnailer for quick load times

No small print

  • ReadyCart is unencrypted so you have full access to the source code
  • No ongoing costs (hosting excluded)
  • Can be hosted on any suitable Linux server
  • You can give FTP/DB access to a developer of your choice
  • Artwork can be used for your other marketing materials (letterheads, business cards etc)
  • The only restriction is the Single site licence: No copying of the site onto other domains (except for backup)

Technical Requirements

  • Apache Web Server with a Unix or Linux operating system (please see hosting plans for suitable packages)
  • PHP4 / PHP5
  • MySQL4 / MySQL5
  • Safe Mode OFF recommended
  • Open Base Dir Restriction OFF
  • cURL compiled into PHP and cgi bin
  • Mod Rewrite enabled, and the ability to rewrite URL's via .htaccess
  • For shop admin/WYSIWYG editor: IE6+ or Firefox browser with JavaScript enabled
  • SSL Certificate (full or shared) recommended for checkout encryption
  • NEW! MySQL5 Strict, register_globals OFF, register_long_arrays OFF compatible

Existing osCommerce site owners

  • * Optional transfer of existing database (orders, customers, products) to ReadyCart.