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Hive 2.0
hive20.com

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Ecommerce
Web sites that have products available to purchase through a merchant gateway using some form of payment, order notifications, order status maintenance, controllable pricing for shipping, etc. Sites that hand-off to Paypal or other prepackaged payment systems do not fall in this category.
Client Administered
Client Administered web sites include an admin interface that allows clients to control the content and functionality of their sites. Admin interfaces are custom-built and are easy to maintain.

Technologies:


AJAX
AJAX is a web development technique that creates more responsive, interactive web applications. Each time a user requests a web change, this technique minimizes server processing avoiding long reload times, resulting in heightened user-end interactivity, speed, and usability.
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Ruby on Rails
An open source web application framework that aims to increase the speed and ease of web development. For the client use of the application means quicker time to market, more iterative changes, and lower overall application development costs.
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Web Services
Web Services are server applications that offer services to other computer servers over the internet or some network. It is a standardized way for servers to talk to each other. For example, many e-commerce payment gateways use Web Services for your web site to communicate with when attempting to authorize a credit card.
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Amols
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Project: Amols
Client: Hive 2.0
Type: Ecommerce, Client Administered
Technologies: AJAX, Ruby on Rails, Web Services
www.amols.com

This web site was for a party supply store in San Antonio. The company's previous web solution used a third party ecommerce service, Peach Tree, and had around 500 products available online. As the entire catalog on the previous site was hosted externally on the Peach Tree servers, search engine indexing was minimal and visitor tracking and behavior analysis was non-existent.

Since the new site was launching with over 4,500 products in over 140 product categories, a more intelligent solution was needed.

The ecommerce solution for the new Amols web site includes syncing with the in-store point of sale system (POS) using Web Services for inventory and order synchronization, rule-based related product matching, cross-selling products, a custom content management solution with related products, dynamic navigation system customizable based on the time of year and related events, and a pseudo guided navigation system for browsing multiple categories and types at once to narrow results.

The site also includes a full-featured administration tool for all content management and product control beyond the POS synchronization. The admin allows control of pricing for shipping methods, price breaks, and over-sized items. Order lookup and status management control as well as order reporting is done through the admin tool as well.

In addition to basic page view reporting, Google Analytics ecommerce package was used for tracking of all the orders on the site as well as tracking the effectiveness of related products, cross-selling and content pages towards actual purchases.