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Avactis is a open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

ecommerce software solution (webshop).

Avactis Shopping Cart has several different editions: Avactis Free, Avactis Owned, Avactis Lite, Avactis Premium, Monthly leased license and Avactis White Label (Private Label

Private label

Private label products or services are typically those manufactured or provided by one company for offer under another company's brand. Private label goods and services are available in a wide range of industries from food to cosmetics to web hosting...

) edition.

The Avactis team was established in 2001 by Pentasoft Corporation. The company's headquarters are located in New York. Pentasoft is MySQL Enterprise Ready Partner of MySQL

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

AB.

Features

Products, pricing, real time shipping, etc. are managed by the store administrator through the administration area.

One of the Avactis features is the Avactis Tag

Tag (metadata)

In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information . This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching...

technology, various dynamic parts of Avactis storefront can be integrated into an existing website through inserting of simple tags into static pages. All Avactis Tags are described in the Avactis Tag Library (ATL).

Avactis is integrated into Parallels Plesk

Plesk

The Parallels Plesk Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program. Originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc. and designed in Novosibirsk, Russia, Plesk was acquired by SWSoft in July 2003...

Panel.

History

The Avactis development team was formed in 2001 by Pentasoft Corporation development team.
The current stable release of Avactis is 2.1.1.

System Requirements

Avactis shopping cart system is built around PHP

PHP

PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

technology using MySQL

MySQL

to store data.

Web server should support PHP version 5.1.0 or higher
Web server should support MySQL version 4.0.2 or higher.
Amount of memory available to PHP processes should be at least 64MB
SSH (Secure Shell) access or Cron job management is required for backup and restore
Apache mod_rewrite module is required for SEO URLs support

Some of the features within Avactis require additional technologies, which may or may not already be provided by whichever hosting service you choose: HTTPS (security certificate), SSH (secure shell) access or Cron

Cron

Cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. Cron enables users to schedule jobs to run periodically at certain times or dates...

job management, the Apache mod_rewrite module.

External links

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