Looking For An Affordable e-Commerce Application?

You are an ambitious retail store owner who wants to go beyond a particular area and reach out to customers over a larger geographical spread. Or probably you would like to set up your own retail store but do not have the necessary know-how to find the right location, rent a retail space, build up an inventory, select and hire skilled sales staff and appropriately market your products besides dealing with the legal aspects of setting up a brick and mortar store. In such a case, setting up an online store is the perfect solution to meet your needs , it also requires a lot less money, time and efforts from you allowing you to reach out to a larger customer base by selling your products on a global scale over the internet.

If you are sufficiently convinced about taking your store online, you will then need to have an e-commerce solution. And obviously, in order to save on cost and at the same time not compromise with the quality you would be looking for an affordable and effective e-commerce application that aptly meets your needs without costing you much. Needless to say, choosing the right e-commerce solution is a crucial decision to keep your business going great. Apart from bespoke e-Commerce apps, there are a number of languages with a number of e-Commerce platforms supported by them. However, you will mostly be advised to go along with a PHP based e-commerce application because most of the PHP based e-commerce applications are open source software which is free and customizable as per your specific requirements. Again, there are a lot of PHP based e-commerce application frameworks that are quite popular among the rest. Some of the favored names in the industry are Magento, Opencart, PrestaShop, Drupal, osCommerce and Zen Cart.
Magento E-Commerce development shows promises of a great future and has become the most favored ecommerce application most popularly used by Ebay . OpenCart which has a flexible codebase is used to rapidly get an ecommerce site online. PrestaShop which measures up well with Magento and OpenCart is viewed as a capable ecommerce platform using the Smarty templating engine that gives it an edge over its peers. While Drupal is not necessarily an ecommerce platform and mostly a CMS, yet owing to its large community and a vast library of downloadable extensions, it finds mention among the top six PHP based ecommerce platforms. osCommerce is the oldest ecommerce platform which is back by strong community support and Zen Cart is a fully customizable PHP based ecommerce platform that is easy to setup and runs from your own web server thus offering you full control of its features and capabilities.

Armed with this knowledge your next step is obviously to find the right software development partner to customize any given ecommerce platform to perfectly suite your needs. If you have been searching for a partner who has considerable custom PHP development knowledge especially in the ecommerce area, then your search ends here.

Mindfire Solutions is your ideal ecommerce software development partner who will help you leverage on the software aspect of an ecommerce platform and customize the ecommerce application to fit your needs. To know more about Magento development India and the expertise, please contact us on sales[@]mindfiresolutions.com or call 1-248-686-1424.

Why use Magento ?

There are so many E-Commerce products available in the market – all claiming to be the best. Why then should one go for Magento? Let’s look at some of the amazing features Magento has which makes it the hottest thing in market at present. We at Mindfire have been working in Magento for quite some time and have a team of more than 10 developers who have very good working knowledge on all the features listed below. We have one of the best Magento development team in India and a lot of clients have done their offshore Magento development with us.

The features are as follows:
Marketing Promotions and Tools
Flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ability to restrict to stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories
Catalog Promotional Pricing

Search Engine Optimization
URL Rewrites give full control of URL's
Google Site Map
Meta-information for products and categories

Catalog Management
Google Base Integration
Batch Import and Export of catalog
Downloadable/Digital Products
Advanced Pricing Rules and support for Special Prices (see marketing tools)

Product Browsing
Multiple Images Per Product
Product Image Zoom-in Capability

International Support
Multi-Lingual
Support for Multiple Currencies

Order Management
View, edit, create and fulfill orders from admin panel
Create one or multiple invoices, shipments and credit memos per order to allow for split fulfillment

Analytics and Reporting
Admin Dashboard for Report Overview
Abandoned Shopping Cart Report
Best Customers Report by Total and Number of Orders

Site Management
Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel
Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application
A/B and Multivariate Testing

Catalog Browsing
Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products in Categories
Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products in Search Results
Product comparisons
Product Reviews

Mobile Commerce
iPhone optimized

Payment
Multiple Payment Options Supported
Payment Extensions Available through Magento Connect
Configurable authorization and capturing of funds

Checkout
One-Page Checkout
Checkout without account/Guest Checkout
Shipping to multiple addresses in one order

You can click here to have a look at the expertise and skills we have – it has details about the Offshore Magento development team we have and the work we have done. You can also view the projects page to see some of the projects delivered by Mindfire in Magento.


