E-Commerce
eZ Publish is a powerful CMS with e-commerce functionality. This is quite unique and enables you to build complex e-commerce solutions that interface with payment gateways, CRM and ERP systems.
Revenue channels for online media include traditional advertisements, subscriptions, and e-commerce. eZ Publish is a platform that can handle subscription management, paid content and webshops.
Enrich your product information
E-commerce in eZ Publish is completely integrated as any other type of content. The rich features of the content engine enable you to customize the different product types and provide the information, pictures, and video needed to describe your products.
Pricing option
Product pricing can be based on a single price or a detailed set of options, enabling the customer to fully customize complex products.
Afterwards, you can upload the document through either a WebDAV client or the front-end of your site to generate or update articles, documentation pages and so on.
Search Engine Optimization
With the search engine optimization features in eZ Publish, your products can be more easily discovered via search engines.
Powerful search engine
Once customers are on your website, they can search further for what they want with the eZ Find extension.
User interaction
Having information about your products is important, but today's shoppers want to see feedback from other customers in order to help them with their purchase decisions.
With eZ Publish, you can enable a rich set of community functionality in your webshop so that customers can comment, rate and submit reviews for products.
Build communities
After your customers have bought items from your shop, they can share experiences and even provide support to each other in community forums.
Business-to-business and business-to-consumer
With eZ Publish, you can sell goods directly to end consumers or between businesses. Sell products with or without VAT and customize a set of discounts to suit different groups of buyers. Not only can you differentiate on price, but product availability can be restricted to certain types of customers.
Online payment
eZ Publish has built-in support for payment gateways, enabling customers to pay with credit cards like Visa and MasterCard. You can even accept mobile payments or automatically send invoices. There are standard extensions available to interface eZ Publish with payment companies like Netaxept, PayPal and PayEx, giving you the flexibility to offer multiple payment methods.
Integrated ERP systems
If you are running a bigger webshop you probably already have an ERP system like SAP or Microsoft Dynamics. eZ Publish integrates well with third-party ERP systems in order to synchronize product bases, customers, orders and even product stock availability. Your webshop can seamlessly integrate with your existing retail procedures.
Customizable shopping process
The shopping process in eZ Publish can be customized and extended using the workflow system. This enables you to add custom steps like international shipping details, special product suggestions, voucher discounts, and license information to your checkout process.
E-commerce possibilities
The possibilities of doing online business range from simple commodity sales to pay-per-view content. eZ Publish has advanced support for different e-commerce possibilities so that you can customize the way you do online business.
eZ Publish is the platform for 100% e-commerce focused companies like Euronics Norge AS (the biggest electronics retail chain in Europe); online music stores like Beatjoint (which sells royalty-free music); and pizza vendors like Dolly Dimple (one of Norway's biggest restaurant chains, where you can buy pizza over the phone, in-store, and online).
If you are selling online content, eZ Publish can manage subscriptions to a restricted part of your website, whether this is a whole section, a group of articles, or a single video. You can customize fully-automated pay-per-download or time-restricted access to your content.