E-commerce features

The Kentico E-commerce Solution is an out-of-the-box part of Kentico. It enables you to create your own on-line stores and e-shops while offering the users, i.e. customers and store owners, a flexible, feature-rich e-commerce platform that addresses a wide range of e-business needs with mobile device support.

Whether you are a newcomer to or an experienced user of Kentico, this section gives you an insight into:

Especially newcomers can appreciate descriptions of:

Installation of theE-commerce SiteandDancing Goatsample sites, on which you can see multiple e-commerce samples you can use on your site
E-commerce administration user interface, which guides you through e-commerce applications in Kentico

Among other features, the Kentico E-commerce Solution allows your on-line store customers to:

Purchase products via the integrated shopping cart
Pay orders via payment methods
Check the status of their orders
Subscribe to newsletters
And much more

From the other point of view, as the owner of websites employing the Kentico E-commerce Solution, you have tools for:

Managing your customers’ orders
Managing shipping options and payment methods
Managing products, manufacturers, suppliers
And much more

See the list of features below.

I want to have my store up and running

See Configuring your store.

You can configure, for example:

Multilingual store

Present the products and services that you offer to your customers in multiple language versions.

Multiple currencies and exchange rates

Allow your customers to make orders in currencies different from the on-line store main currency.

Configurable tax calculation

Calculate taxes based on customer’s billing or delivery address.

Payment methods with customer credit

Allow your customers to pay with different payment gateways, such as credit cards or PayPal, or enable them to have their system credit.

Checkout process

Add checkout process steps and further configure the checkout process to best suit your and your customers’ needs.

Site-specific and global data

Learn how you can use site-specific objects available only on the respective sites and global objects shared across all your sites.

Permissions for store managers

Create users that can manage parts of your store.

I want to manage orders, products, customers, etc.

See Managing your store.

You can manage, for example:

Products

Manage the products and services that you offer in your on-line store and set them based on your desires:

Product options – Manage options that you added to the offered products. For example, multiple colors, configurations, etc.
Product variants – Manage variants of your main products. For example, T-shirts in different sizes and colors. Each combination of size and color.
Brands and Manufacturers – Manage brand and manufacturer labels and assign them to your store’s products.
Collections – Prepare product collections for your store and use them to organize products (each product can belong to one collection).
Suppliers – Manage supplier labels and assign them to the products and services offered in your store.
Product workflow – Set up a reviewing and approval process to ensure quality of your website’s content and design.

Discounts

Flexibly combine and grant your on-line store customers the following types of discounts:

Catalog discounts – Grant eligible customers discounts on selected products.
Order discounts – Grant eligible customers discounts on their whole shopping.
Free shipping offers – Grant eligible customers the benefit of free shipping.
Volume discounts – Offer better prices to your customers if they purchase specified amounts of given products.
Buy X Get Y discounts – Offer customers free or discounted products if they purchase specified products.
Bundles – Offer and sell customers multiple products of various kinds as single products for special prices.

Additionally, you can motivate your customers to purchase more products by providing them with coupon codes. The customers can exchange these virtual vouchers for various types of discounts or use them as Gift cards.

Customers

Manage your on-line store customers.

Orders

Manage orders that your customers placed while purchasing in your on-line store.

E-commerce features

I want to have my store up and running

Multilingual store

Multiple currencies and exchange rates

Configurable tax calculation

Payment methods with customer credit

Checkout process

Site-specific and global data

Permissions for store managers

I want to manage orders, products, customers, etc.

Products

Discounts

Customers

Orders

Reports and statistics

I want to extend or modify the in-built functionality

Product prices

Tax calculation

Discount rules

Discounts

Shipping

Overall shopping cart calculation

Custom payment gateways

Price rounding

Developing on-line stores in MVC