E-Retailer (24 hrs Online shop for your customers)

From bricks & mortar to the world wide web, the Counter Intelligence Office eRetailer module takes all the hassle out of selling your stock online and gives your customers choice as to how they shop with you. A full e-commerce web site template Why reinvent the wheel? All online shops need certain elements — a menu, a product catalogue, a search facility, a shopping cart, a checkout, and secure credit card processing — so e-Retailer provides all these elements which you are then able to customise to match your brand and audience. eRetailer web sites use code specially formatted to perform optimally in search-engines. You will be found!

eRetailer offers:

Custom design of logo banner Custom design of welcome splash page Custom design of image size and positioning Custom design of User pages Integrated inventory with Counter Intelligence Integrated Image management with Counter Intelligence Order management Shopping cart Credit card processing SSL Secure Checkout Zoom in on product images	Promotions Cross selling/suggestion clusters Search Customer loyalty & accounts Google analytics Search engine optimization with content metatags Microsoft SQL based for scalability Shipping management Track orders & payments Site statistics

One stock database that you control

Instead of having to build and maintain a separate database for an e-commerce web site, eRetailer runs off the same database used by Counter Intelligence Office. Whatever stock is loaded for sale in your shop is instantly available for sale on the web. And at any time you can add Internet-only images, pricing, and promotional messages, and all without the need of third-party assistance or the associated costs.

Future-proofed technology

As online retailing steadily increases, retailers will require their web site to communicate seamlessly with their retail management system: customer, stock, and sales information will need to be transmitted back-and-forth in real time because customers will expect access to current data. This functionality is exactly what Kudos e-Retailer will deliver in the next version of eRetailer.

Website Hosting (Kudos Solutions)

The eRetailer hosting is offered by Kudos solutions. The eRetailer application will be hosted on secure SQL Servers and secure Web Hosting Servers provided for unlimited storage and transactions. A payment gateway is also provided with DPS Payment gateway with an additional fee per month. There will also be DPS Gateway fees, from DPS.

FAQ's about e-Retailer

Can e-Retailer download web site orders back into Counter Intelligence Office?

Yes, e-Retailer is fully integrated to Counter Intelligence, which features real-time communications between the back office computer, the web store and all POS machines. This means you will be able to have customers log in to your web site, or join a frequent-shoppers programme, and all orders will instantly be downloaded back to your back office or head office computer, ready for processing, invoicing and despatch.

What can I customize?

The e-Retailer Content Management System will allow Complete Customisation, including, but not limited to: Menu Content, the web site logo, Category and products Display details, including Search Engine Optimisation, additional Information Tabs, additional HTML page content, Page positioning and sequence, Promotion Panels, External Links, Recently Viewed, Others have purchased, Shipping rates, Customer emails, to name just a few. The colour schemes can be customized and unlimited content (including images) can be added. Visual content is customized via simple Cascading Style Sheets.

What else do I need to do to get my web shop up and running?

You need:
# A domain name.
# Web hosting with kudos, which has unlimited transaction processing, and a secure credit card processing service.

Do I need a professional web developer to set up my store?

Yes. You will need some assistance with colour schemes or learning how to create correctly-formatted digital images of your products. You will also need assistance formatting into HTML additional content for your web site, but this assistance will be far less than the assistance you would need creating a site without using e-Retailer .

I already have a domain name registered, can I use it?

Yes, and it doesn't matter who your domain name is registered with. However, as the web site hosting must be with kudos, it is necessary to have your Domain DNS A Record points to kudos.

I already have a web site, can I use it as a basis for my e-Retailer we site?

Yes and no. Your e-Retailer web site is created from scratch by the eRetailer Content Management System, and Counter Intelligence Office.(and must be hosted on the kudos server), but you can certainly re-use branding elements (like logos and the colour-scheme) and content.

I already have a web site, can I integrate it into Counter Intelligence?

We do not recommend this approach as it is not future proofed, and is prone to human error.

 

Do it only once! – no time consuming rekeying, uploading or keeping in check