One of the world’s largest IT consultancy companies with revenue of over US$ 4 billion is using KonaKart as an integral part of their off-the-shelf mobile application platform.
After a detailed feature analysis and extensive performance tests, KonaKart was chosen as the eCommerce component of the solution. The comprehensive SOAP APIs greatly facilitate the creation of a multi-channel store front and enable integration with other parts of the system.
The Audi Group – with the two brands Audi and Lamborghini – is one of the world’s most successful car manufacturers in the premium segment.
Audi decided to use KonaKart to power the Audi tradition parts store which offers over 10,000 spare parts for vintage Audis. The project included integration with SAP and a single sign on system and was successfully completed in a very short time frame.
“We looked for an e-Commerce Server which would fulfil our requirements for a flexible, easily customizable J2EE based architecture, which could be used in an enterprise context and as a platform for multi stores. Last but not least it should be actively supported and developed by the supplier. We found it with Konakart. We integrated the Audi Tradition-Parts shop in a very short project time with our SAP ERP system using Web Services and customer-, dealer- and employee- portals with SingleSignOn. Konakart could be the core product on which our next online shops will be based.”
- Christian Schmutz, Solution Architect, AUDI AG
Leroy Merlin is a worldwide home-improvement and gardening retailer with over 44,000 employees.
KonaKart has been tastefully deployed by Leroy Merlin (Spain) to sell their range of garden furniture and barbecues. Faceted search is cleverly used to help customers quickly find the products with the features that they’re looking for.
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giffgaff is new, very innovative “people powered” UK based mobile operator backed by O2 / Telefonica, that likes to do things differently!
KonaKart is an integral part of their solution and seamlessly integrated through the direct usage of the KonaKart APIs.
“We chose KonaKart as a core element of our eCommerce and online solution as it offered the flexibility and capability to grow our business in the future whilst being reactive to our Customer’s needs and feedback. The integration into the giffgaff solution was straight forward and enabled us to meet our very challenging timescales.”
- Nigel Sudell, Programme Manager for giffgaff
TNT Post is the largest private postal operator in Italy with about 250 branch offices across the country and approximately 2,000 employees.
The TNT Post portal offers many online services for a customer. KonaKart has been integrated for those services requiring eCommerce.
When GM decided to create a web site to sell its performance parts, they needed an eCommerce solution which could match the performance of their products, and so chose KonaKart !
The shop is nicely integrated into an attractive and informative site that displays all of the muscle that GM has on offer.
Tesco Mobile (Tesco is one of the world’s leading retailers) is using KonaKart to sell products related to their mobile phone business. One very interesting aspect to this application, is that the KonaKart Admin App is being used inside the larger Tesco stores to sign up new customers for mobile phone packages.
Hansen Technologies provided the KonaKart solution for Tesco as part of a large integration project.
“KonaKart provided a base framework for our online presence. Our company was able to focus on our core competencies and integration points enabling our project to be delivered on time and on budget. John and his team provided changes and back ports in a timely manner and provided quality worked examples for our team use. The support forum feedback was rapid and positive in response. We look forward to working more in the future.”
- James Clarke, Solutions Architect, Hansen Technologies
Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research. Race for Life is Cancer Research UK’s flagship event, with over 240 events taking place across the UK.
The shop is a very good example of how KonaKart can be combined with various front-end technologies. In this case JavaServer Faces technology has been used to create a modern and efficient store to sell Race for Life products.
KYMP is part of the Finnet telecommunications group which has a combined turnover of €450M and employs 2400 people.
The KonaKart based shop has a style that seamlessly matches the KYMP and Finnet branding. It sells physical products such as televisions and phones, as well as services such as TV channel packages billed at regular intervals.
The first Globus store was opened in Zurich, Switzerland in 1892 and was then the largest store in the country. This historic brand is also known as the Harrods of Switzerland !
The store is a fine example of how KonaKart integrates seamlessly with CMS solutions. The CMS used for the Globus store is an Open Source Java based product called Yanel.
