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Community or Enterprise ?

Since version 3.2.0.0, KonaKart comes in two separate installations:

  • A free Community Edition which can be downloaded from our downloads page.
  • Enterprise Extensions which we charge for. See our prices page for pricing details.

The Community Edition is intended for small businesses and charitable organizations. A condition of the license agreement is to display “Powered By KonaKart” with a link to our web site, on the main page of the on line store.


The Enterprise Extensions are available as a separate installation kit which is installed on top of the community edition to provide more features and functionality. Although we would prefer you to keep it, the “Powered by KonaKart” link is not mandatory for a KonaKart based store when the Enterprise Extensions are installed. Currently the features present only in the Enterprise Extensions are:

  • Multi-Store. An Enterprise Extensions license allows you to run an unlimited number of stores with a single KonaKart installation and a single database schema.
  • Indexed Search. Indexed search using Lucene search technology gives you a lightning fast search experience even for very large product catalogs.
  • Sophisticated marketing functionality that allows you to capture customer data as the customer uses your KonaKart eCommerce store; and to use that data within complex expressions in order to show dynamic content, activate promotions and send eMail communications. For example, you could show a banner or activate a promotion only to customers in a certain age bracket that have Product A in their wish list and at least $50 worth of goods in their cart.
  • Wish List functionality. Registered customers can add products to a wish list. The KonaKart API supports multiple named wish lists for each customer.
  • Gift Registries. Registered customers can create and manage gift registries such as wedding lists. A public gift registry can be searched for using various search parameters. Once found, any items bought from the registry may be automatically shipped to the address defined by the registry owner. The store front application contains an implementation of a wedding registry.
  • Reward Points which enable you to increase customer loyalty and increase sales by rewarding customers for purchases as well as other actions such as registering, writing a review, referrals etc. The points may be redeemed during checkout.
  • Gift Certificates. Gift Certificate products may be connected to any type of promotion and activated through a coupon code contained within the certificate.
  • Job Scheduling. This is achieved with an integration of the Open Source Quartz scheduler. There is a framework for adding your own batch jobs and the source code of some useful example jobs.
  • Support for Recurring Billing. Payment Schedule and Subscription objects have been introduced to support recurring billing natively using a KonaKart batch job or through a payment gateway that manages the billing process at regular intervals.
  • Google Base integration which allows you to publish your product information for inclusion in Google search results.
  • XML Import/Export feature for KonaKart objects such as product, customer, order etc. This feature can be run with a script, providing arguments to define which objects to import or export. Some example scripts are provided.
  • Digital download products (txt and .pdf) may now be indexed in the SOLR search engine and text fragments (snippets) surrounding search keywords can be returned from the search.
  • For applications requiring an unlimited number of prices for products, these prices may be set in a new database table and accessed instead of the standard product prices saved with the product data. This functionality allows you to define any number of catalogs, each of which may contain different product prices.
  • Internationalization. The language of the admin app may be changed dynamically.
  • PDF invoices can be created and sent to customers as email attachments and downloaded from the store-front application. The created PDF invoices can be stored on disk for archiving purposes or created dynamically whenever they are required.

Support Packages and Professional Services are available for *all* versions of KonaKart.