egrove systems open source - Grove Coupon

May 3, 2010 - PRLog -- Introduction:
eGrove System at first focused website designing, building e-commerce websites, now masters every steps of a professional web project: concept, design, accessibility, development, web marketing, SEO and more

We base our offers on the market's most powerful CMS like Joomla, Wordpress, ZenCart etc, We provide our clients the most competitive prices and delivery time, a very large usability even for the most beginners, a security that's everyday checked for issues and tested by hundreds of developers, a fully customizable template design etc.

At last, we offer customize development services based on the Joomla! CMS open source framework, and a large catalogue of open source Joomla! extensions we are developing, for free. Yes you read it right, we offer it for free as Open Source extension.

About Virtue Mart:
VirtueMart is an open source e-commerce solution designed as an extension of the Mambo or Joomla! content management systems (CMS) by Soren Eberhardt Biermann. VirtueMart was written in PHP and MySQL database.

VirtueMart is an open source e-commerce solution and all the application code is openly visible in PHP. This helps the developers to view, update or customize the operation of the shopping cart. In addition VirtueMart itself offers simplified templates structure that allows various shopping and cart pages to be edited as standard HTML and CSS. Based on this feature this Grove Coupon Plug-in extension has been designed and offered for clients and developers as open source extension.

Coupon Code Feature in VirtueMart:
The products can be offered at discount prices on a product basis or category basis in the built-in Virtue Mart eCommerce Solution. The offering for seasonal discount or customer based discount code or coupon code feature is not possible in core Virtue Mart Solution.

VirtueMart Grove Coupon:
Grove Coupon is offered as a plug-in for the Virtue Mart, which integrates with this eCommerce System and can provide the store manager a facility for a customized coupon code Management System. By using this extension the store owners can offer or can issue their clients and customers the coupons/ discounts to increase their revenue. The main feature of this coupon code is it can be manageable and customizable from the administrator panel of the Virtue Mart.

Features:

The Administrator or Store owners of the website can able to manage the different coupon codes for different customers or group of customers. The store owner can add coupon code with the following scenarios or options:

      Can able to create own code number / text as promotional code
      Can able to choose start date and expiry date of the discount offer.
      Can able to enter a minimum order amount linked to the promotional code
      Can able to set a number of times that actual code can be used by a single customer.
      Can able to provide comments with the specific discount code
      Can view how many times a promo code has been used in reports section
      Can able to edit or delete codes before used by the customer as a precaution basis (control over codes issued)
The customers of the store has the ability to enter gift / coupon code during checkout. The offer price is deducted the amount from the total products price and not including the Shipping price, if required the Shipping prices can also be controlled through some tweaks. They are provided to use two types of discounts,
o       Percentage discount (% discount) or
o       Flat-rate discount
The system is also have the feature to validate the promo code in the database and can issue warning message on screen if the code is not valid.

Conclusion:

Now the store owners who uses http:Virtue Mart http://www.egrovesys.com/authorizenet-echeck.html can now add different types of coupons and promo web development services http://www.egrovesys.com/application-development.html in their online store by incorporating this Grove Coupon Plug-in for Virtue Mart without any costs, because Grove Coupon is absolutely free and open source. For more information visit: http://www.egrovesys.com

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