By: Arthur Cooper
Submitted: 2010-10-28 15:17:20 | Word Count: 664
By providing a wide range of functionalities to its customers, Monster Commerce has built a steady customer base. Monster Commerce offers a shopping cart and e-commerce system to businesses around the world. Based in Illinois, this web development company has grown to employ dozens of people that help to offer the company’s turn-key operation to businesses for a competitive monthly rate. Tailoring the web development package to fit the needs of their customers makes Monster Commerce a strong player in the world of web development including shopping cart options and SEO Friendly features. Monster Commerce was sold to Networksolutions and the services are now offered under NetworkSolutions Ecommerce.
Customers expecting feature-rich options from Monster Commerce for their e-commerce solutions can find them in their shopping cart system which offers: search-engine friendly ASP pages. Utilizing the Monster Commerce system is an easy web-based log-in with administrative options including the popular shopping cart option, functions, and publishing capabilities.
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Qualities that could be tailored to work even better for clients from the Monster Commerce site include items like no direct FTP access. Monster Commerce does address this key issue with a file manager solution. However, the file manager requires access to the administrative back end to provide their version of file transfer functions. These added steps make the software less streamlined and more time-consuming during programming.
Another issue that arises with the Monster Commerce software choices is that the company only offers one template for the site with only the middle of the page flexible for change by the client. This is not a major issue as most software options of this type have this issue. It does make the Market Commerce software a little less flexible in usage. One of Monster Commerce’s best aspects can also be difficult for clients as well. The long list of available features can be overwhelming in their sheer number.
Monster Commerce provides product listings options for their clients but does not provide the product name in the URL which can keep a client’s site from rising to the top of the search engine rankings. Monster Commerce is always searching for solutions and has created the choice of creating and publishing a search engine-friendly HTML catalog adding the product name in the URL. While Monster Commerce is great at creating solutions to issues within their software, the solution often creates yet another step that can slow down the process.
They are still working at finding cost-saving and efficient solutions to their client’s needs. By addressing added steps and back-end administrative requirements, they are moving forward to becoming a real player in their web development software niche.
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