Evolve eCommerce enhancements
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launch website (archived)
Please note that fussfreesales.co.uk has been superseded by fuss3printersupplies.co.uk running under ASP.NET StoreFront. I've also participated on development work on the new platform - see here.
Fussfreesales.co.uk was a printer, printing supplies and general hi-tech gadget oriented online shop, owned and operated by Fuss3 Solutions Ltd. It ran on Lynx Evolve eCommerce system.
My involvement
Masive customisations and enhancements to the standard Evolve system, including:
- designing and coding advanced catalogue management tools
- integration of Open Range high-quality XML data feed for description, cross-selling and image data
- automatic FTP fetching of supplier CSV price, stock & description data
- daily supplier data CSV import
- broad search across all supplier data showing stock levels and cost prices at a glance for all items in a new order
- one-click competitive pricing and live stock levels using weighted composite of all supplier data with editable "profit curve"
- one-click product addition from supplier data
- PostCode lookup integration onto checkout page
- exporting of catalogue for price-comparison services such as Froogle, Pricerunner, Shopping.com, Kelkoo etc
- courtesy price drop alert
- courtesy "back in stock" alert
- ehancements to standard "dumb" search algorithm
- many more custom tools
Technologies used
- ASP (VBScript)
- SQLServer (MSSQL / SQL2000)
- JavaScript/DHTML
- XML
- Excel-by-ODBC
- HTML
Period of involvement
2004 to 2008
Testimonials available
here and
here.