E-commerce Web Design

We have developed our own e-commerce system called Ballyhoo which essentially provides a robust and reliable platform upon which to base your e-commerce site. At the heart of the system is a comprehensive content management system allowing much of your site to be maintained.

The following is an overview of it's current features.

Website & Customer Features

• Bespoke design based on your company's brand and design brief
• Each customer has their own account where they can store their delivery details
• Customers can view their complete order history and retrieve past invoices
• Customers automatically receive an e-mail when orders are dispatched
• Customers can retrieve forgotten passwords
• During the customer registration process, customers can specify whether they wish to subscribe to an e-mail newsletter
• Effective product search (compares the title & description of all products) and shows the closest matches

Product Catalogue

• Complete control over your product categories & products with no limit to the quantity of each
• Multiple categories can be applied to a single product (this increases their accessibility and exposure)
• Each product has two descriptions, brief and main, and both can be formatted within an intuitive editor similar to Microsoft Word
• Product images are automatically optimised to the correct size and dimensions (ideal for uploading directly from a digital camera or scanner)
• Products may be deemed as featured and can be given additional exposure (ideal for sale or end of line items)
• Products may be hidden (ideal for seasonal items)
• A shipping factor, usually weight, can be specified and allows flexible shipping calculations
• Each product can have any number of product variations (for instance size or colour), where each can have a different image and price

Promotion

• Ballyhoo is search engine optimised as standard
• Discount codes may be created which offer a percentage discount off a customers order and are valid for a specified time period
• Ability to download product catalogue in a format compatible with the Google Products (www.google.co.uk/products) price comparison website
• Products can be deemed related to each other and will be suggested to purchase along with the main product (increases product cross-selling)

Order Processing

• Ballyhoo can be integrated into any on-line payment gateway
• An e-mail alert is sent to a specified vendor e-mail address upon receipt of an order

Other

• Any number of information pages can be created and maintained, for instance company profile, contact, etc.
• Ability to enable/disable VAT calculations
• Shipping manager allows the configuration of shipping costs to any number of shipping zones (groups of countries with the same shipping costs)