Features

KonaKart has been designed to cater for a wide range of products types in order to satisfy your business requirements. It supports the packaging of products into bundles and also the sale of digital download products which can be downloaded from the store front after payment has been received. Gift Certificate products may be defined and associated with any type of promotion to provide the discount.

Product Features

• Many products types such as clothing, may have options such as color and size. KonaKart allows you to configure each variation with:
  • A unique price
  • A unique SKU
  • A unique quantity
  • A unique availability date
• In order to entice a shopper to buy a particular product, it helps to display multiple images taken from different angles. KonaKart allows a product to be associated with more than one image.
• Each product may be associated with multiple prices. The actual price displayed can be controlled by the customer group, so that you can display different prices for say, wholesale and retail customers. It may also be controlled by the store id if a product is shared between multiple stores. An unlimited number of prices may be achieved by storing the prices in a separate database table and selecting them based on the identifier of the catalog containing the product. When in this mode, each catalog may also contain the product quantity and its available date if it is currently out of stock. KonaKart also supports a special or sale price and tier pricing based on the quantity ordered.
• An unlimited number of custom attributes may be created for a product, enabling you to define a wide range of products with completely different characteristics. The custom attributes may be grouped into templates to make it easier when inserting products since the product only needs to be associated to the template rather than to every custom field individually. Each custom field has associated metadata, defining things such as the widget and validation for editing in the admin app and data type and template so that it may be displayed correctly in the store-front application.
• An unlimited number of miscellaneous items may be associated to a product. These maybe for example, documents or videos. Each miscellaneous item is categorized into a type.
• Each product may contain structured data as well as a description. The structured data can be used for comparing product features. This is particularly useful for comparing products that may contain many options, such as digital cameras and mobile phones.
• KonaKart includes an import/export tool to efficiently load products into the database from a file, and to create a file from the products in the database.

Digital Downloads

A product may be defined as a digital download. When such as product has been paid for, a download link appears in the customer’s private account page so that it may be downloaded by the customer. The download link can be set to expire after a number of days or after a number of downloads.

Digital Download .txt and .pdf files may also be indexed in the search engine, and text fragments (snippets) surrounding the search keywords may be returned so that the context of the search result can be determined.

Bundles

Sometimes it is useful to package two or more products into a bundle which is sold as separate item. KonaKart allows you to package any number of products into a bundle. The quantity in stock is calculated automatically and tools are provided to calculate the cost (with optional discounts) and the weight. The quantity in stock of each component within the bundle is decremented automatically when an order is processed.

Gift Certificates

Gift certificate products may be created. You can choose to create a new product for each value or define different values as product attributes. In order to calculate the discount given by the certificate, it is associated to a promotion. This allows you to easily create specialized certificates that are valid for only certain types of products or customer groups etc. Once a customer buys a certificate, a code is generated which can be used to activate the certificate during the checkout process. This code may be downloaded as a digital download or it may be sent to the customer in an eMail or through regular mail.

Product Tags

Tags are attributes that can be associated to a product and can be used to refine product searches (faceted searching). For example, in the case of a digital camera we could define tags for Mega Pixels (6.0, 8.0, 10.0), Optical Zoom (3x, 4x, 5x) and Weight (less than 100g, greater than 100g). When searching for a product, a shopper can select any number of tags to find only those products matching all of his requirements.

Product Reviews

A product may be associated with multiple customer reviews. There is the option of requiring an approval process by the administrator before the reviews become visible to the store-front application

Bookable Products

A product such as a course or ticket may be defined as a bookable product. Each bookable product has a start and end date and may have a schedule defining time slots for certain days of the week. Whenever a bookable product is purchased, a booking is created which is associated with the bookable product so that at any point in time, the number of bookings may be monitored