eCommerce Storefronts

aspdotnetstorefront Development Partner

As the world of electronic commerce (eCommerce) continues to grow more challenging and the need to provide secure websites increases, equaTEK has created a strategic partnership with VORTX, the makers of AspDotNetStorefront. VORTX has been working hard over the years to produce a solid and secure web storefront which protects the payment and personal information of its clients’ customers.

aspdotnetstorefront is known for its high level of security requirements, protecting store-owners and customers from hackers and security breaches. And following with this tradition, their recently released version 10 is not only compliant with the new PA DSS 3.1 security standard, it has been verified by the PCI council as being compliant.

aspdotnetstorefront is a robust and full-featured shopping cart application that equaTEK uses to build custom, mobile-friendly, eCommerce websites for companies with medium to large product lines and high volume sales on single or multiple storefronts.

aspdotnetstorefront offers excellent administrative features and inventory controls for up to hundreds of thousands of product SKUs. Single or multiple storefronts can be easily managed from the central admin dashboard. Product data can be uploaded in bulk from Excel files, and data feeds can be set up for third-party comparison shopping engines and market places such as Amazon, Google Shopping, Bing Shopping, TheFind and more.

equaTEK has been working with aspdotnetstorefront since 2009, developing web storefronts for its clients and tailoring its functionality to the needs of the eStore. Whether you want customization to how the storefront works, integration of products, content updates, a mobile-friendly site, or digital marketing, equaTEK can help.

Let equaTEK partner with you for your aspdotnetstorefront build or upgrade with expert advice, programming, and marketing.

aspdotnetstorefront Version 10 Features:

Safe Shopping –PCI PA DSS 3.1 Compliant and validated platform. aspdotnetstorefront will be listed by the PCI council as a certified payment application.
Mobile-Friendly – providing your customers with a user-friendly experience on any device.
HTTPS everywhere – every page (browsing and shopping) can default to the more secure HTTPS protocol. Google uses HTTPS as a ranking signal which can lead to more traffic.
New Checkout – streamline the check-out process, shipping options and cost displayed earlier in the process, third party checkouts are more integrated, tax costs displayed earlier.
SEO/SEM/SMM Enhancements – Total URL freedom, no IDs, No more .aspx extension, extended micro-data, targeted re-marketing tags, page by page SEO metadata.
Braintree Payment Provider – Added support for this direct payment provider.
Great Functionality carried over from previous versions –Support multiple storefronts from same back-end (MultiStore/MoreStore), upsells, related & featured products, many payment solutions & shipping methods built-in, Promotions engine, coupons and gift cards, Customer-level pricing and rationalization, and more.

Utilities for aspdotnetstorefront built by equaTEK Interactive

Need a more streamline order processing and shipping management mechanism? Need and easier way to import Zip code to Tax Rate tables? Need and easier way to import products, and images or do price adjustments?

equaTEK Interactive has created connectors for aspdotnetstorefront to two of the leading shipping management solutions ShipWorks and the ShipStation. equaTEK has also created solutions to import sales tax to zip code tables with our Sales Tax Rate Importer, and a utility to import products and product images into aspdotnetstorefront in bulk.

Customization of aspdotnetstorefront

Need something specific? We can help you extend aspdotnetstorefront to what you need.

Call us today at (585) 485-0780!

*equaTEK Interactive is an aspdotnetstorefront development and marketing partner

nopCommerce Storefront Integration and Customization

equaTEK Interactive is able to build your eCommerce storefront using nopCommerce. nopCommerce is open source software that includes the ability to catalog products and to manage them on both the front-end and back-end through an admin tool. It has a fully customizable shopping cart based on ASP.NET with MS SQL 2008 or higher for it's back-end database.

Here are some of the main features of nopCommerce:

Mobile Commerce: nopCommerce includes the ability to create a mobile version of your website through an intuitive interface, and is available out of the box for free.

