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The Kentico E-commerce Solution is an out-of-the-box part of Kentico. It enables you to create your own on-line stores while offering users, customers, and store managers, a flexible, feature-rich e-commerce platform that addresses a wide range of e-business needs.
Whether you are a newcomer or an experienced Kentico user, this section gives you insight into:
If you need an introduction into the e-commerce functionality, the Getting familiar with the E-commerce Solution page is there to guide you through the Kentico e-commerce applications and terminology.
Present the products and services that you offer to your customers in multiple language versions.
Allow your customers to make orders in currencies different from the on-line store main currency.
Calculate taxes based on customer's billing or delivery address.
Learn how you can use site-specific objects available only on the respective sites and global objects shared across all your sites.
Create users that can manage parts of your store.
Refer to these pages to learn how to implement product catalogues on MVC sites:
Implement checkout steps and further configure the checkout process to best suit your and your customers' needs.
Display summaries of past orders to customers and implement order management interfaces on the MVC site.
Learn how to create product catalogues on Portal Engine sites.
Add checkout process steps and further configure the checkout process to best suit your and your customers' needs.
Allow your customers to pay with different payment gateways, such as credit cards or PayPal, or enable them to have their system credit.
Manage the products and services that you offer in your on-line store and set them based on your desires:
Flexibly combine and grant your customers the following types of discounts:
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.
Manage your on-line store customers.
Manage orders that your customers placed while purchasing in your on-line store.
View reports and statistics related to your on-line store.
Integrate custom or external sources that provide the prices of products.
Customize how the system calculates taxes.
Add new rules that determine conditions for applying catalog discounts, order discounts, free shipping offers or gift cards.
Customize how the system applies discounts to shopping carts and orders.
Create custom shipping carrier providers to offer your customers shipping via any shipping company.
Modify or extend the shopping cart calculation engine to get full control of how the system performs the overall evaluation and calculation of shopping cart and order values.
Create custom payment gateways, which can integrate with any banking or payment system.
Adjust how the system rounds monetary values.