Businesses planning to move their mission-critical business functions onto the Internet face a difficult challenge in selecting a partner that can provide all the necessary expertise and skills required for building successful end-to-end business-to-business, or business-to-consumer e-commerce solutions.

eCommerce Solutions

E-commerce - Business-to-Business
Whether you are planning a public Internet marketplace, a private online exchange, or an electronic purchasing capability for your corporate web site, you need to realize an e-commerce environment that creates efficiency and cost reductions for buyers, suppliers and your own organization.

A true cost effective business-to-business e-commerce environment requires an end-to-end solution that is flexible for both customers and the business rules driving the content and commerce. This means that customers have web access to product information and availability, order status and account history information. Site operators must have full control over product content, product management, inventory, order fulfillment and shipping.

Standard Business-to-Business E-Commerce Web Site
Our standard B-to-B e-commerce web site packages come with strategic marketing and web design consultation, professional content creation, shopping cart/checkout system, corporate account registration and management, order and product management.

Below is a detailed description of the features and functions of our standard business-to-business e-commerce web site package.

1. Custom designed site banner, navigation buttons (links), site layout and color scheme of customers' choice.
2. Site entrance with links to View Account, Corporate Account login, Shopping Cart and Check Out page, email capture text box for building in-house opt-in email list.
3. Internal product search.
4. Ability to add an unlimited number of product categories, subcategories and products to the product catalog using on-site merchant tools.
5. Additional content pages: Contact Us, How To Order (instructions), Customer Service, Privacy and Security statements.
6. Shopping Cart/Checkout System with automatic calculation of totals, shipping cost and sales tax.
7. Product catalog database with 256-bit AES-based encryption for all payment data.
8. Real-time credit card processing.
9. Private, secure SSL web server certificate.
10. Corporate account login with password retrieval.
11. Password protected Order Management Module (allows order search by order id, order dates, customer name, company name, lists order status and revenues by time period, product category and customer).
12. Password protected Product Management Module (allows adding/editing/deleting of products and product content).
13. Corporate Account Management (allows for setting corporate specific pricing and discounts, editing account data and order status tracking).
14. Order payment by credit card or open terms.
15. "Featured Product" announcement on the home page.
16. Out-of-stock notification.
17. Send-to-a-friend.
18. Dynamic page title and meta description generation for natural search engine optimization.
19. Partial and back-order shipment.
20. Real-time UPS shipping calculation.
21. Merchant e-mail notification for waiting orders (with customer tracking number).
22. Secure (SSL) encrypted transfer of order and credit card information to the merchant's web site
     

Note: 50 % of all prices quoted on all projects is required to begin work on the project, with the remainder due on completion.

Optional Features:

1. Additional functionality: gift certificates, order history, up-selling and cross-selling, order status tracking and auto responders.
2. Custom integration with a wide range of payment systems, databases, accounting and inventory control systems.
3. Drop shipping from manufacturer.
4. Multimedia.

Contact us for more information or call (310) 736-6620 - to speak to a representative. .

E-Commerce - Business-to-Consumer

Metro InfoDesign business-to-consumer e-commerce offerings come in packaged and custom solutions. E-commerce site packages allow small retailers and other businesses to establish an inexpensive on-line sales channel. All e-commerce packages include product category, shopping cart, checkout with automatic calculation of totals and shipping cost, real-time credit card processing and secure encrypted transfer of credit card information.

In addition, each package includes an Order Management and Product Management module to allow for tracking of orders and product updates respectively. Various multimedia, database connectivity and payment system options will be quoted separately as needed.

Standard Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce Web Site

The standard B-to-C e-commerce web site package includes all the functionality of the business-to-business package, except for:

1. Corporate account management.
2. Order payment on "open terms".
3. Optional Services
4. Web site maintenance service.
5. Search engine optimization and directory submission program.

Custom E-Commerce Web Sites

While a standard b-to-c, or b-to-b e-commerce package provides a comprehensive and inexpensive e-commerce solution for many businesses, often the individual requirements are so unique that a custom solution is required. 

Contact us for more information about a standard or custom e-commerce web site package or call our Call Center at: (310) 736-6620