Innovations in Ecommerce Solutions

Extend your company's storefront to the web with Evolution's Ecommerce solutions. Our Ecommerce solutions are integrated directly with Evolution software providing you with a single login for your software and Ecommerce management tools. Access and manage product listings, web content, knowledge base, press releases, localization, and financial transactions all with a single login.

With multiple Ecommerce solutions to meet a range of Ecommerce needs, our Ecommerce solutions offer collaborative capabilities and/or complete Ecommerce solutions with both collaborative web capabilities and full shopping carts for single or multiple language and currency needs. 

Our shopping cart enabled Ecommerce solutions are integrated with live shipping, warehousing, inventory, customer management and supports single or multiple currencies. Evolution's Google friendly and customizable Ecommerce technology is a solid foundation that allows any business to grow through the web. Evolution's Ecommerce solutions provide a complete set of Ecommerce tools for your company to build a presence on the web.

Technology: What makes Evolution's Ecommerce solutions unique?

Synchronization Technology

Our proprietary synchronization technology that set Evolution apart from other software solutions also applies to our Ecommerce solutions. Changes that you make within Evolution will post to the website as you synchronize or through a forced synchronize through CTRL + S on your keyboard. This allows you to make quick changes that will post in real time as you synchronize to numerous items including:

• Client/Account Information
• Downloadable Documents
• Sharing Projects through the web portal
• Tools for Forums
• Dynamic Product Listings
• Images & Image Galleries
• Manage your Static Text
• Press Releases
• Price Lists & Automatic Discounts 
• Knowledge Base Tools

Maintaining your website and content can now be done through Evolution directly and whenever you need to. A basic DSL connection is all you need for optimal performance with our Ecommerce solutions. Even if you do not have an internet connection at the moment then next time you do have an internet connection your changes will post right away as you synchronize.

Security

Our security features within Evolution business management software also extend to our Ecommerce solution providing you with our triple 512K layered encryption technology for synchronization of data to your website as well as on your website directly providing your customers and partners the same level of encryption for sales transactions and collaboration through the web portal.

Every time you synchronize within Evolution your changes are pushed to the website as you synchronize. When this happens all of the data is compressed and then encrypted with the triple 512K  layered encryption and sent through the back channels on the web to the node server to be pushed to your website and other machines in your company using Evolution and then decompressed to be viewable on your website and within Evolution to view and work with the latest data.

This provides an added layer of security for your financial and customer information that you won't find with most Ecommerce solutions. Further, Evolution's internal security profiles allow for specific information to only be viewable by profile and a single login so, your customers and partners only see their account information and no one else's.

This unique combination of synchronization and security technology provide a winning combination for companies looking for rich functionality, easy managemability, and a level of security that will work continuously for you and and your website.

Integrated Content Management

Evolution has taken the next step by creating an integrated interface so now, updating and managing the majority of your content can be done directly through Evolution.
Key pieces of content can be updated easily and directly within Evolution including:

• Static text
• Images
• Upload Press Releases now but post them to your website in the future with our scheduling feature for future Press Releases
• Upload Knowledge Base Articles now but post them to your website in the future with our scheduling feature allowing Knowledge Base Articles
• SEO keyword tools for your content as well for easy loading and updating of keywords for pages

Product Listings

Products and product pages also include a set of tools to update the content of your Product pages. Quickly and easily update your Product listings with Evolution's Ecommerce solution and maintain the following key elements of your Product listings directly through Evolution's interface:

• Short Descriptions
• Long Descriptions
• Pricing
• Product Availability
• Specifications
• Email request for information tool
• Upselling tool for Related Products
• Upselling tool for Accessories
• Downloadable documents
• SEO tools for keywords, page titles and page descriptions
• Authorized Reviews
• Image Galleries

With Ecommerce becoming more of a staple for businesses beinga ble to have an integrated tool for managing the content and SEO features of your website easily and from one interface is alo becoming just as important.

Learn more about the Ecommerce solutions we have available for you today by contacting us for a demonstration! 

Ecommerce Solutions

Collaborative Web Portals

Evolution Ecommerce solutions encompass two groups of solutions. Collaborative web portals provide your company with the ability to collaborate through a website with clients, partners, resellers and 3rd parties without the shopping cart capability. We have two Collaborative Ecommerce solutions available one to support a single language and one that will support localization in multiple languages.

A Collaborative web portal is integrated with your current website and will allow you to create logins through Evolution or through a registration form on your website with any group of contacts you have within Evolution. Your Member's Area will provide a menu of tools that you can collaborate on with various contacts on a variety of items including:

• Documents: including the ability to upload revisions
• Projects: with the ability to drill down into specific tasks or appointments for detail
• Communications: send messages through the Member's area
• Account Information: manage your general account information
• Leads: if your company utilizes a lead or referral structure you can check on the status of any referrals through the Member's area

Additional Ecommerce tools are also available through the collaborative Ecommerce solutions:

• A complete knowledge base: This is manageable by security profiles for internal and external sharing through your website
• Press Releases: Create and post Press Releases to your website automatically
• Static content: Edit and update your static content on your website through Evolution directly
• Forums & Blogs: Enable monitored or unmonitored Forums and Blogs for your clients and partners through the memeber's area on your website

Both Evolution Ecommerce and Evolution for Windows directly communicate with each other to create a completely integrated Ecommerce, CRM, and ERP solution. The Evolution Ecommerce solution can be purchased at once or in multiple stages to fulfill implementation needs and scale for multiple budgets and corporate structures.

Shopping Cart Enabled Ecommerce Solutions

For companies looking to process sales or even have clients pay Invoices through the web portal for convenience Evolution has two Ecommerce solutions to address both single currency/language needs and multiple currency/language needs. These two Ecommerce solutions encompass all of the functionality available with the Collaborative Ecommerce solutions plus full shopping cart capability for a self service website. Additional tools available for the shopping cart enabled Ecommerce solutions include:

• Individual back office: full management of sales and shipping orders processed through your website.
• Evolution automatically updates or creates a new customer to your CRM and adds the transaction to your GL.
• Shopping cart with feature rich capabilitiesto check out products and services with 'remebe rme' & 'save for later' purchase options.
• Order Processing: Automatic web registration & one session check out.
• Express Check out: quick placement of the order in the web store where all requiredinformation is detailed on one screen.
• Changing product descriptions and data is simple. Once a product change is synchronized in your local Evolution business management system, this change will automatically be registered and reflected on your ecommerce website. No need for double data entry. 
• Once an item is shipped through Evolution, the inventory is automatically adjusted and you can specify in Evolution if an item requires inventory to be sold or if a product can be back ordered or ordered continually.
• Email and SMS alerts and notifications about status change of orders and returns, and restocking inventory.
• Merchandising: Flexible options for products/categories with options for featured products.
• Related Products/ Accessories cross selling and upselling tools with dynamic presentation of content on website.
• Custom Pages: Create unlimited content pages for extra sections to give more information about different topics and products at your discretion.
• Product Reviews: This is available for each product listing and is secure so you can send an invitation for a review and approve each review before it posts.
• Multiple Currencies: Company settings enable you to set the currencies you will be processing for pricing and relevant taxes to display correctly based on the markets your customers and partners are accessing your website from. 
• We can host your entire web presence on our dedicated servers complete with SSL keys, credit card clearing and security implementations. Therefore you will never need to complicate your business management needs by hiring more than one business management vendor.

Evolution's Ecommerce is powerful enough to drive even the most intense of websites. Processing web orders is completely automated so you receive the notifications of a new order and shipping reminders for orders that have to be shipped out.

Best of all, all you will ever need is one Evolution Ecommerce license to fulfill your every ecommerce desire. Should you have multiple domains owned by your company then you will also be able to manage those websites as well due to Evolution's unique architecture.

An Affilliate Management toolset is built into our shopping cart enabled Ecommerce solutions to track and manage commissions and referral fees for web based referrals and/or resellers that either sell your products and services or who drive traffic to your website.

Click here to download our data sheet on the available functionality that comes with our Ecommerce solutions.

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How does it work?

Evolution Ecommerce is a powerful solution that communicates directly with your Evolution for Windows software. The two keep each other up to date and in sync at all times and was designed to operate over a simple business DSL connection.

Like Evolution for Windows, Evolutions Ecommerce solutions do not require a dedicated connection with Evolution for Windows and can work autonomously in a semi-disconnected state. Because the two applications are configured together, your business can operate Ecommerce as an integrated part of your company structure and not use a separate application to manage your website. 

Does your present Ecommerce solution do this for you?

If you so desire, Evolution can order new stock automatically when your warehouse is running low. So if your website bursts with orders in one day without you noticing, your stock can automatically stay ahead of the game and facilitate all of your orders automatically. This feature can be turned on and off for specific products, product lines, or all together. Run your warehouse like a "Just in Time" warehouse without the hassle of inventory control problems. More on Inventory and JIT management can be found in This Link.

Join the many companies that experience astounding optimization on a daily basis by deploying Evolution as your ecommerce solution today. Why spend upwards of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars to create a custom solution that is broken and separated from your company in the first place? Evolution is the best solution for your every ecommerce need and can be easily customized to fulfill even the most obscure of circumstances. If you already have an ecommerce site hosted and in use, it is never too late to migrate and experience the vast benefits of Evolution for Web first hand.

For a free no obligation demonstration of Evolution ecommerce: Click Here

Members Area

The Evolution Member Services is yet another powerful part of your ecommerce presence. The member services area allows anyone (staff or public) to gain access to login specific data on your website (Some of this was covered earlier in this article):

• Complete order tracking can be done through the Member Services area.
• Staff training can be done through the Member Services area.
• Custom knowledge base articles can be written in the member services area.
• Special announcements can be made for the Member Services area .
• Project collaboration information and downloadable files can be stored. This eliminates the need of FTP to collaborate with project members outside of your business.
• Document Sharing and uploading throughthe members area portal.
• Formus & Discussions

When a customer logs into the member services area, Evolution automatically tracks their traffic, when they logged on, what they viewed or downloaded and when they left; this way your company can stay ahead of customer visitation statistics, team and staff collaboration, customer product education / inquiries and more.

This information is stored in the users account in the CRM portion of Evolution.

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Integrated Back Door Functionality

If you have already gone through the expense of creating a traditional ecommerce management solution, then you have already experienced first hand how time consuming it can be not only to setup your site but also keep your site up to date on a daily base. Not only that, but every time you decide to add new functionality to your site, you also have to change the backdoor SQL management section of your site as well. This often doubles your maintenance costs every time you need to improve your site. Sound familiar? Say goodbye with the old style "backdoor" stand alone website setup architecture and replace it completely with an integrated architecture today. Costly admin updates, and expensive development and update procedures will soon become a thing of the past. Development savings alone will more than pay the cost of purchasing and deploying the Evolution Integrated ecommerce solution. You can't afford not to.

Because of Evolution's revolutionary integrated architecture, your Evolution web server synchronizes directly with the other nodes within your company and uses the Evolution for Web user interface to directly update your web site; therefore there is no need for costly backdoor administration or double entry. It is staggering how many corporations have spent large sums of money and still require staff to enter product and order data manually between two systems. This practice in our opinion is not acceptable and should be eliminated immediately. Evolution saves you from this reality. Evolution ecommerce pays for itself in time savings alone. It is never too late to make the switch to Evolution.

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Integrated Product Management Tools

Shopping Cart Functionality

The Evolution Shopping Cart is an integrated part of the Evolution Complete Accounting, Inventory and Visa Transaction Clearing processes in the software. The Evolution Shopping Cart automatically stores all cart information in a cookie on your customer's machines, so if your customer leaves your site and then comes back later, their shopping cart information will automatically restore all of their last selections. This is just one example of how Evolution ecommerce makes purchasing goods from your website easy, intuitive and simple.

There is much more we can say about our Evolution for Web ecommerce solution and Evolution shopping cart functionality; however we will let you discover all of the other benefits yourself. Evolution Shopping cart comes packaged with your Evolution for Web ecommerce package. No need to purchase the Evolution Shopping Cart separately.

Complete Integrated Product Lists

Because of the above, gone is also the need to keep separate product lists: normally a product list is maintained for the company while a parallel list is found on their website. Often an Excel or Access file acts as a middle layer that keeps the two in agreement, or a costly custom developed solution is made to bridge the gap between the two antiquated systems. Because your company is now centralized through Evolution, Evolution can automatically update both sides for you:

1. Evolution can pull a product off of the website as soon as the product is "sold out" (as mentioned earlier) or blow a certain level in stock. Or you can choose to allow Evolution to "backorder" any item you choose.
2. Product descriptions, pricings and even pictures are updated automatically when you update the product information in your Evolution for Windows software.
3. No need to FTP or change content separately in the web SQL (or other) database.
4. Because Evolution keeps track of what items are in each warehouse and what stock levels each has, when an ecommerce order is created through Evolution, Evolution enables itself to ship any product from the nearest location to the customer and even decide what type of shipping company or procedure to use. This decision is based upon the size, dimensions, weight and priority of the shipment, and even internal custom shipping procedures or services.
5. Foreign exchange is automatically factored into every shipment the day of the exchange and all banking procedures are limited.
6. There is even complete error correction if for any reason part of a secure transaction or processing fails. Evolution ensures you will never have corrupt data in your database or procedures.
7. We do it better.

For a mere hundreds or low thousands of dollars we deliver what would take any other company easily tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to create. We are able to do this because our ecommerce module deployable for every company and market type. The massive cost of our development is shared between hundreds of clients and not just billed directly to you; just like any other large software vendor. To give you an idea, if we were to build our Evolution for Web solution as a "one off" solution for your company, the custom development bill would easily fall into the hundred of thousand dollar range. Thankfully we are eliminating this type of business model by producing our high level ecommerce solution at a fraction of our hard cost and making it affordable for every business.

Experience the power of Evolution Ecommerce today and what Evolution will do for you: Try Evolution Now.

Localization for one or more Languages

Evolution software comes complete with International Language and localization features. When a visitor accesses your website through Evolution, "Evolution Ecommerce" automatically detects where they are in the world are and navigates them to a language specific page for their viewing.

Through "Evolution Multinational Ecommerce Edition", Evolution makes it possible to store individually priced items for each country and have localized product descriptions, information and articles specifically created for each country or language. The same multinational methodology is implemented all through the software therefore running a multinational corporation becomes a lingual breeze.

Evolution for Web automatically tracks time zone changes and accounts completely for multi-divisional needs. Experience Evolution Multi-National Edition or Evolution Multi-National Deluxe Edition and Evolution for Windows today.

How does Localization within Evolution Ecommerce work?

Company settings within Evolution allow you to set the language preference/s for your website. Each page within the Static Text section will have options to have someone enter in the translation or to set the language preference.

We recommend having a professional translator perform the actual translation since a computer or browser based translation always loses the nuances of languages and dialects relevant to your website.

Setup your Website Pages

A basic packaged site contains a series of .aspx files, aspx.cs files and everything you need to build your .net website or host the website immediately without any programming changes. The .aspx files are what produces the graphic layout and look of your site, the .aspx.cs files enable to you even change the programmatic operation of the site. With Evolution for Web you will never need to access our complex relational database system yourself, our open API takes care off all of the 'dirty work' so high level customization is intuitive, quick and stable.

Customizing the source code of your website can be done with packages as robust as Visual Studio .net 2003 or as small as dream weaver or notepad. Evolution for Web .aspx files all come complete with HTML remark statements that describe what every "dynamic" area of Evolution for Web, and where that functionality can be referenced within the Evolution for Windows management system. Customizing your Evolution for Web is simple and smooth.

If you desire to edit programming functionality we do suggest you use Visual Studio to "compile" any changes you make. This package makes major programming changes a breeze. Most businesses don't need to take this step and we would be happy to cost effectively customize the programmatic backbone of your site for you if needed. Our site management strategy allows you to be involved as little or as much as you would like.

In general, with basic knowledge of HTML you can edit, manipulate and easily update and re-brand the Evolution for Web in minutes. No need for costly custom development "one off" solution building.

After you (or our design teams) have re-branded the website (changed the default look and feel to reflect the graphic design of your company) you can now manage your ecommerce data as an integrated part of your organization. No need for administrative backdoors: Evolution becomes your integrated User Interface. All of Evolution's web management functionality is completely integrated into every area of your software. After initial setup, your Evolution website pretty much runs itself.

We have tried to make this "how does it all work" section of our site as easy to read as possible, and as easily descriptive as we can without getting too technical for many techno savvy visitors to understand. If you have questions you would like to directly ask us, please feel free to Contact Us directly and we will be more than happy to answer any and all questions you may have.

Dynamic Knowledge Base Functionality

Evolution comes with a full Knowledge Base tool set is available for internal use and external use through your website. Most businesses have important information that only select few staff know about.

Capable creating articles including integrating images, dynamic content, site links, links to multiple product listings your knowledge base can be set so that your employees can view article internally or articles can be posted through your website publicly. This is ideal for tutorials, instructional guides, general information, and FAQs to name several examples.

Knowledge base articles can be set for specific security profiles available on the web or for internal purposes as well ensuring total security for the articles you create. 

How does this apply to your website?

Any Knowledge base article can be shared on your website. Given, the above example scenario is not the type of article you would make free to the public, however using this type of technology is extremely powerful for your ecommerce web strategy. For example:

• A dentist can write an article on tooth decay and the benefits of fluoride and attract customers to their site through it.
• A hardware or software support company can have an entire support section of their website driven through their knowledge base. The support section on our site is completely driven by our own internal knowledge base.
• Your company can use your knowledge base as a portal for remote staff, or even those not using Evolution to gain quick knowledge of business procedures or information
• Evolution Knowledge Base functionality can house login specific information for cases where sensitive KB information needs to be accessed from a remote terminal not running Evolution. Staff training is a great example
• Customers can login and see information regarding the specific products they have purchased
• Business partners can reference material that is important to them
• Customized knowledge base management will allow you to drive more sales to your company by delivering specific content needed for each customer to close themselves on new products or features they might consume
• The list goes on

When the above techniques are properly utilized your site will not only experience miscellaneous hits from all over the world pertaining specifically to the services or products your can deliver, but your communication, support level and organizational effectiveness will also increase.

There is almost no limit to the power that can be utilized through Evolution's effective Knowledge Base management strategy.

Evolution Knowledge base is truly a powerful component of Evolution for Web and comes packaged with every type of Evolution for Web product: Try Evolution for Web today

More on knowledge base management can be found under: Information Management

Press Release Functionality

Evolution's Press Relations functionality is designed to offer your company some of the most dynamic press relations architecture on the web. Completely capable of integrating images, dynamic content, site links and much more, this area acts as a powerful way for companies to communicate new product lines, services, announcements and crucial information.

See the Press Relations section of our website for examples on how this can be used. Search engines and users love sites that are continually changing and updating themselves. Evolution's press release functionality also includes Search Engine Optimization Tools to maximize exposure with the search engines. Creating new Press Relations articles is a fantastic way to ensure your site will always be fresh and dynamic for existing customers and new visitors.

Evolution press releases can easily be ordered into categoriesand sub-categories and add links to product pages all from the main setup page. This allows visitors to quickly gain access to your products and services directly from a press release.

Often press releases are what drive customers to purchase new devices or services from a company, therefore the Evolution Press Relations web functionality is a truly powerful tool for every business website; no web site should be without one.

Evolution press relations can also be used as a form of rotating banner system. This type of (non intrusive) communication enables you to quickly and easily communicate with your customers about new materials that may pertain to them. Evolution Press Release functionality comes packaged with every type of Evolution Ecommerce product.

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Thank you for considering Evolution as your software and Ecommerce solution.