E-commerce website development in Brighton & Canterbury
You have millions of potential customers all over the world and they don't all sleep when you sleep. And that's the beauty of the internet: your internet business is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All you need is an online shop!
Reach new customers - start selling online
Electronic commerce (e-commerce), selling things online via the internet, is the fastest growing business around and it makes sense to be part of it. Interactive Red can help you place your entire catalogue of products and services online and make you an online shop. We can brand it for you, or match the look and colours of your existing site. You can have as many or as few products in your shop as you like, with or without images, descriptions, variable prices, anything. Change your products and prices at a moment's notice, take credit card payments online, see reports on your sales, your stock, your customers, try discounts or special offers - the possiblities are endless.
"UK online spending to reach £56bn by 2014" Source: Computing.co.uk March 2009
Interactive Red have vast experience working on transactional websites both in terms of usability/design and development. Our e-commerce package is a bespoke system, developed with our clients in mind. It is constantly tested and improved in response to user feedback. It is simple to use yet very powerful and can be adapted to perform most back office tasks (i.e. invoicing and stock control) if required. It is designed to enable your organisation to take full control your online product catalogue without the necessity for technical knowledge. The system is browser based, which means it can be accessed with a password and user name from any computer with an internet connection.
Tailored e-Commerce Solutions in Kent & Sussex
The Interactive Red shopping cart system provides easy navigation and clear product management solutions making it easy to use for both the customer and the administrator. Examples of site running on our shopping cart package are Toast Champagne (Brighton, Sussex), The Organic Collective (Tunbridge Wells, Kent), Kent Wool Growers (Ashford, Kent) and the recently launched Tools DIY (Maidstone, Kent).
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Standard features of our E-Commerce package
Our e-commerce package provides standard facilities such as:
- Customisable category display structure
- Unlimited product catalogue
- Instant product allocation, online/offline
- Intelligent product option grouping based on theme, collection, etc.
- Tactical categorisation, e.g. special offers, new products
- Search Engine Friendly URLs
- Customised 404 error page
- Automatic email order confirmation
- Order tracking
- Search Engine Optimisation options for categories and products
Additional shopping cart modules
Additional modules are also available, such as – but not exclusively:
- Cross-selling, e.g. "We also recommend..."
- Automatic product recommendations based on previous orders
- Automatic PDF packing slips
- Shipping status notification emails
- Integration of past code lookup
- Carriage and delivery cost calculations
Our system does not in itself include a stock control system, but can be integrated with your own stock control package if required.
Customer database export
Customers can be asked to register with the site upon purchase. We can provide a facility for this customer data to be downloadable to CSV file for marketing purposes. Alternatively, we can provide such a file on an ad hoc basis at our normal at hourly rate.
Payment gateway integration (online credit card processing)
Website shops have visitors and clients from all over world and a payment gateway solution that is acceptable and trusted by all visitors is critical. Interactive Red have experience of integrating a large number of payments gateways and the choice of gateway is only limited by their commercial acceptability. We will be glad to work with the gateway that suits your product and market and previous experience working with the following providers:
- Sagepay (previously known as Protx)
- Barclays ePDQ
- Netbanx
- RBS Worldpay
- PayPal
- Google Checkout
Talk to us about your e-commerce needs, and then talk to us about driving more customers to your site.