According to the most recent IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, UK e-commerce has grown substantially in 2012, with online shoppers spending £34.9 billion over the first six months of the year. Similar trends are being seen in the US, Australia, China and India.
Selling online is a great way to keep overheads low and to streamline your business. Some of our clients sell exclusively online and this works out considerably cheaper than maintaining a shop front. Others have a shop front as well as an online store providing an additional revenue stream.
- We design & structure your store to maximise conversions and make it easy for the customer to find and buy your products
- Integration with Google Shopping is a big traffic driver to your site
- We can integrate with ebay/amazon/play.com so that your products are automatically listed there and all stock control is centralised so you won’t sell more products than you have in stock
- We can integrate with Point Of Sale (POS) systems to offer centralised stock control and product management
- We can offer a full supplier & stock management module which tells you which products need to be ordered, creates purchase orders, takes delivery of products and also generates picking lists with exact warehouse shelf locations.
Depending on your requirements, we will recommend either our commercial or enterprise level e-commerce platforms. The features of both are shown in our comparison table below:
- Features
- Platform
- Multiple stores Sell the same products on two separate stores and manage them centrally including centralised stock control. This is useful when you want to sell to more than one target market.
- Customer accounts
- Order management
- Discount coupons
- Promotions Sales promotions such as 'buy x get y free' and 'spend x get y off'. Fully customisable.
- Reporting Get reports on stock, sales and customers.
- Multiple payment gateways Including but not limited to Paypal, Worldpay, Sagepay, Google Checkout among others.
- Multiple shipping methods
- Number of products For stores with lots of products, the enterprise solution is recommended as it is much easier to filter the products.
- Virtual/Downloadable products Sell products that users can download once the payment is confirmed
- Product reviews
- Multiple product images
- Upsells & Cross sells
- Shopping filter Allows customers to filter by attributes such as category, price, type, colour etc
- Basic stock control Keep track of stock and ensures out of stock products are not sold.
- Advanced stock control Additional features such as lead times for back ordered items and customer updates on their order status for back orders and estimated delivery dates.
- Low stock alerts Get emails when stock levels for items fall below the defined thresholds.
- Newsletter integration Full integration with our email marketing system
- Back orders Allow users to buy items that are out of stock.
- Refunds
- Multilingual/Multi Currency Display website in multiple languages and multiple currencies
- Gift messages Allow customers to leave a gift message either for the whole order or per item
- Gift lists Allow customers to create gift lists which their guests can buy from. When an item is bought the quantity is automatically subtracted from the list.
- Wish lists Allow customers to add items to their wishlist to buy at a later date.
- Loyalty scheme Reward customers with points that they can redeem on their next order
- Store credits Instead of refunds, give a customer store credits so that they can purchase something else from your store
- Realtime shipping pricing Get real-time quotes from the major shipping providers such as Fed-Ex, DHL and UPS. These are calculated depending on the items in the shopping basket
- Integration with external systems If you need to integrate with existing systems, as long as they have an API we can integrate with them
- Sync with ebay/amazon/play.com Automatically list items on ebay/amazon/play.com and have centralised stock control so that if an item is sold on ebay, it is automatically subtracted from the stock. Any updates to items are also automatically updated on the other sites.
- POS integration Integrate with your Point Of Sale (POS) system in the shop for centralised stock control and product management
- Purchase orders Create purchase orders for items that can be sent to suppliers. Deliveries can be taken against purchase orders to update stock levels.
- Supply Needs If selling on back order, you can see which products you need to order based on orders received which have not yet been fulfilled
- Warehouse management Manage stock in warehouses including shelf locations and move stock between warehouses
- Picking list Prints a list of items required for the order including the warehouse and shelf location for each item in the order
- Stock moves See how the stock has been utilised
- Supplier management Manage suppliers including outstanding purchase orders and bills to be paid
- Multiple suppliers per product Assign multiple suppliers per product. When ordering, you can make the decision based on previous costs and lead times
- Commercial
- From £2000
- WooCommerce
- Small
- Enterprise
- From £4500
- Magento
- Large
Compare our website platforms
We offer a range of platforms for your website depending on your requirements:
- Features
- Unique design
- Dynamic banners/sliders
- Dynamic galleries
- Dynamic navigation
- Contact forms
- Customised forms If you require any other forms, we can custom code these for you.
- Newsletter integration We can integrate your newsletter sign up with our email marketing system
- Google analytics This allows you to view the stats on your website such as how many people visited, what they looked at, and where they were from.
- SEO Search Engine Optimisation. With this additional package, watch your website rise up the rankings in Google.
- Self-managed content Easily add/edit content on your website using our intuitive admin panel
- User registration / Accounts
- Members only content Restrict some content to users who are signed in
- User comments / reviews
- Multi-lingual content If you need to show your website in different languages then you need this option
- Fully integrated search
- RSS feeds Automatically generated news feed for your website
- News items
- Sell online
- Brochure
- From £300
- CMS
- From £1200
- E-Commerce
- From £2000
