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Get the 93ft high view Posted on July 24th, 2010 by Chris Tanner

This week’s client focus in on Bike-Science.com, a Bristol based outfit selling top end bicycles and offering a custom fitting service to get your ride just right. Read the full story here.

Bike Science run their website on Brightpearl, and wanted to get something up and running fast. Andy, the business owner, doesn’t want to spend his time designing flash graphics and learning HTML/CSS, so he brought in a Sheffield design agency that he’s worked with before; 93ft.

Andy also uses BookingBug, an online booking system, to handle scheduling of his bike fitting diary. Website visitors can book slots online. We’ve got some cool stuff happening with BookingBug over the next month or so. If you manage places on classes or workshops for your members/customers, then definitely have a look.

The booking bug widget has been embedded into his Brightpearl website to provide a seamless view for his customers.

I spoke to Stephen at 93ft about their experience putting a website together for Bike Science. As a design house, they are familiar with Actinic, Shopify and a number of other ecommerce platforms. The Bike Science site was their first experience using Brightpearl, and everyone’s pretty stoked with the results.

“It really didn’t take that long to learn”, says Stephen. “There are a few areas where the platform could do with more features, such as more options in the RSS feeds and easier handling of custom javascript, but we found it easy to put the site together with the aid of the skeleton templates and CSS files.”

There’s no coding involved at all; all you need to design and launch a website on Brightpearl is some HTML and CSS knowledge. If you want, you can even use one of our pre-built themes to make your launch even simpler.

If your website is not yet running on Brightpearl, then why not add a website to your account, get in touch with 93ft and launch a sexy, fully integrated online presence.

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Client focus : Studiotime photography Posted on July 21st, 2010 by Chris Tanner

Martin runs the back-office for StudioTime Photography and London Photography Courses on his Brightpearl account. He runs his website on WordPress, and used our WordPress plugin to connect to his CRM. “I’m not a coder so it was great to have this as a plugin” – it’s easy to install – read how here.

“A year ago I used to use Sage. When I started a new business, in the creative industry, we bought Macs. As this business grew we needed an accounting system, and we didnt want to buy a PC just for Sage, so we ended up with MYOB for the Mac. We struggled with that , left it for a few months, everything piled up – it was awful. I was ringing up sage, “do you do Sage online”, of course the answer was no. “You need to buy a PC” was all they could offer, and that was the end of that.

Whilst I was searching for MYOB alternative, I found Brightpearl. The fact that it was online was great – there are two of us that work from two locations. I love the idea of cloud computing – I’ve had laptops nicked and computers broken, and the fear of losing data on our own computers makes the cloud such a great concept. Having someone else maintain the data security is excellent. That’s brilliant for me. It gets rid of a major headache. I’ve also given access to my accountant who can access the system from his office.

“We get contacts coming to our website, filling out their details on a Brightpearl Smartform and appearing automatically in our CRM system. We raise invoices, handle customers, jobs, invoices and accounting all in the same system.”

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