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Graith Internet - Specialists in Custom OSCommerce PHP websitesGraith Internet are specialists in adding Interactivity to websites, making them more dynamic. We write custom PHP pages and add databases to websites using PHP with MySQL. Most of our work involves OSCommerce these days. We've done lots of works for many high profile OSCommerce sites including new shipping or payment modules, reports and full new OSC websites with custom designs.
osCommerce - What's Important?This questionnaire is aimed at business owners already running an OSCommerce website. If you answer the questions below, you may find improvements to your website that will increase your turnover. Are you happy with the look of your website?Don't KnowThe simple answer is - "ask someone". 15 year old children are more clued-up than most adults, so if you know one, ask them. Look at your competition. If you like the look of your competitors website better than yours, it's time to change - press "No". No
If your website runs a template system, you can more easily change the look of your website while keeping the functionality the same.
If your website is based on the old MS2 code, it may be time to look into updating the software and design at the same time.
CRE Loaded / Loaded Commerce is OSCommerce software we recommend. You can come to us to update your software to the latest and we'll integrate
the customisations you've had done and recommend new ones to improve your customer experience. Do your images sell your products?Don't Know
Many OSC stores aren't set up to display images very well. Each product has one image and they are squashed when they need to show
a smaller image and stretched and fuzzy when they want to display an enlarged image. NoWhen you use a large image and make it smaller with the browser shrinking it, the quality goes down. Make separate images for display on the product listing page and the product details page and a bigger image for a magnified view. At the same time make sure the filename is relevant. That all takes time when you've got hundreds or thousands of products to do, so make it easy and get automation help. Do you appear high up in the search engine rankings?Don't KnowThink about one of your best selling or most profitable products and think what you'd type into a search engine if you wanted to buy one of these yourself. If your site comes on the first page, you're doing well. If it's a very popular product you'll have more difficulty getting onto the first page than if you're selling a niche product. Think about other words and see where you come. Then try the same thing again on Google and click the "Shopping" link. Do your products show up when you enter the barcode or SKU or model number of the product? NoGoogle Base is the system Google has to allow website owners to tell Google what products they sell. You can set it up so that Google look every day what your latest prices are too, but communicating the information is a little tricky so get expert help doing it. Can your customers find what they need quicky?Don't Know
From the home page of your site, how many clicks or key presses does it take to find one product? No
Amazon is noted for having brilliant searching capability. You start typing what you're looking for
in the box and Amazon tries to guess what you're typing and gives you search results with each
keypress. This can be known as Predictive Searching. Wouldn't it be great
to give this ability to OSCommerce? Is it easy for your customers to pay?Don't KnowSome sites are really easy to complete the checkout. Others not so much. How many times do your customers have to load a new page before they complete their payment? If it's a lot, there's more opportunity for a customer to get fed up and go elsewhere. No
Google Checkout takes a customer payment after a simple "login" and Confirm. Find out more. Do the shipping costs actually reflect what you have to pay for postage?Don't KnowIf you ever find yourself paying for that courier with more money than you got for shipping, you may be doing it for marketing reasons, but if you're not, click "No". NoHave you had any orders for the Shetland Isles? For all but the smallest items, it'll cost more than something shipped to Glasgow. Get shipping modules for OSCommerce that will charge appropriately for highlands and islands shipping even if the customer claims they're on the mainland. Contact us for a better shipping module.  ConstantContact for OSCommerce
ConstantContact gives you marketing tools to analyse your customer base and send them messages if
they've opted-in to the communications. This addon for OSCommerce allows you to export all your existing
customer details and then new customers are automatically communicated via server-to-server communications
without you needing to do anything. Help, we seem to have disappeared from Google shopping
Worldpay Business Gateway
If you've got an OSCommerce store and want to use Worldpay, this payment module interfaces with Worldpay
and provides good reporting to help you manage your orders efficiently.
Trustpilot
Once you've got a good store selling well, improve your rankings by getting customer reviews. Trustpilot provides the service
to email your customer some time after they receive their order, inviting them to review the transaction. This results in Google
star ratings which can improve how many customers choose to come to your site.
Google Maps
Use Google maps API to display custom maps for your customers or your workforce with pins added from a database.
Then find the nearest pin to any UK postcode. 
Pay4Later with OSCommerce
Here are some ideas for what you might want to do...
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work on a fixed price quote basis. You provide
the information for what you're after and we'll prepare a tender document
with a fixed price cost. If you've got a restricted budget to work to,
we can provide advice for how to keep the price down within the budget.
For some jobs, we can also provide easy payment terms such as payment
over 4-6 months with 0% interest (must be agreed before the project is started).
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