Multi-Store Support: With nopCommerce you can run more than one storefront with a single installation. Manage the same product catalog and share it with multiple storefronts. With multi-store support you can easily create micro-stores for promotions all sharing the same product data. Multi-Store support allows you to define:

Categories and manufacturers per store
Products per store
Content (news, blog, articles) per store
Payments per store
Shipping methods per store
Tax rules per store
Product prices per store
Newsletters per store
Graphical themes per store
Order filtering and reports per store
Almost each configuration setting can be set per store

Multi-Vendor Support: Your storefront can sell and drop-ship products without maintaining inventory by identifying the vendor at the product level in your storefront. Your products can be sourced from hundreds of different vendors, and be seamless to the end customer.

Product Features: nopCommerce has a wide range of product features allowing you to fully customize your storefront. Some of the main features include the ability to create unlimited product attributes, product comparison, stock management, pricing customization, downloadable products, reviews and ratings, rental products, bundling, recurring products, returns management, related products and much more.

SEO Features: nopCommerce helps improve SEO efforts with a search engine friendly storefront. Some of the SEO features include a sitemap, microdata, localizable URLs, breadcrumbs, URL canonicalization and Google Analytics integration.

Checkout Features: nopCommerce allows for anonymous checkout so your customers can purchase from you without having to create an account. Additional attributes are available at checkout like gift wrapping options and personalized messages. Checkout happens on one-page reducing the number of steps the customer must take. Checkout also includes multilingual and multi-currency support, configuration of weights and dimensions, SSL support, SMS notifications, PDF order receipts, mini shopping carts and more.

Marketing Programs: nopCommerce storefront includes several marketing components to keep you connected to your customers and deepen relationships through rewards point systems, Facebook integration, related products, discounts and coupons, newsletters, content, gift cards, reviews, ratings and product comparisons, affiliate programs and more.

Payment Methods: nopCommerce allows you to accept all major credit cards, but also includes more than 50 payment methods and gateways to allow payment methods that are limited by country. Your storefront can be set to authorize payment only, auth-capture, payment capture at shipping, and also supports refunds, partial refunds and void functionality.

Shipping Features: nopCommerce allows for unique shipping address entry, separate of billing address, shipping estimates prior to checkout, packaging slips creation, shipping calculation customization, and allows the store owner to define shipping methods integrated with major shipping carriers including: UPS, USPS, FedEx, Australia Post, Canada Post and more.

Tax Features: nopCommerce offers flexibility in how your store assigns tax based on your legal requirements, preferences and customer expectations. Tax configuration features includes:

Configure taxes by country, state, zip
Individual products can be marked taxable or tax-exempt
Tax classes supported by product (e.g. goods, services, alcohol, etc)
Some customer groups can be marked as tax exempt
The European Union Value Added Tax (EU VAT) support (Company VAT Number)
Allow store owner to specify "tax based on" setting: billing/shipping/default/shipping origin address
Allow store owner to specify whether prices are entered including or excluding tax
Allow customer to choose tax display type (incl/excl tax)
Allow a store owner to specify tax display type (incl/excl tax)
Allow store owner to specify whether shipping is taxable
StrikeIron integration
Avalara integration

Custom: equaTEK Interactive is a full service software development company who specializes in the technologies in which nopCommerce was written. equaTEK has supported many of our clients add functionality and tailor existing nopCommerce functionality to their own needs. So, when it isn't quite right for your business or process and you cannot afford to make the adjustment, give us a call and we can adapt the solution to fit your business. Some examples of what we have done for our clients include:

Added shipment boxing logic so real-time shipment estimates through UPS matched the fulfillment departments boxing rules and prices.
Extended the promotions engine to support a specialized discount structure
Extended to support multiple pricing structures

aspdotnetstorefront Development Partner

Utilities for aspdotnetstorefront built by equaTEK Interactive

Customization of aspdotnetstorefront

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