Ranto: Smart Online Store and Showcase

What this solution does

Ranto is a ready-made solution for deploying a modern showcase or online store on the 1C-Bitrix: Site Management platform. The step-by-step wizard checks the environment, suggests the site mode, accepts the logo, brand palette, contact details, canonical domain, and SEO templates.

The solution includes an adaptive template without external CDNs, built-in counters, or remote license checks. It features a unified desktop and mobile menu up to four levels deep with customizable icons. The catalog displays as a grid or list, includes product cards, trade offers, and the standard smart filter.

The cart operates via AJAX without page reloads, supporting order checkout, a personal account, and email events using standard Bitrix modules. Public showcase pages utilize the Composite Site technology with a dynamic cart counter and personal zones. The system implements canonical tags, filter indexing rules, SEO templates, and JSON-LD Schema.org markup.

The platform supports separate bonus accounts for different sites, manages bonus expiration periods, and allows partial order payment with bonuses. It includes editable drafts for legal pages and a standard versioned consent form for personal data processing. Optional integration with the CookieControl module is available.

Ranto: smart online store and showcase

Upon deployment, a signature reading "Developed in Rant Studio" is automatically added.

If the system's trading modules are unavailable, the installation wizard can deploy the solution in showcase mode without cart and checkout functionality. In this mode, only the standard catalog, sales, and currency components are used.

Requirements for new installations: current version of the 1C-Bitrix platform, PHP version 8.1 or higher, enabled iblock and mbstring modules, UTF-8 encoding, MySQL 8 database with InnoDB engine, and write access to the /local directory.

For older projects, support is provided for core version main 20.0 and above, as well as PHP 7.4 and above. Before installing on projects with deep customization, it is highly recommended to perform testing on a site copy.

The solution architecture is built primarily on D7 for all supported PHP versions. For specific operations, the standard legacy Bitrix API is applied selectively; there is no automatic core switching based on the PHP version.

Showcase mode does not require trading modules. The "Start" edition is a showcase without a cart and checkout process. A full online store requires the catalog, sales, and currency modules, as well as an active trading catalog. In store mode with bonuses and a demo catalog, the base currency is RUB.

For new projects, PHP 8.1 and the latest version of the 1C-Bitrix platform are recommended. Support for PHP 7.4 is maintained only for existing legacy projects. The current version does not claim support for PostgreSQL or Oracle databases, nor for non-UTF-8 encodings. Transaction and personal pages remain dynamic to prevent user data from being stored in the composite cache.

The platform provides technical tools and editable text templates but does not guarantee automatic compliance with Federal Law No. 152-FZ or other regulations. The site owner is responsible for defining the purposes, legal grounds, retention periods, and scope of processed data, configuring consent mechanisms, and verifying all documents with a qualified legal professional.

The demo catalog is intended solely for functionality testing and is not ready for publication. Before launching the site, all demo text, product names, prices, and images must be replaced with actual content.

For a project based on “Ranto: Smart Online Store and Showcase”, General iT can perform installation, initial configuration and subsequent adaptation.