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Masters at auction since 1744. Sotheby’s, a public company with a market cap of over $3B USD is probably the world’s preeminent fine art auctioneer.
This store demonstrates the power of the KonaKart APIs since the store-front is a proprietary application that calls the KonaKart engines to provide eCommerce functionality.
McGraw-Hill and Wipro have developed a mobile learning platform called mConnect. The platform will initially be available in India where there are over 700 million cell phones.
Using KonaKart technology, students will be able to browse catalogs and download learning material onto their mobile devices even in remote rural areas.
For more than 50 years, Santillana Education has been publishing books in the Spanish language for all stages of non-university education throughout Spain and Latin America.
A peculiarity of the tastefully designed KonaKart online store, is that the books are split into categories which map to geographic areas that can be chosen by clicking on a map.
Ragno is a leading Italian company with 130 years of tradition, specializing in the production of ladies and men’s underwear.
The online store has been very tastefully designed, making heavy use of AJAX to avoid full screen refreshes and display product data as it arrives. Faceted search is used in order to filter products at a category level. A great example of how the standard KonaKart store-front can be customized to match business requirements.
Biodroga, a member of the BCG Baden-Baden Cosmetics Group AG, is a successful cosmetics company which sells its products in more than 50 countries around the world.
The online store was developed by Innovabee, a KonaKart Enterprise Partner. The design is very elegant and the online store is connected to an ERP-System via Innovabee ERP connector which is available for SAP R/3 and SoftM Suite. KonaKart is running in multi-store mode supporting stores for other brands (Dr.Scheller and Sans Soucis) within the group.
The RAND Corporation is a non-profit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. It employs approximately 1,700 people from more than 50 countries.
The eCommerce functionality offered by KonaKart has been seamlessly integrated into the content management system and comes into action to manage the cart and during the checkout process.
The Methodist Hospital corporation is a nonprofit health care organization based in Houston, Texas. U.S.News & World Report’s 2009 “America’s Best Hospitals” placed Methodist upon its prestigious Honor Roll.
KonaKart is used for the Methodist Weight Management Center Store to sell quality products tha help you to achieve, maintain and enjoy a healthy weight and lifestyle.
Since 1999, BuyDomains has helped business owners and entrepreneurs secure the premium domain names they need to establish and grow their online presence.
The checkout process is handled by KonaKart using the standard store-front with a modified style. This is a good example of how KonaKart can be used to sell non-physical products.
RACV, an Australian motoring organization, offers diverse products and services to more than 2 million members.
KonaKart has been chosen to power their online store that sells a variety of products both to members and the general public.
CAA-Quebec is a non-profit organization, offering its members and customers very high-quality automotive, travel, residential and financial services and products.
The bilingual store based on the standard KonaKart store-front offers a wide variety of travel products and accessories.
TalkSwitch (a division of the publicly listed company Fortinet) makes award-winning telephone systems for small offices.
The standard KonaKart store-front has been given an effective minimalist design in order to match the style of the TalkSwitch web site.
Two Degrees Mobile Limited is New Zealand’s newest mobile company who over the last few years has spent $250 million constructing a brand new mobile network in New Zealand.
They have seamlessly integrated a KonaKart portlet into Liferay, to provide an online shop for mobile phones and SIM cards.
I dolci di Giotto is an example of a stylish and seamless integration of a KonaKart portlet within Liferay. It was developed by the Italian software house Visionest.
This Italian patisserie is promoted by UNESCO as one of the most powerful examples of human rehabilitation since it is based within a prison in Padova.
Braganca, a web site from Ecuador, helps you to find the perfect gift for every occasion.
This is a very nicely designed example of KonaKart integrating with Liferay within a portlet. The store-front portlet blends seamlessly with the other portal pages, providing a very pleasant shopping experience.
Yoostar’s proprietary technology allows users, in the comfort of their homes or offices, to star in their favorite movie scenes together with the original actors and share their performances online.
KonaKart is being used as the eCommerce engine in a load balanced environment. A great example that demonstrates how the powerful KonaKart APIs can be harnessed to allow total freedom in designing a captivating store front application.
