Our tools - collectively called "Z-Foundation ZCommerce Suite" - are the manifestation of providing enterprise class solutions for our clients for over 10 years. Our clients are usually looking for unique ways of selling their goods or solving business problems. This typically translates to a custom solution. While we provide custom solutions, we do so with production proven building blocks - Z-Foundation components. The philosophy behind our tools is simple:

• » We expect our clients to have unique requests.
• » We expect change.
• » While "black box" or "template" solutions offer a cheap and quick approach today, inevitably successful businesses grow out of those kinds of solutions.
• » Tools should be a foundation for building upward, not a ceiling on what is possible.

We develop almost exclusively in Java. All of our solutions are database and operating system independent, meaning that the decision of what machinery to run your site on is a not a factor. The tools have no inherent limitations in their ability to scale with performance demands.

Our primary ZCommerce tool suite includes:

• » ZProduct - a powerful yet flexible solution for managing and selling your online product offering. ZProduct accommodates simple to complex products, offers inventory warehousing, complex pricing models, multi-currencies and multilingual product displays. X-sell and relationships with related site content are just some of the options that are built in.
• » ZPASS - Profiling Access Security System - this powerful user directory service engine allows customers to segment their user base by customer type, configure user data storage and employ personalization to their customer base.
• » ZArticle - Whether site content be press releases, newsletters, technical specifications, product ingredients, or a complete reference library, this content management tool provides very powerful technology that is both flexible and endless in the way information can be configured, categorized and displayed.
• » ZLocator - offers flexible search capabilities for thousands of address locations around the globe. Designed as a retail location search tool, Z-Locator incorporates proximity search capabilities for United States and Canadian addresses, as well as match searching for all addresses worldwide.
• » ZCart - A robust shopping and checkout tool that incorporates all the basic elements of a standard cart yet is flexible in its presentation to allow up-selling, cross-selling, sales incentives and other promotional programs, giving merchants every opportunity to increase sales.
• » ZOrder - a secure and robust order system that captures and stores online order information in encrypted form. Orders can be process directly through this tool or exported for ingesting into any backend system.
• » ZImage - a flexible and definable image storage system that allows customers to upload and manage all site images, including product and general site imagery.
• » ZInformer - a flexible tool that allows the rapid creation of online forms and the ability to download the data captured through these forms. Catalog requests, feedback, contests, warranty registrations, online surveys are only a sample of the type of forms created and managed with this tool.