- E-commerce shopping cart websites
E-commerce websites - with the facilities to sell your products directly to customers online - are unique
and different from other types of website. E-commerce sites require a different set of technologies - in
terms of their programming and their hosting architecture. They need to be secure, with payment processing
encryption. They need to handle perhaps thousands or tens of thousands of products, categorised,
ordered, searchable and browsable quickly and effortlessly by potential customers.
When we provide an e-commerce site and system to a client, the entire project is based on one key principle
- return on investment. The success of an e-commerce site can be measured purely on how much
revenue it generates for your business. As such, you can easily measure how and when your e-commerce
investment is being returned. This is the cornerstone of our offering - ensuring you get a measurable payback within a realistic timescale - and significant future growth thereafter.
What you get from our e-commerce sites...
This is not an exhaustive list of features. We have a detailed proposal document that outlines everything our e-commerce sites do. Please fill out the form on our contact page and we will e-mail you with a copy.
Manage your Products
- Categorise and organise products easily from your online Product Editor
- Upload products in bulk or edit them individually
- Assign single or multiple images to products
- Configure pricing options like tax rates, bulk-buy discounts, etc
- Manage stock quantities (either manually or automatically)
- Display different pricing schemes for different customers (e.g. wholesale/retail)
- Assign minimum or maximum order quantities
- Hover your mouse over here to view product editor screen-shot
Control your Site's Layout and Appearaance
Manage your Customers
- All customers are automatically assigned with an account, enabling you to...
- Customise the site with personalised messages and content for logged-in users
- Show different pricing levels to different individuals/groups of customers
- Allow only approved customers to see pricing/confidential product details
- Offer 'premium content' to registered users only
- Enable certain approved customers to buy online and pay on account by invoice
- Hover your mouse over here to view personalisation in action
Processing Orders & Payments
- Get auto-generated order notification e-mails
- Set auto-response e-mails to customers placing orders
- Send automatic dispatch confirmation order e-mails
- Easily integrate with online courier services to enable order delivery tracking
- Integrate with all major payment processing services (Protx, Worldpay, etc)
- Process payments manually offline if preferred
Built-in Marketing Tools
- Display featured products to promote specific items or categories
- Allow electronic 'gift certificates' to be redeemed against orders on your site
- Online 'coupon codes' enable you to offer discounts based on certain order criteria
- Built-in bulk e-mail campaign manager to send personalised e-mails to customers
- Display related items with products to facilitate better 'cross selling'
- Automatically display top-sellers/most-viewed items
- Hover your mouse over here to view featured products in action
Preferences & Business Rules
- Use quantitiy discounts for bulk-purchase reductions
- Display pricing in multiple currencies
- Multiple delivery charge options based on weight/quantity/value/destination etc
- Support for multiple VAT options, dual pricing, different taxation rates
- Use contract pricing to display different price levels to different customer types
- Display stock levels, auto-suspend out-of-stock products, show delivery times
- User management and complete audit-trail functions for back-office management
- Hover your mouse over here to view the delivery charge configurator
Full Suite of Reporting Tools
- Over 150 built-in user and financial reports
- Analyse buying behaviours of groups or individual customers
- Full product popularity/sales reports
- User demographic information (geographic locations etc)
- Track how users found your site
- Track performance of first-time and repeat customers
- Hover your mouse over here to view reports 'dashboard'
Fully Search-Engine Optimised
- Search engine optimisation (SEO) is a top priority for all our sites
- Correctly coded to ensure all pages and products show in search-engines
- Keyword density is perfected with dynamic 'tags' to insert keywords automatically
- Every page and product has its own meta-tags, title tags and individual descriptions
- An automatically-generated site map
- Contact us for demonstrations of some of our top-performing search engine listings
Offline Systems Integration
- We can integrate your site with offline accounts and stock-control systems
- We are experienced integrators with Sage, SAP, Tropos, AS400, Cosmos and more
- Have online orders and customers automatically inserted into your offline system
- Synchronise stock-level data between offline and online systems
E-commerce Hosting & Security
- All our sites use industry-standard SSL encryption for card/payment details
- Daily data backups taken for quick disaster recovery
- Server monitoring every 20-seconds to highlight errors or problems
Technical Support & Maintenance
- 24-hr technical support by phone and e-mail
- A site support and maintenance agreement for ongoing assistance
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