AlegroCart

It can be used to build online stores for selling goods to online customers.

Support is included for selling digital and solid goods.

Features:

• Search Engine Optimization:
• SEO + Automatic URL Alias Generator: SEO URLs created for all pages, categories and products.
• Pagination is also SEO URLs.
• Meta Title, Descriptions and Keywords available for products and categories.
• Meta information is added to Database in admin by product or category..
• These are dynamically added to the page head.
• RSS Feeds
• Modular Template Design:
• Display templates consist of a side column template, a center(content) one column template, a center muliple column template, and a template for display options.
• All controllers requiring product display or display options will use one of these templates.
• Common functions such as Add to Cart, Product Options, and Image Rendering are contained in their own template all will be shared by all other templates as required.
• This allows modifications in one file to be changed in all modules and controllers.
• Product Descriptions:
• Product and Category Descriptions are available in multi-language
• Product has Main description with unlimited number of characters, alternate short description with a 256 character limit, and technical information with unlimited number of characters.
• The main product description has the ability to include hidden description that is available to the product search, but is not displayed.
• Current Display Modules:
• Featured Products: products set on admin product page
• Latest Products: most recent products added
• Specials: products set on admin product page for this module
• Related Products: Only available on Product Detail Page if Available
• Popular products: Based on most viewed products
• Developer: Display developer name and link at page bottom.
• Product by Manufacturer, Category and Search Display Page Features:
• Selectable Image Size.
• Ajax Add to Cart, which can be enabled or disabled in admin.
• Product options can be included in 1 column display, with instant price update.
• Module Features:
• All display module pages have the Ajax add to cart function available. This can be enabled or disabled for each module in admin.
• Module displayed in the center column, content, can be 3 or 4 column display.
• Column Modules display in one column with similar content to 3 column display.
• Page Display Options:
• Category, Manufacturer, and search pages include a right column display option menu.
• Number of columns to display: 1, 3, or 4 columns.
• Total Number of Items per page.
• Total Number of Items returned.
• Filter by Manufacturer.
• Filter by Model.
• Sort by Item Number or Price, ascending or descending.
• New Product Search:
• Cart search checks Product Number(name), Model, and Product Description for results. Words do not have to be complete word or be consecutive.
• Product description can also include hidden keywords that are only available to help return search results, but will not be displayed.
• This works in conjunction with the built in text editor that will display number of lines, each terminated by a </br> tag. This allows using text formaing safely.
• This are also text display functions the return number of characters or number of complete words. Special formating is stripped using these funtions.
• Product Detail Page:
• Includes short Description, Quantity on hand, Product Options, Special Pricing if available, Price inluding options, and resizable product image.
• Product page includes tabbed Description, Technical Information, Additional Images, Additional Information such as (Minumum Quantity, weight, shipping, discounts, and manufacturer) , Existing Reviews on product, and a Review Write link.
• Related products are shown in the Right Column if they are available for the product.
• Product Pricing:
• Quantity Discounts by percentage of product price available.
• Dated Special Pricing based on percentage or inserted price.
• Product Options with pricing are available for each product .
• This can be over ridden manually.
• In admin, when produce price is modified, dated special pricing and quantity discounts are updated based on the new product price inserted.
• Dynamic Category Menu:
• Based on an Opencart contibution, the category menu displays only relevant categories.
• It is now modified to allow opening all categories.
• A bread crumb trail is displayed when categories are opened, or when browsing additional categories.
• Ajax Add to Cart:
• The Add to Cart funtion, without page reload, is available on all product display pages. This feature includes Product Image animation where the Image flys to the shopping cart when a product is displayed.
• Minimum quantity is reflected in the drop down quantity box.
• The Mini Cart is updated with each product addition.
• HomePage Module:
• This module is available the first time someone goes to the home page.
• It displays Title, short and/or long text file, optional image and/ or flash file, The developer can have more than one entry, with only one being enabled at a time.
• Flash size can be set and you can upload flash files in admin.
• New Selectable Template, Styles and color schemes:
• Templates, styles, and color schemes are now sparately selctable in admin.
• There are currently 13 different color schemes in the default style folder.
• Most style modifications can usually be implemented in just one color css file.
• New: Template Manager
• All modules and their page location are now selectable in the template manager.
• Modules and locations can be set by page, as well as color scheme and page columns, 2 or 3 column layout.

What is new in this release:

• Change from the old fckeditor to the newest ckeditor
• Possibility to add free downloads to every product
• New template added
• Bank transfer offline payment module
• Create new order in the Administration
• Clean install
• Change status easily
• Preview to listed images in admin
• Sitemap feed added
• Clone products
• New admin menu

What is new in version 1.2.7:

• Captcha: added in contact form and account create. This is enabled in admin.
• Barcode: You can now create barcodes for products in UPC or EAN13 format.
• Watermark: You can now automatically watermark images when uploading or manually watermark existing images.
• Canada Post shipping method.
• Australia Post shipping method.
• Zone Plus shipping: The allow creating a base rate and adding additional costs calculated by weight times an amount.
• Admin Print: you can now print most list pages.
• Log File Viewer: You can view log files for PHP and MySql errors as well as log created by payment modules.
• Extended rating possibilities.
• Increased security.
• Error handler now captures and logs both PHP and MySQL errors.

What is new in version 1.2.6:

• New Features:
• Selectable footer logo
• Guest Checkout
• Installer modifies .htaccess rewite base for correct path
• Invoice print format
• Redesign category menu
• Changes in admin layout, longer select boxes, improved look
• ccAvenue payment module
• Admin modified to use SSL
• Additional inforamtion in Error Handler

What is new in version 1.2.4:

• Cheque Payment Module.
• Money Order Payment Module.
• Paymate Payment Module.
• General cart discount module.
• Minimum order value.
• Best Seller Display module.
• Currency Converter Module.
• Image display module: displays multiple flash and/or images.
• Added lightbox to compliment fancybox and thickbox image displays.

Requirements:

• PHP 5 or higher
• Apache server 2.2 or higher
• MySQL 5 or higher