Open source, headless, multi-tenant eCommerce platform built with .NET Core, MongoDB, AWS DocumentDB, Azure CosmosDB, Vue.js.
GrandNode works perfect for businesses that accept bookings in daily, nightly or hourly allotments. We've created a powerful reservation system, which can be used successfully in industries like:
Tours - Sightseeing sessions
Activities - Adventure trips
Rentals - Equipment or transport
Accomodation - Resorts, Inn, Campgrounds
If your customer is looking for the complete e-commerce sofware with booking system, here is the solution!
More details are available in the features description.
From the GrandNode 4.10 you are able to create an auction. Set the start price, specify if users can buy now your product or not and start selling! You will see all bids, customers will see all auction ongoing or ended. It gives you a huge possibilities in creating a powerful marketplace or websites like Allegro or eBay.
In the My Account section you are able to browse your bids, ended or ongoing auctions.
Bundled products are the latest product management change in GrandNode 4.10. We've created a product type "Bundled" for product bundled packs. For example if you want to sell a Playstation 4 Package with console, gamepags, camera and games, it's not a problem for GrandNode. Let's look at the example below:
We are convinced that the blog is one of the most important feature available on the homepage. In the content marketing era, it's a must have section of your online store. We knew that the news are available, but the news are the most wanted section now.
Basically, you can show blog on homepage, specify how many items it should have and specify how many characters homepage text should contain.
GrandNode works perfect for businesses that accept bookings in daily, nightly or hourly allotments. We've created a powerful reservation system, which can be used successfully in industries like:
Tours - Sightseeing sessions
Activities - Adventure trips
Rentals - Equipment or transport
Accomodation - Resorts, Inn, Campgrounds
If your customer is looking for the complete e-commerce sofware with booking system, here is the solution!
More details are available in the features description.
From the GrandNode 4.10 you are able to create an auction. Set the start price, specify if users can buy now your product or not and start selling! You will see all bids, customers will see all auction ongoing or ended. It gives you a huge possibilities in creating a powerful marketplace or websites like Allegro or eBay.
In the My Account section you are able to browse your bids, ended or ongoing auctions.
Bundled products are the latest product management change in GrandNode 4.10. We've created a product type "Bundled" for product bundled packs. For example if you want to sell a Playstation 4 Package with console, gamepags, camera and games, it's not a problem for GrandNode. Let's look at the example below:
We are convinced that the blog is one of the most important feature available on the homepage. In the content marketing era, it's a must have section of your online store. We knew that the news are available, but the news are the most wanted section now.
Basically, you can show blog on homepage, specify how many items it should have and specify how many characters homepage text should contain.
When Microsoft released ASP.NET Core 2.0 we’ve decided to implement it in our newest version of GrandNode.
ASP.NET is an open source framework available on GitHub. What’s the main plus? It’s cross platform. You can run GrandNode on Windows, Linux and MacOS without problems! We’ve already tested it and it works!
More information about ASP.NET Core 2.0 are available here
From GrandNode 4.00 you are able to calculate discounts by specified plugin. What does it mean for you? Each developer can create any kind of discount rule. Discounts can be enabled or disabled by marking checkbox.
We've also decided to change the way of adding coupon codes. Now you are able to create multiple coupon codes in one discount. It's also possible to buy plugin which will automatically generate few thousands of coupon codes.
To the GrandNode we've decided to implement Amazon S3 CDN. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). It's simple to move large volumes of image data into or out of Amazon S3 with Amazon's cloud data migration options.
Amazon S3 has a simple web services interface that you can use to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.
We've made also some improvements in our Marketing Automation engine. From the newest version you are allowed to add products assigned to specified customer tag. So when your customer will have Customer Tag "Influencer", you can add products which will appear on their home page.
It allows you to assign individual prices to each products per customer. For example we have product XYZ:
Customer 1 has price 20$ Customer 2 has price 21$ Customer 3 has price 40$
It’s independent setting which can be specified in admin panel – Customer -> Individual prices.
From this version customers are allowed to write reviews for vendors. You can specify its description, image. Reviews are also with stars rating.
In the 3.90 version source code size was equal to 129MB. Now, source code version size is equal to 29MB.
When Microsoft released ASP.NET Core 2.0 we’ve decided to implement it in our newest version of GrandNode. ASP.NET i san open source framework available on GitHub. What’s the main plus? It’s cross platform. You can run GrandNode on Windows, Linux and MacOS without problems! We’ve already tested it and it works! More information about ASP.NET Core 2.0 are available here
From GrandNode 4.00 you are able to calculate discounts by specified plugin. What does it mean for you? Each developer can create any kind of discount rule. Discounts can be enabled or disabled by marking checkbox.
It allows you to assign individual prices to each products per customer. For example we have product XYZ:
Customer 1 has price 20$ Customer 2 has price 21$ Customer 3 has price 40$
It’s independent setting which can be specified in admin panel – Customer -> Individual prices.
From this version customers are allowed to write reviews for vendors. You can specify its description, image.
New version of our open source, free solution is coming, From today you can download new version, test it and we are waiting for four feedback.
