SeCommerce Solutions Overview
SeCommerce Solution Overview
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Introduction

Click on an area of the diagram to read more about a particular area of the SeCommerce solution. To obtain more detail about a specific feature, such as inventory, catalogs, image management, product meta-tags, etc, go to the features page.

SeCommerce is written in version 2.0 of the .Net framework and at its heart consists of a set of assemblies making up the SeCommerce framework (also called an engine). To add these to your website, the assembly files are simply drag and dropped into the websites bin directory, along with a license file. A free license is provided for unlimited local development of as many websites as you want.

Functionality within this framework is exposed through methods and through modules (also called user controls). Modules encapsulate functionality such as shopping carts, catalogs, detail pages, etc. If you open a module in notepad (or any text editor) you will see plain html, along with tags used to display information accessed through properties of the module (such as a product name, title, etc) wherever you place it. This arrangement gives you maximum flexibility to layout a website however you want with the look and feel you give it. All of the modern web development programs such as Expression Web and Dreamweaver support drag and drop placement of modules onto a page.

SeCommerce has been in development since 1999 and currently consists of approx a half million lines of code. Besides its speed and feature richness, a great back end administration program makes it easier to setup your website, manage products, fulfill orders, and the 1008 other things that when you need them, are at your fingertips.

Most companies offering e-commerce solutions have a disparate approach that does not fit in with the design, development, and maintenance flow of web developers – often because they are in competition with developers for website design business, because they are locked into old standards, or sometimes just a lack of competency.

At SeCommerce, we support developers, not just in words, but in action. We have architectured the entire solution to support feature richness, expandability, design flexibility, and an ease of creating and maintaining many websites at a professional level; we typically ask the question – what do you want?

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