Graith Internet - Specialists in Custom OSCommerce PHP websites
Graith 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.
MailChimp with Analytics 360 for OSCommerce
Keep your MailChimp mailing lists synchronised with OSCommerce and CRE Loaded and now
get your return-on-investment financials resulting from email campaigns analysed by Analytics 360.
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Stock Control for OSCommerce
Good stock inventory management is very difficult using OSCommerce if you're also selling from eBay as well (which many small businesses do).
If you've got a physical shop too, then keeping track of how many widgets you've got left to sell becomes even more of a problem.
We have a solution to this dilema which provides state of the art e-commerce tools using software-in-the-cloud and communications from your
OSCommerce and eBay selling sites.
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OSCommerce for Mobiles and Cellphones
Use of mobile phones to access websites is rocketing. Those OSCommerce websites that are more friendly to mobile customers will sell more. This
software will make your OSC site mobile friendly without the expense of iPhone/Android certification. It supports iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone using jQuery and jQueryMobile
technologies and it's very easy to install.
It uses the pictures and database from your OSCommerce site and a Javascript framework from the people that brought you
jQuery and presents it to your customers that access your website with their smartphone.
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Brightpearl with OSCommerce
Brightpearl™ is a commerce management platform for retailers. Brightpearl helps you to sell more and sell better, wherever you are.
A single point from which to manage all aspects of the business - in the shop, online, in the office or even in the warehouse. Now you can use Brightpearl to process your OsCommerce orders,
track your inventory and communicate with your customers!
For people with an OSCommerce website
you'll want to use the excellent stock management and customer management elements and now you can use OSCommerce with Brightpearl™.
This provides an excellent way to sell on eBay too.
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OSCommerce - What's Important?
Click to reveal a questionnaire
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 Know
The 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.
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Do your images sell your products?
No
When 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 Know
Think 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?
No
Google 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?
How many pages do you need to load before you get to the page where you can buy the product?
If you don't know the name of the product, how easy is it to find?
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?
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Is it easy for your customers to pay?
Don't Know
Some 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.
Newer versions of OSCommerce have one-page-checkout which makes it really easy.
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Do the shipping costs actually reflect what you have to pay for postage?
Don't Know
If 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".
No
Have 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. Click here for a better shipping module.
All Questions Complete
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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.
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Help, we seem to have disappeared from Google shopping
Google introduced the requirement (Sep 2011) to include information about availability of your products in your
google base data feed, so if you've not made modifications to allow for that, you'll be getting messages in your
Google Base control panel telling you your products are imported but not searchable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pay4Later with OSCommerce
If you sell high value products, one thing that might be stopping you selling more is the availability of credit for
your customers. Pay4Later provides these facilities meaning you can get paid when you've shipped the goods.
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