Professional Content Management Websites

Key Features:

• Online Ordering - allow customers to order online.
• Shopping Cart - full shopping cart functionality with upsell feature. Upsell allows you to recommend additional, related products to customers based on the products already in their shopping cart. Example, if they have ordered a pair of slacks, suggest a jacket to go with it.
• Automatic Shipping Estimates - optional. You can set up shipping methods and fees in admin and these will be applied to orders automatically, allowing customers to see the total cost of their purchase when they order.
• Customer Account Area - customers sign up and a password-protected account area is automatically created. In this area customers can change their personal details.
• Forgotten password Function - customers are never locked out of their account area because of a lost or forgotten password
• Private messaging - send private messages to customers that they see as soon as they log in.
• Order Status updates - alter the status of an order and the system automatically emails the customer to inform them
• Free custom design - this is not a template system
• Easy-to-use admin area to quickly and easily manage your website contents
• Extensive, illustrated inbuilt admin help files to guide you, step-by-step, through all the admin functions
• Page-builder - create and edit unlimited categories and product pages yourself, with no knowledge of coding. Never again wait for a webmaster to do your updates
• Automatic Menu Creation - website menu updates automatically as new categories / products are created
• Instant - all changes appear on your site immediately
• Guaranteed receipt of enquiries - read and reply to all email enquiries from the admin area - never again miss an enquiry because of too-strict anti-spam filters or email problems
• Auto-responders - email responses are automatically sent to all visitor contacts and enquiries - edit your auto email contents from Admin
• Anti-spam - contact form stops spammers in their tracks with multiple email detection methods employed
• Extensive FAQ - Add and edit questions and answers to your FAQ area on the fly.
• Highlight featured products - select certain products to show as featured products on your site's front page. All page extracts show "Read more" links, created automatically for you. This can be called anything you wish, eg. "Most popular products", "Best Sellers", etc.
• Polls - Create and manage polls to see what your visitors think and get valuable marketing input from the people that count
• Inbuilt search functionality - allow visitors to quickly and easily find exactly what they are looking for. Searches page titles plus page content and displays a list of relevant, clickable results.
• Standard policy pages - includes privacy, disclaimer, terms of service, etc. - all editable from admin
• Multiple product photos - add unlimited additional photos / images per product to show different aspects and highlight key characteristics. All images are auto thumbnailed with captions and include a "click to enlarge" function.
• SEO - Search Engine marketing tools:
  • Google sitemap - create, update and submit your Google sitemap direct from Admin
  • Log into your Google Analytics account straight from Admin
  • Each page of your site is fully optimised and made completely search engine friendly direct from Admin.
  • Additional internet marketing guidelines included in Admin to guide you to achieving higher search engine rankings
• Robust Newsletter functionality - allow visitors and customers to subscribe / unsubscribe from your newsletter. Create and send professional newsletters within a few minutes. Have different newsletters for customers and non-customer subscribers so that you can more specifically target your market.
• Quick and easy enquiry handling - visitors can make enquiries about specific products quickly and easily - immediately see specifically what they are enquiring about so that you can answer the exact questions as quickly as possible
• Reporting - see whose online, see which products are most popular, see which products are viewed the most, view all customers and orders, see all your newsletter subscribers.
• Wishlist - Allow customers to save products to their personal wishlist. Wishlist can be emailed to multiple friends for birthdays and other occassions
• Newsdesk - A newsdesk is an excellent way to keep your site content fresh and quickly let visitors know your latest news. This feature can be used to make announcements and to publish press releases.
  
  Key features:
  • Auto archives
  • Shows newest news items first
  • News can be published by category or as a single-category newsdesk
  • Snippets of latest news items can be made to appear either on the site front page or in the side menu column (if you have one)
• Articles manager - This function allows you to have a section of your website that contains articles, which is an excellent tool for increasing search engine value as well as getting visitors to return to your site. Key features include:
  • Supports multiple authors who can be credited for their articles
  • Visitors can rate and comment on articles
  • Articles are auto archived
  • Include images in your articles
  • Supports multiple article categories and sub-categories
  • All articles are searchable
  • Snippets of articles can be shown on the front page of your site, with "read more" links to full articles
  • Admin can activate or hide articles
  • Articles can be set to auto-publish on a future date
  • Cross-link articles to products to maximise your marketing and encourage purchasing
  • Articles have their own "tell-a-friend" function to allow visitors to share articles and drive additonal traffic to your site.
• Testimonials Manager - Testimonials are an extremely powerful selling tool that can increase your site's conversion rate (number of serious visitors who become customers) by up to 60%.
  
  With this feature, customers can easily add a testimonial about your service and this will only appear on the site after you have approved it in admin.
  
  Visitors to the site can then view all testimonials. Extracts can also be made to appear in the side menu of your site (if you are using a side menu).
• Product ratings - allow visitors to share their experiences of a product and encourage sales
• Quote of the Day - This is an excellent, albeit simple, little tool for publishing interesting snippets that appear randomly on your site.
  
  Ideal for a "thought of the day", "tip of the day", Philisophical or religeous snippets or any other short content that you would like to share with visitors.
• Dynamic front page - you can choose between a static front page or a dynamic front page. Dynamic front pages randomly show extracts of your latest content with "read more" links. Give the impression of a frequently updated website without any time or effort
• Tell a friend function - allow visitors to tell friends about your site content quickly and easily. An excellent marketing tool
• Optional extras - various additional functions can be easily added for a nominal fee. These include:
  • Newsdesk RSS Feed : R260 (read more)
  • Multi-branch feature : R1850 (read more)
  • One-page ordering : R750. This allows customers to either add items to their cart one-by-one, OR order add multiple products from one single page (like an order form). This feature is not suited to a shop that sells more than 100 products.