CERAiT specializes in providing information technology (IT) related services. We utilize Ubercart and osCommerce platforms in our e-Commerce solutions.

What is Open source?

Open source is a comunity developed platform and there is no licensing cost to you for using this software.

We specialize in implementation and customization of osCommerce, Ubercart and Zen Cart open source ecommerce platforms. All three platfomrs are fully supported by CERAiT Inc. and your investment is protected by our warranty.

osCommerce e-Commerce Platform

OsCommerce is a stable open source e-Commerce platform implementedin over 14,000 of registered live shops worldwide. osCommerce Online Merchant is a complete online store solution that contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend.

Features of osCommerce

General Functionality

• Compatible with all PHP 4 versions
• Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default

Administration / Backend Functionality

• Supports unlimited products and categories
• 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 defined during installation
• Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
• Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
• Statistics for products and customers
• Multilingual support
• Multicurrency support
  • Automatically update currency exchange rates
• 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
  • Addressbook 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
• Forseen checkout procedure
• Secure transactions with SSL
• 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 (PayPal, 2CheckOut, Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)
• Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis

Shipping Functionality

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

Tax Functionality

• 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

More info about osCommerce and benefits of its implementation can be found on the osCommerce web site.

Please contact us for your custom estimate or to obtain more details. Initial consultation is free and with no obligation to you.

Ubercart e-Commerce Platform

Ubercart is an open source e-commerce solution fully integrated with the leading open source content management system, Drupal , winner in two categories of the Packt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards . This is a killer combination for anyone looking to build a community around a product, sell access to premium content, offer paid file downloads, and much more, all while maintaining a seamless connection to your users.

Ubercart leverages the advantages of Drupal's major core and contributed systems, providing your users with shopping cart functionality that integrates with other parts of your company or community website. To learn more about the benefits of using Drupal, check out the article which answers the question, " Why use Drupal for e-commerce? "

Current Features:

• Configurable product catalog includes catalog pages and a block to display product categories.
• Flexible product creation system. Create normal products by default. Add fields to store additional product information using Drupal's CCK system.
• Flexible product attributes system. Create user selectable attributes for your products that modify the price, SKU/model, and/or weight of items as the customer adds them to his or her cart. Set default attribute/option sets for each product class to easily create many similar products.
• Single page checkout. All checkout information gathered on a single screen composed of configurable checkout panes. Third party modules can define checkout panes to replace or add to the default set, making it easy to customize the checkout experience.
• Automatic account generation (anonymous checkout). Accounts and emails are automatically generated based on the customer's e-mail address. (Optional setting allows customers to specify account names and passwords in checkout.) For return customers, previously used addresses will be listed on the checkout page for easy access.
• Simple order processing. The order administration screens have been designed by and for our salesmen. We believe there is always room for improvement and will try to make it happen! Order screens use the "pane" model, so the screens are configurable and extensible to accommodate a wide variety of e-commerce applications.
• Simple order creation and editing. Easy to create orders manually for customers, adding products, shipping prices, etc. from a single screen. Line items system makes it easy to add fees, discounts, and coupons to orders.
• Integrated payment system that acts as a bridge between acceptable payment methods (check, credit card, cod, etc.) and payment gateways (Cyber Source, Authorize.net, PayPal, etc.). Configurable payment processing and tracking, and easy to use credit card terminal with varying levels of access.
• Activity logging. Enable logging to see all the changes made to an order, including payment processing. (Your accountant will love this!)
• XML import/export allows you import products, attributes, orders, and customers from your old store into Ubercart or export products, attributes, orders, and customers from your Ubercart store

Key Aspects:

• Built as a module package for the search engine friendly Drupal CMS, meaning you can fully integrate your store with the rest of your site or community.
• Ubercart can also be enhanced by the dozens of contributed Drupal modules and themes .
• Designed to be enhanced and modified. The core systems of Ubercart, including products, checkout, orders, payments, and order fulfillment are all designed to incorporate contributed modules
• Strong desire for usability, reflected in testing, changing things, testing again, changing more things, and ultimately letting you customize how all the pieces fit together yourself.
• Strong desire for flexibility, reflected in testing, changing things... you get the point. Every e-commerce site has a different set of needs, so we are constantly improving the core systems to make it easier for developers to meet those needs.

To learn more, consider the following information pages:

• Screenshots (including store and administration pages)
• Currently integrated payment systems
• Current methods of calculating shipping
• More about testing

Current online stores are leveraging Ubercart to meet the following e-commerce needs:

• Selling physical goods from various sized product catalogs.
• Selling items in a virtual economy: Drupal.org showcase site, Digital Dollhouse
• Selling file downloads (i.e. music, videos, software).
• Selling event registrations: Drupal.org case study of Just Racing
• Selling site access for members only websites, including automatic renewals and expiration of user access.
• Selling items on multi-domain sites: Drupal.org case study of Row Eleven Wine Co.

More info about Ubercart and benefits of its implementation can be found on the Ubercart web site.

Please contact us for  your custom estimate or to obtain more details. Initial consultation is free and with no obligation to you.