In the newest version our main goal was to improve performance, increase speed of GrandNode. We made several tests and we've decided to make some improvements which are mentioned below. With this moves we achieved our goal, GrandNode is much faster than last release with number 3.80.
Theme is using Bootstrap 4 which offers exceptional shopping experience on every device. No more default GrandNode styles, template fully use only Bootstrap 4 what gives you possibility to easily create your own themes without problems and issues with compatibility with GrandNode. Theme creation never was so easy as with Bootstrap 4.0 Theme.
Accessibility is not the marketing babble. It's technical standard developed with individuals and organizations around the whole world. You may don't know but only in United States 57 millions of people (19%!) have disability issues. This number shows how important is to help them with website exploring. Current standard is Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (in shortcut WCAG) 2.0. Examples of Accessibility solutions? Text alternatives for non-text content such as sliders, product images, also consistent navigation. More information about WCAG 2.0 guidelines you can find on official W3 site here: http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/glance/
Store performance is the most important thing in e-commerce industry. We know it, so our template meets all requirements in accordance with the latest web standards. It has almost 100/100 performance and speed rate on site performance tools and optimizers. It has been successfully validate by W3C, Wave and the most popular web accessibility and performance tools. Future is here.
Mobile is the future of nowadays e-commerce, so all stores, websites, blogs need to be compatible with smart phones, tablets. Our theme was tested with all the most popular devices and browsers. What gives you guarantee that this theme will be fully compatible with them.
You are able to specify newsletter category. When customer will subscribe to the newsletter, he will be able to choose which category interests him, category A, B, C. Then you can export customers interested in specified categories and send them emails.
Totally new feature which gives you possibility to create custom forms which can appear when customer made specified action.
This new feature allows you to create new fields in shipping plugins. For example if developer wants to add in Shipping integration add field "Preferred hours of shipment" you can do it with this new feature.
From the 3.90 version you are able to add watermark image or text to your pictures in the store. You can specify where watermark should appear, specify its position.
In the newest version of GrandNode we've made some improvements. In the last versions when customer make an order GrandNode was calculating stock quantity from all available warehouses. From now you are able to select from which warehouse order should be send, if in used warehouse this product is out of stock, customer won't be able to order it.
From the 3.90 version when you are making an update only one thing which you need to do is open store and if application will check that you have old database - press "Run upgrade". It ease up process of upgrading, so even beginners are able to make this process fast and without any issues.
GrandNode Team puts the pressure on customers security. In the admin area appeared new settings.
New version of our open source, free solution is coming, before it happens we would like to give you BETA version of the GrandNode 3.90. From today you can download new version, test it and we are waiting for four feedback.
In the newest version our main goal was to improve performance, increase speed of GrandNode. We made several tests and we've decided to make some improvements which are mentioned below. With this moves we achieved our goal, GrandNode is much faster than last release with number 3.80.
If you will find any bugs please share your feedback after testing in comments. We'd love to fix everything which will appear before releasing 3.90 final version.
Theme is using Bootstrap 4 which offers exceptional shopping experience on every device. No more default GrandNode styles, template fully use only Bootstrap 4 what gives you possibility to easily create your own themes without problems and issues with compatibility with GrandNode. Theme creation never was so easy as with Bootstrap 4.0 Theme.
Accessibility is not the marketing babble. It's technical standard developed with individuals and organizations around the whole world. You may don't know but only in United States 57 millions of people (19%!) have disability issues. This number shows how important is to help them with website exploring. Current standard is Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (in shortcut WCAG) 2.0. Examples of Accessibility solutions? Text alternatives for non-text content such as sliders, product images, also consistent navigation. More information about WCAG 2.0 guidelines you can find on official W3 site here: http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/glance/
Store performance is the most important thing in e-commerce industry. We know it, so our template meets all requirements in accordance with the latest web standards. It has almost 100/100 performance and speed rate on site performance tools and optimizers. It has been successfully validate by W3C, Wave and the most popular web accessibility and performance tools. Future is here.
Mobile is the future of nowadays e-commerce, so all stores, websites, blogs need to be compatible with smart phones, tablets. Our theme was tested with all the most popular devices and browsers. What gives you guarantee that this theme will be fully compatible with them.
You are able to specify newsletter category. When customer will subscribe to the newsletter, he will be able to choose which category interests him, category A, B, C. Then you can export customers interested in specified categories and send them emails.
Totally new feature which gives you possibility to create custom forms which can appear when customer made specified action.
This new feature allows you to create new fields in shipping plugins. For example if developer wants to add in Shipping integration add field "Preferred hours of shipment" you can do it with this new feature.
From the 3.90 version you are able to add watermark image or text to your pictures in the store. You can specify where watermark should appear, specify its position.
In the newest version of GrandNode we've made some improvements. In the last versions when customer make an order GrandNode was calculating stock quantity from all available warehouses. From now you are able to select from which warehouse order should be send, if in used warehouse this product is out of stock, customer won't be able to order it.
Adaptation nopCommerce version 3.70 to MongoDB database.