A free java online shopping cart application that provides everything that store owners need to sell their products

KonaKart is a freeware java shopping cart tool which will provide everything that store owners need to sell their products over the Internet.

KonaKart includes an extensive set of online shopping cart features to satisfy the needs of both online shoppers and store owners alike.

We thought that there was a gap in the market for an affordable enterprise quality eCommerce solution designed with technologies that will perform and scale.

We have made KonaKart database-compatible with the most widely used eCommerce solution (osCommerce) with over 11,00 live stores, to allow a seamless upgrade path for users demanding better performance, flexibility, scalability and connectivity. KonaKart is a Java / JSP / XML based solution with easy to use java API s and a SOAP Web Service interface for the ultimate in connectivity.

Here are some key features of "KonaKart":

General Functionality
· Database compatible with osCommerce 2.2.
· Written in Java. Needs a servlet engine such as Apache Tomcat to run.
· Modular approach with API s at various levels (Client Javadoc, Server Javadoc) as well as a SOAP Web Service interface (WSDL). The web service interface promotes connectivity even from outside of the company firewall and allows client side applications (i.e. .Net, MS Excel etc.) to use the KonaKart engine.
· Completely multilingual.

Setup / Installation
· Simple click and run installation through an installer.

Design / Layout
· The osCommerce compatible UI uses a JSP / Struts design. The source code of the JSPs and Struts Action classes is provided in the download so that they may be customized.
· It is relatively easy to write a UI in the technology of your choice by calling the KonaKart Client API. An example of this is our Catalog Inspector Demo which consists of a Adobe Flash object created using Open Laszlo technology.

Customer Functionality
· Customers can view their order history and order statuses.
· Customers can maintain their accounts. They have an address book for multiple shipping and billing addresses.
· Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers.
· Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features. Search for products by category, by manufacturer or both.
· Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience.
· Number of products in each category can be shown or hidden.
· Global and per-category bestseller lists.
· Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown.
· Dynamic product attributes relationship.
· HTML based product descriptions.
· Display of specials
· Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase.
· Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters.
· All emails are template driven and so fully customizable using the Apache Velocity template language.

Payment Functionality
· KonaKart implements an API and modular approach for introducing payment gateways. We include the source code of all currently available gateways.
· Disable certain payment services based on a zone basis.

Shipping Functionality
· Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules
· Free shipping based on amount and destination
· Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis
· KonaKart implements an API and modular approach for introducing custom shipping services.

Tax Functionality
· Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis
· Set different tax rates for different products
· Charge tax on shipping on a per shipping service basis.


Requirements:

· MySQL
· Java

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added support for bundles. Bundle products can be defined in the Admin App. The quantity of the bundle product is calculated automatically and tools are provided to calculate the cost (optionally using discounts) and the weight.
· In the application, the bundled products are available in the product detail screen, the quantity available is calculated and the quantity in stock of the bundled products is decremented automatically when an order is processed.
· Added product tags and tag groups to enable detailed product searches based on the tags. Tag groups can be linked to a category in order to display them in a context sensitive manner. i.e. You could link a "Food Type" tag group to a restaurant category in order to select only restaurants that serve vegetarian dishes or spicy food etc.
· Added an application feature whereby any previous order can be repeated with a single click.
· New customization framework for modifying / supplementing the KonaKart engine behavior. This provides hooks that are easy to program that allow you to customize the KonaKart engines.
· Two new API calls on both the Application API and the Admin App API:
· String custom(String input1, String input2)
· String customSecure(String sessionId, String input1, String input2)
· These allow you to add your own engine interfaces to enhance the behavior of the KonaKart engines.
· Added 10 custom panels that display a predefined URL in a frame. This feature allows you to extend the Admin App by adding your own administration functionality outside the standard Admin App.
· Added the ability to program a button on the Admin App Returns Panel to call your own custom URL.
· An example of its use could be to call an application that processes credit card refunds through the payment gateway.
· When AdminOrderProducts are returned by the Admin API they now have the optionId and valueId attributes of the options populated, and not just the name and value.
· UTF-8 encoding now used for the mail sent out from the Email command in the Admin App allowing double-byte characters to be used in customer emails.
· The product search functionality in the Admin App has been enhanced.
· Added new method addToBasketWithOptions(). Currently there is one option that allows you force a product into a new basket item even if an identical product already exists. The default behaviour is to just update the quantity of the existing item.
· Added new method createOrderWithOptions(). Currently there is one option that allows you to automatically copy all of the basket custom fields to the orderProduct custom fields which are generated from the basket items.
· Added custom fields to cartItem.
· In the Admin App added a button to select the customer from the orders panel.
· KonaKart version number and build date has added to the meta data in the Admin App (KonakartAdmin.html file) - this provides a convenient way to find out which version you are running.
· Fixed bug to clear the order history list when a customer logs out.
· Fixed array out of bounds exception when there were no categories in the system.
· getShippingQuote() was throwing a null pointer exception if the shipping module didn�t exist.
· getPaymentDetails() was throwing a null pointer exception if the payment module didn�t exist.
· UpdateBasket was not updating the custom fields.
· When the session was timing out, the user was receiving an exception in the application.