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Explore the Benefits of ColdFusion Web Hosting for E-Commerce Web Sites


An HTML oriented programming language that is mostly leveraged to build dynamic web pages, ColdFusion facilitates web interactivity with the databases. In fact, ColdFusion hosting more or less revolves around databases. Through this software, it is possible to query, update and chart databases from all new web browsers. Application development with the help of ColdFusion hosting is as convenient as developing a static website. An array of functionalities can be introduced which are not available in conventional server applications or static websites. There is the CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) facility which enables control over the behavior of the application and assimilates a number of server technologies, producing content for the web browser without any kind of human intervention. Every time there is request for a ColdFusion application, the request is automatically preprocessed by the ColdFusion application server.

ColdFusion web hosting imparts remarkable versatility to ecommerce sites. Whether you are looking forward to launch an online business or wish to incorporate additional features to boost your current web business, ColdFusion can help you build amazing ecommerce websites. Let us understand how different features of an ecommerce store can be effectively built using ColdFusion web hosting.

  • ColdFusion Shopping Carts: Catering to basic and customized B2B (business to business) as well as B2C (business to consumer) web requirements, ColdFusion shopping carts incorporates striking features such as concurrent shipping charge computation facilities, multiple recipients, integration with main carriers, coupons, gift cards, discounts and so on.
  • Credit Card Payments: Through ColdFusion web hosting for ecommerce websites, businesses can have productively incorporated popular gateways like Google Checkout, Yourpay, Click2pay, Plugnpay, Authorize.net, PayPal Direct Payments, PayPal Express Checkout, PayPal Payments Pro, PayPal Payflow Pro, or CardServices for handling every international transaction types. Moreover, security features like AVS, CVV2 verification can be implemented to safeguard against online fraud.
  • Store Locator: This feature enables you to locate any retail store within a specified radius pertaining to any zip code.
  • Discounts and Coupon Codes: ColdFusion paves room for an extremely flexible database that can make available every sort of discount.
  • Personalization Elements: ColdFusion backed ecommerce stores are designed to encourage repeat business. Customers are able to verify order status, generate wish lists, re-examine order history, re-order products and obtain advanced notifications regarding new products and special offers.
  • Tracking of Shipment: ColdFusion ecommerce development facilitates automatic recovery of shipment status from prime carriers and generation of shipment notice to clients.
  • Accounting Software Integration: ColdFusion enables ecommerce websites to communicate direct order information to business accounting software. Hence, reports of expenses and sales as well as vendor and client profiles can be conveniently accessed.
  • Back-End Support: Coldfusion ecommerce sites are empowered with back-end integration in the form of customer management, order entry, sales reports, printing of shipping labels, content management, barcodes and much more.
Hence, ColdFusion web hosting has something or the other for every aspect of an ecommerce website. The ability to search databases specific to a particular site facilitates a number of activities such as availing zip codes directly from the post office. Moreover, it is also possible to publish something and subsequently remove the same once the specified time is over. Another striking feature of ColdFusion is that mailing lists and business reports can be easily created, and visitors are able to print content. Interestingly, this software is integrated with the entire application and can be conveniently used with Apache or IIS. Since it is very much like HTML, one can easily learn ColdFusion programming.

ColdFusion when used along with Dreamweaver speeds up the process of coding and inserting files. In such cases one gets the facilities of built in editor in order to edit the code. On the whole, ColdFusion web hosting makes an ecommerce website more efficient, involving little human effort.

We provide coldfusion web development services. If you would like to discuss with an expert coldfusion developer from our team, please get in touch with us at Mindfire Solutions.