KonaKart offers an enterprise level eCommerce solution that can be customized to match very different requirements. Most of the customizable areas such as the storefront, payment, shipping and promotion modules are open source. Also, the KonaKart engine implements a documented API, on top of which we can write integration modules and custom features in order to personalize the solution.

Effective shopping experience

KonaKart has a rich feature set to provide on-line customers with all of the information and functionality that they require in order to shop on-line.

KonaKart provides a number of features to help a customer find the right product:

  • Fast indexed search caters for misspellings, synonyms, plurals, phonetic matches and alternate spellings.
  • Intelligent suggested search immediately displays a list of items, categories or manufacturers matching the letters that you’ve typed.
  • Products can be filtered by category, manufacturer, price and product Tags such as screen size for TVs or megapixels for digital cameras.
  • Products can be sorted by name, price or popularity
  • Product features can be compared against the features of other similar products. This is especially useful for technical products with many variations such as mobile phones and digital cameras.
  • There are Best Seller lists for each category to help customers make a decision.
  • There are Latest Product lists for each category so that customers can see which products are new.
  • A panel keeps track of recently viewed products so that a customer can quickly find a product he recently looked at.
  • Reviews and product ratings allow customers to see what others think about a product.
  • For each product a user can see what other products were bought by customers who bought that product.
  • Products may be saved within a wish list even for unregistered customers or registered customers that haven’t logged in yet.
  • Just in case a customer is still undecided, he can be shown a list of similar products (cross-selling) or a list of top of the range similar products (up-selling).
  • Once a customer has decided which product to buy, he can be shown a list of suitable accessories and dependent products such as service plans or extended warranties.

Top level performance

KonaKart is a reliable, high performance product that has the capability of tracking different requirements as the underlying on-line business grows in popularity. The aim of KonaKart is to make an on-line business a success and then to help you improve on that success by allowing to manage a high traffic on-line store with tens or hundreds of thousands of products. Benchmark tests on modest hardware have shown that KonaKart can effortlessly manage a throughput of many orders per second.

Designed for integration

KonaKart is designed with integration in mind so it has a wide range of features that make this easy to achieve.

Most businesses will have a number of different systems that are essential to their operations. More often than not these systems will work best if they can communicate with one another without human interactions.

For example, you may wish to take your orders in KonaKart using the web-based store front but then move these orders directly to your warehouse or shipping system for further processing.

Simple administration

KonaKart includes a sophisticated browser based administration application. It uses AJAX technology to provide a snappy user interface while the maintaining all of the advantages of running the application from a browser. The intuitive interface includes an on line help system to improve productivity and to quickly give you the hints you need for those tasks which aren’t performed on a daily basis.

Since KonaKart was developed for enterprise customers, it incorporates a security subsystem with role based security. Each user can be assigned one or more roles that determine access to the available functionality with read / insert / edit and delete granularity. The user name / password based access, has the facility to block users for a programmable period after a number of unsuccessful login attempts.