E-Commerce/e-Shop Application

Table of Content:

1. Summary
2. Key Features
3. Technical Proposal
4. Development Team
5. Time Estimation
6. Cost Estimation

1.Summery

We are glad to present this proposal to you for the development of different e-shop Sites. Every cosmetic websites vision is to be the company that best understands and satisfies the product, service and self-fulfillment needs of women globally. Our dedications to supporting women touches not only beauty- but health fitness, self-empowerment and financial independence. E-shop sites are simply a way for sellers to advertise their real estate and meet potential buyers. All the shops that we create are SEARCH ENGINE FRIENDLY and use a combination of static and dynamic HTML pages. All characterised as clear, fast and easy-to-use E-Commerce websites. An E-shop starts from a simple online shop with a few items, to a bespoke custom ecommerce solution that Supports over 100,000 products with images, product descriptions, gift vouchers, and more. There are variety of products of different brand from different countries. Many optional functions can be taylor made for your requirement such as:

• Integration with your database/stock system
• Offline stock monitoring / stock reporting facility
• Ability to price each variant differently
• Import and export of product data via CSV files
• Multilingual Product catalogue and shopping cart system
• Vendor defined terms and conditions, shipping values, discount, payment terms and more…
• Edit and change content pages including a home page, links page, testimonials, product guide, reviews, news, special offers etc
• A friendly text editor tool which uses WYSIWYG (An acronym for what you see is what you get). The editor enables you to see on the display screen exactly what will appear when the document / webpage is displayed or printed. If you can use Microsoft Word, then you can use Dynamic Webs Page Editor - with rich text formatting, search, replace, undo, redo, cut, copy, paste, tables, links, bookmarks, images and much more
• Shopping basket support and approval by the high street banks and online Credit Card verification systems for use with online transaction systems
• Accept numerous offline payments (cheque, money orders, offline credit card processing)
• Multi pricing system (e.g. one price for traders, one price for normal customers)
• Security Built-in with support for industry standard high encryption
• All conventional currencies supported and updated daily
• Comprehensive administration section to manage all shop functions including; One click button to “Download on Demand” See all orders on your desktop PC
• Ability to optimise products for search engines and directories by the shop administrator
• Customisation of Catalogue look and feel (shop can be produced as custom design to your business needs)
• Create re-orders for customers from administration panel.
• RSS feed of New Orders
• Comprehensive user guide and on-screen help
• Advanced search facility for administrators and enables the visitor to find items instantly
• Full web-shop hosting including secure server (SSL) E-mail handling
• Annual submission of shop pages to the search engines and directories including real time performance monitoring reports

2. Key Features

Administration / Backend Functionality

• Supports unlimited products and categories with multiplied images and product descriptions.
• Unlimited depth of sections and sub-sections.
• Products-to-categories structure.
• Categories-to-categories structure.
• Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, Brands, links, testimonial, reviews and more…
• Support for complex product variants, components, and user-definable product fields.
• Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products.
• Secured Administration area with a username and password with superb encryption.
• News items links, testimonials and special offers are added quickly (within minutes).
• Contact customers directly via email or newsletters.
• Easily backup and restore the database (Backups are done daily as part of our shop hosting package).
• Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen.
• Comprehensive reports and 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 pop-up windows with extra information / images.
• 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 register so that their contact details are remembered from visit to visit.
• Customers can view their order history and status of orders.
• ‘Remember me’ facility for customer orders quotes shipping address e-notes.
• Customers can maintain their accounts.
• Address book 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.
• Foreseen checkout procedure.
• Fast page loading times which encourages and enables visitors to find what they want instantly.
• Secure transactions.
• International Support which include multi-lingual,multi-currencies,tax rate,etc.
• Active changing flash banner
• When you put the arrow above the photo it enlarge it before open the page (and you buy it from there)
• 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.
• Gift wrap popup offer
• Very easy site navigation.
• Live chat
• Search filter by: skin type, product type, skin condition

Product / catalogue Functionality

• HTML based product descriptions (about the product).
• Dynamic product attributes relationship along with Product Reviews and Rate.
• Automated display of specials(i.e. Recently viewed items )
• 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.
• Unlimited number of categories, sub-categories, products and options.
• Order discounts and promotional codes with single or multi use discount codes.
• Digital Downloads are fully supported. All downloads are done through a script that checks the order status before allowing the download.
• Store can be run in "Catalog Only" mode. This way, the store acts just like an online catalog, without any links to a shopping cart.
• Cross-Selling is supported via a related keys mechanism. This method is much less work than physically linking dozens of Products manually.
• Tax-free products and options.

