Magento shop owners do not have to look at other shopping cart to share their revenue with other independent 3rd businesses anymore. Shopping mall, marketplace or similar revenue sharing model can be now built in Magento with SmartOSC e-commerce solution.

Already deploying a Magento shop? In love with Magento rich features set? Want to share the “infrastructure” with other business? Unfortunately, Magento does not have the multi-vendor as out-of-the-box feature. The customization might be robust, time-consuming and especially expensive. With SmartOSC multi-vendor solution, we offer:

• Short time to market thanks to our large experience
• Cost efficiency in customization
• Certified quality as Magento Solution Partner
• Test driven integration process
• Free consultancy with our 10-years e-commerce expertise

Our solution is designed to allow multiple sellers (vendors) to sell their products in a single store. Incorporating all the features of Magento, it also provides an advanced multi-vendor functionality in an unique storefront and catalog. The vendors have separate admin area to manage their product, view their earning and the payout balance. The visitors can only see one store having multiple departments. They can place one order from different vendors at the same time and need to checkout only once. The system prioritizes the choice & flexibility which give a total freedom to the website administrators to customize their store.

Some of the developed feature:

• Flexible storefront
• Multiple stores – one checkout
• Pre-defined payment processing
• Unlimited number of vendor accounts
• Separate admin panel for each vendor
• Advanced permission setting
• Complete admin panel for root store admin
• Vendor commission calculation & record

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Interested by our solution? Wanna deploy a marketplace of your own based on Magento? Ready to take a new adventure to success? Feel free to contact us!

With more than 10 years experience in the e-commerce, SmartOSC proudly provides all services to increase your online revenue. Magento development, Magento customization, e-design, webshop optimization, as Magento Solution Partner, SmartOSC can guarantee your success. To learn more about SmartOSC Corp. Magento division http://saas.smartosc.com

SmartOSC Corp. and Virtual Logistics Inc. today announced the formation of a partnership to combine web store development expertise and back-end integration expertise for customers around the world. Using SmartOSC’s, Magento based SAAS ecommerce platform and Virtual Logistics’ SAAS Integration as a service platform, customers can now take advantage of a complete and fully integrated solution that connects their ecommerce business to their internal applications as well as their 3PL and fulfillment facilities.

The ecommerce solution can be fully customized to the online merchants requirements and allows them to take advantage of all Magento’s features. By extension with the integration as a service solution, the customer also gets away from expensive custom program development often required to connect the web store to back-office operations.

The Web Store Solution: Magento is the leading ecommerce platform for online business. With +100,000 active web stores, Magento has become the favorite frontend of international merchants looking to take their businesses to the next level. The demand for backend integration with 3rd parties is continuously increasing and that’s where the Integration as a service solution fits.

“In working with Virtual Logistics, we have experienced an excellent partnership. By joining forces, we have been able to provide a complete solution to our customers while optimizing the flexibility of technology and competitiveness in pricing. With the robustness of the integration system, a reliable solution can be delivered to our customers within a very quick turnaround time”, said Viet Le Hong, CEO of SmartOSC.

The Integration as a Service Solution: Using world class integration technology the SAAS based platform is flexible and configurable to allow for multiple integrations in a cost effective and timely manner. The solution supports EDI, XML, spreadsheet, and csv file formats. Current back office integrations include many 3PL and fulfillment houses as well accounting, ERP packages and shipping systems.

“We at Virtual Logistics are really excited about forming a partnership with SmartOSC. We have worked with SmartOSC for the past three years and they bring solid expertise in ecommerce to the table. Working with them rounds out our ability to offer a complete solution to customers who want web store and ecommerce integration”, said Robin H. Smith, General Manager, Sales and Marketing at VL.

About Virtual Logistics Inc.:

Virtual Logistics Inc. is a supply chain data integration company based in Ontario, Canada. VL has established itself as a key player in the small to medium size business B2B, EDI, XML, Web Store Integration, solution marketplace. VL offers both a SAAS and on premise solutions to its customers. www.virtuallogistics.ca

About SmartOSC Corp.:

SmartOSC is a leading E-commerce services provider based in Hanoi, Vietnam, with over 300 customers in Europe, North America and Asia. SmartOSC provides full packages from consultancy, web design to IT development and e-marketing services. SmartOSC is dedicated to delivering quality and driving growth for online business. As a Magento Certified Solution Partner, SmartOSC offers world-class e-commerce services to its customers in the quickest and most affordable way. www.smartosc.com

The X-POS – online point-of-sale system exclusively for Magento is finally released. This solution promises to be an efficient tool for business owners who operate parallel the online and physical shops. Stock synchronization and real-time inventory update issue are now resolved at ease.

The X-POS – online point-of-sale system exclusively for Magento is finally released. This solution promises to be an efficient tool for business owners who operate parallel the online and physical shops. Stock synchronization and real-time inventory update issue are now resolved at ease.

