mercatum™

Independence, scalability and speed lie at the core of our unique mercatum™ system.
Merus has developed mercatum™ as a vital e-commerce tool which functions to Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2ee) standards, enabling your business to perform to an entirely new level.
It operates as a smooth interface between your back office and the internet, accessing the best of the systems you currently use to run your business and integrating them with trading partners.

Main features

• catalogue
• stock level
• account specific prices
• orders
• order status
• invoices
• multiple currencies
• multiple languages

This feature set can be adapted to suit your needs.

Technical Background

mercatum™ currently runs under Java 1.5.
A typical set-up will use: Linux; the Apache HTTP server; Tomcat (the glue between Apache and Java) and, for the database, Postgre SQL.
Using such high quality open source software enables us to provide our clients with stable, scalable systems at very competitive prices. For high-availability, high-performance, we offer a postgresql database cluster that allows you to scale your mercatum installation to very high levels of user visits.
mercatum™ is also designed to make effective use of caching: keeping pages in RAM minimises the need for the significantly slower process of reading from hard disks, especially when they are frequently viewed. It also reduces the hit to the processor for pages that do not need to be re-evaluated each time they are accessed.