E-Commerce

Plethora Design will build a successful online store for you, whether it's for one item or one thousand, subscriptions, or downloadable products. See examples ›

We build e-commerce sites using VirtueMart (Joomla), x-Cart, Pinnacle Cart, osCommerce, ZenCart, CubeCart (Drupal), and many other popular e-commerce packages. You will be able to edit your products through an easy to use editor, and you will have full control over product categories, pricing, quantity discounts, shipping, payment methods, coupons, reviews, data import/export, and much more. An e-commerce site is a complex undertaking, and there are many options out there ranging from free to thousands of dollars. Talk to us to help narrow down the choices.

Your customers will be able to check out securely and pay by credit card, PayPal, and a plethora of other payment methods. For credit card transactions your site requires an SSL certificate and a merchant gateway account.

• Merchant gateway account: we recommend Authorize.net provided by e-onlinedata.com, the largest reseller of Authorize.net gateway accounts. You must go through a reseller to use Authorize.net.
• SSL certificate: we recommend a RapidSSL certificate from GeoTrust, and is certified by Equifax. Contact us if you would like to have us set this up for you.

It is possible in most cases to provide RSS feeds of product categories and/or integrate your product feed into Google Product Search, display random or the most recent products, define and display featured products, and much more.

Other possibilities include: customer reviews, discounts, "email to a friend", elegant image popups (lightbox effect), detailed order reporting, control over customer details, full product search, downloadable products (such as software), and subscription and membership-based payments, and integration with accounting software such as QuickBooks, to name a few.

Some completed e-commerce sites: