Business Application - MobiCart eCommerce

Problem Statement:

APT Enterprise Ltd. is a successful mobile phone & accessories selling company based in Pondicherry. It had a retail outlet 'Mobile Shoppe' in the town. With long-standing good name in the field and quality, the company is a recognized name.

Now, due to the advent of large online retail players like eBay, Flipkart et all, the company thinks that its time to change the business model. Only retail won't help. They think that having an online shopping portal, in addition to the outlet, with the name 'MobiCart' will prove advantageous in many ways. This will provide opportunity for the company to expand to nearby towns and suburbs, cut away costs for inventory and office rents. This will facilitate them to sell the merchandise promptly to the local people and at cheaper prices.

So, the company wants to open a simple online shopping cart (E-Commerce website - for both computer and mobile versions) with which it try to grow and expand to other cities (like UniverCELL, Poorvika Mobiles, etc). The portal should contain all features like selecting and placing the orders in a cart/basket and on checking-out prompts the customer for a payment decision, generation of order invoice and search-engine optimized. Account creation for users can be optional so as to maintain the portal very very simple.

Softwares Evaluated:

Some of the softwares evaluated for the development of the E-Commerce portal are:

i) Zen Cart

ii) OsCommerce

iii) Tomato Cart

iv) Open Cart

v) Cube Cart

vi) Zeus Cart

vii) Alegro Cart

viii) Abante Cart

Apart from the evaluated softwares, the one which was selected eventually is QUICK.CART

Why Quick.Cart?

The rationale behind choosing Quick.Cart can be listed as follows:

i) Very simple to configure.

ii) No logins required for users. This may seem to be odd at first, but the business logic is written in suh a way that a user doesn't lose track and his orders are placed in the basket correctly. This also reduces memory space and time required to maintain a separate database.

iii) External templates can be added.

iv) Products can be categorized and arranged.

v) Generation of invoice.

vi) Mobile version of the site is available.

vii) Simple and good-looking with no much cluttering graphics.
viii) Supports multiple payment and shipment options.

Configurations / Customizations:

i) Changed the logo.

ii) Installed new template and improvised it.

iii) Added additional pages and configured them.

iv) Changed the redirect links and hyperlinks.

v) Added relevant product and details and categorised them.

URL Link for the app:
http://goo.gl/xYtQ8