Advantages of using CS-Cart

• Highly Customizable – addon system and hooks allow for full customization.
• SEO friendly – emphasis has been placed on marketing and SEO.
• Fully featured – all the common ecommerce features are built in.
• Commercial Support – although not free, it helps to address critical issues rapidly.
• Affordable – licensing is very reasonable.
• Low Maintenance – Installations and upgrades are relatively easy.

Disadvantages of using CS-Cart

• High Learning Curve – learning how to develop custom addons and modify the themes can be time consuming.
• Slow – due to the architecture used, the application often has speed issues.
• Not Very Popular – meaning fewer addons and more difficult to find developers with experience.

CS-Cart is an easy-to-use and feature rich shopping cart, and although it isnt fully object oriented, it is built to faciliate extensions and addons. We advise our clients to use CS-Cart if they want to have a framework to build on, as CS-Cart’s addon system is very easy use. Unlike other ecommerce platforms such as Interspire Shopping Cart, CScart is very modular, and has features built in to allow addons and themes to built without interfering with the core application. When cscart addons are built properly, they allow for easy an upgrade route, and better maintainability.

Get Expert Help

If you are considering using CS-Cart as your ecommerce platform, talk to us today – we built many addons and websites using CS-cart, and can help you setup, customise, deploy and maintain your CS-Cart platform. For more information, or to find out how we can help you, call us today on 0203 286 8478.

Interspire Shopping Cart is one of the best commercial PHP shopping carts available on the market. It comes in various versions including a hosted version known as Big Commerce, and the original stand alone Interspire Shopping Cart.

Advantages of using Interspire Shopping Cart

• Fully featured – all the common ecommerce features are built in.
• SEO friendly – a big focus placed on marketing and SEO.
• Very Flexible – all pricing structures have been catered for.
• Commercial Support – free for 12 months, and afterwards can be extended for a fee.
• Provides an API – to make integration into other applications easier.
• Easy to theme – making changes to the look and feel is very easy, thanks to the theme file structure used.
• User Friendly Backend – administration in the backend is very easy, because of the great user interface design.
• Powerful Marketing Features – the Interspire Shopping Cart team paid a lot of attention to marketing.

Disadvantages of using Interspire Shopping Cart

• No proper plugin support – support of custom modifications and addons are very limited.
• Expensive – Interspire Shopping Cart is a commercial product and costs nearly $2,000 for the ultimate edition.
• Code doesnt follow best practices – meaning duplicate coding and sql everywhere. This often makes development slow and painful.
• High Learning Curve – although theming is fairly simple, changes to the pricing system or any core area is very difficult.
• High Maintenance – Installations and upgrades are often painful and time consuming.

Interspire Shopping Cart is a powerful ecommerce shopping cart system, but has its weakness just like any other ecommerce system. We advise most of our clients to use Interspire if they dont wish to make many modifications to it, as it provides many features out of the box. Unlike other ecommerce platforms such as Magento Ecommerce, Interspire doesnt lend well to extensive modifications – it makes upgrades very difficult and costly.

Get Expert Help

If you are considering using Interspire Shopping Cart as your ecommerce platform, talk to us today – we have been working with Interspire for years, and can help you setup, customise, deploy and maintain your Interspire Shopping Cart platform. For more information, or to find out how we can help you, call us today on 0203 286 8478.

Advantages of using Magento

• Fully featured – many common ecommerce features are built in.
• Very Flexible – almost all pricing structures have been catered for.
• High Popularity – reduces risk of abandonment as with some other opensource projects.
• Fully OOP compliant – making maintenance and development easier.
• Supported by Varien and Zend – meaning support and ongoing development is guaranteed.
• Built on Zend Framework – development is accelerated if you have past experience with this framework.
• High Popularity – means finding man-power for development is not too difficult.
• Provides an API – to make integration into other applications easier.

Disadvantages of using Magento

• High Development Learning Curve – due to its elaborate features, it takes a long time to get used to the magento codebase.
• Slow – over 6,000 files and lots of processing makes magento a slow application in terms of server side processing.
• High Popularity – means many attempts to exploit vulnerabilities by hackers.
• High Maintenance – Installations and upgrades are often painful and time consuming.

Get Expert Help

If you are considering using Magento as your ecommerce platform, talk to us today – we have years of experience working with Magento, and can help you setup, customise, deploy and maintain your Magento platform. For more information, or to find out how we can help you, call us today on 0203 286 8478.

Poorly designed websites cost your company every day. Studies have revealed that online retailers often neglect customer experience and strictly focus on conversions. We’ve found that nearly all ecommerce web sites have significant room for improvement. Some Virvo clients have seen e-commerce sales increase by as much as 700%! Every company we work with, we try to increase this number – we are confident we can improve ecommerce sales for your company.

At Virvo, one of our business goals is to help other businesses and organizations create and grow successful ecommmerce web sites. Much of our work comes through consulting with customers on how to continue to increase the effectiveness of their online ecommerce or business site.

How does it work?

Improving your ecommerce website can be broken down into a few key stages:

• 1Setting the goals for your site.
• 2Design changes and strategies to better meet those goals.
• 3Implement the changes.
• 4Measure the effect of the changes.
• 5Evaluate effect of changes on goals and re-adjust if needed.
• 6Design changes to better meet those goals.

Increasing the effectiveness of your ecommerce site involves many factors, but usually starts with an in depth analysis of your site. We will look at your online advertising expenditure and its ROI, benchmarking the search engine ranking of the site, and using log data or third party site monitoring tools to analyse all key pages. This analysis will help identify any flaws in checkout design, navigation or usability issues, as well as highlight pages or site design which is having a negative impact on customer satisfaction.

Once the analysis is complete, the report will give detailed information about your SEO, and will often help refine the site goals and strategy moving forward.