Our Enterprise Partner, United Future designed and developed the web site.
An integration of KonaKart with Magnolia CMS, using the KonaKart APIs, that makes your mouth water !
The web site uses the CMS to present detailed information regarding the products being sold, business opportunities and club membership. KonaKart is used to actually sell the ice cream products online.
A very tasteful integration of KonaKart with Magnolia CMS, using the KonaKart APIs.
The web site does a fantastic job of seamlessly integrating information, training and eCommerce in order to educate the customer so that he can choose the correct product for the job in hand.
Sounds True is a media publishing company that specializes in providing and disseminating wisdom teachings of well known authors from a variety of spiritual traditions. Konakart is used as the ecommerce engine for selling hard goods including books, CD’s, DVD’s, and soft goods such as audio and video downloads all in an integrated shopping cart. Differing product formats (soft goods, hard goods) are aggregated into a single search results set and product page allowing for one of the internet’s first unified, online shopping experience.
“Konakart was the only viable java based, open source, enterprise scalable, ecommerce solution in the market that had the robust functionality we were looking for along with the ability to customize its feature set. In addition, their ongoing releases with new features and full set of web services mean that we can easily integrate it in the future with our other web offerings. We’re very happy with our decision to use them as the engine to power all of our online transactions.”
- Lee Burton, Chief Information Officer Sounds True, Inc.
Italian style at its very best…An attractive web site where you can configure your own personalized, made to measure shirts choosing from a wide choice of high quality fabrics.
KonaKart has been seamlessly integrated into a proprietary CMS system using the SOAP APIs. The end result is a very informative eCommerce web site where customers are instructed on the art of shirt making and can then select from a list of options to create an order for a custom made article.
“Thanks to Konakart for filling what was a serious hole: a professional shopping cart for Java architectures..”
- Gianluca Mei, Cone Consulting
The Columbus Dispatch is a daily newspaper based in Columbus, Ohio. Its first issue was published on July 1, 1871, and has been the only mainstream daily newspaper in the city since.
The store is built upon the standard KonaKart store-front and is used to sell local magazines.
OZ Supply is owned and operated by an Australian based Stationary Company established in 2010.
The store is built upon the standard KonaKart store-front although the style has been changed and a useful dynamically expanding product menu has been introduced that contains a list of all the available categories.
Ertiqa Books was developed as a result of an aspiring vision to become the prime source for Arabic e-books in the region.
The attractive web site is based on the standard KonaKart store-front and demonstrates how KonaKart is fully internationalized.
Konst-ig is Scandinavia’s leading art bookseller, since 1994, specializing in architecture, art, design, fashion, graphic design, landscape architecture and photography.
The book store has been given a minimalist design matching the look and feel of the Konst-ig home page.
A very stylish Italian jewellery store displayed in multiple languages.
Some unique user interface features using Adobe Flash technology in order to to show off their products which ensure that this site has a promising future, unlike the unfortunate Dodo…
An Italian editor specializing in high quality professional publications in the field of swimming pools, fitness and wellness.
Although the store basically uses the KonaKart standard store-front application; a modern, uncluttered look has been achieved by changing the styles and reducing the number of visible tiles.
Interno 13 is an Italian store that specializes in selling designer clothes at affordable prices.
The web site was developed by Nextep, a KonaKart implementation partner, who have a done a great job in introducing many AJAX gizmos that create a unique shopping experience.
An eco-conscious Seattle based company that uses only 100% organic, sweatshop-free cotton in their products.
The standard KonaKart store-front has been tastefully customized to match the eco-friendly look and feel of the b(earth) brand. When an item is added to the cart, an eye catching animation effect is achieved through the use of asynchronous AJAX calls.
Chloé Loves Charlie was founded in 2010 by a former fashion magazine editor. It is a great place for girls to shop for stylish and trendy designs from emerging labels.
The store-front UI has been completely re-designed to create an efficient, informative and fun place to shop.