Main features:

- Smart order creation with product barcode scanning or search by name/product ID

- Quick edit tools for Editing/Saving/Cancelling order

- Complete set of sales and promotion logic with various rules in Magento admin

- Deep customer insight thank to the database collected in physical shop

- Rich variety of secured payment method

- Instant inventory update after the customer purchase

- Real-time synchronization of the online and offline stock

Let’s discover this amazing solution >>>

As an Magento E-commerce Solution Partner, SmartOSC Corp. is all about the clients’ vision. Offering IT Development, SEO & SEM, Email Marketing and E-design with multiple flexible packages, SmartOSC engages to provide the most complete E-commerce answers to any online business’ questions. Its unique approach and methodology help the company to propose customized yet high-end solutions to each customer. To learn more about SmartOSC Corp. Magento division, please visit http://saas.smartosc.com

Understanding the need of many entrepreneurs who want to operate both the online and physical shop, SmartOSC has developed an online solution to be deployed in classic store, taking advantage of the rich feature of the most popular E-commerce platform Magento.

POS, as Point-Of-Sale, is a common term for every business. POS terminals, referring to the hardware and software used for the checkouts at the location where a transaction occurs, also mean a robust and expensive system related to the business core, the selling process.

In the Internet era, online business is an indispensable distribution channel that anyone can’t ignore. Physical presence is not enough. What will happen if you operate the online and offline shop at the same time? Manually update the stock each time an order is placing in one of those shops? Spend time to check the availability of each product when a customer comes in? Afraid of selling an out-of-stock item? Tired of apologizing to the customer?

Our X-POS can ease this pain for Magento stores owners and administrators. Easily installed in your Magento system, intuitive interface, able to show on touch screen, X-POS has all the features of a classic POS, but online.

This solution will help you:

• Save operation time with barcode scan
• Synchronize the stock in online and physical store in a blink
• Enhance the customer satisfaction by allowing 0 errors in order processing
• Take advantage of the most popular ecommerce platform Magento
• Reduce investment cost by deploying only one system for both online and offline sale
• Improve the efficiency with a clear global strategy applied to different distribution channels

This amazing solution will be released next week! Stay tuned!

This extension has been developed to provide our SmartOSC’s clients with a smart Point-Of-Sale system, which helps reduce the cost and optimize their return on investment (ROI). Please contact us if you have any questions or requests.

SmartOSC Corp., an E-commerce Solution Expert, has been recognized as an official Magento Solution Partner (magentocommerce.com), effective as of Feb 2011. This new partnership will further promote the development of the Magento platform with updated features, outstanding solutions and guaranteed results.

With more than 90,000 users-merchants throughout the world, 3,500 developed extensions and over 2.5 million downloads, Magento is no doubt the most popular and fastest growing open-source E-commerce Platform.

The Magento Solution Partner Program focuses on experienced and successful providers, who can deliver high-quality solutions and efficient support to their customers after sales. Prioritizing the scalability and the flexibility of the Magento platform, the Corporation is able to offer its guaranteed expertise in helping any online businesses to grow. SmartOSC also aims the efforts at a major success and recognition among this strong and growing community regarding e-commerce platform development and optimization.

As an E-commerce Solution Partner, SmartOSC Corp. is all about the clients’ vision. Offering IT Development, SEO & SEM, Email Marketing and E-design with multiple flexible packages, SmartOSC engages to provide the most complete E-commerce answers to any online business’ questions. Its unique approach and methodology help the company to propose customized yet high-end solutions to each customer. To learn more about our services, please visit http://saas.smartosc.com

We are proud to announce the launch of SmartMagento, your premier choice for Magento technology, design and e-marketing services. After several months for preparation, we are happy to release our first pack of 10 themes giving a wide range of choices to build your online business in a matter of minutes.

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The Oscommerce team has updated the current release of oscOmmerce 2.2 with a new release titled osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 Release Candidate 1. This is primarily a bug fix release for the 2.2 series and will be the last release made before the 2.2 release series is finalized. They are currently in the process of certifying the payment modules included in this release which will be the only change for the final osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 release planned in the coming weeks.No major features have been introduced with this release candidate as our development efforts are focused on the upcoming 3.0 release, but does include the following changes:

• Over 25 bug fixes and improvements
• register_globals compatibility for PHP 4.3+ servers
• Visa PCI conformance of accepting credit card information on the checkout confirmation page
• Public titles for payment modules so the name of the payment service provider is not used as a payment method
• Maximum number of product quantities that can be added to the shopping cart (by default 99)
• New login routine for the Administration Tool
• New summary modules to display on the Administration Tool index page
• New web-based installation routine (backported from 3.0)

osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 Release Candidate 1 can be downloaded here:

http://www.oscommerce.com/redirect.php/go,41 (hosted at Sunsite.dk)

An upgrade guide for existing osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 060817 installations can be found here:

http://www.oscommerce.com/ext/osc22rc1_upgrade.html.zip

(Source: Oscommerce Official Site)

Welcome to our new themes !

We have just developed a new theme from GlossyBlue 1.4 of N-Design . We hope it will be better than the old one.

Have a look at our new theme and tell us your thoughts.

Thanks !

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Have a look at the new design and tell us your thoughts.
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