eCommerce Portal for Industrial Products

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About Customer

Customer is a leading industrial equipment manufacturer in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. Customer is working in all sectors such as oil and gas, petrochemical, Aluminum and steel manufacturing, Power and water utilities companies, support industries and secondary industries. Customer is having Media Services Division catering to the Television Viewers Media sectors and Content Providers.

Challenge

Customer is a leading industrial equipment manufacturer and deals in online selling of equipment with wholesalers and retailers. Reaching out to the customers was a major challenge and management of the inventory was a difficult work for the customer. In an answer to this challenges customer realized the need to develop a reliable and robust eCommerce platform so that customer reach and inventory management out is possible without any hassles.

Solution

iFour Technolab Pvt. Ltd., a leading custom eCommerce solution provider in India, built a reliable and robust eCommerce portal that helps customer to reach out to the wholesalers, retailers and also increase the selling without any troubles. Sustainable solution includes following features.

• System developed using NopCommerce platform
• Different types of user groups including Affiliate Admin manages budget, discounts and purchaser
• Easy access of product information through search and advanced search
• Online shopping experience made easy and enjoyable with great graphical user interface
• Online payment processing made simple and secured
• Budget allocation system made payment secured and easy using the allocated budget functionality
• Order Lifecycle consists of booking, dispatch, order tracking, delivery etc. features to keep customer informed about the product
• Real time inventory management allows customer to manage the inventory with the increasing customer demand
• “Wish list” module allows users to add products for future buy
• Discount management offers User group and location wise discounts
• Product review rates the product and help other customers to buy it.
• Affiliate Management for allocating Location, Products and Budget to their preferred users
• Help and Support for reliable feedback and to get help from the eCommerce service provider
• MVC integration gives better user experience and makes system robust and reliable
• jQuery plugins makes editing simple and eye-catching using inline editing functionality
• Bootsrap GUI framework provides latest and good-looking designs
• Report Generation to generate the report about the selling of a product and to forecast the future demand

Technology Used

Type	Website
Web Server	IIS
Programming Language	ASP.Net (C#) Framework 4.5
Database Management Server	Microsoft SQL Server
Architecture	MVC / Entity framework
Client Technology	JavaScript, JQuery
Version Control	SVN
Payment Gateway	eWay Payment Gateway

Conclusion/Results

With the consistent and resilient eCommerce solution provided by the iFour Technolab Pvt. Ltd., customer is able to manage and increase the selling of the equipments in great figure. Customer is also able to reach out to the wholesalers and retailers to increase the selling of the equipments. Discount management, Help and support increased the user satisfaction remarkably.