Melco, Ecommerce Portal Integrated with Microsoft Navision:

About Melco:
Melco is the embroidery industry leader in modular commercial embroidery machines and commercial embroidery machine design software. We can help your embroidery become more productive and profitable. Whether it's the Amaya embroidery system or powerful DesignShop digitizing software, Melco has the industry leading embroidery products to help your embroidery business.

Since 1972, Melco Embroidery Systems has been the industry leader of complete embroidery solutions for the home-based entrepreneurial and commercial markets. In addition to the modular AMAYA embroidery machine, Melco offers DesignShop digitizing software, embroidery components and supplies, technical support; training and leasing for embroidery businesses of every size. Melco is the only company that engineers and manufactures embroidery equipment and software in the United States. Melco is a wholly owned subsidiary of Saurer Limited (www.saurer.com ), the world's largest textile machine manufacturer with 150 years of expertise, based in Switzerland.

Since its beginning, Melco has developed a legacy for constant innovation. Melco is the only company in the industry that offers a total embroidery solution under one roof.

 Melco International ( www.melcousa.com ) launched their new, cutting-edge commercial embroidery machine - the AMAYA XT with the help of web design firm InspireSmart. The new web marketing campaign centers around a webpage http://www.melco.com/XT/ which includes an interactive flash presentation of the AMAYA XT focusing on advanced features of this new commercial embroidery machine.

Melco Ecommerce Portal System Architecture:

Note:
JNI = java native interface
JVM = Java virtual machine

Following is the list of few processes where navision process will be invoked.

1. If someone adds any product into his shopping basket, ?request for quotation process? will be initiated and it will send product id, quantity etc. Process will come back with the result of price, bout that products
2. If any user register with the system ? add user process? will be initiated and it will update navision database with user details
3. If user checks out ?calculate shipping, taxes process will be initiated?
4. Once order is generated ?order/lead process will be initiated?

The general features are as follows.

1. 100% template-based storefront
2.  Fully customizable design & layout
3. Intuitive navigation
4. Side-bar "mini-cart" viewable at all pages
5. Built-in Content management system
6. CSS-compatible design. Cascading Style Sheets allow you to easily change styling of your pages
7. Unlimited number of products
8. Unlimited number of categories
9. Unlimited category nesting
10. Ability to modify multiple products simultaneously
11. Featured Products
12. Automated display of bestsellers
13. 1-click enable/disable switch for products and categories
14. Search by keywords, advanced search

Others:

1. Customers can search & browse personal order history
2. Integrated configurable store product search
3. order tracking
4. Customer can choose between account registration and express checkout
5. The possibility to disable checkout without registering
6. Password reminder for customers
7. Customizable e-mail notifications/invoices
8. Ability to save the customer's cart
9. Newsletter management for multiple lists, edit/import/export of subscribers, news archive for customers
10. Printable invoices
11. contact form etc