Sakhi celebrates the new-age woman and is committed to unveil her real beauty and progressive personality. Sakhi combines traditional fabrics and craftsmanship with contemporary themes to create an ensemble that embodies the values of the modern Indian woman.
A very stylish KonaKart implementation for a stylish product. The image magnifier is a nice touch that enables customers to view the fine detail of these ornate products.
This site from Argentina is an excellent example of an OpenCms / KonaKart integration by TFSLA our partners in South America.
As part of their tight integration with OpenCms they have implemented single sign-on, a reporting module at the OpenCms VFS level and many other extensions.
The Swiss Gialdi Winery was founded in 1953 and today is one of the largest wine producers in Ticino.
The online store has been tastefully designed and sells wines from the both the Gialdi and Brivio wineries. It uses the standard KonaKart store-front application with a customized look and feel that blends well with the web sites of the wineries.
This famous Italian distillery has been operating for over 100 years in Veneto, a few km from Venice.
Currently, the very elegantly designed online shop is being used to sell Prime Uve accessories such as glasses, designed to match the collection of distillates produced. The web site was developed by Nextep, a KonaKart implementation partner.
Savvyshop is an attractive Dutch based store selling a wide variety of DVDs.
The store-front application is written using the Apache Wicket framework which interfaces to KonaKart through the APIs. KonaKart is being run in Multi-Store mode sharing products between stores such as http://www.receptenwebwinkel.nl. This is a fine example of how KonaKart gives you the flexibility to implement the store-front using your preferred technology.
Currensee is the first Forex trading social network where like-minded traders can connect with each other and share unique ideas, insights and data based on the actual trading activity of the community.
KonaKart is used to power the Currensee Marketplace where traders can buy products and services available exclusively for members. Seamless integration was achieved by calling the KonaKart APIs.
etrasa belongs to the multinational Springer Science+Business Media publishing group which consists of around 60 publishing houses in about 20 countries in Europe, Asia and the USA.
This online store sells road safety and driver education related material. The design is modern, clean and uncluttered. A nice example of how the KonaKart storefront can be heavily customized without losing the ability to easily upgrade to future versions of the product.
Based in San Francisco, a high class Spa run by some of the country’s most sought-after skin care experts.
The web site has a tasteful design and the KonaKart store has been integrated seamlessly.
An Asian food store that purchases products in Asia, but has offices located in northern, central and southern California, with strategically placed warehouses to help ensure product freshness.
The design is unique and guaranteed to get your taste buds tingling !
Conclusive proof that KonaKart helps you to live healthier and to live longer 
An example of a very unobtrusive integration of eCommerce functionality into a web site containing copious amounts of scientific information as well as a blog.
Xactware Solutions, Inc. provides computer software solutions for professionals involved in estimating all phases of building and repair.
An example of a seamless integration of KonaKart in order to provide eCommerce functionality to sell products and training.
We are proud that KonaKart is being used to sell a wide selection of exotic food products from cooperatives of small farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The proceeds from the sale of these Fair Trade goods gives them a chance to live a dignified life.
A manufacturer of musical instruments from North Carolina.
The web site contains a media gallery where you can see videos of instruments such as the “Hurdy-Gurdy” being played.
A unique site from India that describes itself as the “epicentre of performing arts”. It allows you to create your own events and buy tickets online.
The site is still evolving but tastefully demonstrates ways of integrating sponsored advertising and the ability for end users to add products to the catalog of items to be sold.
dogsitter.it is an Italian company selling a wide variety of dog food as well as offering a vibrant community for all dog lovers.
KonaKart has been customized to match the look and feel of the web site and AJAX controls have been added to display a cart pop-up every time an item is added.
This store sells speech-language materials that are innovative and fun.
The designer has used a standard KonaKart skin which has been modified to give the web site a playful look, to match the products it sells.
This company is based in Dorset in the UK with a mission to supply Rubi tiling tools at the lowest prices. We wish them the best of luck !
The store uses a standard KonaKart template and it makes use of product tags to help a customer find the right product.