Customer Service

• Contact Us form including ticketing/helpdesk system
• Forgot Password Email from front-end and administration panel
• Create and Edit Orders from the Admin Panel
• Order and Account Update Emails
Analytics and Reporting
• Integrated with Google Analytics
• Admin Dashboard for Report Overview, initially by mail (daily)
• Tags Report(Search queries report instead)
• RSS feed for New Tags along with tag management
• Total Sales Invoiced and Refunded

Marketing Promotions and Tools

• Flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ability to restrict to stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories. For e.g. Percent Discount | Fixed Amount Discount | Free Shipping | Buy x, get y free. |
• Customer Group-specific pricing and group-specific tier pricing
• Send to a Friend for all visitors, or registered users only
• RSS Feeds for New Products, New Specials and New Tags
• Auto-generated Site Map
• Google Site Map
• Newsletter Management

Payment Functionality

• Accept numerous offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, offline credit care. processing) . Saved Credit Card method for offline payments
• Accept numerous online payment processing (2CheckOut, PayPal, Authorize.net, iPayment) and Integrated with Google Checkout.
• Configurable to authorize and charge, or authorize only and charge on creation of invoices
• Integrated with Amazon Payments (Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay)

Shipping / Delivery Functionality

• Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules.
• Integrated for real-time shipping rates from:UPS, UPS XML (account rates), FedEx (account rates),USPS and DHL
• Free shipping based on amount and destination.
• On-site order tracking from customer accounts
• SSL security support for orders on both front-end and back-end

Tax Functionality

• Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis.
• Set different tax rates for different products.
• Automatic tax calculation based on geography.
• Charge tax on shipping on a per shipping service basis.

3. Technical Proposal

The proposed system has three tier architecture based on Windows or Linux platform. MySQL or MS SQL Server Database Server is proposed as the back-end database server. MySQL Or MS SQL Server has been chose for its robust platform, security and extensive connectivity. PHP has been proposed for server side script for its scalability, performance and support by wide range of operating systems. The proposed system will have the following features because of the selected technologies:

• Great performance due to choice of tightly integrated products.
• Easy to maintain and update.
• Supported by commercial vendors as well and volunteers.
• High level of security
• Economic

Application Development Platform
Language:
PHP with MySQL
This is the most popular language used for server-side scripting and development of dynamic web pages. It has many advantages like speed, security, manageability, support of mobile technology. The development architecture is based on the latest technology and is highly scalable and it supports the requirements for the distributed computing and internet mode of data sharing.
Programming Model: Object Oriented System Design This design allows easy integration of new modules that can be added progressively. The model is also optimized in developing applications from various points simultaneously.
Database Server:
SQL Server
These servers support the internet mode of data sharing and load balancing as a built in feature.
Other Tools & Technologies:
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
To enhance the on-screen presentation and readability of the contents, CSS will be abundantly used.

4. Development Team

The development team consists of:

• Designer
• System Analyst
• HTML and JavaScript Coder
• PHP Programmer
• Project Manager
• Q & A Team

4. Time Estimation

This time estimation is based on given requirements. The time estimated will change if there goes major changes then stated. Pre Development Phase: System Analysis and Prototype Design 2 Days Database Design 3 Days This phase prototype for the project is over once it gets acceptance from client. Development Phase: Administration Functionalities phase 15 Days Customer Functionalities 15 Days After this development phase is completed we move on to the testing phase. Testing Phase: Application Testing 3 Days Total Estimated time =Pre Development Phase +Development Phase +Testing =5+24+3 =32 Days