Another area in Magento which is growing fast is Magento Mobile. With the increased use of mobile by people it has almost become imperative for all ecommerce sites to build a mobile version of it. Magento mobile clearly is one of the best solutions currently available in the market. Given below are some of the reasons which make it so famous:

• Magento Mobile native application support for iPad and Android.
• Push notification service with Urban Airship
• Allowing sharing of product information with all common social media including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Consumers using a Magento Mobile store application can share information about their favorite online stores with friends using their social networks.
• Improved Image zooming capabilities with Magento Mobile.
• Easily managing multiple devices with a single installation. Easily extend your mobile presence to iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
  

Making app fully customizable: Deploy new device-specific features and branded themes with just a few clicks. Quickly update the colors and appearance of your app with the new Magento mobile admin, even after customers have downloaded your app. At Mindfire we have very good expertise in developing and maintaining apps developed using Magento Mobile. The Magento mobile experts at Mindfire are competent enough to build a mobile version of your application from scratch.


To know more about our expertise in Magento development India or Hire Magento developers, please contact us at sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Magento Application Development – What can be done with it ?

If you are into e-commerce, you might well take advantage of Magento and its power punched extensions to strengthen your e-commerce online platform. If you have not yet read about the advantages – here is a quick summary of what can be done and how we at mindfire solutions have done it for our clients.

At Mindfire we have expert Magento developers with a good exposure to all the features of Magento and who have implemented them in building applications for our clients. Our offshore Magento Development team takes Magento development to the next level, moving towards an e-commerce framework solution which is easier to develop and maintain and which minimizes the cost of maintenance of the systems. In addition, it provides a variety of features which helps your e-commerce website work exactly as you want it to by using the Magento features like Easy-to-Use Admin System, Single Page Checkout, Ship to Multiple Addresses, Change Prices, Site-wide quickly, Administer Multiple Websites and move data easily using DataFlow. Using Magento, Mindfire enables customers to set up online stores fairly quickly and at reasonable rates.

Mindfire’s Offshore Magento Development India vertical has rich experience in Magento Customization, Custom Magento Design, Magento Extensions Development, Magento Template Development, Magento Mobile Development and Magento Custom Module development. Mindfire’s Magento Development Services have been used by global customers who vouch for our expertise, quality of work and commitment to business growth of our customers.

At Mindfire we have worked for projects involving various challenging features and work. For example recently we worked on a project which involved Magento and vTiger integration. The customer had a CRM application (Vtiger) with inventory tracking and wanted product sales website using an existing e-commerce product (Magento) for quick turnaround. The challenge was to bring the CRM data to the web while keeping the CRM data in sync with the web based e-commerce application for inventory tracking, sales orders and customer management.

Another challenge we faced as we proceeded with development and overcame was the mapping of entity attributes/datatypes in the two separate systems that had their own schemas and ways for storing customer, product and sales order data. We architected and developed a solution using the codeigniter (PHP) framework to synchronize the information between the two systems; Magento - one of the biggest online shopping solutions and vTiger CRM, a branch from the Sugar CRM code.

The bridge requires some initial configuration in order for it to work. The application requires the user to enter the Magento and VTiger API credentials in order to connect to their API's and access data. We used PHP SOAP client for accessing Magento APIs and PHP CURL for connecting to vTigers API/database.

To read more about this and other projects delivered by us, please feel free to visit our Offshore Magento development India page. Mindfire Solutions is the right destination for you to hire dedicated offshore Magento programmers/Developers. Our Magento application development team has an average experience of 3+ projects and has successfully executed different domain projects till date .In addition to this you will also get the benefit of flexible hours of working at affordable cost. To get our new clients to understand and experience the quality of our delivery, you can also avail a risk free trial – contact us to know more.