Client
Survey - Our client survey will help you focus your thoughts and
plan your new website. Your answers will become the basis of the website.
Give your customers what they want .
Design for your visitors
Design doesn’t start with fancy graphics and cool logos. Design starts with finding out about your customers. Who are they? What do they want from your website? With the answers to these questions firmly in our minds we begin building your new website. From the site structure to the content, everything has to work towards your goals.
Take control with a dynamic website
Websites should be alive, which means they're going to grow and change. You don't have to email you web guy to make changes, do them yourself with a dynamic website. Depending on the size and needs of your website, your dynamic website may be as simple as editing the text on each page or a fully dynamic site where you can add new categories and pages.
eCommerce - play with the big boys
Blue Avenue eCommerce sites are easy-to-use for both the visitors and administrator.
Click here for a list of features in our eCommerce websites
Site Features
Fully Dynamic Website – All the pages can be edited by the administrator at anytime. You have complete control over the content of your site without having to turn to the developer to make changes.
SEO – Even though it’s a dynamic website, it’s built with proper SEO in mind. The dynamic URLs are rewritten for full search engine indexing and every page has its own individual Meta tags.
Visitor Features
Easy Navigation – Visitors will be able to move about the site easily.
Search Function – Robust search function allows people to enter product names, descriptions, SKU, or brand.
Email-a-Friend – Let a visitor share their discovery with a friend via the Email-a-Friend link on each product page.
Quotes – If the customer is purchasing for the government or a large company, they will need to get a quote before they buy. Now, they can fill their shopping cart, choose shipping, and create a quote instead of an order. They can then come back to the website, convert the quote into an order and proceed through the shopping cart for payment.
Review Past Order – Customers can review their past orders and convert Quotes into orders.
Multiple Payment Methods
Credit Card – All information, including the CVN, is stored in the database.
Purchase Order – Any customer can add a customer PO number to their order, but they can also choose to pay with a PO number is previously set up.
Paypal – Paypal is an increasingly popular form or online payment.
Offline Payment – They can still call or mail their payment information. They are given a message at checkout letting them know that their order will not be shipped until payment is received.
Tax Exempt – If customers are tax exempt they can enter their TIN and have tax removed from their order.
Customer PO – Customers can add their own PO number to any order which is then printed on their invoice.
Confirmation Email – Each customer will receive a branded email with a copy of their entire invoice. Hyperlinks allow customers to quickly return to the website.
Track Your Package – When you send the customer a UPS tracking number they can return to the website to track their package.
Selling Features
Cross Selling – Display ‘related products’ on product pages to cross or up sell other products.
Discounts – Create product discounts for a single product, category, or total shopping cart. You can give discounts to all visitors or only to specific groups.
Quantity Discounts – Each product can give multiple quantity discounts. Example; buy 3 and get a $1 discount on each.
Coupons/Gift Certificates – You can give away coupons or gift certificates. Customers can enter the coupon code into the shopping cart and have the discount taken automatically.
Offer FREE Shipping – Offer FREE shipping on orders over a certain amount. Great promotion.
Group Emails – Create email from the Admin area and send them to selected groups: customer, affiliates, and vendors.
Wholesales Features
Wholesale Group Login – Wholesale customers will be placed in a wholesale group which will give them there own pricing and access to wholesale only pages. You can set up multiple wholesales groups for tiered pricing discounts.
Wholesale Pricing – Each product will be given a wholesale price. You can also set up quantity discounts for wholesalers only.
Restricted Products - Designate products or categories that are only visible to wholesale customers. Great way to distribute promotional materials, downloadable forms or commercial equipment.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Sign-up – Allow other website owners to sign-up as affiliates and receive commission on orders that originated from visitors to their sites.
Set Commission Rates – You can set commission rates automatically per affiliate.
Confirmation Email - You can even send your affiliate an email when a sale is completed.
Admin Features
Intuitive Interface – Completely web-based administration allows access from anywhere with a web browser.
Layered Access – You can limit access within the administration area. Example – someone who can access and process orders can’t change product pricing or user passwords.
Order Processing – You can now make changes to the shipping and pricing of the order after it’s been placed.
Category/Product Creation – It’s easier to add and edit categories and products.
Standard Forms – Similar products display similar information. Save time my creating a standard form and then entering the custom information for each product.
Shopping PPC Datafeeds – All the shopping PPCs require a datafeed. You can now create that datafeed on the website as often as you change your products.
UPS Realtime Rates – The shopping cart queries the UPS server for current rates. You never need to update shipping rates or gas surcharge.
Drop Shipping – You can send orders to your drop shippers when people order. Comprehensive drop-shipping features send emails to multiple vendors when orders are placed or filled.
Inventory Controls – The store can keep track of inventory and let customers know the stock levels. You can get email alerts letting you know when stock is low.
Minimum Order – Set the minimum order amount on the shopping cart.
Reports – Over a dozen reports on sales, best selling products, and more
Shopping Cart Assistant – Admin works with WriteItOnce software from http://writeitonce.com/shoppingcarts/sca2002.htm. You can download orders directly from the admin into most popular accounting software. (Actual software not included)
User Manual – Included is a user’s manual to explain how every works.
