BV Commerce is one of our favorite eCommerce apps, it’s flexible, scalable, and adaptable. I won’t get into all of the details of why we love it, but we’ve decided to open the box on some of the customizations that we develop to extend the application to meet functionality requests to give you some insight into what actually goes on behind the scenes with some of these features we develop. These may range from small little utilities, to feature enhancements, product tweaks, or in depth customizations. So consider this the first of many articles to come from us on the topic.

For our first installment, we’re going to show how you can add, what we call “product flags” to your catalog and product pages that add value to the user experience by telling them about a certain detail about specific product very quickly. These product flags should provide the user some useful information about the product that will help them in their purchasing decision. Typical flags you’ll see across the ‘net would be “On Sale”, or “New”. But what about other flags, that actually might provoke an action, such as “Limitied Quantity” (ie. act quick or this might run out)?