We’re proud to announce the launch of our latest ecommerce client, bathroomvillage.com
This site is one of the new breed of “phase 2″ Pearl websites, which we’re going to be talking more about next week. Have a browse around the site to see a number of new features, including the mega menu, and product filters.
You’ll spot a number of dynamic features, such as the home page slider carousel, the multi-option pricing for complex products, and the hover-over cart display. It’s not revolutionary by any means, but it’s a massive step forwards for us, and a superb quality ecommerce platform compared to the other fully integrated offerings. Any of our approved design companies have the ability to add jQuery and javascript to a website, and the structure allows a solid template to be built, whilst giving restricted access to only some parts for the client, so there’s no risk of the site being broken whilst entering data or changing sections. Of course the team at Bathroom Village have full access to all the content, so they can update anything without needing to pay for a designer to get involved.
Sure, if a super bling ecommerce website is your one and only priority, then you can use one of many excellent stand alone offerings, like Magento for example. The thing about Pearl is that it’s a totally seamless progression from first lead all the way through to your VAT return. The back office product administration systems allow you to handle tens of thousands of product lines, take sales on the phone, handle multiple complex pricing structures, manage order fulfilment, drop ship and warehouse locations, and so on.
It’s not just an ecommerce website either. It’s a full Business-To-Business portal, where users can log in to re print invoices, view statement, check on project progress, raise helpdesk support tickets and manage their account details.
We’ll be doing a full customer run-through video soon so that you can see how all this fits together with the Pearl back office.
So what’s next?
We’ve nearly finished adding a few more features to the filtering, so that customers can browse all your products by option, to view “all items in blue” for example, then filter the results to “all items in blue with 4 legs”.
Of course it’s all very well seeing all this gloss and shine, but how do you get your site onto Pearl? It’s pretty easy. We’ve got a load of free themes in the pipeline, and a stack of designers hungry to take on your project. Watch out for the news next week where we go into more detail of the process to going live with a new website.
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