What is it?
Our Trade Outlet Solution is like a shopping Mall that hosts a number of shops. Each shop is a white label solution with its own branding - logos, customers, products, offers etc.
The Webmaster can create a new shop and supply administrators with everything they need to setup and manage their own unique shop, including the 'Trade Outlet Image Processor' and 'OutletSync'.
The new site will have its own set of profiles for Administrator(s) Company Rep(s) and Customer(s) and will have complete control of its own branding, products, special offers, everything.
Customers shopping at a Trade Outlet site can seamlessly navigate between different sites (shops). There is no additional registration process to go through, once a customer is registered at a site, and decides to visit a different site, the different sites administrator is notified by email and the customer just continues shopping.
Our Trade Outlet Solution is a complete white labelled ecommerce solution specifically written for large scale product lines.
Trade Outlet consists of three core components
* The Trade Outlet website - the retail outlet for the products
* Image processing software (custom app for bulk import, image optimisation and manual or automated data upload to the internet).
* TradeSync - a desktop windows application designed to be run on laptops that synchronises a local version of Trade Outlet with the website, designed for company reps.
Trade Outlet Website
Full Back office CMS (content management system)
Including:
Password maintenance
Profile creation
Webpage new and maintenance
Create Users
Manage Users
Re-Ordering web pages
Customer maintenance
Publications
Products
Product Index
Brands
Carriage bands
Orders
Suppliers
Supplier codes
Stock etc
Help
Mailing lists
Can be configured to run on laptops (for company Reps) and in combination with the TradeSync product the laptop version and main web-site are kept in sync.
Four profiles
Each profile is specific to a certain type of user on the system and contains the facilities to which the user level has access to.
* Webmaster
* Administrators
* Company reps
* Customer
Administrators can create orders for customers. Useful for whatever reason, if they’re unable to create the order themselves.
Comprehensive Order history
* Webmasters see everything
* Administrators see all orders for their site
* Customers can see all the orders they have created
* Print Orders
Reports
* Ad-hoc reports
* Powerful reporting system
* Administrators and Webmasters full query access to the Trade Outlet database
* View the results in a browser
* Optionally export to spreadsheet or CSV and print
* Optionally include column headers
Optional Customer specific pricing model
View products
* By Department (where the list departments is a generic category determined by the site e.g. Christmas/Halloween/Diaries & Calendars/Clearance Stock/Gifts)
* By Publication
* By Supplier
* By Brand
* By Index
Sort By
Description A-Z
Description Z-A
Price Low-High
Price High-Low
Catalogue Number
Manufacturers Ref No
iPlans
Users of the site can create their own mini catalogues and put any products in them, as they wish. This helps customers who frequently re-order and don’t wish to keep searching through the Trade Outlet site for the products they are looking for.
Simply create an iPlan view for the products you’re interested in, hit a button and the product goes into your iPlan mini catalogue. At any time the user can choose to view one of their iPlans and order from there.
Features
* All search functions are available whilst in iPlan mode.
* Stock availability indicators and search filters
* Shopping basket and Checkout
Trade Outlet - Image Processor
Importing data into an ecommerce solution is one of the first tasks to deal with. To this end Trade Outlet - Image Processor was written as a custom dedicated application optimised and tuned to enabling you to import images and upload them to the Trade Outlet website.
* Import multiple images in one go into the system for processing
* Configure multiple images at once
* Configure multiple Images per product
* For publication type products, such as cards: Be able to state the Front, Back, Inside-left, Inside-right, and Back of a product
* Uniquely identify which workstation (and user) did the import and upload.
* Upload multiple images at once to the Trade Outlet website.
* Manual Uploads of customers, stock, discounts, prices, and catalogues to the website
* Automated uploads of customer, stock, discounts, prices, and catalogues to website - Uploads can be set to occur at given frequencies on specified days and times.
* Notification emails are sent to the site administrator when data is uploaded.
TradeSync
* A desktop application, designed to synchronise a stand alone version of the Trade Outlet with the Main Trade Outlet website
* Targeted at company reps that require an offline version of the site to either demo or take orders.
* Can be run manually
* Can be configured to synchronise automatically on given days and times.
* Can sync the Trade Outlet's database, images or both.