Magazine Subscription Services Portfolio

Magazine Subscription Services Portfolio

Time Duration
key Words
CMS, Ecommerce - Shopping cart, osCommerce, Payment Gateway, Shopping cart
Description

The site is built on osCommerce open source package with PHP language and MySQL database. User can browse the site and subscribe for magazines weekly, monthly and yearly, or the field customized by the admin. The magazines are suitably categorized and subcategorized depending upon the study of users’ taste and requirements by the admin. Admin is able to manage the subscription, categorize the magazines and set the magazines’ attributes. The inventory and affiliates are manageable from the admin. The Commission Junction and Linkshare are the two affiliate programs.

There is a price comparison tool to compare the subscription plans. This section only facilitates easy gift giving, promotes various gift seasons and allows for gift card mailing etc. As a result, user can add the items into the shopping cart directly without refreshing the page. For the payment, there would be credit card, Money order or cheque.

The site is a CMS portal where the admin can easily add categories, change panels, delete products and can manage complete layout of the site. The site’s price comparison tool is through affiliate sites- MAGSN, Bluedolphin and Magazineline.com. The client has a product feed that is provided to the affiliate site for the product comparison. This enables the users to compare the prices of the magazines on this site with those on the affiliate sites and then buy according to what they think best.

Key Feature
  • Users can search for magazines and, after approval, may acquire their subscription. They can check out previous issues of the magazine before subscribing.
  • The users can subscribe for a magazine on phone.
  • There is also a Gift Subscription facility that allows the users to subscribe for a kith or kin as a gift.
  • Smallest of needs like change of address, international delivery, renewals of subscription and digital subscription have been addressed right on the site.