E-Commerce, Emporium and On-line Shopping

Online shopping is exploding, accounting for 40 per cent of all retail sales by 2020, according to a survey by uSwitch.com.

We've been helping our clients own their bit of this growth area by producing varied, reliable and secure online shopping sites, using a wide range of shopping cart systems from osCommerce through to custom code since 2004.

We've also modified and supported existing on-line stores helping their owners improve both the customers experience and more importantly our clients sales figures.

Helping clients get from idea to sales as painlessly as possible is our goal and once we have your site live we go on to support you and are always available to discuss changes or additions to both design and functionality.

Emporium was designed and developed completely in-house by our team of e-commerce professionals. Built on over 3 year's commercial experience customising and supporting numerous shopping web sites which were based on third party and bespoke solutions.

Using V4's experience and a feature list gathered from some of the top web shops in the UK, we have built a flexible platform which we can customise with no compromises made to design, reliability or supportability.

We developed Emporium because of our clients experience with third party or freeware eCommerce platforms had been one of frustration borne poor design and unreliability, and our frustration with the amount of time spent fixing the core code and it's inability to be customised to meet our client's requirements. Emporium changes everything with easy to use reliable administration and solid code design.

Here's a list of Emporium's features

• Shop front
• Custom designs, your design NO compromises and NO 3 columns only rule!
• Ajax basket
• Multiple images per product
• Lightbox zoom and gallery
• Search engine friendly filenames, page titles and metatags
• Simple and advance searchs
• Embeded video and other media, YouTube etc
• Single or Multiple payment processors
• Payment modules for:
• Google Checkout
• HSBC
• Secpay
• PayPal
• Worldpay
• Secure Trading
• Local PDQ
• Finance
• And we're happy to add you favourite
• Custom Product Attributes, like size and colour
• Account creation and access
• Custom basket rules
• Postcode Anywhere address validation
• Weight/location based Shipping calculator
• Multi Currency
• Content managed information pages, which you can edit
• Separate billing and shipping addresses or just the one


• Backend - Administration
• Secure
• Ajax driven - desktop quality
• Search for orders, products, categories all from the same search field
• Content management, no need to call the designer/developer to change a piece of text
• Site wide VAT on/off
• Google base, Kelkoo feeds
• Dashboard
• Shows number of orders and their stages
• Any issues with the shop like:
• Hidden products
• Missing Images
• Zero priced products
• Categories
• Categories and multiple sub categories
• Drag and drop sort order or A-Z
• Image, Title, description, Meta-tags
• Hide/show
• Products
• Products with instances in multiple categories
• Simple stock control
• title, description,
• Hide/show manual or based on stock level
• Multiple images, auto-resized in code, you only upload one version!
• Drag and drop sort order or A-Z
• You Tube video embedding
• Current Stock (optional)
• Weight
• Cross/up selling
• Orders
• Customer details
• Payment information
• Order stage management
• Invoice print
• Packaging slip print
• Full order history/audit trail


• And Much More!

Emporium uses the latest web application development techniques, such as the administrative areas extensive use of Ajax technology and the many improvements in usability and responsiveness this brings.
Why not give us a call today on 01394 382400 and find out more?

osCommerce is an open source eCommerce solution or web shop. Although osCommerce is free to download it needs a lot of configuration to make it work at its best. It's core code often needs modifying to provide the features you are looking for and has a sophisticated and complex data structure that needs experience to make the most out of.

As one of the top osCommerce customisation firms in the UK, V4 provide a full osCommerce site development service. We set the application up on either our hosting or one of your choice, configuring payment systems, store features, customising the software for UK operation, setting up delivery pricing, multiple currencies and the list goes on.

With our wide experience of PHP, MySQL & javascript, the core tools used within osCommerce we can provide a turn-key shopping solution.

Once you have an osCommerce site you often need to change aspects of its operation as your shop matures and we can help.

If you want to move from PayPal to Secpay or from WorldPay to HSBC or perhaps the postage system needs to be set up for European delivery or you simply want the products detail page to have a different layout. We have a wide experience with these and many more modifications to osCommerce.

With a wide range of experience with many shopping cart designs we can help you with your existing site or help you build a new one.

Why not give us a call today on 01394 382400 and see how we can help?