Your INTERCHANGE shopping cart is a powerful eCommerce storefront suitable for any size company or organization seeking a true online retail environment for their customers.
INTERCHANGE is the world's leading open source web application development platform. With over five years of history, thousands of deployments, and over ten thousand developers, INTERCHANGE provides the rich functionality and business-critical reliability that today's leading enterprises demand.
The INTERCHANGE platform is user-friendly, cost effective, and extensible, but comes with out-of-the-box functionality, so you don't have to build from scratch. Through years of evolution in the open source community, INTERCHANGE has features that are usually only available in costly enterprise applications.
INTERCHANGE is one of the most powerful tools available to automate and database-enable your web site, or build online applications. It's also one of the easiest tools to learn, plus it's open source, making it the most open and least expensive solution to implement.
If you've been thinking of using tools from BEA, IBM, Microsoft, BroadVision, Intershop, Blue Martini, Open Market, Mercantec, Allaire, or Interworld to build your web site or online application, you'll be making a serious mistake if you fail to evaluate INTERCHANGE before you make your decision. If you've been thinking of building a system by hand in Java, Perl, ASP, PHP, Cold Fusion, or any other environment, you should consider the time and cost savings that building on the INTERCHANGE platform may bring you.
INTERCHANGE is well suited for a variety of purposes, including: sales, order processing, content management, customer service, reporting and analysis, and personalization. INTERCHANGE has been implemented for traditional retail sales, digital goods delivery, B2B parts re-ordering, non-commerce content management, auctions, order status checking, supply chain management, project management, online collaboration, and even an MP3 Jukebox. Interchange can be used as a completely self-contained standalone product or as part of a larger system. It can be integrated with payment processing services, ERP systems, point-of-sale systems, accounting systems, external content management systems, Java-based application servers, sales force automation systems, customer relationship management systems, email campaign management systems, and remote databases on virtually any platform.
While it shares many features with other top tier web application development tools, INTERCHANGE sets itself apart from these expensive solutions with a unique set of additional benefits, including:
• Intuitive content management functionality, enabling easy management of large, complex web sites.
• Powerful transaction management functionality, with support for product selection and configuration, merchandising, and payment processing.
• Comprehensive administration and reporting, which keeps business and technical management informed and in control.
• Flexible, extensible architecture, ensuring scalability and providing room to grow.
• Comprehensive Invoicing, Order tracking, and customer management.
• Tailored to meet specific needs - A combination of high-end features and extensive support services from Red Hat makes INTERCHANGE an entirely customizable solution. As an enterprise platform, it effortlessly handles the tremendous transaction volumes required for business critical applications. While your business grows, you can be sure your web application's capabilities will grow with you.
• Integrates seamlessly with back-end systems - INTERCHANGE features a flexible architecture, which allows it to be integrated with your ERP, accounting, inventory and other legacy systems. This allows you to continue to use your existing IT infrastructure and maximize the return on your investment.
• With INTERCHANGE, a fully customized web application can be deployed in 90 days or less.
• Easy to install, use, and manage - From deployment to maintenance, Interchange is designed with the end user in mind. Business users can easily make updates or changes with little or no assistance from their IT department.
• Supported by experts - The INTERCHANGE Development Group offers a team of professionals who are trained to support the Interchange platform. Our world-class staff offers a full range of professional and technical support services, including strategic consulting, design, and deployment.
At its core, INTERCHANGE is a flexible, high performance application server that handles state management, authentication, session maintenance, click trails, filtering, URL encodings, security policy. It's made up of the following components:
• database abstraction layer
• generic templating system
• transaction routing rules
• customer information object
• universal localization scheme
• security blackout definition
• profiles
• filters
• search language
• session management
Some of INTERCHANGE's many modules are transaction management, pricing, personalization, payment processing, reporting, customer service, and search.
INTERCHANGE templates are simply HTML page with specialized INTERCHANGE-specific markup tags called ITL (INTERCHANGE Tag Language). ITL allows for a highly customizable combination of components to be displayed on the page, both static and dynamic. There are several types of ITL tags, including:
• built-in tags - A library of pre-built tags that enable INTERCHANGE functionality
• user tags - custom designed tags that can be created for any purpose
• localization - tags that allow multi-language or multi-locale implementation
• "Perl" and "ASP" tags - allow the insertion of Perl or ASP code into templates
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PLEASE NOTE: ACTIVE-SITES DOES NOT PROVIDE FREE SUPPORT FOR THE USE OF YOUR INTERCHANGE SHOPPING CART SYSTEM. WE DO HOWEVER OFFER A CONSULTING, FEE BASED SERVICE TO ASSIST YOU IN YOUR SETUP AT $65/hr.
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If you need functionality that INTERCHANGE doesn't yet provide, you build it yourself, have Active-Sites provide this service for you, or have the INTERCHANGE Development Group group do it for you. If you develop new functionality yourself you'll then have the option of either expanding and supporting that functionality through subsequent versions of INTERCHANGE, or you can submit that work to the INTERCHANGE project and the community will keep it up-to-date and maybe even expand it.